y arise of it;
For I do know Fluellen valiant,
And, touch'd with choler, hot as gunpowder,
And quickly will return an injury:
Follow,
(_GLOSTER crosses to R._)
and see there be no harm between them.--
[_WARWICK and GLOSTER exeunt R.H._
Go you with me, Uncle of Exeter.
[_Exeunt Omnes, L.H._
_Trumpets sound._
[Footnote IV.27: _Or void the field;_] i.e., avoid, withdraw from
the field.]
[Footnote IV.28: _----+raught+ me his hand,_] _Raught_ is the old
preterite of the verb _to reach_.]
[Footnote IV.29: _----Monmouth caps;_] Monmouth caps were formerly
much worn, and Fuller, in his "Worthies of Wales," says the best
caps were formerly made at Monmouth.]
[Footnote IV.30: _----great sort,_] High rank.]
[Footnote IV.31: _----quite from the answer of his degree._] A man
of such station as is not bound to hazard his person to _answer_
to a challenge from one of the soldier's _low degree_.]
SCENE VI.--BEFORE KING HENRY'S PAVILION.
_Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS, R.H._
_Will._ I warrant it is to knight you, captain.
_Enter FLUELLEN, R.H._
_Flu._ Heaven's will and pleasure, captain, I 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._ (C.) Know the glove! I know, the glove is a glove.
_Will._ (R.C.) I know this; and thus I challenge it.
[_Strikes him._
_Flu._ 'Sblud, an arrant traitor as any's in the universal 'orld, or in
France, or in England!
_Gow._ (L.C.) How now, sir! you villain!
_Will._ Do you think I'll be forsworn?
_Flu._ Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his payment in
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 Alencon's.
_Enter WARWICK and GLOSTER,(P) R.H._
_Glos._ (_crosses to C._) How now, how now! what's the matter?
_Flu._ My lord of Gloster, here is (praised be Heaven 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, EXETER, and others, U.E.L.H._
_K. Hen._ (_coming down centre._) How now! what's the matter?
_Flu._ (L.H.) My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that, look your
grace, has struck the glove which your maj
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