Quotes Henry V
For so work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home,
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad,
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer’s velvet buds;
Which pillage they with merry march bring home
To the tent-royal of their emperor:
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold,
The civil citizens kneading up the honey,
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,
The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,
Delivering o’er to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone.
In 'Henry V' Total: 22. Print/save view. OPTIONS: Show cue speeches. Show full speeches # Act, Scene, Line (Click to see in context) Speech text: 1. Not here in presence. Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth. Henry V is a play by William Shakespeare that was first performed in 1599. Summary Read a Plot Overview of the entire play or a scene by scene Summary and Analysis. Henry V: A Pious King Prepares for War. Henry IV died in 1413, and the 26-year-old prince took the throne as Henry V. Conspiracies soon arose among his onetime friends to unseat him in favor of. Henry’s speech to the Governor of Harfleur threatens vicious, blood-curdling violence, yet, as soon as the Governor surrenders the town, Henry orders his soldiers to treat the French with respect. As the head of England, Henry is also responsible for instilling patriotism among his people, an effort that, in hard times, requires Henry’s unflagging optimism and virtuosic eloquence. KING HENRY V Now, herald, are the dead number'd? Herald Here is the number of the slaughter'd French. KING HENRY V What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle? EXETER Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king; John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt: Of other lords and barons, knights and squires, Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.
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Quotes Henry Viii
– William Shakespeare
Henry V Dauphin
Quote 1
Andtell the pleasant Prince this mock of his
Hathturned his balls to gunstones, and his soul
Shallstand sore chargèd for the wasteful vengeance
Thatshall fly from them—for many a thousand widows
Shallthis his mock mock out of their dear husbands,
Mockmothers from their sons, mock castles down;
.. .
But this lies all within the will ofGod,
To whom I do appeal, and in whose name
Tellyou the Dauphin I am coming on
To venge meas I may, and to put forth
My rightful handin a well-hallowed cause.
(I.ii.281–293)
Whose Name Is Hardly Important
This passage is part of Henry’s responseto the messenger who delivers the crate of tennis balls that theDauphin offers as a mocking reminder of Henry’s irresponsible andwayward youth. With an icy, menacing wrath, Henry turns the Dauphin’sjest on its head, threatening the messenger with a promise to treatthe fields of France like a tennis court and play a game for theDauphin’s father’s crown.
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In his repeated insistence that the Dauphin’s jest willbe responsible for the terrible carnage that he will bring to France(the Dauphin will “[m]ock mothers from their sons”), Henry indulgesin an early instance of casting responsibility for his actions awayfrom himself and onto his enemies. By claiming to come to Francein the name of God and by telling the Dauphin that he, the Dauphin,is responsible for the consequences, Henry presents himself as anunappeasable, unstoppable force his enemies must submit to ratherthan struggle against. Henry may seem arrogant, but he makes himselfappear humble by appealing to God rather than to his own power.This speech thus becomes an early blueprint for almost all of Henry’s futureself-characterizations: he claims that his enemies’ wickedness isto blame for the violence brought by his own army, then depicts himselfas an instrument of God whose desire to further God’s will leaveshim no choice as to how to behave.