No Fear Shakespeare
Henry V
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 5, Scene 2, Page 4
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And we’ll consign thereto.—Will you, fair sister,
Go with the princes or stay here with us?
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way that you judge advantageous to my rule, and I’ll undertake to agree to it. Fair sister, will you go with the princes or stay here with me?
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QUEEN ISABEL
Our gracious brother, I will go with them.
Haply a woman’s voice may do some good,
When articles too nicely urged be stood on.
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QUEEN ISABEL
Gracious brother, I will go with them. Perhaps a woman’s voice may do some good when some small detail proves to be holding things up.
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KING HENRY
Yet leave our cousin Katherine here with us.
She is our capital demand, comprised
Within the forerank of our articles.
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KING HENRY
In that case, leave our cousin Katherine here with us. She is our principal demand—one of the first points of the treaty.
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QUEEN ISABEL
She hath good leave.
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QUEEN ISABEL
She is welcome to stay.
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Exeunt all except KING
HENRY, KATHERINE, and ALICE
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Everyone except KING
HENRY, KATHERINE, and ALICE exits. |
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KING HENRY
Fair Katherine, and most fair,
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
Such as will enter at a lady’s ear
And plead his love suit to her gentle heart?
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KING HENRY
Lovely, most lovely Katherine, will you agree to teach a soldier the words that would recommend his love-suit to a gentle heart like yours?
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KATHERINE
Your Majesty shall mock at me. I cannot speak your
England.
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KATHERINE
Your Majesty shall mock at me. I cannot speak your England.
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KING HENRY
O fair Katherine, if you will love me soundly with your
French heart, I will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly
with your English tongue. Do you like me, Kate?
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KING HENRY
Lovely Katherine, if you will love me well with your French heart, I’m happy to hear you confess it in broken English. Do you like me, Kate?
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KATHERINE
Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell what is “like me.”
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KATHERINE
Pardon me but I do not know what is “like me.”
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KING HENRY
An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
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KING HENRY
An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
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KATHERINE
(to ALICE) Que dit-il? Que je suis semblable à les anges?
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KATHERINE
(to ALICE, in French) What does he say? That I am like an angel?
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ALICE
Oui, vraiment, sauf votre Grâce, ainsi dit-il.
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ALICE
(in French) Yes, your Grace, that’s what he says.
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