Williams. Here’s my glove: give me another of thine.
King Henry. There.
Williams. This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come to me and say, after to-morrow, ‘This is my glove,’ by this hand, I will take thee a box on the ear.
King Henry. If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.
Williams. Thou darest as well be hanged.”
Again, in “Troilus and Cressida” (v. 2), Diomedes, taking the glove from Cressida, says:
“To-morrow will I wear it on my helm,
And grieve his spirit that dares not challenge it.”
And in “Richard II.” (v. 3), Percy narrates how Prince Henry boasted that—
“he would unto the stews,
And from the common’st creature pluck a glove,
And wear it as a favour; and with that
He would unhorse the lustiest challenger.”