The Famous Victories of Henry V
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Enter the young Prince [HENRY V], NED, and TOM.
HENRY V:
Come away, Ned and Tom.
NED and TOM:
Here, my lord.
HENRY V:
Come away, my lads. Tell me, sirs, how much gold
have you got?
NED:
Faith, my lord, I have got five hundred pound.
HENRY V:
But tell me, Tom, how much hast thou got?
TOM:
Faith, my lord, some four hundred pound.
HENRY V:
Four hundred pounds, bravely spoken, lads. But tell
me, sirs, think you not that it was a villainous part of
me to rob my father's receivers?
NED:
Why no, my lord, it was but a trick of youth.
HENRY V:
Faith, Ned, thou sayest true. But tell me, sirs,
whereabouts are we?
TOM:
My lord, we are now about a mile off London.
HENRY V:
But sirs, I marvel that Sir John Oldcastle comes not
away. Swounds, see where he comes.
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Enters JOCKEY.
How now, Jockey, what news with thee?
JOCKEY:
Faith, my lord, such news as passeth, for the town of
Deptford is risen with hue and cry after your man
which parted from us the last night and has set upon
and hath robbed a poor carrier.
HENRY V:
Swounds, the villain that was wont to spy out our
booties?
JOCKEY:
Aye, my lord, even the very same.
HENRY V:
Now base minded rascal to rob a poor carrier. Well, it
skills not. I'll save the base villain's life;aye, I may.
But tell me, Jockey, whereabout be the receivers?
JOCKEY:
Faith, my lord, they are hard by, but the best is, we
are ahorseback and they be afoot, so we may escape
them.
HENRY V:
Well, i' the villains come, let me alone with them.
But tell me, Jockey, how much gots thou from the
knaves? For I am sure I got something, for one of the
villains so belamed me about the shoulders as I shall
feel it this month.
JOCKEY:
Faith, my lord, I have got a hundred pound.
HENRY V:
A hundred pound, now bravely spoken Jockey. But
come sirs, lay all your money before me. Now by
heaven here is a brave show. But as I am true
gentleman, I will have the half of this spent tonight.
But sirs, take up your bags; here comes the receivers.
Let me alone.
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Enters two RECEIVERS.
1 RECEIVER:
Alas, good fellow, what shall we do? I dare never go
home to the court, for I shall be hanged. But look,
here is the young Prince; what shall we do?
HENRY V:
How now, you villains, what are you?
1 RECEIVER:
Speak you to him.
2 RECEIVER:
No, I pray, speak you to him.
HENRY V:
Why how now, you rascals, why speak you not?
1 RECEIVER:
Forsooth we be--Pray speak you to him.
HENRY V:
Swounds, villains, speak or I'll cut off your heads.
2 RECEIVER:
Forsooth, he can tell the tale better than I.
1 RECEIVER:
Forsooth, we be your father's receivers.
HENRY V:
Are you my father's receivers? Then I hope ye have
brought me some money.
1 RECEIVER:
Money? Alas, sir, we be robbed.
HENRY V:
Robbed? How many were there of them?
1 RECEIVER:
Marry sir, there were four of them, and one of them
had Sir John Oldcastle's bay hobby and your black
nag.
HENRY V:
Gog's wounds, how like you this, Jockey? 'Blood,
you villains. My father robbed of his money abroad
and we robbed in our stables. But tell me, how many
were of them?
1 RECEIVER:
If it please you, there were four of them, and there
was one about the bigness of you. But I am sure I so
belamed him about the shoulders
that he will feel it this month.
HENRY V:
Gog's wounds, you lamed them fairly so that they
have carried away your money. But come, sirs, what
shall we do with the villains?
BOTH RECEIVERS:
I beseech your Grace, be good to us.
NED:
I pray you, my lord, forgive them this once.
HENRY V:
Well, stand up and get you gone and look that you
speak not a word of it, for if there be, swounds, I'll
hang you and all your kin.
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Exit RECEIVERS.
HENRY V:
Now sirs, how like you this? Was not this bravely
done? For now the villains dare not speak a word of
it, I have so feared them with words. Now whither
shall we go?
ALL:
Why, my lord, you know our old hostess at
Faversham.
HENRY V:
Our hostess at Faversham, 'blood what shall we do
there? We have a thousand pound about us and we
shall go to a petty ale-house? No, no. You know the
old tavern in Eastcheap; there is good wine. Besides,
there is a pretty wench that can talk well, for I delight
as much in their tongues as any part about them.
ALL:
We are ready to wait upon your Grace.
HENRY V:
Gog's wounds, wait. We will go all together; we are
all fellows. I tell you sirs, and the King my father
were dead, we would be all kings; therefore come
away.
NED:
Gog's wounds, bravely spoken, Harry.
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[Exeunt] Enter JOHN COBBLER, ROBIN PEWTERER, LAWRENCE COSTERMONGER.
JOHN COBBLER:
All is well here, all is well masters.
LAWRENCE COSTERMONGER:
How say you neighbor John Cobbler? I think it best
that my neighbor Robin Pewterer went to Pudding
Lane End, and we will watch here at Billinsgate
Ward. How say you, neighbor Robin; how like you
this?
ROBIN PEWTERER:
Marry, well, neighbors. I care not much if I go to
Pudding Lane's End. But neighbors, and you hear any
ado about me, make haste, and if I hear any ado about
you, I will come to you.
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Exit ROBIN
LAWRENCE COSTERMONGER:
Neighbor, what news hear you of the young Prince?
JOHN COBBLER:
Marry, neighbor, I hear say, he is a toward young
prince, for if he met any by the highway, he will not
let to talk with him. I dare not call him thief, but sure
he is one of these taking fellows.
LAWRENCE COSTERMONGER:
Indeed, neighbor, I hear say he is as lively a young
prince as ever was.
JOHN COBBLER:
Aye, and I hear say if he use it long, his father will
cut him off from the crown. But neighbor, say
nothing of that.
LAWRENCE COSTERMONGER: [10]
No, no, neighbor, I warrant you.
JOHN COBBLER:
Neighbor, methinks you begin to sleep. If you will,
we will sit down, for I think it is about midnight.
LAWRENCE COSTERMONGER:
Marry, content neighbor; let us sleep.