Con. Doing is activity ; and he wiU still be doing.
Orl. He never did harm, that I heard of.
Con. Nor will do none to-morrow : he will keep
that good name still.
Orl. I know him to be valiant.
Con. I was told that by one that knows him bet-
ter than you.
Orl. What's he?



64 KING HENEY V. act iii.
Con. Marry, he told me so himself; and he said,
he car'd not who knew it.
Orl. He needs not ; it is no hidden virtue in him.
Con. By my faith, sir, but it is ; never any body
saw it but his lackey : 'tis a hooded valour, and when
it appears it will bate.
Orl. lU will never said well.
Con. I will cap that proverb with — There is flat-
tery in friendship.
Orl. And I will take up that with — Give the
Devil his due.
Con. Well plac'd : there stands your friend for the
Devil ; have at the very eye of that proverb, with —
A pox of the Devil.
Orl. You are the better at proverbs, by how much

— A fool's bolt is soon shot.
Con. You have shot over.
Orl. 'Tis not the first time you were overshot.
Enter a Messenger.
Mess. My Lord High Constable, the English lie
within fifteen hundred paces of your tents.
Con. Who hath measur'd the ground ?

Mess. The Lord Grandpre.
Con. A valiant and most expert gentleman. —
Would it were day ! — Alas, poor Harry of England !

— he longs not for the dawning, as we do.
Orl. What a wretched and peevish feUow is this
King of England, to mope with his fat-brain'd fol-
lowers so far out of his knowledge.
