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Losing both beauty and utility;

And all our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges,

Defective in their natures, grow to wildness.

Even so our houses and ourselves and children

Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,

The sciences that should become our country,

But grow like savages,—as soldiers will,

That nothing do but meditate on blood,—

To swearing and stern looks, diffus'd attire,

And everything that seems unnatural.

Which to reduce into our former favour

You are assembled; and my speech entreats

That I may know the let why gentle Peace

Should not expel these inconveniences,

And bless us with her former qualities.

K. Hen. If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,

Whose want gives growth to the imperfections

Which you have cited, you must buy that peace

With full accord to all our just demands;

Whose tenours and particular effects

You have, enschedul'd briefly, in your hands.

Bur. The king hath heard them; to the which as yet,

There is no answer made.

K. Hen.Well then the peace,

Which you before so urg'd, lies in his answer.

Fr. King. I have but with a cursorary eye

O'erglanc'd the articles: pleaseth your Grace

To appoint some of your council presently

To sit with us once more, with better heed

 61 diffus'd: disordered

63 reduce: bring back

favour: aspect

65 let: impediment

72 tenours: purport

73 enschedul'd: drawn up in writing

77 cursorary: cursory 