Flew. Looke you, tis not well done to take the tale out
O a mans mouth, ere it is made an end and finished:
I speake in the comparisons, as Alexander is kill
His friend Clitus: so our King being in his ripe
Wits and iudgements, is turne away, the fat knite
With the great belly doublet: I am forget his name.
Gower. Sir John Falstaffe.

Flew. I, I thinke it is Sir Iohn Falstaffe indeed,
I can tell you, theres good men borne at Monmorth.

Enter King and the Lords.

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King. I was not angry since I came into France, Vntill this houre.

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Gods will what meanes this? knowst thou not

That we haue fined these bones of ours for ransome?

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Herald. I come great king for charitable fauour,

To sort our Nobles from our common men,

We may haue leaue to bury all our dead,

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Which in the field lye spoyled and troden on.

Kin. I tell thee truly Herauld, I do not know whether The day be ours or no:

For yet a many of your French do keep the field.

Hera. The day is yours.

Kin. Praised be God therefore.

What Castle call you that?

Hera. We call it Agincourt.

Kin. Then call we this the field of Agincourt.

Fought on the day of Cryspin, Cryspin.

Flew. Your grandfather of famous memorie,

If your grace be remembred,

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. Is do good seruice in France.

Kin. Tis true Flewellen.

Flew. Your Maiestie sayes verie true.

And it please your Maiestie,

The Wealchmen there was do good seruice,

In a garden where Leekes did grow.

And I thinke your Maiestie wil take no scorne,

To weare a Leake in your cap vpon S. Dauies day.

Kin. No Flewellen, for I am wealch as well as you.
Flew. All the water in Wye wil not wash your wealch
Blood out of you, God keep it, and preserue it,
To his graces will and pleasure.

Kin. Thankes good countryman.

Flew. By Iesus I am your Maiesties countryman :

I care not who know it, so long as your maiesty is an honest
K. God keep me so. Our Herald go with him,

And bring vs the number of the scattred French.

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Exit Heralds.

Call yonder souldier hither.

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Flew. You fellow come to the king.

Kin. Fellow why doost thou weare that gloue in thy hat?
Soul. And please your maiestie, tis a rascals that swagard

With me the other day: and he hath one of mine,
Which if euer I see, I haue sworne to strike him.
So hath he sworne the like to mee.

K. How think you Flewellen, is it lawfull he keep his oath?
Fl. And it please your maiesty, tis lawful he keep his vow.
If he be periur'd once, he is as arrant a beggerly knaue,
As treads vpon too blacke shues.

Kin. His enemy may be a gentleman of worth.
Flew. And if he be as good a gentleman as Lucifer
And Belzebub, and the diuel himselfe,

Tis meete he keepe his vowe.

Exit souldier.

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Kin. Captain Flewellen, when Alonson and I was
Downe together, I tooke this gloue off from his helmet,
Here Flewellen, weare it. If any do challenge it,
He is a friend of Alonsons,

And an enemy to mee.

Fle. Your maiestie doth me as great a fauour As can be desired in the harts of his subiects.

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I would see that man now that should chalenge this gloue:
And it please God of his grace. I would but see him,
That is all.

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Kin. Flewellen knowst thou Captaine Gower?
Fle. Captaine Gower is my friend.

And if it like your maiestie, I know him very well.
Kin. Go call him hither.

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Flew. I will and it shall please your maiestie.
Kin. Follow Flewellen closely at the heeles,

The gloue he weares, it was the souldiers:
It may be there will be harme betweene them,
For I do know Flewellen valiant,

And being toucht, as hot as gunpowder:

And quickly will returne an iniury.

Go see there be no harme betweene them.

Enter Gower, Flewellen, and the Souldier.

Flew. Captain Gower, in the name of Iesu,
Come to his Maiestie, there is more good toward you,
Then you can dreame off.

Soul. Do you heare you sir? do you know this gloue?
Flew. I know the the gloue is a gloue.

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He strikes him.

Soul. Sir I know this, and thus I challenge it.

Flew. Gode plut, and his. Captain Gower stand away : Ile giue treason his due presently.

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Enter the King, Warwicke, Clarence, and Exeter.

Kin. How now, what is the matter?

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Flew. And it shall please your Maiestie,

Here is the the notablest peece of treason come to light,
As you shall desire to see in a sommers day.

Here is a rascall, beggerly rascall, is strike the gloue,
Which your Maiestie tooke out of the helmet of Alonson:
And your Maiestie will beare me witnes, and testimony,
And auouchments, that this is the gloue.

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Soul. And it please your Maiestie, that was my gloue,

He that I gaue it too in the night,
Promised me to weare it in his hat:

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I promised to strike him if he did.

I met that Gentleman, with my gloue in his hat,

And I thinke I haue bene as good as my word.

Flew. Your Maiestie heares, vnder your Maiesties

Manhood, what a beggerly lowsie knaue it is.

Kin. Let me see thy gloue. Looke you,

This is the fellow of it.

It was I indeed you promised to strike.

And thou thou hast giuen me most bitter words.
How canst thou make vs amends?

Flew. Let his necke answere it,

If there be any marshals lawe in the worell.

Soul. My Liege, all offences come from the heart :
Neuer came any from mine to offend your Maiestie,
You appeard to me as a common man:
Witnesse the night, your garments, your lowlinesse,
And whatsoeuer you receiued vnder that habit,

I beseech your Maiestie impute it to your owne fault
And not mine. For your selfe came not like your selfe:

Had you bene as you seemed, I had made no offence.
Therefore I beseech your grace to pardon me.
Kin. Vnckle, fill the gloue with crownes,

And giue it to the souldier. Weare it fellow,
As an honour in thy cap, till I do challenge it.
Giue him the crownes. Come Captaine Flewellen,

I must needs haue you friends.

Flew. By Iesus, the fellow hath mettall enough

In his belly. Harke you souldier, there is a shilling for you,

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And keep your selfe out of brawles & brables, & dissentiōs,
And looke you, it shall be the better for you.

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Soul. Ile none of your money sir, not I.

Flew. Why tis a good shilling man.

Why should you be queamish? Your shoes are not so good:
It will serue you to mend your shoes.

Exe. Charles Duke of Orleance, Nephew to the King, John Duke of Burbon, and Lord Bowchquall.

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Of other Lords and Barrons, Knights and Squiers,

Full fifteene hundred, besides common men.
This note doth tell me of ten thousand
French, that in the field lyes slaine.

Of Nobles bearing banners in the field,

Charles de le Brute, hie Constable of France.

Iaques of Chatillian, Admirall of France.

The Maister of the crosbows, Iohn Duke Alōson.

Lord Ranbieres, hie Maister of France.

The braue sir Gwigzard, Dolphin. Of Nobelle Charillas,

Gran Prie, and Rosse, Fawconbridge and Foy.

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Gerard and Verton. Vandemant and Lestra.

Here was a royall fellowship of death.

Where is the number of our English dead?

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Edward the Duke of Yorke, the Earle of Suffolke,

So great, and litle losse, on one part and an other?

Take it God, for it is onely thine.

King. Come let vs go on procession through the camp: