Page:Henry V (1918) Yale.djvu/49

37

Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,

In thunder and in earthquake like a Jove,

That, if requiring fail, he will compel;

And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,

Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy

On the poor souls for whom this hungry war

Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head

Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries,

The dead men's blood, the pining maidens' groans,

For husbands, fathers, and betrothed lovers,

That shall be swallow'd in this controversy.

This is his claim, his threat'ning, and my message;

Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,

To whom expressly I bring greeting too.

Fr. King. For us, we will consider of this further:

To-morrow shall you bear our full intent

Back to our brother of England.

Dau.For the Dauphin,

I stand here for him: what to him from England?

Exe. Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt,

And anything that may not misbecome

The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.

Thus says my king: an if your father's highness

Do not, in grant of all demands at large,

Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,

He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,

That caves and womby vaultages of France

Shall chide your trespass and return your mock

In second accent of his ordnance.

Dau. Say, if my father render fair return,

It is against my will; for I desire

 101 requiring: requesting

102 in the bowels: by the mercy

124 womby vaultages: deep caverns

126 second accent of his ordnance: echoes of his cannon 