If that the soldier strike him, (as, I judge And, touch'd with choler, hot as gunpowder, And quickly will return an injury : Follow, and see there be no harm between them.- SCENE VIII. [Exeunt. Before King HENRY's Pavilion. Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS. Will. I warrant, it is to knight you, captain. Enter FUELLEN. Flu. Got's will and his pleasure, captain, 1 peseech you now, come apace to the king: there is more goot toward 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 univer sal '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. Flu. 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 GLOSTER. War. How now, how now! what's the matter? 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 Al ençon. 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. Flu. Your majesty hear now, (saving your majesty's manhood,) what an arrant, rascally, beggarly,lowsy 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. K.Hen. How canst thou make me satisfaction? Will. All offences, my liege, come from the heart: never came any from mine, that might offend your majesty. K.Hen, it was ourself thou didst abuse. Will. Your majesty came not like yourself; you appeared to me but as a common man; witness the night, you 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 offence; therefore, I beseech your highness, pardon me. K.Hen. Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns, Till I do challenge it.-Give him the crowns :- Flu. By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle enough in his pelly :-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, warrant you, it is the petter for you. Will. I will none of your money. Flu. It is with a goot 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 goot: 'tis a good silling, I warrant you, or I will change it. Enter an English Herald. K. Hen. Now, herald; are the dead number'd? Her. Here is the number of the slaughter'd French. Of other lords, and barons, knights, and 'squires, K.Hen. This note doth tell me of ten thousand French, The names of those their nobles that lie dead,- The master of the cross-bows, lord Rambures; Great master of France, the brave sir Guischard Dau phin ; John duke of Alençon; Anthony duke of Brabant, The brother to the duke of Burgundy ; And Edward duke of Bar: of lusty earls, Grandpré, and Roussi, Fauconberg, and Foix, [Herald presents another paper. [2] Mercenaries are in this place common soldiers or hired soldiers. The gentlemen served at their own charge in consequence of their tenures. JOH. I doubt the accuracy of Dr. Johnson's assertion, that "the gentlemen served at their own charge in consequence of their tenures;" as, I take it, this practice, which was always confined to those holding by knight's ser vice, and to the term of forty days, had fallen into complete disuse long before Henry the Fifth's time; and personal service would not, at that period, have excused the subsidies which were paid in leu of it. Even the nobility were, for the most part, retained by contract to serve, with the numbers, for the time, and at the wages, specified in the indenture. RITSON. [3] This gentleman saved the king's life in the field. Had our poet been apprized of this circumstance, this brave Welshman would probably have been more particularly noticed. MAL. But five-and-twenty. O God, thy arm was here! Ascribe we all. When, without stratagem, On one part, and on the other?-Take it, God, Exe. 'Tis wonderful! K.Hen. Come, go we in procession to the village : Flu. Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell how many is killed ? K.Hen. Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgment, That God fought for us. Flu. Yes, my conscience, he did us great goot. Let there be sung Non nobis, and Te deum.4 We'll then to Calais; and to England then ; ACT V. Enter CHORUS. Cho. Vouchsafe, to those that have not read the story, That I may prompt them and of such as have, I humbly pray them to admit the excuse Of time, of numbers, and due course of things, Which cannot in their huge and proper life Be here presented. Now we bear the king Toward Calais : grant him there; there seen, Heave him away upon your winged thoughts, Athwart the sea: Behold, the English beach Pales in the flood with men, with wives, and boys, Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth'd sea, Which, like a mighty whifflers 'fore the king, [4] The king (says the Chronicles) caused the psalm, In exitu Israel de Egypto (in which according to the vulgate, is included the psalm, Non nobis, Domine, &c.) to be sung after the victory. POPE. [5] An officer who walks first in processions, or before persons in high stations, on occasions of ceremony. HANMER. Seems to prepare his way: so let him land; Quite from himself, to God.1 But now behold, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him? much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry. Now in London place him ; (As yet the lamentation of the French Invites the king of England's stay at home : tis past. Then brook abridgement; and your eyes advance SCENE I." France. An English Court of Guard. Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER. Gow. Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek to-day? Saint Davy's day is past. [1] Transferring all the honours of conquest, all trophies, tokens, and shows, from himself to God. JOHNS. [2] Likelihood for similitude. WARB 13 The Earl of Essex, in the reign of queen Elizabeth. [4] Broached-spitted, transfixed. JOHNS POPE. [5] This scene ought, in my opinion, to conclude the fourth act, and be |