WARWICK
How now, how now! what's the matter? FLUELLEN
My Lord of Warwick, here ispraised 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
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. FLUELLEN
An 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 offences, 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
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