Henry V - William Shakespeare (booksvooks txt) 📗
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How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?
Fluellen
I assure you, there is very excellent services committed at the bridge.
Gower
Is the Duke of Exeter safe?
Fluellen
The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon; and a man that I love and honour with my soul, and my heart, and my duty, and my life, and my living, and my uttermost power: he is not—God be praised and blessed!—any hurt in the world; but keeps the bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline. There is an aunchient lieutenant there at the pridge, I think in my very conscience he is as valiant a man as Mark Antony; and he is a man of no estimation in the world; but I did see him do as gallant service.
Gower
What do you call him?
Fluellen
He is call’d Aunchient Pistol.
Gower
I know him not.
Enter Pistol.
Fluellen
Here is the man.
Pistol
Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours:
The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.
Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,
And of buxom valour, hath by cruel fate,
And giddy Fortune’s furious fickle wheel,
That goddess blind,
That stands upon the rolling restless stone—
Fortune is Bardolph’s foe, and frowns on him;
For he hath stolen a pax, and hanged must a’ be:
A damned death!
Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free
And let not hemp his windpipe suffocate:
But Exeter hath given the doom of death
For pax of little price.
Therefore, go speak: the duke will hear thy voice;
And let not Bardolph’s vital thread be cut
With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:
Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.
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