This page contains the original text of Henry V Epligoue. Shakespeare’s original Henry V text is extremely long, so we’ve split the text into one Scene per page. All Acts and Scenes are listed and linked to from the bottom of this page, along with a simple, modern English translation of of Henry V.
EPILOGUE
Enter Chorus
Chorus
Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,
Our bending author hath pursued the story,
In little room confining mighty men,
Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.
Small time, but in that small most greatly lived
This star of England: Fortune made his sword;
By which the world’s best garden be achieved,
And of it left his son imperial lord.
Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown’d King
Of France and England, did this king succeed;
Whose state so many had the managing,
That they lost France and made his England bleed:
Which oft our stage hath shown; and, for their sake,
In your fair minds let this acceptance take.
Exit
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| Modern Henry V Act 1, Prologue |
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| Modern Henry V Act 1, Scene 1 |
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| Modern Henry V Act 2, Chorus |
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| Modern Henry V Act 3, Chorus |
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| Modern Henry V Act 5, Chorus |
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Original text of Henry V Act 5, Chorus |
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| Modern Henry V Act 5, Scene 2 |
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| Modern Henry V Epilogue |
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Original text of Henry V Epilogue |
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