He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.

BUR. Doubtless, he would have made a noble knight:

See, where he lies inherfed in the arms.

Of the most bloody nurser of his harms.

BAST. Hew them to pieces, hack their bones afunder;

Whofe 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
Who hath obtain'd the glory of the day.

CHAR. On what fubmiffive meffage art thou fent? LUCY. Submiffion, Dauphin? 'tis a mere French word;

We English warriors wot not what it means.
I come to know what prifoners thou haft ta'en,
And to furvey the bodies of the dead.

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in the bowels of the French,] So, in the firft part of

Jeronimo, 1605:

Meet, Don Andrea! yes, in the battle's bowels."

4 Herald,

Conduct me to the Dauphin's tent; to know

STEEVENS.

Who hath obtain'd] Lucy's meffage implied that he knew who had obtained the vidory: therefore fir T. Hanmer reads: Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin's tent. JOHNSON.

CHAR. For prifoners afk'ft thou? hell our prifon

is.

But tell me whom thou seek'st.

Luc. Where is the great Alcides of the field, Valiant lord Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury? Created, for his rare fuccefs in arms,

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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;
Knight of the noble order of faint George,
Worthy faint Michael, and the golden fleece;
Great mareshal to Henry the fixth,

Of all his wars within the realm of France?
Puc. Here is a filly ftately ftile, indeed!
The Turk, that two and fifty kingdoms hath,"

Cor

5 Where is the great Alcides—] Old copy-But where's. rected by Mr. Rowe. The compofitor probably caught the word MALONE.

But from the preceding line.

6 Great earl of Washford,] It appears from Camden's Britannia and Holinfhed's Chronicle of Ireland, that Wexford was anciently called Weysford. In Crompton's Mansion of Magnanimitie it is written as here, Washford. This long lift of titles is taken from the epitaph formerly fixed on Lord Talbot's tomb in Roüen in Normandy. Where this author found it, I have not been able to afcertain, for it is not in the common hiftorians. The oldeft book in which I have met with it is the tract above mentioned, which was printed in 1599, pofterior to the date of this play. Numerous as this lift is, the epitaph has one more, which, I suppose, was only rejected because it would not eafily fall into the verfe, "Lord Lovetoft of Worfop. It concludes as here, -"Lord Falconbridge, Knight of the noble order of St. George, St. Michael, and the golden fleece, Great Marshall to King Henry VI. of his realm in France, who died in the battle of Bourdeaux, 1453."

MALONE.

7 The Turk, &c.] Alluding probably to the oftentatious Letter

་

Writes not fo tedious a file as this.

Him, that thou magnify'ft with all thefe titles,
Stinking, and fly-blown, lies here at our feet.
LUCY. Is Talbot flain; the Frenchmen's only
fcourge,

Your kingdom's terror and black Nemefis?
O, were mine eyeballs into bullets turn'd,
That I, in rage, might shoot them at your faces!
O, that I could but call thefe dead to life!
It were enough to fright the realm of France:
Were but his picture left among you here,
It would amaze the proudeft of you all.

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Give me their bodies; that I may bear them hence,
And give them burial as beseems their worth.

Puc. I think, this upflart is old Talbot's ghoft,
He speaks with fuch a proud commanding fpirit.
For God's fake, let him have 'em, to keep them

here,

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They would but fink, and putrefy the air.
CHAR. Go, take their bodies hence.
LUCY.

I'll bear them hence:

But from their afhes fhall be rear'd

A phoenix that fhall make all France afeard.

of Sultan Solyman the Magnificent, to the emperor Ferdinand, 1562;

in which all the Grand Signior's titles are enumerated.

Hiftory of the Turks, 5th edit. p. 789. GREY.

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See Knolles's

amaze i. e. (as in other inftances) confound, throw

into confternation. So, in Cymbeline:

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"I am amaz'd with matter

let him have 'em ;]

STEEVENS.

Old copy-have him. So, a little lower,-do with him. The firft emendation was made by Mr. Theobald; the other by the editor of the fecond folio. MALONE. 2 But from their afhes fhall be rear'd

A phanix &c.] The defect in the metre fhews that fome word of two fyllables was inadvertently omitted; probably an epithet to afhes. MAlone.

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CHAR. So we be rid of them, do with 'em what thou wilt. 9

And now to Paris. in this conquering vein;
All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's flain.

[Exeunt

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 fue unto your excellence, To have a godly peace concluded of, Between the realms of England and of France.

So, in the third part of this play:

"My alhes, as the phoenix, fhall bring forth
"A bird that will revenge upon you all."

Sir Thomas Hanmer, with great probability, reads:
But from their ashes, Dauphin, &c. STEEVENS.

9 So we be rid of them, do with 'em what thou wilt. ] I fuppose, for the fake of metre, the ufelefs words-with 'em should be omitted. STEEVENS.

In the original copy, the tranfcriber or printer forgot to mark the commencement of the fifth Act; and has by miftake called this fcene, Scene II., The editor of the fecond folio made a very ab furd regulation by making the act begin in the middle of the preceding fcene, (where the Dauphin, &c. enter, and take notice of the dead bodies of Talbot and his fon,) which was inadvertently followed in fubfequent editions. MALONE.

K. HEN. How doth your grace affect their mo

GLO. Well, my good lord; and as the only

means

To ftop effufion of our Chriftian blood,
And 'ftablifh quietnefs on every fide.

K. HEN. Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought, It was both impious and unnatural,

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That fuch immanity and bloody ftrife

Should reign among profeffors of one faith.
GLO. Befide, my lord,—the fooner to effect,
And furer bind, his knot of amity,-

The earl of Armagnac- near knit to Charles,
A man of great authority in France,-
Proffers his only daughter to your grace

In marriage, with a large and fumptuous dowry. K. HEN. Marriage, uncle? alas! my years are young; 4

And fitter is my ftudy and my books,
Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
Yet, call the ambaffadors; and, as you pleafe,
So let them have their anfwers every one:
I fhall be well content with any choice,
Tends to God's glory, and my country's weal.

Enter a Legate, and two Ambaffadors, with WIN-
CHESTER in a Cardinal's habit.

EXE. What is my lord of Winchester inftall'd, And call'd unto a cardinal's degree!5

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4

immanity i. e. barbarity, favagenefs. STEEVENS. my years are young;] His majefty, however, was twentyfour years old. MALONE.

What is my lord of Winchester inftall'd,

And call'd unto a cardinal's degree ! ] This (as Mr. Edwards