FLUELLEN
Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take it; or I have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat. PISTOL
I take thy groat in earnest of revenge. FLUELLEN
If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels: you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but cudgels.
God b' wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate.
Exit PISTOL
All hell shall stir for this. GOWER
Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an honourable
respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of predeceased valour and dare not avouch in your deeds any
of your words? I have seen you gleeking and galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because
he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel: you find it
otherwise; and henceforth let a Welsh correction teach you a good English condition. Fare ye well.
Exit PISTOL
Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now? News have I, that my Nell is dead i' the spital Of malady
of France; And there my rendezvous is quite cut off. Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs Honour is
cudgelled. Well, bawd I'll turn, And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand. To England will I steal, and
there I'll steal: And patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars, And swear I got them in the Gallia wars.
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