Enter Gower and Williams.WILLIAMS I warrant it is to knight you, captain.Enter Fluellen, ⌜wearing Williams’s glove.⌝FLUELLEN, ⌜to Gower⌝ God’s will and His pleasure, captain, I beseech you now, come apace to the King. There is more good toward you peradventure5 than is in your knowledge to dream of.WILLIAMS, ⌜to Fluellen, pointing to the glove in his own
hat⌝ Sir, know you this glove?FLUELLEN Know the glove? I know the glove is a glove.WILLIAMS I know this, and thus I challenge it.Strikes him.FLUELLEN ’Sblood, an arrant traitor as any ’s in the10 universal world, or in France, or in England!GOWER, ⌜to Williams⌝ How now, sir? You villain!WILLIAMS Do you think I’ll be forsworn?FLUELLEN Stand away, Captain Gower. I will give treason his payment into plows, I warrant you.WILLIAMS 15I am no traitor.FLUELLEN That’s a lie in thy throat.—I charge you in his Majesty’s name, apprehend him. He’s a friend of the Duke Alençon’s.Enter Warwick and Gloucester.
WARWICK How now, how now, what’s the matter?FLUELLEN 20My Lord of Warwick, here is, praised be God for it, a most contagious treason come to light, look you, as you shall desire in a summer’s day.Enter King ⌜of England⌝ and Exeter. Here is his Majesty.KING HENRY 25How now, what’s the matter?FLUELLEN My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that, look your Grace, has struck the glove which your Majesty is take out of the helmet of Alençon.WILLIAMS My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow30 of it. And he that I gave it to in change promised to wear it in his cap. I promised to strike him if he did. I met this man with my glove in his cap, and I have been as good as my word.FLUELLEN Your Majesty, hear now, saving your Majesty’s35 manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy knave it is. I hope your Majesty is pear me testimony and witness and will avouchment that this is the glove of Alençon that your Majesty is give me, in your conscience now.KING HENRY, ⌜to Williams⌝ 40Give me thy glove, soldier. Look, here is the fellow of it. ’Twas I indeed thou promised’st to strike, And thou hast given me most bitter terms.FLUELLEN An please your Majesty, let his neck answer45 for it, if there is any martial law in the world.KING HENRY, ⌜to Williams⌝ How canst thou make me satisfaction?WILLIAMS All offenses, my lord, come from the heart. Never came any from mine that might offend your50 Majesty.KING HENRY It was ourself thou didst abuse.WILLIAMS Your Majesty came not like yourself. You
appeared to me but as a common man; witness the night, your garments, your lowliness. And what55 your Highness suffered under that shape, I beseech you take it for your own fault and not mine, for, had you been as I took you for, I made no offense. Therefore, I beseech your Highness pardon me.KING HENRY Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns60 And give it to this fellow.—Keep it, fellow, And wear it for an honor in thy cap Till I do challenge it.—Give him the crowns.— And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.FLUELLEN By this day and this light, the fellow has65 mettle enough in his belly.—Hold, there is twelvepence for you, and I pray you to serve God and keep you out of prawls and prabbles and quarrels and dissensions, and I warrant you it is the better for you.WILLIAMS 70I will none of your money.FLUELLEN It is with a good will. I can tell you it will serve you to mend your shoes. Come, wherefore should you be so pashful? Your shoes is not so good. ’Tis a good silling, I warrant you, or I will75 change it.Enter ⌜an English⌝ Herald.KING HENRY Now, herald, are the dead numbered?HERALD, ⌜giving the King a paper⌝ Here is the number of the slaughtered French.KING HENRY, ⌜to Exeter⌝ What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?EXETER Charles, Duke of Orléans, nephew to the King;80 John, Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt. Of other lords and barons, knights and squires, Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.
KING HENRY This note doth tell me of ten thousand French That in the field lie slain. Of princes in this number85 And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead One hundred twenty-six. Added to these, Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen, Eight thousand and four hundred, of the which Five hundred were but yesterday dubbed knights.90 So that in these ten thousand they have lost, There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries. The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires, And gentlemen of blood and quality. The names of those their nobles that lie dead:95 Charles Delabreth, High Constable of France; Jacques of Chatillon, Admiral of France; The Master of the Crossbows, Lord Rambures; Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dauphin;100 John, Duke of Alençon; Anthony, Duke of Brabant, The brother to the Duke of Burgundy; And Edward, Duke of Bar. Of lusty earls: Grandpré and Roussi, Faulconbridge and Foix, Beaumont and Marle, ⌜Vaudemont⌝ and Lestrale.105 Here was a royal fellowship of death. Where is the number of our English dead?⌜Herald gives him another paper.⌝ Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk, Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire; None else of name, and of all other men110 But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here, And not to us, but to thy arm alone Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem, But in plain shock and even play of battle, Was ever known so great and little loss115 On one part and on th’ other? Take it, God, For it is none but thine.
EXETER ’Tis wonderful.KING HENRY Come, go ⌜we⌝ in procession to the village, And be it death proclaimèd through our host120 To boast of this or take that praise from God Which is His only.FLUELLEN Is it not lawful, an please your Majesty, to tell how many is killed?KING HENRY Yes, captain, but with this acknowledgment:125 That God fought for us.FLUELLEN Yes, my conscience, He did us great good.KING HENRY Do we all holy rites. Let there be sung Non nobis, and Te Deum, The dead with charity enclosed in clay,130 And then to Calais, and to England then, Where ne’er from France arrived more happy men.They exit.