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Prologue Chorus

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…the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars,…

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Act. 1 Sc. 1
Canteburry and Ely

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Cantebury
The king is full of grace and fair regard.
Ely
And a true lover of the holy Church

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Act. 1 Sc. 1
Cantebury and Ely, Henry’s youth

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Cant.
Never was such a sudden scholar made,
…
Ely
…the prince obscur’d his contemplation
Under the veil of wildness…

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Act. 1, Sc. 2
Henry V to Cantebury

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How you awake our sleeping sword of war.
We charge you in the name of God take heed,
For never two such kingdoms did contend
Without much fall of blood…

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Act 1, Sc. 2
Cantebury’s reasons for war with France being legitamate

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–No woman shall succeed in Salic land–
Which Salic land the French unjustly glose
To be the realm of France, and Pharamond
The founder of this law and female bar.

…as clear as the summer’s sun

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Act 1, Sc. 2
Cantebury and Ely on ancestors

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Cant.
…Invoke his warlike spirit,
And your great-uncle’s, Edward the Black Prince
…
Ely
Awake remembrance of these valient dead

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Act 1, Sc. 2
Scotland

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For once the eagle England being in prey,
To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
Comes sneaking,…

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Act 1, Sc. 2
Conquest vs loss in France, King

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France being ours, we’ll bend it to our awe,
Or break it all to pieces….
Either our history shalll with full mouth
Speak freely our acts, or else our grave

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Act 1, Sc. 2
King, Christian

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We are no tyrant, but a Christian king

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Act 1, Sc. 2
Henry’s reaction to the tennis balls

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But I will rise there with so full a glory
That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.

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Chorus Act 2

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Now all the youth of England are on fire

Confirm’d conspiracy with fearful France

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Act 2, Scene 1
Nym

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The king hath run bad humours on the knight (Falstaff); that’s the even of it.

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Act 2, Scene 2
King on the drunk who insulted him

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Oh, let us be merciful

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Act 2, Scene 2
Camrbidge and King

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Cam.
For me, the gold of France did not seduce
Although I did admit it was a motive
The sooner to effect what I intended
…
King
…you would have sold your king to slaughter,
…
…we our kingdom’s safety must so tender,

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Act 2, Scene 3
Hostess

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….He’s in Arthur’s bosom if ever
man went to Arthur’s bosom…

Story where the beggar went to Abraham’s bosom – she gets confused

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Act 3, Scene 1
King – disguise
King – national

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Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage.
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect

…And you, good yeomen,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture. Let us swear
That you are worth your breeding, which I doubt not,

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Act 3, Scene 2
Breach

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Bardolph
On, on, on, on, on, to the breach, to the breach!
…
Llewellyn
Up to the preach, you dogs! Avaunt, you cullions!

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Act 3, Sc. 3
Macmorris

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…the trumpet call us to the breach and we talk and be Chrish do nothing, ‘tis shame for us all
…‘tis shame to stand still, it is shame,…
…And there is throats to be cut,…
…
Of my nation? What ish my nation? Ish a villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal. What ish my nation?
Who talks of my nation?

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Act 3, Sc. 4
King Harfleur

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I will not leave the half-achiev’d Harfleur
Till in her ashes she lie buried
The gates of mercy shall be all shut up

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Act 3, Sc 5
Alice

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Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en vérité vous prononcez les
mots aussi droit que les natifs d’Angleterre

She does not

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Act 3 Sc. 6
Constable and Bourbon

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Constable
And if he be not fought withal, my lord,
Let us not live in France. Let us quit all
And give our vinyards to barbarous people

Bourbon
Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards!

22
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Act 3 Sc. 6
French King

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High dukes, great princes, barons, lords, and knights,
For your great seats, now quit you of great shames

23
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Act 3 Sc. 7
Llewellyn

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The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon

24
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Act 3 Sc. 7
King Bardolph

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We would have all such offenders [Bardolph] so cut off

25
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Act 3, Sc. 7
Montjoy

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Thus says my king:… Tell him, we could have rebuked him at Harfleur

26
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Act 3, Sc. 7
King to Montjoy

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We would not seek battle as we are,
Nor as we are we say we will not shun it

27
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Act. 3 Sc. 8
Constable

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If the English had any apprehension they would run away.

28
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Act 4, Sc. 1
Erpingham

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This lodging likes me better
Since I may say ‘now I lie like a king’

29
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Act 4 Sc. 1
Pistol and king

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Pistol
Qui vous là
King
A friend
Pistol
Discuss unto me, art thou officer, or art thou base,
common and popular?

30
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Act 4, Sc. 1
King to common soldiers

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I think the king is but a man as I am

31
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Act 4, Sc. 1
Bates, Williams, crime

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Bates
…for we know
enough if we know we are the king’s subjects. if his cause be wrong our obedience to the king wipes the
crime of it out of us
Williams
But if the cause be not good the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make…

32
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Act 4, Sc. 1
King, irresponsible

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King
…The king is not bound to answer the particular endings of his soldiers,
the father of his son, nor the master of his servant

33
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Act 4, Sc. 1
John Bates

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Bates
I do not desire he should answer for me, and yet I determine to fight lustily for him

34
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Act 4, Sc. 1
King alone

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O God of battles, steel my soldiers hearts
Possess them not with fear.

35
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Act 4, Sc. 6
Henry

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Then every soldier kill his prisoners.

36
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Act 4, Sc. 7
Llewellyn

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Captain Gower, what
call you the town’s name where Alexander the pig was born?
…
As Alexaner killed
his friend Cleitus, being in his ales and his cups, so also
Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his good judgements, turned away the fat knight with the great belly doublet [Falstaff]

37
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Act 4, Scene 8

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King
Here was a royal fellowship of death

Yes, captain, but with acknowledgement That God fought for us.

38
Q

Act 5, Scene 2
Queen

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The venom of such looks we fairly hope
Have lost their quality, and that this day
Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love

39
Q

Act 5, Scene 2
French king

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To appoint osme of your council presntly
To sit with us once more, with better heed
To re-survey them.

40
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Act 5, Scene 2
Henry’s openning lines to Kate

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Fair Katherine, and most fair
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
Such as will enter a lady’s ear
And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?

41
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Act 5, Scene 2
King, translates Katherine

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That the tongues of men are full of deceits?

42
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Act 5, Scene 2
Henry, plain king

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…I am glad
canst speak no better English, for if thou couldst thous
wouldst find me such a plain king

43
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Act 5, Scene 2
Leapfrog

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If I could win a lday at leapfrog…
…I should quickly leap into a wife

44
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Act 5, Scene 2
Henry, plain soldier

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I speak to thee plain soldier

45
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Act 5, Scene 2
While living, love

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And while thou livest, dear
Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy

46
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Act 5, Scene 2
Bards

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…For these fellows of infinite
tongue that can rhyme themselves into ladies’ favours,
they do always reason themselves out again….

47
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Act 5, Scene 2
Take a soldier

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…If thou would have such a one,
take me. And take me, take a soldier. Take a soldier, take a king….

48
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Act 5, Scene 2
France is yours and mine

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when France is mine and I am yours, then yours is France, and you are mine

49
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Act 5, Scene 2
Encouraging Kate

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Come, I know thou lovest me,

50
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Act 5, Scene 2
Frightens ladies

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…Therefore was I created with a stubborn
outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies I fright them.

51
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Act 5, Scene 2
Kate’s father

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Dat is as it sall please de roi mon père

52
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Act 5, Scene 2
Kisses Katherine

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You have witchcraft in you lips, Kate

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