Reading The Life of Henry the Fift [Henry V] — William Shakespeare

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Mountioy.

Thus sayes my King: Say thou to Harry

of England, Though we seem'd dead, we did but sleepe:

Aduantage is a better Souldier then rashnesse. Tell him,

wee could haue rebuk'd him at Harflewe, but that wee

thought not good to bruise an iniurie, till it were full

ripe. Now wee speake vpon our Q. and our voyce is im-

periall; England shall repent his folly, see his weake-

nesse, and admire our sufferance. Bid him therefore con-

sider of his ransome, which must proportion the losses we

haue borne, the subiects we haue lost, the disgrace we

haue digested; which in weight to re-answer, his petti-

nesse would bow vnder. For our losses, his Exchequer is

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