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COURT Brother John Bates, is not that...

Henry V

King Henry V John Bates Alexander of Court Michael Williams

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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.

WILLIAMS

We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think

we shall never see the end of it. Who goes there?

KING HENRY V

A friend.

WILLIAMS

Under what captain serve you?

KING HENRY V

Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.

WILLIAMS

A good old commander and a most kind gentleman: I

pray you, what thinks he of our estate?

KING HENRY V

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?

KING HENRY V

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

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