Page 1722 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Enter, at one door, King Henry, Exeter, Bedford, [Gloucester, Clarence]
Warwick, [Westmoreland, Huntingdon] and other Lords; at another, the
French King, Queen Isabel, [the Princess] Katharine, [Alice,] and other
Ladies, the Duke of Burgundy [, and his Train]

KING HENRY
Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met!

Unto our brother France, and to our sister,
Health and fair time of day. Joy and good wishes
To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;

And, as a branch and member of this royalty, [5]
By whom this great assembly is contriv’d,
We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy;
And, Princes French, and peers, health to you all!

FRENCH KING
Right joyous are we to behold your face,

Most worthy brother England: fairly met! [10]
So are you, Princes English, every one.

QUEEN ISABEL
So happy be the issue, brother England,
Of this good day and of this gracious meeting,

As we are now glad to behold your eyes −
Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them, [15]
Against the French, that met them in their bent,
The fatal balls of murdering basilisks.
The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,

Have lost their quality, and that this day
Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. [20]

KING HENRY
To cry “Amen” to that, thus we appear.

QUEEN ISABEL
You English princes all, I do salute you.