Act 4. Scene I - Page 2

I'll knock his leek about his pate
Upon Saint Davy's day.

KING HENRY V
Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day,
lest he knock that about yours.

PISTOL
Art thou his friend?

KING HENRY V
And his kinsman too.

PISTOL
The figo for thee, then!

KING HENRY V
I thank you: God be with you!

PISTOL
My name is Pistol call'd.

Exit

KING HENRY V
It sorts well with your fierceness.

Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER

GOWER
Captain Fluellen!

FLUELLEN
So! in the name of Jesu Christ, speak lower. It is
the greatest admiration of the universal world, when
the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of the
wars is not kept: if you would take the pains but to
examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall
find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle toddle
nor pibble pabble in Pompey's camp; I warrant you,
you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the
cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety
of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise.

GOWER
Why, the enemy is loud; you hear him all night.

FLUELLEN
If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating
coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also,
look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating
coxcomb? in your own conscience, now?

GOWER
I will speak lower.

FLUELLEN
I pray you and beseech you that you will.

Exeunt GOWER and FLUELLEN

KING HENRY V
Though it appear a little out of fashion,
There is much care and valour in this Welshman.

Enter three soldiers, JOHN BATES, ALEXANDER COURT, and MICHAEL WILLIAMS

COURT
Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which
breaks yonder?

BATES
I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire
the approach of day.

WILLIAMS
We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think
we shall never see the end of it. Who goes there?

KING HENRY V
A friend.

WILLIAMS
Under what captain serve you?

KING HENRY V
Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.

WILLIAMS
A good old commander and a most kind gentleman: I
pray you, what thinks he of our estate?

KING HENRY V
Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be
washed off the next tide.

BATES
He hath not told his thought to the king?

KING HENRY V
No; nor it is not meet he should. For, though I
speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I
am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me: the
element shows to him as it doth to me; all his
senses have but human conditions: his ceremonies
laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and
though