. Complete works of William Shakespeare . l for our chief est men of discipline,To cull the plots of best advantages: 40 We 11 lay before this town our royal bones,Wade to the market-place in Frenchmens blood,But we will make it subject to this boy. Const. Stay for an answer to your embassy,Lest unadvised you stain your swords with blood:My Lord Chatillon may from England bringThat right in peace which here we urge in war,And then we shall repent each drop of bloodThat hot rash haste so indirectly shed. Enter Chatillon. K. Phi. A wonder, lady! lo, upon thy wish, 50Our messenger Chatillon is ar
. Complete works of William Shakespeare . l for our chief est men of discipline,To cull the plots of best advantages: 40 We 11 lay before this town our royal bones,Wade to the market-place in Frenchmens blood,But we will make it subject to this boy. Const. Stay for an answer to your embassy,Lest unadvised you stain your swords with blood:My Lord Chatillon may from England bringThat right in peace which here we urge in war,And then we shall repent each drop of bloodThat hot rash haste so indirectly shed. Enter Chatillon. K. Phi. A wonder, lady! lo, upon thy wish, 50Our messenger Chatillon is arrived!What England says, say briefly, gentle lord;We coldly pause for thee; Chatillon, speak. Chat. Then turn your forces from this paltry siegeAnd stir them up against a mightier , impatient of your just demands,Hath put himself in arms: the adverse winds,Whose leisure I have stayd, have given him timeTo land his legions all as soon as I;His marches are expedient to this town, 60 His forces strong, his soldiers confident. 20. Iking Jobm With him along is come the mother-queen, An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife; With her lier niece, the Lady Blanch of Spain; With them a bastard of the kings deceased; And all the unsettled humours of the land, Hash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, With ladies faces and fierce dragons spleens, Have sold their fortunes at their native homes, Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, 70 To make a hazard of new fortunes here: In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits Than now the English bottoms have waft oer Did never float upon the swelling tide, To do oifence and scath in Christendom. [Drum interruption of their churlish drumsCuts off more circumstance: they are at hand,To parley or to fight; therefore prepare. K. Phi. How much unlookd for is this expedition! Aust. By how much unexpected, by so much 80We must awake endeavour for defence;For courage mounteth with occasion:Let them be welcome then; we are
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