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Henry the Fifth, IV. i 

Court. Brother John Bates, is not that the

morning which breaks yonder?

Bates. I think it be; but we have no great

cause to desire the approach of day.

Will. We see yonder the beginning of the

day, but I think we shall never see the end of

it. Who goes there?

K. Hen. A friend.

Will. Under what captain serve you?

K. Hen. Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.

Will. A good old commander and a most

kind gentleman: I pray you, what thinks he of

our estate?

K. Hen. Even as men wrecked upon a sand,

that look to be washed off the next tide.

Bates. He hath not told his thought to the

king?

K. Hen. No; nor it is not meet he should.

For, though I speak it to you, I think the king

is but a man, as I am: the violet smells to him

as it doth to me; the element shows to him as

it doth to me; all his senses have but human

conditions: his ceremonies laid by, in his naked-

ness he appears but a man; and though his ill

affections are higher mounted than ours, yet

when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.

Therefore when he sees reason of fears, as we do,

his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish as

 100 estate: position

101 sand: sand-bank

108 element: sky

shows: appears

110 ceremonies: marks of office

113 stoop: term of falconry, used of the hawk descending on its prey

115 relish: flavor 