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And take with you free power to ratify,
Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best
Shall see advantageable for our dignity,
Any thing in or out of our demands,

And we’ll consign thereto. Will you, fair sister, [90]
Go with the Princes, or stay here with us?

QUEEN ISABEL
Our gracious brother, I will go with them.
Haply a woman’s voice may do some good

When articles too nicely urg’d be stood on.

KING HENRY

Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us: [95]
She is our capital demand, compris’d
Whithin the fore-rank of our articles.

QUEEN ISABEL
She hath good leave.
Exeunt all but King Henry, Katharine, and [Alice] the Gentlewoman.

KING HENRY
Fair Katharine, and most fair,
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
Such as will enter at a lady’s ear [100]
And plead his love-suit to he gentle heart?

KATHARINE

Your majesty shah mock at me; I cannot speak your England.

KING HENRY

O fair Katharine! if you will love me soundly with your French heart, I will be
glad to hear you [105] confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do you
like me, Kate?

KATHARINE
Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell wat is “like me”.