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Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER
Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER

FLUELLEN

Kill the poys and the luggage! 'Tis expressly against the law of arms. 'Tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offert, in your conscience now, is it not?

FLUELLEN

Kill the poys and the luggage! 'Tis expressly against the law of arms. 'Tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offert, in your conscience now, is it not?

GOWER

'Tis certain there’s not a boy left alive, and the cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done this slaughter. Besides, they have burned and carried away all that was in the king’s tent, wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every soldier to cut his prisoner’s throat. Oh, ’tis a gallant king!

GOWER

'Tis certain there’s not a boy left alive, and the cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done this slaughter. Besides, they have burned and carried away all that was in the king’s tent, wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every soldier to cut his prisoner’s throat. Oh, ’tis a gallant king!

FLUELLEN

Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What call you the town’s name where Alexander the Pig was born?

FLUELLEN

Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What call you the town’s name where Alexander the Pig was born?

GOWER

Alexander the Great.

GOWER

Alexander the Great.

FLUELLEN

Why, I pray you, is not “pig” great? The pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous are all one reckonings, save the phrase is a little variations.

FLUELLEN

Why, I pray you, is not “pig” great? The pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous are all one reckonings, save the phrase is a little variations.

GOWER

I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon. His father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it.

GOWER

I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon. His father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it.

FLUELLEN

I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I tell you, Captain, if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike.

FLUELLEN

I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I tell you, Captain, if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike.
There is a river in Macedon, and there is also, moreover, a river at Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river. But ’tis all one; ’tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you mark Alexander’s life well, Harry of Monmouth’s life is come after it indifferent well, for there is figures in all things. Alexander, God knows and you know, in his rages and his furies and his wraths and his cholers and his moods and his displeasures and his indignations, and also being a little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and his angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus.
There is a river in Macedon, and there is also, moreover, a river at Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river. But ’tis all one; ’tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you mark Alexander’s life well, Harry of Monmouth’s life is come after it indifferent well, for there is figures in all things. Alexander, God knows and you know, in his rages and his furies and his wraths and his cholers and his moods and his displeasures and his indignations, and also being a little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and his angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus.

GOWER

Our king is not like him in that. He never killed any of his friends.

GOWER

Our king is not like him in that. He never killed any of his friends.

FLUELLEN

It is not well done, mark you now, to take the tales out of my mouth ere it is made and finished. I speak but in the figures and comparisons of it. As Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his ales and his cups, so also Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his good judgments, turned away the fat knight with the great-belly doublet; he was full of jests, and gipes and knaveries, and mocks—I have forgot his name.

FLUELLEN

It is not well done, mark you now, to take the tales out of my mouth ere it is made and finished. I speak but in the figures and comparisons of it. As Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his ales and his cups, so also Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his good judgments, turned away the fat knight with the great-belly doublet; he was full of jests, and gipes and knaveries, and mocks—I have forgot his name.

GOWER

Sir John Falstaff.

GOWER

Sir John Falstaff.

FLUELLEN

45 That is he. I’ll tell you, there is good men porn at
Monmouth.

FLUELLEN

That is he. I’ll tell you, there is good men porn at
Monmouth.

GOWER

Here comes his Majesty.

GOWER

Here comes his Majesty.
Alarum Enter KING HENRY , WARWICK , GLOUCESTER , EXETER , and others
Alarum Enter KING HENRY , WARWICK , GLOUCESTER , EXETER , and others

KING HENRY

I was not angry since I came to France
Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald.
50 Ride thou unto the horsemen on yond hill.
If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Or void the field. They do offend our sight.
If they’ll do neither, we will come to them
And make them skirr away as swift as stones
55 Enforcèd from the old Assyrian slings.
Besides, we’ll cut the throats of those we have,
And not a man of them that we shall take
Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.

KING HENRY

I was not angry since I came to France
Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald.
Ride thou unto the horsemen on yond hill.
If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Or void the field. They do offend our sight.
If they’ll do neither, we will come to them
And make them skirr away as swift as stones
Enforcèd from the old Assyrian slings.
Besides, we’ll cut the throats of those we have,
And not a man of them that we shall take
Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.
Enter MONTJOY
Enter MONTJOY

EXETER

Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.

EXETER

Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.

GLOUCESTER

60 His eyes are humbler than they used to be.

GLOUCESTER

His eyes are humbler than they used to be.

KING HENRY

How now, what means this, herald? Know’st thou not
That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom?
Com’st thou again for ransom?

KING HENRY

How now, what means this, herald? Know’st thou not
That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom?
Com’st thou again for ransom?

MONTJOY

No, great king.
65 I come to thee for charitable license,
That we may wander o'er this bloody field
To book our dead and then to bury them;
To sort our nobles from our common men,
For many of our princes—woe the while!—
70 Lie drowned and soaked in mercenary blood.
So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
In blood of princes, and the wounded steeds
Fret fetlock deep in gore, and with wild rage
Yerk out their armèd heels at their dead masters,
75 Killing them twice. Oh, give us leave, great king,
To view the field in safety and dispose
Of their dead bodies.

MONTJOY

No, great king.
I come to thee for charitable license,
That we may wander o'er this bloody field
To book our dead and then to bury them;
To sort our nobles from our common men,
For many of our princes—woe the while!—
Lie drowned and soaked in mercenary blood.
So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
In blood of princes, and the wounded steeds
Fret fetlock deep in gore, and with wild rage
Yerk out their armèd heels at their dead masters,
Killing them twice. Oh, give us leave, great king,
To view the field in safety and dispose
Of their dead bodies.

KING HENRY

I tell thee truly, herald,
I know not if the day be ours or no,
80 For yet a many of your horsemen peer
And gallop o'er the field.

KING HENRY

I tell thee truly, herald,
I know not if the day be ours or no,
For yet a many of your horsemen peer
And gallop o'er the field.

MONTJOY

The day is yours.

MONTJOY

The day is yours.

KING HENRY

Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!
What is this castle called that stands hard by?

KING HENRY

Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!
What is this castle called that stands hard by?

MONTJOY

85 They call it Agincourt.

MONTJOY

They call it Agincourt.

KING HENRY

Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

KING HENRY

Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

FLUELLEN

Your grandfather of famous memory, an’t please your Majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.

FLUELLEN

Your grandfather of famous memory, an’t please your Majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.

KING HENRY

They did, Fluellen.

KING HENRY

They did, Fluellen.

FLUELLEN

Your Majesty says very true. If your Majesties is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps, which, your Majesty know, to this hour is an honorable badge of the service. And I do believe your Majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy’s day.

FLUELLEN

Your Majesty says very true. If your Majesties is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps, which, your Majesty know, to this hour is an honorable badge of the service. And I do believe your Majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy’s day.

KING HENRY

100 I wear it for a memorable honor,
For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.

KING HENRY

I wear it for a memorable honor,
For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.

FLUELLEN

All the water in Wye cannot wash your Majesty’s Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that: God pless it and preserve it as long as it pleases his Grace and his Majesty too.

FLUELLEN

All the water in Wye cannot wash your Majesty’s Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that: God pless it and preserve it as long as it pleases his Grace and his Majesty too.

KING HENRY

Thanks, good my countryman.

KING HENRY

Thanks, good my countryman.

FLUELLEN

By Jeshu, I am your Majesty’s countryman, I care not who know it. I will confess it to all the 'orld. I need not to be ashamed of your Majesty, praised be God, so long as your Majesty is an honest man.

FLUELLEN

By Jeshu, I am your Majesty’s countryman, I care not who know it. I will confess it to all the 'orld. I need not to be ashamed of your Majesty, praised be God, so long as your Majesty is an honest man.

KING HENRY

God keep me so.—Our heralds go with him.
Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
On both our parts. (points to WILLIAMS)
Call yonder fellow hither.

KING HENRY

God keep me so.—Our heralds go with him.
Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
On both our parts. (points to WILLIAMS)
Call yonder fellow hither.
Exeunt heralds with MONTJOY
Exeunt heralds with MONTJOY

EXETER

115 Soldier, you must come to the king.

EXETER

Soldier, you must come to the king.

KING HENRY

Soldier, why wear’st thou that glove in thy cap?

KING HENRY

Soldier, why wear’st thou that glove in thy cap?

WILLIAMS

An’t please your Majesty, ’tis the gage of one that I should fight withal, if he be alive.

WILLIAMS

An’t please your Majesty, ’tis the gage of one that I should fight withal, if he be alive.

KING HENRY

An Englishman?

KING HENRY

An Englishman?

WILLIAMS

An ’t please your Majesty, a rascal that swaggered with me last night, who, if alive and ever dare to challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box o' th' ear, or if I can see my glove in his cap, which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear if alive, I will strike it out soundly.

WILLIAMS

An ’t please your Majesty, a rascal that swaggered with me last night, who, if alive and ever dare to challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box o' th' ear, or if I can see my glove in his cap, which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear if alive, I will strike it out soundly.

KING HENRY

What think you, Captain Fluellen, is it fit this soldier keep his oath?

KING HENRY

What think you, Captain Fluellen, is it fit this soldier keep his oath?

FLUELLEN

He is a craven and a villain else, an ’t please your Majesty, in my conscience.

FLUELLEN

He is a craven and a villain else, an ’t please your Majesty, in my conscience.

KING HENRY

It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree.

KING HENRY

It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree.

FLUELLEN

Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as Lucifer and Beelzebub himself, it is necessary, look your Grace, that he keep his vow and his oath. If he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as arrant a villain and a Jack Sauce as ever his black shoe trod upon God’s ground and His earth, in my conscience, la.

FLUELLEN

Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as Lucifer and Beelzebub himself, it is necessary, look your Grace, that he keep his vow and his oath. If he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as arrant a villain and a Jack Sauce as ever his black shoe trod upon God’s ground and His earth, in my conscience, la.

KING HENRY

Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meet’st the fellow.

KING HENRY

Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meet’st the fellow.

WILLIAMS

So I will, my liege, as I live.

WILLIAMS

So I will, my liege, as I live.

KING HENRY

Who serv’st thou under?

KING HENRY

Who serv’st thou under?

WILLIAMS

140 Under Captain Gower, my liege.

WILLIAMS

Under Captain Gower, my liege.

FLUELLEN

Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and literatured in the wars.

FLUELLEN

Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and literatured in the wars.

KING HENRY

Call him hither to me, soldier.

KING HENRY

Call him hither to me, soldier.

WILLIAMS

I will, my liege.

WILLIAMS

I will, my liege.
Exit
Exit

KING HENRY

Here, Fluellen, wear thou this favor for me and stick it in thy cap. (gives WILLIAMS's glove to FLUELLEN) When Alençon and myself were down together, I plucked this glove from his helm. If any man challenge this, he is a friend to Alençon and an enemy to our person. If thou encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.

KING HENRY

Here, Fluellen, wear thou this favor for me and stick it in thy cap. (gives WILLIAMS's glove to FLUELLEN) When Alençon and myself were down together, I plucked this glove from his helm. If any man challenge this, he is a friend to Alençon and an enemy to our person. If thou encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.

FLUELLEN

Your Grace does me as great honors as can be desired in the hearts of his subjects. I would fain see the man that has but two legs that shall find himself aggrieved at this glove, that is all; but I would fain see it once, an please God of his Grace that I might see.

FLUELLEN

Your Grace does me as great honors as can be desired in the hearts of his subjects. I would fain see the man that has but two legs that shall find himself aggrieved at this glove, that is all; but I would fain see it once, an please God of his Grace that I might see.

KING HENRY

Know’st thou Gower?

KING HENRY

Know’st thou Gower?

FLUELLEN

He is my dear friend, an please you.

FLUELLEN

He is my dear friend, an please you.

KING HENRY

Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent.

KING HENRY

Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent.

FLUELLEN

I will fetch him.

FLUELLEN

I will fetch him.
Exit
Exit

KING HENRY

160 My Lord of Warwick and my brother Gloucester,
Follow Fluellen closely at the heels.
The glove which I have given him for a favor
May haply purchase him a box o' th' ear.
It is the soldier’s. I by bargain should
165 Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick.

KING HENRY

My Lord of Warwick and my brother Gloucester,
Follow Fluellen closely at the heels.
The glove which I have given him for a favor
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
170 And, touched 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.
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, touched 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
Exeunt

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Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER
Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER

FLUELLEN

Kill the poys and the luggage! 'Tis expressly against the law of arms. 'Tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offert, in your conscience now, is it not?

FLUELLEN

Kill the poys and the luggage! 'Tis expressly against the law of arms. 'Tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offert, in your conscience now, is it not?

GOWER

'Tis certain there’s not a boy left alive, and the cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done this slaughter. Besides, they have burned and carried away all that was in the king’s tent, wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every soldier to cut his prisoner’s throat. Oh, ’tis a gallant king!

GOWER

'Tis certain there’s not a boy left alive, and the cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done this slaughter. Besides, they have burned and carried away all that was in the king’s tent, wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every soldier to cut his prisoner’s throat. Oh, ’tis a gallant king!

FLUELLEN

Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What call you the town’s name where Alexander the Pig was born?

FLUELLEN

Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What call you the town’s name where Alexander the Pig was born?

GOWER

Alexander the Great.

GOWER

Alexander the Great.

FLUELLEN

Why, I pray you, is not “pig” great? The pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous are all one reckonings, save the phrase is a little variations.

FLUELLEN

Why, I pray you, is not “pig” great? The pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous are all one reckonings, save the phrase is a little variations.

GOWER

I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon. His father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it.

GOWER

I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon. His father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it.

FLUELLEN

I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I tell you, Captain, if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike.

FLUELLEN

I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I tell you, Captain, if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike.
There is a river in Macedon, and there is also, moreover, a river at Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river. But ’tis all one; ’tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you mark Alexander’s life well, Harry of Monmouth’s life is come after it indifferent well, for there is figures in all things. Alexander, God knows and you know, in his rages and his furies and his wraths and his cholers and his moods and his displeasures and his indignations, and also being a little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and his angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus.
There is a river in Macedon, and there is also, moreover, a river at Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river. But ’tis all one; ’tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you mark Alexander’s life well, Harry of Monmouth’s life is come after it indifferent well, for there is figures in all things. Alexander, God knows and you know, in his rages and his furies and his wraths and his cholers and his moods and his displeasures and his indignations, and also being a little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and his angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus.

GOWER

Our king is not like him in that. He never killed any of his friends.

GOWER

Our king is not like him in that. He never killed any of his friends.

FLUELLEN

It is not well done, mark you now, to take the tales out of my mouth ere it is made and finished. I speak but in the figures and comparisons of it. As Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his ales and his cups, so also Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his good judgments, turned away the fat knight with the great-belly doublet; he was full of jests, and gipes and knaveries, and mocks—I have forgot his name.

FLUELLEN

It is not well done, mark you now, to take the tales out of my mouth ere it is made and finished. I speak but in the figures and comparisons of it. As Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his ales and his cups, so also Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his good judgments, turned away the fat knight with the great-belly doublet; he was full of jests, and gipes and knaveries, and mocks—I have forgot his name.

GOWER

Sir John Falstaff.

GOWER

Sir John Falstaff.

FLUELLEN

45 That is he. I’ll tell you, there is good men porn at
Monmouth.

FLUELLEN

That is he. I’ll tell you, there is good men porn at
Monmouth.

GOWER

Here comes his Majesty.

GOWER

Here comes his Majesty.
Alarum Enter KING HENRY , WARWICK , GLOUCESTER , EXETER , and others
Alarum Enter KING HENRY , WARWICK , GLOUCESTER , EXETER , and others

KING HENRY

I was not angry since I came to France
Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald.
50 Ride thou unto the horsemen on yond hill.
If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Or void the field. They do offend our sight.
If they’ll do neither, we will come to them
And make them skirr away as swift as stones
55 Enforcèd from the old Assyrian slings.
Besides, we’ll cut the throats of those we have,
And not a man of them that we shall take
Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.

KING HENRY

I was not angry since I came to France
Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald.
Ride thou unto the horsemen on yond hill.
If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Or void the field. They do offend our sight.
If they’ll do neither, we will come to them
And make them skirr away as swift as stones
Enforcèd from the old Assyrian slings.
Besides, we’ll cut the throats of those we have,
And not a man of them that we shall take
Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.
Enter MONTJOY
Enter MONTJOY

EXETER

Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.

EXETER

Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.

GLOUCESTER

60 His eyes are humbler than they used to be.

GLOUCESTER

His eyes are humbler than they used to be.

KING HENRY

How now, what means this, herald? Know’st thou not
That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom?
Com’st thou again for ransom?

KING HENRY

How now, what means this, herald? Know’st thou not
That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom?
Com’st thou again for ransom?

MONTJOY

No, great king.
65 I come to thee for charitable license,
That we may wander o'er this bloody field
To book our dead and then to bury them;
To sort our nobles from our common men,
For many of our princes—woe the while!—
70 Lie drowned and soaked in mercenary blood.
So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
In blood of princes, and the wounded steeds
Fret fetlock deep in gore, and with wild rage
Yerk out their armèd heels at their dead masters,
75 Killing them twice. Oh, give us leave, great king,
To view the field in safety and dispose
Of their dead bodies.

MONTJOY

No, great king.
I come to thee for charitable license,
That we may wander o'er this bloody field
To book our dead and then to bury them;
To sort our nobles from our common men,
For many of our princes—woe the while!—
Lie drowned and soaked in mercenary blood.
So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
In blood of princes, and the wounded steeds
Fret fetlock deep in gore, and with wild rage
Yerk out their armèd heels at their dead masters,
Killing them twice. Oh, give us leave, great king,
To view the field in safety and dispose
Of their dead bodies.

KING HENRY

I tell thee truly, herald,
I know not if the day be ours or no,
80 For yet a many of your horsemen peer
And gallop o'er the field.

KING HENRY

I tell thee truly, herald,
I know not if the day be ours or no,
For yet a many of your horsemen peer
And gallop o'er the field.

MONTJOY

The day is yours.

MONTJOY

The day is yours.

KING HENRY

Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!
What is this castle called that stands hard by?

KING HENRY

Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!
What is this castle called that stands hard by?

MONTJOY

85 They call it Agincourt.

MONTJOY

They call it Agincourt.

KING HENRY

Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

KING HENRY

Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

FLUELLEN

Your grandfather of famous memory, an’t please your Majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.

FLUELLEN

Your grandfather of famous memory, an’t please your Majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.

KING HENRY

They did, Fluellen.

KING HENRY

They did, Fluellen.

FLUELLEN

Your Majesty says very true. If your Majesties is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps, which, your Majesty know, to this hour is an honorable badge of the service. And I do believe your Majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy’s day.

FLUELLEN

Your Majesty says very true. If your Majesties is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps, which, your Majesty know, to this hour is an honorable badge of the service. And I do believe your Majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy’s day.

KING HENRY

100 I wear it for a memorable honor,
For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.

KING HENRY

I wear it for a memorable honor,
For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.

FLUELLEN

All the water in Wye cannot wash your Majesty’s Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that: God pless it and preserve it as long as it pleases his Grace and his Majesty too.

FLUELLEN

All the water in Wye cannot wash your Majesty’s Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that: God pless it and preserve it as long as it pleases his Grace and his Majesty too.

KING HENRY

Thanks, good my countryman.

KING HENRY

Thanks, good my countryman.

FLUELLEN

By Jeshu, I am your Majesty’s countryman, I care not who know it. I will confess it to all the 'orld. I need not to be ashamed of your Majesty, praised be God, so long as your Majesty is an honest man.

FLUELLEN

By Jeshu, I am your Majesty’s countryman, I care not who know it. I will confess it to all the 'orld. I need not to be ashamed of your Majesty, praised be God, so long as your Majesty is an honest man.

KING HENRY

God keep me so.—Our heralds go with him.
Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
On both our parts. (points to WILLIAMS)
Call yonder fellow hither.

KING HENRY

God keep me so.—Our heralds go with him.
Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
On both our parts. (points to WILLIAMS)
Call yonder fellow hither.
Exeunt heralds with MONTJOY
Exeunt heralds with MONTJOY

EXETER

115 Soldier, you must come to the king.

EXETER

Soldier, you must come to the king.

KING HENRY

Soldier, why wear’st thou that glove in thy cap?

KING HENRY

Soldier, why wear’st thou that glove in thy cap?

WILLIAMS

An’t please your Majesty, ’tis the gage of one that I should fight withal, if he be alive.

WILLIAMS

An’t please your Majesty, ’tis the gage of one that I should fight withal, if he be alive.

KING HENRY

An Englishman?

KING HENRY

An Englishman?

WILLIAMS

An ’t please your Majesty, a rascal that swaggered with me last night, who, if alive and ever dare to challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box o' th' ear, or if I can see my glove in his cap, which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear if alive, I will strike it out soundly.

WILLIAMS

An ’t please your Majesty, a rascal that swaggered with me last night, who, if alive and ever dare to challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box o' th' ear, or if I can see my glove in his cap, which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear if alive, I will strike it out soundly.

KING HENRY

What think you, Captain Fluellen, is it fit this soldier keep his oath?

KING HENRY

What think you, Captain Fluellen, is it fit this soldier keep his oath?

FLUELLEN

He is a craven and a villain else, an ’t please your Majesty, in my conscience.

FLUELLEN

He is a craven and a villain else, an ’t please your Majesty, in my conscience.

KING HENRY

It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree.

KING HENRY

It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree.

FLUELLEN

Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as Lucifer and Beelzebub himself, it is necessary, look your Grace, that he keep his vow and his oath. If he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as arrant a villain and a Jack Sauce as ever his black shoe trod upon God’s ground and His earth, in my conscience, la.

FLUELLEN

Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as Lucifer and Beelzebub himself, it is necessary, look your Grace, that he keep his vow and his oath. If he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as arrant a villain and a Jack Sauce as ever his black shoe trod upon God’s ground and His earth, in my conscience, la.

KING HENRY

Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meet’st the fellow.

KING HENRY

Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meet’st the fellow.

WILLIAMS

So I will, my liege, as I live.

WILLIAMS

So I will, my liege, as I live.

KING HENRY

Who serv’st thou under?

KING HENRY

Who serv’st thou under?

WILLIAMS

140 Under Captain Gower, my liege.

WILLIAMS

Under Captain Gower, my liege.

FLUELLEN

Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and literatured in the wars.

FLUELLEN

Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and literatured in the wars.

KING HENRY

Call him hither to me, soldier.

KING HENRY

Call him hither to me, soldier.

WILLIAMS

I will, my liege.

WILLIAMS

I will, my liege.
Exit
Exit

KING HENRY

Here, Fluellen, wear thou this favor for me and stick it in thy cap. (gives WILLIAMS's glove to FLUELLEN) When Alençon and myself were down together, I plucked this glove from his helm. If any man challenge this, he is a friend to Alençon and an enemy to our person. If thou encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.

KING HENRY

Here, Fluellen, wear thou this favor for me and stick it in thy cap. (gives WILLIAMS's glove to FLUELLEN) When Alençon and myself were down together, I plucked this glove from his helm. If any man challenge this, he is a friend to Alençon and an enemy to our person. If thou encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.

FLUELLEN

Your Grace does me as great honors as can be desired in the hearts of his subjects. I would fain see the man that has but two legs that shall find himself aggrieved at this glove, that is all; but I would fain see it once, an please God of his Grace that I might see.

FLUELLEN

Your Grace does me as great honors as can be desired in the hearts of his subjects. I would fain see the man that has but two legs that shall find himself aggrieved at this glove, that is all; but I would fain see it once, an please God of his Grace that I might see.

KING HENRY

Know’st thou Gower?

KING HENRY

Know’st thou Gower?

FLUELLEN

He is my dear friend, an please you.

FLUELLEN

He is my dear friend, an please you.

KING HENRY

Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent.

KING HENRY

Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent.

FLUELLEN

I will fetch him.

FLUELLEN

I will fetch him.
Exit
Exit

KING HENRY

160 My Lord of Warwick and my brother Gloucester,
Follow Fluellen closely at the heels.
The glove which I have given him for a favor
May haply purchase him a box o' th' ear.
It is the soldier’s. I by bargain should
165 Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick.

KING HENRY

My Lord of Warwick and my brother Gloucester,
Follow Fluellen closely at the heels.
The glove which I have given him for a favor
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
170 And, touched 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.
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, touched 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
Exeunt
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