Henry V - William Shakespeare (booksvooks txt) 📗
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God keep me so! Our heralds go with him:
Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither. Points to Williams. Exeunt Heralds with Montjoy.
My Lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester,
Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:
The glove which I have given him for a favour
May haply purchase him a box o’ th’ ear;
It is the soldier’s; I by bargain should
Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:
If that the soldier strike him, as I judge
By his blunt bearing he will keep his word,
Some sudden mischief may arise of it;
For I do know Fluellen valiant
And, touch’d with choler, hot as gunpowder,
And quickly will return an injury:
Follow, and see there be no harm between them.
Go you with me, uncle of Exeter. Exeunt.
Before King Henry’s pavilion.
Enter Gower and Williams. Williams I warrant it is to knight you, captain. Enter Fluellen. Fluellen God’s will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you now, come apace to the King. There is more good toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of. Williams Sir, know you this glove? Fluellen Know the glove! I know the glove is a glove. Williams I know this; and thus I challenge it. Strikes him. Fluellen ’Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! Gower How now, sir! you villain! Williams Do you think I’ll be forsworn? Fluellen Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his payment into plows, I warrant you. Williams I am no traitor. Fluellen That’s a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his majesty’s name, apprehend him: he’s a friend of the Duke Alençon’s. Enter Warwick and Gloucester. Warwick How now, how now! what’s the matter? Fluellen My lord of Warwick, here is—praised be God for it!—a most contagious treason come to light, look you, as you shall desire in a summer’s day. Here is his majesty. Enter King Henry and Exeter. King Henry How now! what’s the matter? Fluellen My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that, look your grace, has struck the glove which your majesty is take out of the helmet of Alençon. Williams My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of it; and he that I gave it to in change promised to wear it in his cap: I promised to strike him, if he did: I met this man with my glove in his cap, and I have been as good as my word. Fluellen Your majesty hear now, saving your majesty’s manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy knave it is: I hope your majesty is pear me testimony and witness, and will avouchment, that this is the glove of Alençon, that your majesty is give me; in your conscience, now. King HenryGive me thy glove, soldier: look, here is the fellow of it.
’Twas I, indeed, thou promised’st to strike;
And thou hast given me most bitter terms.
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