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Act III

Flourish. Enter Chorus.

Thus with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies
In motion of no less celerity
Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen
The well-appointed king at Hampton pier
Embark his royalty, and his brave fleet 5
With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning.
Play with your fancies, and in them behold
Upon the hempen tackle ship boys climbing.
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confus'd. Behold the threaden sails, 10
Borne with th' invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge. O, do but think
You stand upon the rivage and behold
A city on th' inconstant billows dancing, 15
For so appears this fleet majestical,
Holding due course to Harflew. Follow, follow!
Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy,
And leave your England as dead midnight still,
Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women, 20
Either past or not arriv'd to pith and puissance.

SD Flourish see II.Pro.SD N. 1 imagin'd wing the wing of
imagination. 3 Than . . . Suppose F ends 1. 2 with thought.
4 well-appointed well-equipped. Hampton F Douer. 5 brave fine.
6 Phoebus the sun. fanning F fayning. 10 threaden linen. 14
rivage shore. 17 Harflew Harfleur, across from Le Havre at the
mouth of the Seine. 18 sternage the sterns. 21 pith strength.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Life of Henry the Fifth. Contributors: R. J. Dorius - editor. Publisher: Yale University Press. Place of Publication: New Haven, CT. Publication Year: 1955. Page Number: 44.
    
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