Page 1631 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

SCROPE

No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.

KING HENRY
I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded [20]
We carry not a heart with us from hence
That grows not in a fair consent with ours;

Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish
Success and conquest to attend on us.

CAMBRIDGE
Never was monarch better fear’d and lov’d [25]
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.

GREY
True: those that were your father’s enemies
Have steep’d their galls in honey, and do serve you [30]
With hearts create of duty and of zeal.

KING HENRY

We therefore have great cause of thankfulness,
And shall forget the office of our hand,
Sooner than quittance of desert and merit
According to the weight and worthiness. [35]

SCROPE
So service shall with steelèd sinews toil,

And labour shall refresh itself with hope,
To do your grace incessant services.

KING HENRY
We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter,
Enlarge the man committed yesterday [40]

That rail’d against our person: we consider
It was excess of wine that set him on;