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By permission of the Oxford University Press, the text of this edition of Henry V is that of Craig's Oxford Shakespeare, with the following alterations:

1. The stage directions are those of the First Folio, with necessary additions indicated by brackets.

2. French passages throughout the play have in general been modernized.

3. A few changes have been made in punctuation (such as what, man for what man in II. iii. 19); and the spelling of the following words has been normalized: warlike, ooze, ordnance, antics, villainy, wrecked, lackey, embattl'd.

4. All other departures from Craig's text represent reversions to the reading of the First Folio. In the following list of such changes, the reading of the present edition stands first in the line: the reading of the Oxford Shakespeare follows the colon.

our: the

For: And

th' heir: heir

man: son

assays: essays

Come: Fly

on, and we'll: on; and well

distance; force: distance while we force

Couple a gorge: Coupe le gorge

and: from

give You patience: give you Patience

comes: come

mountain sire: mounting sire

brother of: brother

Harry, England, and: Harry! England and

fire-shovel: I knew coals. They: fire-shovel;—I knew coals—they