Act IV, Scene 6 & 7

ACT IV, SCENE 6 The same. A Part of the Field of Battle.

Alarum. Enter prince Edward and Artois.

ARTOIS	How fares your grace? are you not shot, my Lord?
PRINCE EDWARD	No, dear Artois; but choked with dust and smoke, And stepped aside for breath and fresher air.
ARTOIS	Breath, then, and to it again: the amazed French Are quite distract with gazing on the crows; And, were our quivers full of shafts again, Your grace should see a glorious day of this:-- O, for more arrows, Lord; that's our want.
PRINCE EDWARD	Courage, Artois! a fig for feathered shafts, When feathered fowls do bandy on our side! What need we fight, and sweat, and keep a coil, When railing crows outscold our adversaries? Up, up, Artois! the ground it self is armed With Fire containing flint; command our bows To hurl away their pretty colored Ew, And to it with stones: away, Artois, away! My soul doth prophecy we win the day.
	[Exeunt.]

ACT IV, SCENE 7 The same. Another Part of the Field of Battle.

Alarum. Enter King John.

KING JOHN	Our multitudes are in themselves confounded, Dismayed, and distraught; swift starting fear Hath buzz'd a cold dismay through all our army, And every petty disadvantage prompts The fear possessed abject soul to fly. My self, whose spirit is steel to their dull lead, What with recalling of the prophecy, And that our native stones from English arms Rebel against us, find myself attainted With strong surprise of weak and yielding fear.
	[Enter Charles.]
CHARLES	Fly, father, fly! the French do kill the French, Some that would stand let drive at some that fly; Our drums strike nothing but discouragement, Our trumpets sound dishonor and retire; The spirit of fear, that feareth nought but death, Cowardly works confusion on it self.
	[Enter Phillip.]
PHILLIP	Pluck out your eyes, and see not this day's shame! An arm hath beat an army; one poor David Hath with a stone foiled twenty stout Goliahs; Some twenty naked starvelings with small flints, Hath driven back a puissant host of men, Arrayed and fenced in all accomplements.
KING JOHN	Mordieu, they quait at us, and kill us up; No less than forty thousand wicked elders Have forty lean slaves this day stoned to death.
CHARLES	O, that I were some other countryman! This day hath set derision on the French, And all the world will blurt and scorn at us.
KING JOHN	What, is there no hope left?
PHILLIP	No hope, but death, to bury up our shame.
KING JOHN	Make up once more with me; the twentieth part Of those that live are men enough to quail The feeble handful on the adverse part.
CHARLES	Then charge again: if Heaven be not oppos'd, We cannot lose the day.
KING JOHN	On, away!
	[Exeunt.]

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Full Play Text	ACT III, SCENE 4 The Same./ACT III, SCENE 5 The Same.
ACT I, SCENE 1 London. A Room of State in the Palace.	ACT IV, SCENE 1 Bretagne. Camp of the English/ACT IV, SCENE 2 Picardy. The English Camp before Calais.
ACT I, Scene 2 Roxborough. Before the Castle.	ACT IV, SCENE 3 Poitou. Fields near Poitiers. The French camp; Tent of the Duke of Normandy.
ACT II, SCENE 1 The Same. Gardens of the Castle.	ACT IV, SCENE 4 The same. The English Camp.
ACT II, SCENE2 The Same. A Room in the Castle.	ACT IV, SCENE 5 The same. The French Camp.
ACT III, SCENE1 Flanders. The French Camp.	ACT IV, SCENE 6 The same. A Part of the Field of Battle./ACT IV, SCENE 7 The same. Another Part of the Field of Battle.
ACT III, SCENE 2 Picardy. Fields near Cressy.	ACT IV, SCENE 8 The same. Another Part of the Field of Battle. /ACT IV, SCENE 9 The same. The English Camp.
ACT III, SCENE 3 The same. Drums.	ACT V, SCENE 1 Picardy. The English Camp before Calais.

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