CAMBRIDGE
For me, the gold of France did not seduce; Although I did admit it as a motive The sooner to effect what
I intended: But God be thanked for prevention; Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice, Beseeching God
and you to pardon me. GREY
Never did faithful subject more rejoice At the discovery of most dangerous treason Than I do at this hour
joy o'er myself. Prevented from a damned enterprise: My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign. KING HENRY V
God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence. You have conspired against our royal person, Join'd with
an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers Received the golden earnest of our death; Wherein you would
have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude, His subjects to oppression and
contempt And his whole kingdom into desolation. Touching our person seek we no revenge; But we our
kingdom's safety must so tender, Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws We do deliver you. Get
you therefore hence, Poor miserable wretches, to your death: The taste whereof, God of his mercy give You
patience to endure, and true repentance Of all your dear offences! Bear them hence.
Exeunt CAMBRIDGE, SCROOP and GREY, guarded
Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof Shall be to you, as us, like glorious. We doubt not of a fair
and lucky war, Since God so graciously hath brought to light This dangerous treason lurking in our way To
hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our way. Then forth, dear countrymen: let
us deliver Our puissance into the hand of God, Putting it straight in expedition. Cheerly to sea; the signs of
war advance: No king of England, if not king of France.
Exeunt
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