Henry V
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:11:02
or break it all to pieces.
:11:15
Now are we well prepared to know the
pleasure of our fair cousin Dauphin.

:11:20
Your highness, lately sending into France
did claim some certain dukedoms...

:11:24
in the right of your great
predecessor, king Edward III.

:11:26
In answer of which claim,
the prince, my master,

:11:30
says that you savor
too much of your youth.

:11:32
He therefore sends you, meeter for
your spirit, this tun of treasure.

:11:40
And in lieu of this, desires
you let those dukedoms...

:11:42
that you claim
hear no more of you.

:11:44
This the Dauphin speaks.
:11:48
What... treasure, uncle?
:12:00
Tennis balls, my liege.
:12:11
We are glad the Dauphin
is so pleasant with us.

:12:15
His present and your pains
we thank you for.

:12:21
When we have matched
our rackets to these balls,

:12:25
we will in France,
by God's grace,

:12:28
play a set shall strike his
father's crown into the hazard.

:12:33
And we understand him well,
:12:36
how he comes o'er us
with our wilder days,

:12:38
not measuring what use
we made of them.

:12:41
But tell the Dauphin
I will keep my state,

:12:46
be like a king and show
my sail of greatness...

:12:49
when I do rouse me
in my throne of France.

:12:53
And tell the pleasant prince
this mock of his...

:12:56
hath turned his balls
to gunstones,

:12:58
and his soul
shall stand sore charged...


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