gland shall couch down in fear, and yield.

_Enter ORLEANS,(D) hastily, R.H._

_Orl._ Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?
Yon island carrions,[15] desperate of their bones,
Ill-favour'dly become the morning field:
Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,[16]
And our air shakes them passing scornfully:
Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host,
And their executors, the knavish crows,
Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour.
Description cannot suit itself in words
To demonstrate the life of such a battle
In life so lifeless as it shows itself.

_Dau._ Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits,
And give their fasting horses provender,
And after fight with them?

_Con._ On, to the field!
Come, come, away!
The sun is high, and we outwear the day.

[_Exeunt, R.H._

_Flourish of trumpets._

[Footnote IV.12: _Rambures_,] The Lord of Rambures was commander
of the cross-bows in the French army at Agincourt.]

[Footnote IV.13: _And dout them_] _Dout_, is a word still used in
Warwickshire, and signifies to _do out_, or _extinguish_.]

[Footnote IV.14: _----a hilding foe._] _Hilding_, or _hinderling_,
is a _low wretch_.]

[Footnote IV.15: _Yon island carrion,_] This description of the
English is founded on the melancholy account given by our
historians of Henry's army, immediately before the battle of
Agincourt.]

[Footnote IV.16: _Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,_] By
their _ragged curtains_, are meant their colours.]

SCENE III.--THE ENGLISH POSITION AT AGINCOURT.

_The English Army drawn up for battle;(E) GLOSTER, BEDFORD,
EXETER, SALISBURY, ERPINGHAM, and WESTMORELAND._

_Glo._ (R.C.) Where is the king?

_Bed._ (L.C.) The king himself is rode to view their battle.[17]

_West._ (L.) Of fighting men they have full threescore thousand.

_Exe._ (L.C.) There's five to one; besides, they all are fresh.

_Erp._ It is fearful odds.
If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,
Then, joyfully,--my noble lord of Bedford,--

[_Crosses to L._

My dear lord Gloster,--and my good lord Exeter,--
Warriors all, adieu!

[_Crosses back to R._

_West._ O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!(F)

_Enter KING HENRY, attended.(G) U.E.L.H._

_K. Hen._ (C.)