TPTT The Life of Henry the Fifth: ACT IV
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
PROLOGUE.
SCENE I. The English camp at Agincourt.
SCENE II. The French camp.
SCENE III. The English camp.
SCENE IV. The field of battle.
SCENE V. Another part of the field.
SCENE VI. Another part of the field.
SCENE VII. Another part of the field.
SCENE VIII. Before KING HENRY'S pavilion.
ACT V
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SCENE IV. The field of battle.
Alarum. Excursions. Enter PISTOL, French Soldier, and Boy
PISTOL
      Yield, cur!
French Soldier
      Je pense que vous etes gentilhomme de bonne qualite.
PISTOL
      Qualtitie calmie custure me! Art thou a gentleman?
      what is thy name? discuss.
French Soldier
5     O Seigneur Dieu!
PISTOL
      O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman:
      Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark;
      O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,
      Except, O signieur, thou do give to me
10    Egregious ransom.
French Soldier
      O, prenez misericorde! ayez pitie de moi!
PISTOL
      Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys;
      Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat
      In drops of crimson blood.
French Soldier
15    Est-il impossible d'echapper la force de ton bras?
PISTOL
      Brass, cur!
      Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,
      Offer'st me brass?
French Soldier
      O pardonnez moi!
PISTOL
20    Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?
      Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French
      What is his name.
Boy
      Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele?
French Soldier
      Monsieur le Fer.
Boy
25    He says his name is Master Fer.
PISTOL
      Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret
      him: discuss the same in French unto him.
Boy
      I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.
PISTOL
      Bid him prepare; for I will cut his throat.
French Soldier
30    Que dit-il, monsieur?
Boy
      Il me commande de vous dire que vous faites vous
      pret; car ce soldat ici est dispose tout a cette
      heure de couper votre gorge.
PISTOL
      Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy,
35    Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns;
      Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword.
French Soldier
      O, je vous supplie, pour l'amour de Dieu, me
      pardonner! Je suis gentilhomme de bonne maison:
      gardez ma vie, et je vous donnerai deux cents ecus.
PISTOL
40    What are his words?
Boy
      He prays you to save his life: he is a gentleman of
      a good house; and for his ransom he will give you
      two hundred crowns.
PISTOL
      Tell him my fury shall abate, and I the crowns will take.
French Soldier
45    Petit monsieur, que dit-il?
Boy
      Encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner
      aucun prisonnier, neanmoins, pour les ecus que vous
      l'avez promis, il est content de vous donner la
      liberte, le franchisement.
French Soldier
50    Sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remercimens; et
      je m'estime heureux que je suis tombe entre les
      mains d'un chevalier, je pense, le plus brave,
      vaillant, et tres distingue seigneur d'Angleterre.
PISTOL
      Expound unto me, boy.
Boy
55    He gives you, upon his knees, a thousand thanks; and
      he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into
      the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave,
      valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England.
PISTOL
      As I suck blood, I will some mercy show.
60    Follow me!
Boy
      Suivez-vous le grand capitaine.

Exeunt PISTOL, and French Soldier

      I did never know so full a voice issue from so
      empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty
      vessel makes the greatest sound.' Bardolph and Nym
65    had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i'
      the old play, that every one may pare his nails with
      a wooden dagger; and they are both hanged; and so
      would this be, if he durst steal any thing
      adventurously. I must stay with the lackeys, with
70    the luggage of our camp: the French might have a
      good prey of us, if he knew of it; for there is
      none to guard it but boys.
Exit
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