2526Flu. Kill the poyes and the luggage, 'Tis expressely

2527against the Law of Armes, tis as arrant a peece of knaue-

2528ry marke you now, as can bee offert in your Conscience

2529now, is it not?

2530Gow. Tis certaine, there's not a boy left aliue, and the

2531Cowardly Rascalls that ranne from the battaile ha' done

2532this slaughter: besides they haue burned and carried a-

2533way all that was in the Kings Tent, wherefore the King

2534most worthily hath caus'd euery soldiour to cut his pri-

2535soners throat. O 'tis a gallant King.

2536Flu. I, hee was porne at Monmouth Captaine Gower:

2537What call you the Townes name where Alexander the

2538pig was borne?

2539Gow. Alexander the Great.

2540Flu. Why I pray you, is not pig, great? The pig, or

2541the grear, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnani-

2542mous, are all one reckonings, saue the phrase is a litle va-

2543riations.

2544Gower. I thinke Alexander the Great was borne in

2545Macedon, his Father was called Phillip of Macedon, as I

2546take it.

2547Fln. I thinke it is in Macedon where Alexander is

2548porne: I tell you Captaine, if you looke in the Maps of

2549the Orld, I warrant you sall finde in the comparisons be-

2550tweene Macedon & Monmouth, that the situations looke

2551you, is both alike. There is a Riuer in Macedon, & there

2552is also moreouer a Riuer at Monmouth, it is call'd Wye at

2553Monmouth: but it is out of my praines, what is the name

2554of the other Riuer: but 'tis all one, tis alike as my fingers

2555is to my fingers, and there is Salmons in both. If you

2556marke Alexanders life well, Harry of Monmouthes life is

2557come after it indifferent well, for there is figures in all

2558things. Alexander God knowes, and you know, in his

2559rages, and his furies, and his wraths, and his chollers, and

2560his moodes, and his displeasures, and his indignations,

2561and also being a little intoxicates in his praines, did in

2562his Ales and his angers (looke you) kill his best friend

2563Clytus.

2564Gow. Our King is not like him in that, he neuer kill'd

2565any of his friends.

2566Flu. It is not well done (marke you now) to take the

2567tales out of my mouth, ere it is made and finished. I speak

2568but in the figures, and comparisons of it: as Alexander

2569kild his friend Clytus, being in his Ales and his Cuppes; so

2570also Harry Monmouth being in his right wittes, and his

2571good iudgements, turn'd away the fat Knight with the

2572great-belly doublet: he was full of iests, and gypes, and

2573knaueries, and mockes, I haue forgot his name.

2574Gow. Sir Iohn Falstaffe.

2575Flu. That is he: Ile tell you, there is good men porne

2576at Monmouth.

2577Gow. Heere comes his Maiesty.

2580King. I was not angry since I came to France,

2581Vntill this instant. Take a Trumpet Herald,

2582Ride thou vnto the Horsemen on yond hill:

2583If they will fight with vs, bid them come downe,

2584Or voyde the field: they do offend our sight.

2585If they'l do neither, we will come to them,

2586And make them sker away, as swift as stones

2587Enforced from the old Assyrian slings:

2588Besides, wee'l cut the throats of those we haue,

2589And not a man of them that we shall take,

2590Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.

2592Exe. Here comes the Herald of the French, my Liege

2593Glou. His eyes are humbler then they vs'd to be.

2594King. How now, what meanes this Herald? Knowst

2595 thou not,

2596That I haue fin'd these bones of mine for ransome?

2597Com'st thou againe for ransome?

2598Her. No great King:

2599I come to thee for charitable License,

2600That we may wander ore this bloody field,

2601To booke our dead, and then to bury them,

2602To sort our Nobles from our common men.

2603For many of our Princes (woe the while)

2604Lye drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood:

2605So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbes

2606In blood of Princes, and with wounded steeds

2607Fret fet-locke deepe in gore, and with wilde rage

2608Yerke out their armed heeles at their dead masters,

2609Killing them twice. O giue vs leaue great King,

2610To view the field in safety, and dispose

2611Of their dead bodies.

2612Kin. I tell thee truly Herald,

2613I know not if the day be ours or no,

2614For yet a many of your horsemen peere,

2615And gallop ore the field.

2616Her. The day is yours.

2617Kin. Praised be God, and not our strength for it:

2618What is this Castle call'd that stands hard by.

2619Her. They call it Agincourt.

2620King. Then call we this the field of Agincourt,

2621Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

2622Flu. Your Grandfather of famous memory (an't please

2623your Maiesty) and your great Vncle Edward the Placke

2624Prince of Wales, as I haue read in the Chronicles, fought

2625a most praue pattle here in France.

2626Kin. They did Fluellen.

2627Flu. Your Maiesty sayes very true: If your Maiesties

2628is remembred of it, the Welchmen did good seruice in a

2629Garden where Leekes did grow, wearing Leekes in their

2630Monmouth caps, which your Maiesty know to this houre

2631is an honourable badge of the seruice: And I do beleeue

2632your Maiesty takes no scorne to weare the Leeke vppon

2633S. Tauies day.

2634King. I weare it for a memorable honor:

2635For I am Welch you know good Countriman.

2636Flu. All the water in Wye, cannot wash your Maie-

2637sties Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that:

2638God plesse it, and preserue it, as long as it pleases his

2639Grace, and his Maiesty too.

2640Kin. Thankes good my Countrymen.

2641Flu. By Ieshu, I am your Maiesties Countreyman, I

2642care not who know it: I will confesse it to all the Orld, I

2643need not to be ashamed of your Maiesty, praised be God

2644so long as your Maiesty is an honest man.

2645King. Good keepe me so.

2647Our Heralds go with him,

2648Bring me iust notice of the numbers dead

2649On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither.

2650Exe. Souldier, you must come to the King.

2651Kin. Souldier, why wear'st thou that Gloue in thy

2652Cappe?

2653Will. And't please your Maiesty, tis the gage of one

2654that I should fight withall, if he be aliue.

2655Kin. An Englishman?

2656Wil. And't please your Maiesty, a Rascall that swag-

2657ger'd with me last night: who if aliue, and euer dare to

2658challenge this Gloue, I haue sworne to take him a boxe

2659a'th ere: or if I can see my Gloue in his cappe, which he

2660swore as he was a Souldier he would weare (if aliue) I wil

2661strike it out soundly.

2662Kin. What thinke you Captaine Fluellen, is it fit this

2663souldier keepe his oath.

2664Flu. Hee is a Crauen and a Villaine else, and't please

2665your Maiesty in my conscience.

2666King. It may bee, his enemy is a Gentleman of great

2667sort quite from the answer of his degree.

2668Flu. Though he be as good a Ientleman as the diuel is,

2669as Lucifer and Belzebub himselfe, it is necessary (looke

2670your Grace) that he keepe his vow and his oath: If hee

2671bee periur'd (see you now) his reputation is as arrant a

2672villaine and a Iacke sawce, as euer his blacke shoo trodd

2673vpon Gods ground, and his earth, in my conscience law

2674King. Then keepe thy vow sirrah, when thou meet'st

2675the fellow.

2676Wil. So, I wil my Liege, as I liue.

2677King. Who seru'st thou vnder?

2678Will. Vnder Captaine Gower, my Liege.

2679Flu. Gower is a good Captaine, and is good know-

2680ledge and literatured in the Warres.

2681King. Call him hither to me, Souldier.

2682Will. I will my Liege. Exit.

2683King. Here Fluellen, weare thou this fauour for me, and

2684sticke it in thy Cappe: when Alanson and my selfe were

2685downe together, I pluckt this Gloue from his Helme: If

2686any man challenge this, hee is a friend to Alanson, and an

2687enemy to our Person; if thou encounter any such, appre-

2688hend him, and thou do'st me loue.

2689Flu. Your Grace doo's me as great Honors as can be

2690desir'd in the hearts of his Subiects: I would faine see

2691the man, that ha's but two legges, that shall find himselfe

2692agreefd at this Gloue; that is all: but I would faine see

2693it once, and please God of his grace that I might see.

2694King. Know'st thou Gower?

2695Flu. He is my deare friend, and please you.

2696King. Pray thee goe seeke him, and bring him to my

2697Tent.

2698Flu. I will fetch him. Exit.

2699King. My Lord of Warwick, and my Brother Gloster,

2700Follow Fluellen closely at the heeles.

2701The Gloue which I haue giuen him for a fauour,

2702May haply purchase him a box a'th'eare.

2703It is the Souldiers: I by bargaine should

2704Weare it my selfe. Follow good Cousin Warwick:

2705If that the Souldier strike him, as I iudge

2706By his blunt bearing, he will keepe his word;

2707Some sodaine mischiefe may arise of it:

2708For I doe know Fluellen valiant,

2709And toucht with Choler, hot as Gunpowder,

2710And quickly will returne an iniurie.

2711Follow, and see there be no harme betweene them.

2712Goe you with me, Vnckle of Exeter. Exeunt.