History of Henry V (1598-9)

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Title Variant: The Life of Henry the Fifth
Date variant: 1599
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Act IV, Scene 5

Another part of the field.

Constable of France
O diable!

Duke of Orleans
O seigneur! le jour est perdu, tout est perdu!

Lewis the Dauphin
Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
Reproach and everlasting shame
Sits mocking in our plumes. O merchante fortune!
Do not run away.

Constable of France
Why, all our ranks are broke.

Lewis the Dauphin
O perdurable shame! let's stab ourselves.
Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for?

Duke of Orleans
Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?

Duke of Bourbon
Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
Let us die in honour: once more back again;
And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand,
Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door
Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,
His fairest daughter is contaminated.

Constable of France
Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!
Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.

Duke of Orleans
We are enow yet living in the field
To smother up the English in our throngs,
If any order might be thought upon.

Duke of Bourbon
The devil take order now! I'll to the throng:
Let life be short; else shame will be too long.

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