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For yet a mapy of your horseinen peer,
And gallop o'er the field.

Mont. The day is yours.

K. Hen. Praised be God, and not our strength,

for it!

What is this castle call'd, that stands hard by? Mont. They call it

Agincourt.

K. Hen. Then call we this the field of Agincourt,

Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

Flu. 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.

K. Hen. They did, Fluellen. Flu. Your Majesty says very true: If your Majesties is remember'd of it, the Welshmen did goot service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps: which, your Majesty knows, to this hour is au honourable padge of the service: and, I do believe, your Majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy's day.

K. Hen. I wear it for a memorable honour: For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.

Flu. All the water in Wye cannot wash your Majesties Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that: Got pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases his grace, and his Majesty too!

K. Hen. Thanks, good my countryman.

Flu. By Cheshu, I am your Majesty's countryman, I care not who know it; I will confess it to all the 'orld: I need not be ashamed of

your Majesty, praised be God, so long as your Majesty is an honest man.

K. Hen. God keep me so! Our heralds go

with him;

Bring me just notice of the numbers dead

On both our parts.

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Call yonder fellow hither. [Points to Williams. Exeunt Montjoy, and others.

Exe. Soldier, you must come to the King. K. Hen. Soldier, why wear'st thou that glove in thy cap?

Will. An't please your Majesty, 'tis the gage of one that I should fight withal, if he be alive. K. Hen. An Englishman?

Will. An't please your Majesty, a rascal, that swagger'd with me last night: who, if 'a live, and ever dare to challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box o'the 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 if out soundly.

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

Flu. He is a craven and a villain else, an'tplease your Majesty, in my conscience.

K. Hen. I may be, his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree. Flu. Though he be as goot a gentleman as the tevil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub 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 plack shoe trod upon Got's ground and his earth, in my conscience, la. K. Hen. Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meet'st the fellow.

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Will. So I will, my Liege, as I live.
K. Hen. Who servest thou under?

Will. Under captain Gower, my Liege.

Flu. Gower is a goot captain; and is good knowledge and literature in the wars.

K. Hen. Call him hither to me, soldier.
Will. I will, my Liege.

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[Exit. K. Hen. Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me, and stick it in thy cap: When Alençon and myself were down together, I pluck'd 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 love me.

Flu. Your Grace does me as great honours, as can be desired in the hearts of his subjects: I would fair see the man, that has but two legs, that shall find himself aggrief'd at this glove, that is all; but I would fain see it once; an please Got of his Grace, that I might see it.

K. Hen. Know'st thou Gower?

Flu. He is my dear friend, an please you.
K. Hen. Pray thee, go seek him, and bring

him to my tent.

Flu. I will fetch him,

K. Hen. My Lord of Warwick,

[Exit. and my

brother Gloster,

Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:

The glove, which I have given him for a favour,
May, haply, purchase him a box o'the ear;

It is the soldier's; I, by bargain, should
Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick t
If that the soldier strike him, (as, I judge
By this blunt bearing, he will keep his word,)
Soine sudden mischief may arise of it;
For I do know Fluellen valiant,

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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.

SCENE VIII.

Before King Henry's Pavilion.

Enter GoWER and WILLIAMS.

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Will. I warrant, it is to knight you, Captain.

Enter FLUEllen.

Flu. Got's will and his pleasure, Captain, I peseech you now, come apace to the King: there is more goot towards you, peradventure, than is in your knowledge to dream of.

Will. Sir, know you this glove?

Flu. Know the glove?, I know, the glove is a glove.

Will. I know this; and thus I challenge it. [Strikes him. Flu. 'Sblud, an arrant traitor, as any's in the universal 'orld, or in France, or in England. Gow. How now, Sir? you villain!

Will. Do you think I'll be forsworn?

Flu. Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his payment into plows, I warrant you. Will. I am no traitor.

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I charge you

Flu. That's a lie in thy throat in his Majesty's name, apprehend him; he's a friend of the Duke Alençon's.

Enter

Enter WARWICK and GLOSTER.

War. How now,

matter?

how now! what's the

Flu. My Lord of Warwick, here is (praised be Got 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.

K. Hen. How now! what's the matter? Flu. 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.

Will. 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.

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Flu. 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 avouchments, that this is the glove of Alençon, that your Majesty is give me, in your conscience now.

K. Hen. Give 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.

Flu. An please your Majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law in the 'orld.

VOL. X.

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