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Henry V
[I, 1]

Archbishop of Canterbury

77

Hear him but reason in divinity,
And all-admiring with an inward wish
You would desire the king were made a prelate:
Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,
You would say it hath been all in all his study:
List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render'd you in music:
Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,
The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,
To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences;
So that the art and practic part of life
Must be the mistress to this theoric:
Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it,
Since his addiction was to courses vain,
His companies unletter'd, rude and shallow,
His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports,
And never noted in him any study,
Any retirement, any sequestration
From open haunts and popularity.

2

Henry V
[III, 7]

Duke of Orleans

1681

I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress.

3

Henry V
[III, 7]

Lewis the Dauphin

1682

Then did they imitate that which I composed to my
courser, for my horse is my mistress.

4

Henry V
[III, 7]

Duke of Orleans

1684

Your mistress bears well.

5

Henry V
[III, 7]

Lewis the Dauphin

1685

Me well; which is the prescript praise and
perfection of a good and particular mistress.

6

Henry V
[III, 7]

Constable of France

1687

Nay, for methought yesterday your mistress shrewdly
shook your back.

7

Henry V
[III, 7]

Lewis the Dauphin

1695

Be warned by me, then: they that ride so and ride
not warily, fall into foul bogs. I had rather have
my horse to my mistress.

8

Henry V
[III, 7]

Constable of France

1698

I had as lief have my mistress a jade.

9

Henry V
[III, 7]

Lewis the Dauphin

1699

I tell thee, constable, my mistress wears his own hair.

10

Henry V
[III, 7]

Constable of France

1700

I could make as true a boast as that, if I had a sow
to my mistress.

11

Henry V
[III, 7]

Constable of France

1704

Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or any
such proverb so little kin to the purpose.