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- HENRY THE FIFTH
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- Additional Passages
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- The DauphinBourbon variant, which usually involves only the alteration of
- speech-prefixes, has several consequences for the dialogue and structure of
- 4.5. There follow edited texts of the Folio and Quarto versions of this scene.
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- Additional Passage A
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- FOLIO
- (Enter the Constable, Orleans, Bourbon, the Dauphin, and Rambures)
- l1l Constable O diable!
- l2l Orleans O Seigneur! Le jour est perdu, tout est perdu.
- l3l Dauphin Mort de ma vie! All is confounded, all.
- l4l Reproach and everlasting shame
- l5l Sits mocking in our plumes.
- (A short alarum)
- l6l O mechante fortune! Do not run away.
- (Exit Rambures)
- l7l Constable Why, all our ranks are broke.
- l8l Dauphin O perdurable shame! LetÆs stab ourselves:
- l9l Be these the wretches that we played at dice for?
- l10l Orleans Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?
- l11l Bourbon Shame, an eternall shame, nothing but shame!
- l12l Let us die in pride. In once more, back again!
- l13l And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
- l14l Let him go home, and with his cap in hand
- l15l Like a base leno hold the chamber door,
- l16l Whilst by a slave no gentler than my dog
- l17l His fairest daughter is contaminated.
- l18l Constable Disorder that hath spoiled us, friend us now,
- l19l Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.
- l20l Orleans We are enough yet living in the field
- l21l To smother up the English in our throngs,
- l22l If any order might be thought upon.
- l23l Bourbon The devil take order now. IÆll to the throng.
- l24l Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
- (Exeunt)
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- Additional Passage B
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- QUARTO
- (Enter the four French lords: the Constable, Orleans, Bourbon, and Gebon)
- l1l Gebon O diabello!
- l2l Constable Mort de ma vie!
- l3l Orleans O what a day is this!
- l4l Bourbon O jour de honte, all is gone, all is lost.
- l5l Constable We are enough yet living in the field
- l6l To smother up the English,
- l7l If any order might be thought upon.
- l8l Bourbon A plague of order! Once more to the field!
- l9l And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
- l10l Let him go home, and with his cap in hand,
- l11l Like a base leno hold the chamber door,
- l12l Whilst by a slave no gentler than my dog
- l13l His fairest daughter is contaminated.
- l14l Constable Disorder that hath spoiled us, right us now.
- l15l Come we in heaps, weÆll offer up our lives
- l16l Unto these English, or else die with fame.
- l17l [Bourbon] Come, come along.
- l18l LetÆs die with honour, our shame doth last too long.
- (Exeunt)
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