Speak to thy father, ere thou yield thy breath: Brave death by speaking, whether he will, or no; Imagine him a Frenchman, and thy foe. Poor boy! he smiles, methinks; as who should sayHad death been French, then death had died to-day. Come, come, and lay him in his father's arms; Alarums. Exeunt Soldiers and Servant, leaving the two Bodies. Enter CHARLES, ALENÇON, BURGUNDY, Bastard, LA PUCELLE, and Forces. Char. Had York and Somerset brought rescue in, We should have found a bloody day of this. 60 Bast. How the young whelp of Talbot's, ragingwood 5, Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood! fed Bur. Doubtless, he would have made a noble knight: See, where he lies inhersed in the arms Wood signified furious as well as mad: raging-wood is certainly here furiously raging. 6 A giglot is a wanton wench. A minx, gigle (or giglet), flirt, callet, or gixie,' says Cotgrave. The word occurs again in Measure for Measure. Whose choice is like that Greekish giglot's love, Orlando Furioso, 1594. We have a similar expression in the First Part of Jeronimo, 1605: Meet, Don Andrea! yes, in the battle's bowels. Bast. Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder; Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder. Char. O, no; forbear: for that which we have fled During the life, let us not wrong it dead. Enter SIR WILLIAM LUCY, attended, a French Herald preceding. Lucy. Herald, Conduct me to the Dauphin's tent; to know 8 Char. On what submissive message art thou sent? Lucy. Submission, Dauphin? 'tis a mere French word; We English warriors wot not what it means. Char. For prisoners ask'st thou? hell our prison is. But tell me whom thou seek'st? Lucy. Where is the great Alcides of the field, Valiant Lord Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury? Created, for his rare success in arms, Great earl of Washford, Waterford, and Valence; Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield, Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton, Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of Sheffield, The thrice victorious lord of Falconbridge; ། 8 Lucy's message implied that he knew who had obtained the victory: therefore Hanmer reads: 'Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin's tent.' Wexford in Ireland, was anciently called Weysford. In Crompton's Mansion of Magnanimitie, 1599, it is written as here, Washford. This long list of titles is from the epitaph formerly existent on Lord Talbot's tomb at Rouën. It is to be found in the work above cited with one other, Lord Lovetoft of Worsop,' which would not easily fall into the verse. It concludes as here, and adds, who died in the battle of Burdeaux, 1453. Malone was not acquainted with any older book in which this epitaph was to be found, and the play is of prior date to Crompton's book. Knight of the noble order of Saint George, Of all his wars within the realm of France? Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis? here, They would but stink, and putrefy the air. I'll bear them hence: But from their ashes shall be rear'd 11 A phoenix that shall make all France afeard. thou wilt. And now to Paris, in this conquering vein; All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's slain. [Exeunt. 10 To amaze is to dismay, to throw into consternation. A citie amazed or astonied with feare. Urbs lymphata horroribus.' BARET. Thus in Cymbeline:- I am amaz'd with matter. 11 A word is wanting to complete the mere, which Hanmer thus supplied: But from their ashes, Dauphin, shall be rear'd.' ACT V. SCENE I. London. A Room in the Palace. Enter KING HENRY, Gloster, and Exeter. K. Hen. Have you perus'd the letters from the pope, The emperor, and the earl of Armagnac?. Glo. I have, my lord; and their intent is this,They humbly sue unto your excellence, To have a godly peace concluded of, Between the realms of England and of France. K. Hen. How doth your grace affect their motion? Glo. Well, my good lord; and as the only means To stop effusion of our Christian blood, And 'stablish quietness on every side. K. Hen. Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought, It was both impious and unnatural, That such immanity and bloody strife The earl of Armagnac- near knit to Charles, In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry. K. Hen. Marriage, uncle! alas! my years are young 2; And fitter is my study and my books, 1 Immanity (immanitas, LAT.) outrageousness, cruelty, excess, BLOUNT. A belluine kind of immanity never raged so amongst men. Howell's Letters, iii. 15. 2 The king was, however, twenty-four years old. I shall be well content with any choice, Enter a Legate, and Two Ambassadors, with WIN- Exe. What! is my lord of Winchester install'd, And call'd unto a cardinal's degree 3! Then, I perceive, that will be verified, Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy, be a cardinal, If once new come He'll make cap co-equal with the crown. K. Hen. My lords ambassadors, your several suits Have been been consider'd a and debated on. Your purpose is both good and reasonable: ster, your ma Her beauty, and the value of her dower,- trách, Bear her this jewel, [To the Amb.] pledge of my affection. And so, my lord protector, see them guarded, And safely brought to Dover; where, inshipp'd, Commit them to the fortune of the sea. [Exeunt KING HENRY and Train; GLOSTER, EXETER, and Ambassadors. 3 The poet has here forgot himself. In the first act Gloster says: I'll canvass thee in thy broad cardinal's hat.' And it is strange that Exeter should not know of his advancement It appears that he would imply that Winchester obtained his hat only just before his present entry. He in fact obtained it in the fifth year of Henry's reign. |