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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ King Henry the Fifth. Duke of Gloucester, brother to the King. Duke of Bedford, brother to the King. Duke of Exeter, uncle to the King. Duke of York, cousin to the King. Earl of Salisbury. Earl of Westmoreland. Earl of Warwick. Archbishop of Canterbury. Bishop of Ely. Earl of Cambridge. Lord Scroop. Sir Thomas Grey. Sir Thomas Erpingham, officer in King Henry's army. Gower, officer in King Henry's army. Fluellen, officer in King Henry's army. Macmorris, officer in King Henry's army. Jamy, officer in King Henry's army. Bates, soldier in the same. Court, soldier in the same. Williams, soldier in the same. Pistol. Nym. Bardolph. Boy. A Herald. Charles the Sixth, king of France. Lewis, the Dauphin. Duke of Burgundy. Duke of Orleans. Duke of Bourbon. The Constable of France. Rambures, French Lord. Grandpre [Grandpre], French Lord. Governor of Harfleur. Montjoy, a French Herald. Ambassadors to the King of England [Ambassador 1]. Isabel, Queen of France. Katharine, daughter to Charles and Isabel [Katherine]. Alice, a lady attending on her. Hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap [Mrs. Quickly], formerly Mistress Quickly, and now married to Pistol. Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and Attendants. [Messenger] Chorus. Scene: England; afterwards France.

THE LIFE OF KING HENRY V. ^note

PROLOGUE. [Footnote: Enter Chorus. Chor.
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
Crouch for employment ^note. But ^note pardon, gentles all, ^note
The flat unraised spirits that have ^note dared
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object: can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields ^note of France? or may we cram
Within this wooden O the very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt?
O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
Attest in little place a million;
And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,

On your imaginary forces work.
Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Are now confined two mighty monarchies ^note,
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
The perilous narrow ^note ocean parts asunder:
Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
Into a thousand parts divide one man,
And make imaginary puissance;
Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving ^note earth;
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings ^note,
Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,
Turning the accomplishment of many years
Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,
Admit me Chorus to this history;
Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,
Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play. [Exit.

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