Page 1724 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

That nothing do but meditate on blood − [60]
To swearing and stern looks, diffus’d attire,
And every thing that seems unnatural.
Which to reduce into our former favour

You are assemblea; and my speech entreats
That I may know the let, why gentle Peace [65]
Should not expel these inconveniences,
And bless us with her former qualities.

KING HENRY

If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,
Whose want gives growth to th’ imperfections
Which you have cited, you must buy that peace [70]
With full accord to all our just demands;
Whose tenours and particular effects

You have, enschedul’d briefly, in your hands.

BURGUNDY
The King hath heard them; to the which was yet
There is no answer made.

KING HENRY
Well then the peace, [75]

Which you before so urg’d, lies in his answer.

FRENCH KING

I have but with a cursitory eye
O’erglanc’d the articles: pleaseth your grace
To appoint some of your council presently
To sit with us once more, with better heed [80]

To re-survey them, we will suddenly
Pass our accept and peremptory answer.

KING HENRY
Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter,
And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester,

Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the King; [85]