Important quotes Flashcards
Prologue Chorus
…the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars,…
Act. 1 Sc. 1
Canteburry and Ely
Cantebury
The king is full of grace and fair regard.
Ely
And a true lover of the holy Church
Act. 1 Sc. 1
Cantebury and Ely, Henry’s youth
Cant.
Never was such a sudden scholar made,
…
Ely
…the prince obscur’d his contemplation
Under the veil of wildness…
Act. 1, Sc. 2
Henry V to Cantebury
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…
Act 1, Sc. 2
Cantebury’s reasons for war with France being legitamate
–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
Act 1, Sc. 2
Cantebury and Ely on ancestors
Cant.
…Invoke his warlike spirit,
And your great-uncle’s, Edward the Black Prince
…
Ely
Awake remembrance of these valient dead
Act 1, Sc. 2
Scotland
For once the eagle England being in prey,
To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
Comes sneaking,…
Act 1, Sc. 2
Conquest vs loss in France, King
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
Act 1, Sc. 2
King, Christian
We are no tyrant, but a Christian king
Act 1, Sc. 2
Henry’s reaction to the tennis balls
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.
Chorus Act 2
Now all the youth of England are on fire
Confirm’d conspiracy with fearful France
Act 2, Scene 1
Nym
The king hath run bad humours on the knight (Falstaff); that’s the even of it.
Act 2, Scene 2
King on the drunk who insulted him
Oh, let us be merciful
Act 2, Scene 2
Camrbidge and King
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,
Act 2, Scene 3
Hostess
….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
Act 3, Scene 1
King – disguise
King – national
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,
Act 3, Scene 2
Breach
Bardolph
On, on, on, on, on, to the breach, to the breach!
…
Llewellyn
Up to the preach, you dogs! Avaunt, you cullions!
Act 3, Sc. 3
Macmorris
…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?
Act 3, Sc. 4
King Harfleur
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
Act 3, Sc 5
Alice
Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en vérité vous prononcez les
mots aussi droit que les natifs d’Angleterre
She does not
Act 3 Sc. 6
Constable and Bourbon
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!
Act 3 Sc. 6
French King
High dukes, great princes, barons, lords, and knights,
For your great seats, now quit you of great shames
Act 3 Sc. 7
Llewellyn
The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon
Act 3 Sc. 7
King Bardolph
We would have all such offenders [Bardolph] so cut off
Act 3, Sc. 7
Montjoy
Thus says my king:… Tell him, we could have rebuked him at Harfleur
Act 3, Sc. 7
King to Montjoy
We would not seek battle as we are,
Nor as we are we say we will not shun it
Act. 3 Sc. 8
Constable
If the English had any apprehension they would run away.
Act 4, Sc. 1
Erpingham
This lodging likes me better
Since I may say ‘now I lie like a king’
Act 4 Sc. 1
Pistol and king
Pistol
Qui vous là
King
A friend
Pistol
Discuss unto me, art thou officer, or art thou base,
common and popular?
Act 4, Sc. 1
King to common soldiers
I think the king is but a man as I am
Act 4, Sc. 1
Bates, Williams, crime
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…
Act 4, Sc. 1
King, irresponsible
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
Act 4, Sc. 1
John Bates
Bates
I do not desire he should answer for me, and yet I determine to fight lustily for him
Act 4, Sc. 1
King alone
O God of battles, steel my soldiers hearts
Possess them not with fear.
Act 4, Sc. 6
Henry
Then every soldier kill his prisoners.
Act 4, Sc. 7
Llewellyn
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]
Act 4, Scene 8
King
Here was a royal fellowship of death
Yes, captain, but with acknowledgement That God fought for us.
Act 5, Scene 2
Queen
The venom of such looks we fairly hope
Have lost their quality, and that this day
Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love
Act 5, Scene 2
French king
To appoint osme of your council presntly
To sit with us once more, with better heed
To re-survey them.
Act 5, Scene 2
Henry’s openning lines to Kate
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?
Act 5, Scene 2
King, translates Katherine
That the tongues of men are full of deceits?
Act 5, Scene 2
Henry, plain king
…I am glad
canst speak no better English, for if thou couldst thous
wouldst find me such a plain king
Act 5, Scene 2
Leapfrog
If I could win a lday at leapfrog…
…I should quickly leap into a wife
Act 5, Scene 2
Henry, plain soldier
I speak to thee plain soldier
Act 5, Scene 2
While living, love
And while thou livest, dear
Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy
Act 5, Scene 2
Bards
…For these fellows of infinite
tongue that can rhyme themselves into ladies’ favours,
they do always reason themselves out again….
Act 5, Scene 2
Take a soldier
…If thou would have such a one,
take me. And take me, take a soldier. Take a soldier, take a king….
Act 5, Scene 2
France is yours and mine
when France is mine and I am yours, then yours is France, and you are mine
Act 5, Scene 2
Encouraging Kate
Come, I know thou lovest me,
Act 5, Scene 2
Frightens ladies
…Therefore was I created with a stubborn
outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies I fright them.
Act 5, Scene 2
Kate’s father
Dat is as it sall please de roi mon père
Act 5, Scene 2
Kisses Katherine
You have witchcraft in you lips, Kate
