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  • ACT V SCENE V

    
     Dramatis Personae 
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     Act III Scene II
     Act III Scene III
     Act III Scene IV
     Act IV  Scene I 
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     Act IV  Scene III 
     Act V   Scene I 
     Act V   Scene II 
     Act V   Scene III 
     Act V   Scene IV 
     Act V   Scene V
     Act V   Scene VI
     Act V   Scene VII
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     Act V 

    
    ACT V: SCENE V	The French camp.

    
    	Enter LEWIS and his train
    
    LEWIS	The sun of heaven methought was loath to set,
    	But stay'd and made the western welkin blush,
    	When English measure backward their own ground
    	In faint retire. O, bravely came we off,
    	When with a volley of our needless shot,
    	After such bloody toil, we bid good night;
    	And wound our tattering colours clearly up,
    	Last in the field, and almost lords of it!
    
    	Enter a Messenger
    
    Messenger	Where is my prince, the Dauphin?
    
    LEWIS	Here: what news?
    
    Messenger	The Count Melun is slain; the English lords
    	By his persuasion are again fall'n off,
    	And your supply, which you have wish'd so long,
    	Are cast away and sunk on Goodwin Sands.
    
    LEWIS	Ah, foul shrewd news! beshrew thy very heart!
    	I did not think to be so sad to-night
    	As this hath made me. Who was he that said
    	King John did fly an hour or two before
    	The stumbling night did part our weary powers?
    
    Messenger	Whoever spoke it, it is true, my lord.
    
    LEWIS	Well; keep good quarter and good care to-night:
    	The day shall not be up so soon as I,
    	To try the fair adventure of to-morrow.
    
    	Exeunt
    
    
    

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