Trumpets sound.
[ Scene II.—A VIEW IN PICARDY.]
Distant Battle heard.
Enter Gower, L.U.E., meeting Fluellen, R.H.
Gow. (C.) How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?([A])
Flu. (R.C.) I assure you, there is very excellent service committed at the pridge.
Gow. Is the Duke of Exeter safe?
Flu. The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon; and a man that I love and honour with my soul, and my heart, and my duty, and my life, and my livings, and my uttermost powers: he is not (Heaven be praised and plessed!) any hurt in the ’orld; but keeps the pridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline. There is an ensign there at the pridge,—I think in my very conscience he is as valiant as Mark Antony; and he is a man of no estimation in the ’orld; but I did see him do gallant service.
Gow. What do you call him?
Flu. He is called—ancient Pistol.[5]