"Now we bare the king towards Calais, grant him there, there seen. Heave him away your winged thoughts athwart the sea." Now we bring the king towards Calais and once we've seen him there, heave him back away towards England.
"So swift a pace hath thought that even now, you may imagine him upon Blackheath, where that his lords desire him to have born, his bruised helmet and his bended sword, before him through the city he forbids it. Being free from vainness and self glorious pride, giving full trophy signal and ostent, quite from himself to God." You may imagine him on Blackheath where that his lords say he should go on procession carrying his helmet and sword. But he forbids it, as he is free from vanity and gives all his credit to God.
"The emperors coming on behalf of France to order peace between them, and omit, all the occurrences whatever chanced. Till Harry's back return again to France." Imagine an emperor coming working on behalf of France. He wants to bring peace between the two countries, skip over everything between then, until Harry's back and returned in France.
I personally find this prologue the hardest as a I feel it's extremely wordy and there's a lot of different thoughts that I don't feel flow as naturally as the others do. I feel I have to pay the most attention to this one to ensure that each line of dialogue I say is exactly as the text states rather than paraphrasing. There is also the added challenge of making sure that we're being heard over the noise of the set being moved to be set up for the final act. This means that I have to work hard at both making my lines flow as naturally as possible as well as projecting loud enough to be heard perfectly.
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