Part 9
(C) _----may our oaths well kept and prosp'rous be;_] The principal articles of the treaty were, that Henry should espouse the Princess Catherine: That King Charles, during his life time, should enjoy the title and dignity of King of France: That Henry should be declared and acknowledged heir of the monarchy, and be entrusted with the present administration of the government: That that kingdom should pass to his heirs general: That France and England should for ever be united under one king; but should still retain their several usages, customs, and privileges: That all the princes, peers, vassals, and communities of France, should swear, that they would both adhere to the future succession of Henry, and pay him present obedience as regent: That this prince should unite his arms to those of King Charles and the Duke of Burgundy, in order to subdue the adherents of Charles, the pretended dauphin; and that these three princes should make no peace or truce with him but by common consent and agreement. Such was the tenour of this famous treaty; a treaty which, as nothing but the most violent animosity could dictate it, so nothing but the power of the sword could carry it into execution. It is hard to say whether its consequences, had it taken effect, would have proved more pernicious to England or France. It must have reduced the former kingdom to the rank of a province: It would have entirely disjointed the succession of the latter, and have brought on the destruction of the royal family; as the houses of Orleans, Anjou, Alencon, Britanny, Bourbon, and of Burgundy itself, whose titles were preferable to that of the English princes, would, on that account, have been exposed to perpetual jealousy and persecution from the sovereign. There was even a palpable deficiency in Henry's claim, which no art could palliate. For, besides the insuperable objections to which Edward the Third's pretensions were exposed, _he_ was not heir to that monarch: If female succession were admitted, the right had devolved on the house of Mortimer: Allowing that Richard the Second was a tyrant, and that Henry the Fourth's merits in deposing him were so great towards the English, as to justify that nation in placing him on the throne, Richard had nowise offended France, and his rival had merited nothing of that kingdom: It could not possibly be pretended that the crown of France was become an appendage to that of England; and that a prince who by any means got possession of the latter, was, without farther question, entitled to the former. So that, on the whole, it must be allowed that Henry's claim to France was, if possible, still more unintelligible than the title by which his father had mounted the throne of England. --_Hume's History of England._
JOHN K. CHAPMAN AND COMPANY, PRINTERS, 5, SHOE LANE, AND PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET.
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Errata Noted by Transcriber
a paean of victory [poean] within this wooden O [wooden, O] suppose every man to represent [first "r" in "represent" invisible] [Historical Notes to Act II] [endnote labeling, with (A) reused, unchanged] Lewis, Dovphin of Viennois [spelling unchanged] should not raise the seige [spelling unchanged] ... had played the Englishmen at dice." [missing close quote]] I remember him now. [; for .] _Non nobis domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo_ [_seel nomini_] yet I love thee too [I I love thee]
Scenes
_Correspondences are approximate; all Scenes have been significantly edited. Chorus speeches are fairly close to their original form._
Kean edition (this text): Shakespeare
I.1 : I.2 I.2 : II.3, with Boy's speech from III.2 II.1 : II.2 II.2 : II.4 III (unnumbered scene after Chorus) : III.1 III.1 : III.5 III.2 : III.6 IV (unnumbered scene interrupting Chorus) : III.7 IV.1 : IV.1 IV.2 : IV.2 IV.3 : IV.3 IV.4 : IV.5 IV.5 : IV.6 and IV.7 (intermingled) IV.6 : IV.8 Interlude added by Kean : _no equivalent_ V.1 : V.1 V.2 : V.2
_Shakespeare's Epilogue (spoken by Chorus) is absent._
End of Project Gutenberg's King Henry the Fifth, by William Shakespeare