King Henry V · William Shakespeare
SCENE I.--COUNCIL CHAMBER IN SOUTHAMPTON CASTLE.
_EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND, discovered._ _Bed._ 'Fore Heaven, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors. _Exe._ They shall be apprehended by and by. _West._ How smooth and even they do bear themselves! As if allegiance in their bosoms sat, Crowned with faith and constant loyalty. _Bed._ The king hath note of all that they intend, By interception which they dream not of. _Exe._ Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,(A) Whom he hath cloy'd and grac'd with princely favours,-- That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell His sovereign's life to death and treachery! _Distant Trumpets sound. Enter King HENRY, SCROOP, CAMBRIDGE, GREY, Lords and Attendants, U.E.L.H._ _K. Hen._ Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard. My lord of Cambridge,--and my kind lord of Masham,-- And you, my gentle knight,--give me your thoughts: Think you not, that the powers we bear with us Will cut their passage through the force of France? _Scroop._ No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best. _K. Hen._ I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded We carry not a heart with us from hence That grows not in a fair consent with ours,[1] Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish Success and conquest to attend on us. _Cam._ (R.) Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness Under the sweet shade of your government.
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