Act4 Scene7

SCENE SEVENTEEN King: This Note doth tell me of ten thousand French That in the field lye slaine: of Princes in this number, And Nobles bearing Banners, there lye dead One hundred twentie six: added to these,

Of Knights, Esquires, and gallant Gentlemen, Eight thousand and foure hundred: of the which, Fiue hundred were but yesterday dubb'd Knights. So that in these ten thousand they haue lost, There are but sixteene hundred Mercenaries:

The rest are Princes, Barons, Lords, Knights, Squires, And Gentlemen of bloud and qualitie. Here was a Royall fellowship of death. Where is the number of our English dead? Edward the Duke of Yorke, the Earle of Suffolke, Sir Richard Ketly, Dauy Gam Esquire;

None else of name: and of all other men, But fiue and twentie. O God, thy Arme was heere: And not to vs, but to thy Arme alone, Ascribe we all: when, without stratagem, But in plaine shock, and euen play of Battaile, Was euer knowne so great and little losse?

On one part and on th'other, take it God, For it is none but thine. Exeter: 'Tis wonderfull. King: Come, goe me in procession to the Village: And be it death proclaymed through our Hoast, To boast of this, or take that prayse from God, Which is his onely.

Fluellen: Is it not lawfull and please your Maiestie, to tell / how many is kill'd? / King:Yes Captaine: but with this acknowledgement, That God fought for vs.
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