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like a newmarried wife about her husband’s neck, hardly to be shook off. Je −
quand sur le possession de France, et quand vous avez [180] le possession
de moi − let me see, what then? Saint Denis be my speed! − donc vôtre est
France, et vous êtes mienne. It is as easy for me, Kate, to conquer the

kingdom as to speak so much more French: I shall never move thee in
French, unless it be to laugh at me. [185]

KATHARINE
Sauf votre honneur, le Français que vous parlez il est meilleur que l’Anglais
lequel je parle.

KING HENRY
No, faith, is’t not, Kate; but thy speaking of my tongue, and I thine, most

truly-falsely, must needs be granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou
understand [190] thus much English? Canst thou love me?

KATHARINE
I cannot tell.

KING HENRY
Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I’ll ask them. Come, I know thou lovest
me: and at night, when you come into your closet, you’ll question this [195]

gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to her dispraise those
parts in me that you love with your heart: but, good Kate, mock me
mercifully; the rather, gentle Princess, because I love thee cruelly. If ever
thou beest mine, Kate, as I have a saving faith within me tells [200] me thou

shalt, I get thee with scambling, and thou must therefore needs prove a good
soldier-breeder. Shall not thou and I, between Saint Denis and Saint George,
compound a boy, half French, half English, that shall go to Constantinople and
take the Turk by the beard? shall we [205] not? what sayest thou, my fair

flower de-luce?

KATHARINE
I do not know dat.

KING HENRY
No; ’tis hereafter to know, but now to promise: do but now promise, Kate,