Sound Trumpets within, and then all crye vive la Roy two or three times.
All.
Vive la Roy, vive la Roy. Sound Trumpets.
Qu.
Welcome from Poland Henry once agayne,
Welcome to France thy fathers royall seate,
Heere hast thou a country voide of feares,
A warlike people to maintaine thy right,
A watchfull Senate for ordaining lawes,
A loving mother to preserve thy state,
And all things that a King may wish besides:
All this and more hath Henry with his crowne.
Car.
And long may Henry enjoy all this & more.
All.
Vive la Roy, vive la Roy. Sound trumpets.
Henry,
Thanks to you al. The guider of all crownes,
Graunt that our deeds may wel deserve your loves:
And so they shall, if fortune speed my will,
And yeeld our thoughts to height of my desertes.
What saies our Minions, think they Henries heart
Will not both harbour love and Majestie?
Put of that feare, they are already joynde,
No person, place, or time, or circumstance,
Shall slacke my loves affection from his bent,
As now you are, so shall you still persist,
Remooveles from the favours of your King.
Mugeroun.
We know that noble mindes change not their thoughts
For wearing of a crowne: in that your grace,
Hath worne the Poland diadem, before
you were invested in the crowne of France:
Henry,
I tell thee Mugeroun we will be freends,
And fellowes to, what ever stormes arise.
Mugeroun.
Then may it please your Majestie to give me leave,
To punish those that doe prophane this holy feast.
He cuts of the Cutpurse eare, for cutting of the golde buttons off his cloake.
Henry.
How meanst thou that?
Cutpurse.
O Lord, mine eare.
Mugeroun.
Come sir, give me my buttons and heers your eare.
Guise.
Sirra, take him away.
Henry.
Hands of good fellow, I will be his baile
For this offence: goe sirra, worke no more,
Till this our Coronation day be past:
And now our solemne rites of Coronation done,
What now remaines, but for a while to feast,
And spend some daies in barriers, tourny, tylte,
and like disportes, such as doe fit the Court?
Lets goe my Lords, our dinner staies for us.
Goe out all, but the Queene and the Cardinall.
Queene.
How likes your grace my sonnes pleasantnes?
His minde you see runnes on his minions,
And all his heaven is to delight himselfe:
And whilste he sleepes securely thus in ease,
Thy brother Guise and we may now provide,
To plant our selves with such authoritie,
as not a man may live without our leaves.
Then shall the Catholick faith of Rome,
Flourish in France, and none deny the same.
Car.
Madam, as in secrecy I was tolde,
My brother Guise hath gathered a power of men,
Which as he saith, to kill the Puritans,
But tis the house of Burbon that he meanes.
Now Madam must you insinuate with the King,
And tell him that tis for his Countries good,
And common profit of Religion.
Qu.
Tush man, let me alone with him,
To work the way to bring this thing to passe:
And if he doe deny what I doe say,
Ile dispatch him with his brother presently.
And then shall Mounser weare the diadem:
Tush, all shall dye unles I have my will.
For while she lives Katherine will be Queene.
Come my Lords, let us goe to seek the Guise,
And then determine of this enterprise. Exeunt.