{"id":8483,"date":"2022-11-30T16:26:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=8483"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:42:37","slug":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-act-i-scene-i-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=8483","title":{"rendered":"Henry V: Act III, Scene i"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Henry V         Act 3, Scene 1.      The Four Captains (Gower, Fluellen, MacMorris, Jamy)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Brian Carroll<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here to open up a First Folio version<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOWER \n56  Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to\n57  the mines; the Duke of Gloucester would speak\n58  with you.\nFLUELLEN \n59  To the mines? Tell you the Duke it is not so\n60  good to come to the mines, for, look you, the mines\n61  is not according to the disciplines of the war. The\n62  concavities of it is not sufficient, for, look you, th\u2019\n63  athversary, you may discuss unto the Duke, look\n64  you, is digt himself four yard under the countermines.\n65  By Cheshu, I think he will plow up all if\n66  there is not better directions.\nGOWER \n67  The Duke of Gloucester, to whom the order of\n68  the siege is given, is altogether directed by an\n69  Irishman, a very valiant gentleman, i\u2019 faith.\nFLUELLEN \n70  It is Captain Macmorris, is it not?\nGOWER \n71  I think it be.\nFLUELLEN \n72  By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world. I\n73  will verify as much in his beard. He has no more\n74  directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look\n75  you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy dog.\n\nEnter Captain Macmorris, and Captain Jamy.<\/em>\n\nGOWER \n76  Here he comes, and the Scots captain, Captain\n77  Jamy, with him.\nFLUELLEN \n78  Captain Jamy is a marvelous falorous gentleman,\n79  that is certain, and of great expedition and\n80  knowledge in th\u2019 aunchient wars, upon my particular\n81  knowledge of his directions. By Cheshu, he will\n82  maintain his argument as well as any military man\n83  in the world in the disciplines of the pristine wars\n84  of the Romans.\nJAMY\n85  I say gudday, Captain Fluellen.\nFLUELLEN \n86  Godden to your Worship, good Captain\n87  James.\nGOWER \n88  How now, Captain Macmorris, have you quit\n89  the mines? Have the pioners given o\u2019er?\nMACMORRIS \n90  By Chrish, la, \u2019tish ill done. The work ish\n91  give over. The trompet sound the retreat. By my\n92  hand I swear, and my father\u2019s soul, the work ish ill\n93  done. It ish give over. I would have blowed up the\n94  town, so Chrish save me, la, in an hour. O, \u2019tish ill\n95  done, \u2019tish ill done, by my hand, \u2019tish ill done.\nFLUELLEN \n96  Captain Macmorris, I beseech you now,\n97  will you voutsafe me, look you, a few disputations\n98  with you as partly touching or concerning the\n99  disciplines of the war, the Roman wars? In the way\n100  of argument, look you, and friendly communication,\n102  partly to satisfy my opinion, and partly for the\n103  satisfaction, look you, of my mind, as touching the\n104  direction of the military discipline, that is the point.\nJAMY \n105  It sall be vary gud, gud feith, gud captens bath,\n106  and I sall quit you with gud leve, as I may pick\n107  occasion, that sall I, marry.\nMACMORRIS \n108  It is no time to discourse, so Chrish save\n109  me. The day is hot, and the weather, and the wars,\n110  and the King, and the dukes. It is no time to\n111  discourse. The town is beseeched. An the trumpet\n112  call us to the breach and we talk and, be Chrish, do\n113  nothing, \u2019tis shame for us all. So God sa\u2019 me, \u2019tis\n114  shame to stand still. It is shame, by my hand. And\n115  there is throats to be cut, and works to be done,\n116  and there ish nothing done, so Christ sa\u2019 me, la.\nJAMY \n117  By the Mess, ere theise eyes of mine take themselves\n118  to slomber, ay\u2019ll de gud service, or I\u2019ll lig i\u2019\n119  th\u2019 grund for it, ay, or go to death. And I\u2019ll pay \u2019t as\n120  valorously as I may, that sall I suerly do, that is the\n121  breff and the long. Marry, I wad full fain heard\n122  some question \u2019tween you tway.\nFLUELLEN \n123  Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under\n124  your correction, there is not many of your\n125  nation\u2014\nMACMORRIS \n126  Of my nation? What ish my nation? Ish a\n127  villain and a basterd and a knave and a rascal. What\n128  ish my nation? Who talks of my nation?\nFLUELLEN \n129  Look you, if you take the matter otherwise\n130  than is meant, Captain Macmorris, peradventure I\n131  shall think you do not use me with that affability as,\n132  in discretion, you ought to use me, look you, being\n133  as good a man as yourself, both in the disciplines of\n134  war and in the derivation of my birth, and in other\n135  particularities.\nMACMORRIS \n136  I do not know you so good a man as\n137  myself. So Chrish save me, I will cut off your head.\nGOWER \n138  Gentlemen both, you will mistake each other.\nJAMY \n139  Ah, that\u2019s a foul fault.\nA parley sounds.<\/em>\nGOWER \n140  The town sounds a parley.\nFLUELLEN \n141  Captain Macmorris, when there is more\n142  better opportunity to be required, look you, I will\n143  be so bold as to tell you I know the disciplines of\n144  war, and there is an end.\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Henry V         Act 3, Scene 1.      The Four Captains (Gower, Fluellen, MacMorris, Jamy) (This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Brian Carroll) Click here to open up a First Folio version GOWER 56 Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to 57 the mines; the Duke of Gloucester would speak 58 with you. FLUELLEN<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8483","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-2cP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8617,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8483\/revisions\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}