Bagot. Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle.
Boling. Cousin, stand forth, and look upon that man.
Bagot. My Lord Aumerle, I know your daring tongue
Scorns to unsay what once it hath deliver'd.[1551]
In that dead time when Gloucester's death was plotted,10
I heard you say, 'Is not my arm of length,
That reacheth from the restful English court
As far as Calais, to mine uncle's head?'[1552]
Amongst much other talk, that very time,
I heard you say that you had rather refuse[1553]15
The offer of an hundred thousand crowns
Than Bolingbroke's return to England;[1554][1555]
Adding withal, how blest this land would be[1555][1556]
In this your cousin's death.[1555]
Aum. Princes and noble lords,[1557]
What answer shall I make to this base man?20
Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars,[1558]
On equal terms to give him chastisement?[1559]
Either I must, or have mine honour soil'd[1560]
With the attainder of his slanderous lips.[1561]
There is my gage, the manual seal of death,25
That marks thee out for hell: I say, thou liest,[1562]
And will maintain what thou hast said is false[1563]
In thy heart-blood, though being all too base[1564]
To stain the temper of my knightly sword.
Boling. Bagot, forbear; thou shalt not take it up.30
Aum. Excepting one, I would he were the best
In all this presence that hath moved me so.
Fitz. If that thy valour stand on sympathy,[1565]
There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine:
By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st,[1566]35
I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spakest it,
That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester's death.
If thou deny'st it twenty times, thou liest;[1567]
And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart,
Where it was forged, with my rapier's point.40
Aum. Thou darest not, coward, live to see that day.[1568]
Fitz. Now, by my soul, I would it were this hour.
Aum. Fitzwater, thou art damn'd to hell for this.[1569]