TPTT The Life of Henry the Fifth: ACT IV
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
PROLOGUE.
SCENE I. The English camp at Agincourt.
SCENE II. The French camp.
SCENE III. The English camp.
SCENE IV. The field of battle.
SCENE V. Another part of the field.
SCENE VI. Another part of the field.
SCENE VII. Another part of the field.
SCENE VIII. Before KING HENRY'S pavilion.
ACT V
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SCENE VIII. Before KING HENRY'S pavilion.
Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS
WILLIAMS
      I warrant it is to knight you, captain.
Enter FLUELLEN
FLUELLEN
      God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you
      now, come apace to the king: there is more good
      toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of.
WILLIAMS
5     Sir, know you this glove?
FLUELLEN
      Know the glove! I know the glove is glove.
WILLIAMS
      I know this; and thus I challenge it.
Strikes him
FLUELLEN
      'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the
      universal world, or in France, or in England!
GOWER
10    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 ploughs, I warrant you.
WILLIAMS
      I am no traitor.
FLUELLEN
15    That's a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his
      majesty's name, apprehend him: he's a friend of the
      Duke Alencon's.
Enter WARWICK and GLOUCESTER
WARWICK
      How now, how now! what's the matter?
FLUELLEN
      My Lord of Warwick, here is--praised be God for it!
20    --a most contagious treason come to light, look
      you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is
      his majesty.
Enter KING HENRY and EXETER
KING HENRY V
      How now! what's the matter?
FLUELLEN
      My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that,
25    look your grace, has struck the glove which your
      majesty is take out of the helmet of Alencon.
WILLIAMS
      My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow 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
30    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's
      manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy
      knave it is: I hope your majesty is pear me
35    testimony and witness, and will avouchment, that
      this is the glove of Alencon, that your majesty is
      give me; in your conscience, now?
KING HENRY V
      Give me thy glove, soldier: look, here is the
      fellow of it.
40    'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike;
      And thou hast given me most bitter terms.
FLUELLEN
      An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it,
      if there is any martial law in the world.
KING HENRY V
      How canst thou make me satisfaction?
WILLIAMS
45    All offences, my lord, come from the heart: never
      came any from mine that might offend your majesty.
KING HENRY V
      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
50    garments, your lowliness; and what 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 offence; therefore, I
      beseech your highness, pardon me.
KING HENRY V
55    Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,
      And give it to this fellow. Keep it, fellow;
      And wear it for an honour in thy cap
      Till I do challenge it. Give him the crowns:
      And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.
FLUELLEN
60    By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle
      enough in his belly. Hold, there is twelve pence
      for you; and I pray you to serve Got, and keep you
      out of prawls, and prabbles' and quarrels, and
      dissensions, and, I warrant you, it is the better for you.
WILLIAMS
65    I 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 will change it.
Enter an English Herald
KING HENRY V
70    Now, herald, are the dead number'd?
Herald
      Here is the number of the slaughter'd French.
KING HENRY V
      What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?
EXETER
      Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king;
      John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt:
75    Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,
      Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.
KING HENRY V
      This note doth tell me of ten thousand French
      That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,
      And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead
80    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 dubb'd knights:
      So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,
85    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:
      Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;
90    Jaques of Chatillon, admiral of France;
      The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures;
      Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dolphin,
      John Duke of Alencon, Anthony Duke of Brabant,
      The brother of the Duke of Burgundy,
95    And Edward Duke of Bar: of lusty earls,
      Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix,
      Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale.
      Here was a royal fellowship of death!
      Where is the number of our English dead?

Herald shews him another paper

100   Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,
      Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire:
      None else of name; and of all other men
      But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here;
      And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
105   Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,
      But in plain shock and even play of battle,
      Was ever known so great and little loss
      On one part and on the other? Take it, God,
      For it is none but thine!
EXETER
110   'Tis wonderful!
KING HENRY V
      Come, go we in procession to the village.
      And be it death proclaimed through our host
      To boast of this or take the praise from God
      Which is his only.
FLUELLEN
115   Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell
      how many is killed?
KING HENRY V
      Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgement,
      That God fought for us.
FLUELLEN
      Yes, my conscience, he did us great good.
KING HENRY V
120   Do we all holy rites;
      Let there be sung 'Non nobis' and 'Te Deum;'
      The dead with charity enclosed in clay:
      And then to Calais; and to England then:
      Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men.
Exeunt
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