longed sojourn:

"To-night in Harfleur will we be your guest,
To-morrow for the march are we addrest."

In fact, as Drayton tells us, he remained eight days in Harfleur,
awaiting the Dauphin's reply to his challenge, which Holinshed does not
mention. Shakespeare, Drayton, and Holinshed alike pass over the
exceedingly picturesque circumstance of the expulsion of the women and
children under escort of the English troops. Drayton only says: "Out of
the Ports all Vagrants he doth driue."

Page 42, ll. 7, 8 [Stz. 114]. "_He frankly off'reth in a single fight,
With the young Daulphine to decide his right._" --Sir Harris Nicolas
remarks: "Of the personal valour which that letter displays on the part
of Henry but little can be said, for the challenger was about
twenty-seven years of age, and in the full vigour of manhood, whilst his
adversary, of whose prowess or bodily strength there is not the
slightest evidence, and who died in the December following, had not
attained his twentieth year."

Page 43, ll. 15, 16 [Stz. 119]. "_A Ford was found to set his Army ore
Which neuer had discouered beene before._" --This cannot be, for the
anonymous priest to whose narrative as an eyewitness of the campaign we
are so deeply indebted, says, "The approach was by two long but narrow
causeways, which the French had before warily broken through the middle"
(Nicolas, p. 233).

Page 44, l. 1 [Stz. 122]. "_Therfore they both in solemne Counsaile
satt._" --This council was held on October 20th, five days before
Agincourt. "The opinions of the different members," says Sir Harris
Nicolas, "are very minutely given by Des Ursins."

Page 44, l. 2. "_Britaine._" --Brittany. The Duke of Brittany, in fact,
did not arrive in time to take part in the battle.

Page 44, l. 17 [Stz. 124]. "_A Route of tatter'd Rascalls starued so._"
--Holinshed's description of the condition of the English army is most
graphic: "The English men were brought into great misery in this
journey, their victuall was in maner spent, and nowe coulde they get
none: for their enemies had destroied all the corne before they came:
reste could they none take, for their enemies were ever at hande to give
them alarmes: dayly it rained, and nightly it freesed: of fewell there
was great scarsitie, but of fluxes greate plenty: money they hadde
enoughe, but of wares to bestowe it uppon for their reliefe or comforte,
hadde they little or none. And yet in this great necessitye the poo