Act 4. Scene VIII

SCENE VIII. Before KING HENRY'S pavilion.

Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS
WILLIAMS
I warrant it is to knight you, captain.

Enter FLUELLEN

FLUELLEN
God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you
now, come apace to the king: there is more good
toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of.

WILLIAMS
Sir, know you this glove?

FLUELLEN
Know the glove! I know the glove is glove.

WILLIAMS
I know this; and thus I challenge it.

Strikes him

FLUELLEN
'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the
universal world, or in France, or in England!

GOWER
How now, sir! you villain!

WILLIAMS
Do you think I'll be forsworn?

FLUELLEN
Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his
payment into ploughs, I warrant you.

WILLIAMS
I am no traitor.

FLUELLEN
That's a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his
majesty's name, apprehend him: he's a friend of the
Duke Alencon's.

Enter WARWICK and GLOUCESTER

WARWICK
How now, how now! what's the matter?

FLUELLEN
My Lord of Warwick, here is--praised 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