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KING HENRY
100I wear it for a memorable honor,
For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.
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KING HENRY I wear it with pride, for I am Welsh you know, good countryman.
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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.
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FLUELLEN All the water in Wye cannot wash your Majesty’s Welsh blood out of your body. I can tell you that. God bless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases his Grace, and his Majesty, too!
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KING HENRY Thanks, good my countryman.
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KING HENRY Thanks, my good countryman.
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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.
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FLUELLEN By Jesus, I am your Majesty’s countryman, and I don’t care who knows it. I will confess it to all the world. I needn’t be ashamed of your Majesty, God be praised, so long as your Majesty is an honest man.
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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.
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KING HENRY God keep me so.—Heralds, go with him. Bring me an exact report of the number of dead on both sides. (pointing to WILLIAMS) Tell that fellow over there to come here.
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Exeunt heralds with MONTJOY
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English messengers exit with MONTJOY.
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EXETER
115Soldier, you must come to the king.
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EXETER Soldier, you must come to the king.
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KING HENRY Soldier, why wear’st thou that glove in thy cap?
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KING HENRY Soldier, why are you wearing that glove in your cap?
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WILLIAMS An’t please your Majesty, ’tis the gage of one that I should
fight withal, if he be alive.
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WILLIAMS If it pleases your Majesty, it is the token of a man I must fight with, if he’s still alive.
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KING HENRY An Englishman?
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KING HENRY An Englishman?
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WILLIAMS
120An ’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.
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WILLIAMS If I may say so, your Majesty, he is a rascal who quarreled with me last night, and who, if he lives and ever dares to challenge this glove, will get a box on the ear from me. Or, if I see him wearing my glove in his cap, which he swore as a soldier he would wear if he lived, I will knock it off his head.
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