[♦] This shall ye do, so help you righteous God!

Enter SIR JOHN FASTOLFE.

Fast. My gracious sovereign, as I rode from Calais,

10 To haste unto your coronation,

A letter was deliver’d to my hands,

Writ to your grace from the Duke of Burgundy.

Tal. Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee!

[♦] I vow’d, base knight, when I did meet thee next,

[15] To tear the garter from thy craven’s leg, [Plucking it off.

Which I have done, because unworthily