Great Stafford, thy high Constable, lyes dead.
With Shorly, Clifton, Gawsell, Calverly,
And many more; whose brave deaths witnessed
Their noble valour and fidelitie:
And many more had left their dearest bloud
Behind, that day, had Hotspur longer stood.
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But he, as Dowglas, with a furie ledde,
Rushing into the thickest woods of speares,
And brakes of swordes, still laying at the Head
(The life of th' army) whiles he nothing feares
Or spares his owne, comes all invironed
With multitude of power, that overbeares
His manly worth: who yeeldes not in his fall;
But fighting dyes, and dying kils withal.
Selection from the Famous Victories of Henry V
The following is the first conversation between Prince Hal and Falstaff (Sir John Oldcastle):
Enter Sir lohn Old-Castle.
Hen. 6. How now sir Iohn Old-Castle,
What newes with you?
Ioh. Old. I am glad to see your grace at libertie,[1]
I was come, I, to visit you in prison.
Hen. 5. To visit me? Didst thou not know that I
am a Princes son. . . But I tell you, sirs,
when I am king we will have no such things.
But, my lads, if the old king, my father, were
dead, we should all be kings.
Ioh. Old. Hee is a goode olde man, God take him to
his mercy the sooner.
Hen. 5. But, Ned, so soone as I am King, the first
thing I will do, shal be to put my lord chief
- ↑ The Prince had just been committed to the Fleet for striking the Lord Chief Justice.
