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Henry V

Act IV, Scene 8

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 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 Alencon'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 V
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 Alencon.
 
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 Alencon, that your majesty is give me, in your conscience now?
 
KING HENRY V
        ,             ,      ,        oo
      Give me | thy glove | soldier;|
        ,     ,              ,        ,
      Look, here / is the | fellow | of it:  (tetra with prev)
            ,       ,           ,      ,          ,
      'Twas I | indeed | thou prom|isedst | to strike,
            ,          ,      ,     T    Tx     T
      And thou | hast giv|en me | most bitter terms.
 
FLUELLEN
And please your majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law in the world.
 
KING HENRY V
How canst thou make me satisfaction?
 
WILLIAMS
All offenses, my lord, come from the heart: never came any from mine, that might offend your majesty.
 
KING HENRY V
It was ourself thou didst abuse.
 
WILLIAMS
Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared to me but as a common man: witness the night, your garments, your lowliness: and what your highness suffered under that shape, I beseech you take it for your own fault, and not mine: for had you been as I took you for, I made no offense; therefore I beseech your highness pardon me.
 
KING HENRY V
            ,      ,  2      ,           ,             ,
      Here^unc|le Ex|eter, fill | this glove | with crowns,
              x          ,     ,         ,        ,
      And give it | to this | fellow.| Keep it | fellow,
            ,        ,        ,      ,        ,
      And wear | it for | an hon|or in | thy cap,
           ,        ,         ,     ,               ,
      Till I | do chal|lenge it.| Give him | the crowns:
           ,         ,           ,           ,            ,
      And cap|tain, you | must needs | be friends | with him.
 
FLUELLEN
By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle enough in his belly: Hold, there is twelve pence for you, and I pray you to serve Got, and keep you out of prawls and prabbles, and quarrels and dissensions, and I warrant you, it is the better for you.
 
WILLIAMS
I will none of your money.
 
FLUELLEN
It is with a good will: I can tell you it will serve you to mend your shoes: come, wherefore should you be so pashful, your shoes is not so good: 'tis a good silling I warrant you, or I will change it.
 
[Enter an English Herald]
 
KING HENRY V
           ,        ,          ,     ,         oo
      Now her|ald, are | the dead | numbered?|
 
HERALD
        ,            ,       ,          ,            ,
      Here is | the num|ber of | the slaught|ered French.
 
KING HENRY V
             ,   2           ,    ,         ,        x
      What pris|oners of / good sort | are tak|en, uncle?
 
EXETER
         T      T   .  T    2     ,      ,         ,
      Charles Duke of Orl|eans, neph|ew to | the king,
        T    T   .   T               ,   ,      ,
      John Duke of Bour|bon, and / Lord Bou|ciqualt:
          ,       ,          ,          ,             ,
      Of oth|er lords | and bar|ons, knights | and squires,
             ,        ,             ,    ,       ,
      Full* fif|teen^hund|red, be/sides com|mon men.
 
KING HENRY V
             ,           ,             ,    ,          ,
      This note | doth tell | me of / ten thous|and French
        ,    2        T    T    T          ,     3  3      ,      2->
      That in the | field lie slain:| of prin|ces in this num||ber,   ??
           ,       ,        ,                 ,    ,
      And nob|les bear|ing ban|ners, there / lie dead
           ,         ,      ,     ,           ,
      One^hund|red twen|ty six:| added | to these,
            ,       T   T     .   T        ,      ,
      Of knights,| esquires, and gal|lant gent|lemen,
        ,     ,               ,   ,                   ,
      Eight thous/and and | four hund/red: of | the which,
        ,   ,                   ,              ,      ,
      Five hund/red were | but yest|erday*/ dubbed knights.
           ,     .   T    T    T         ,           ,
      So that | in these ten thous|and they | have lost,
             ,         ,        ,        ,      x
      There are | but six|teen^hund|red mer|cenaries:
            ,          ,          x       T       T        T
      The rest | are prin|ces, barons,| lords, knights, squires,
           ,      ,         ,          ,     ,
      And gent|lemen | of blood | and qual|ity.
            ,          ,            ,              ,    ,
      The names | of those | their nob|les that / lie dead:
         ,     ,              ,    ,                ,
      Charles Del/abreth*,| high const/able | of France,
         ,             ,        ,    ,          ,
      Jacques of | Chatil|lon, ad|miral | of France.
           ,                  ,    ,     ,         x
      The mast|er of the // crossbows, Lord | Rambures,
        ,     ,             ,            ,              ,          ,
      Great Mast/er of | France, the | brave Sir | Guichard | Dauphin,
        T    T   . T     ,     ,  2       ,        ,
      John Duke of Al|encon,| Anthony | Duke of | Brabant,  (hex with prev)
            ,       ,         ,        ,      ,
      The broth|er to | the Duke | of Bur|gundy,
           ,        ,         ,        ,       ,
      And Ed|ward Duke | of Bart:| of lus|ty earls,
        ,              ,       ,       ,          ,
      Grandpre | and Rous|si, Fau|conberg | and Foix,
        ,              ,      ,      ,             ,
      Beaumont | and Marle,| Vaude|mont and | Lestrale.
        ,           ,      ,       ,         ,
      Here was | a roy|al fel|lowship | of death.
        ,             ,       ,        ,         ,
      Where is | the num|ber of | our Eng|lish dead?
       ,    2        ,         ,           ,        ,
      Edward the | Duke of | York, the | Earl of | Suffolk,
           ,        ,       ,     ,        ,
      Sir Rich|ard Ket|ly, Da|vy Gam | esquire;
             ,         ,     T   .  T   T       ,
      None^else | of name:| and of all oth|er men,
            ,          ,     o
      But five | and twen|ty.
         ,         ,          ,
      O God,| thy arm | was here:  (tri with prev)
           ,        ,             ,   ,       ,
      And not | to us,| but to / thy arm | alone,
          ,         ,      ,              ,     ,
      Ascribe | we all:| when, with|out strat|agem,
                 ,     ,          ,      ,          x
      But in / plain shock,| and ev|en play | of battle,
          ,       ,          ,          ,        ,
      Was ev|er known | so great | and lit|tle loss?
          ,      ,          2    ,         ,        ,
      On one | part and | on the oth|er, take | it God,  ??
           ,        ,          ,
      For it | is none | but thine.
 
EXETER
                                         ,      ,
                                   'Tis wond|erful.
 
KING HENRY V
        ,    ,     2        ,         ,        ,
      Come, go / we in pro|cession | to the | village:
           ,        ,          ,         ,            ,
      And be | it death | proclaim|ed through | our host,
           ,          ,         ,           ,           ,
      To boast | of this | or take | the praise | from God,
           2    ,     ,
      Which is his | only.  \\
 
FLUELLEN
Is it not lawful and please your majesty, to tell how many is killed?
 
KING HENRY V
Yes captain: but with this acknowledgement, that God fought for us.
 
FLUELLEN
Yes, my conscience, he did us great good.
 
KING HENRY V
       T  T  T     ,      ___
      Do we all | holy | rites:  \\
       ,               ,         ,             ,   x
      Let there | be sung | Non^nob|is, and / Te Deum,
            ,          ,     ,        ,          ,
      The dead | with char|ity | enclosed | in clay:
            ,        ,        ,        ,         ,
      And then | to Cal|ais, and | to Eng|land then,
              ,            ,         ,           ,      ,
      Where nere | from France | arrived | more hap|py men.
 
[Exeunt]

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