FLUELLEN.
By Jeshu, I am your Majesty’s countryman, I care not who know it. I will confess it to all the ’orld. I need not be asham’d of your Majesty, praised be God, so long as your Majesty is an honest man.
KING HENRY.
God keep me so!
Enter Williams.
Our heralds go with him;
Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither.
[Exeunt Heralds with Montjoy.]
EXETER.
Soldier, you must come to the King.
KING HENRY.
Soldier, why wear’st thou that glove in thy cap?
WILLIAMS.
An’t please your Majesty, ’tis the gage of one that I should fight withal, if he be alive.
KING HENRY.
An Englishman?
WILLIAMS.
An’t please your Majesty, a rascal that swagger’d with me last night; who, if alive and ever dare to challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box o’ the ear; or if I can see my glove in his cap, which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear if alive, I will strike it out soundly.