Page 1665 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

How now, Fluellen! cam’st thou from the [90] bridge?

FLUELLEN
Ay, so please your majesty. The Duke of Exeter has very gallantly maintained
the pridge: the French is gone off, look you, and there is gallant and most
prave passages. Marry, th’ athversary was have possession of [95] the pridge,
but he is enforced to retire, and the Duke of Exeter is master of the pridge. I

can tell your majesty the duke is a prave man.

KING HENRY
What men have you lost, Fluellen?

FLUELLEN
The perdition of th’ athversary hath been very [100] great, reasonable great.
Marry, for my part, I think the Duke hath lost never a man but one that is like

to be executed for robbing a church; one Bardolph, if your majesty know the
man: his face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o’ fire; and
his lips blows [105] at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue
and sometimes red; but [,God be praised, now] his nose is executed, and his
fire’s out.

KING HENRY
We would have all such offenders so cut off: and we give express charge that
in our marches [110] through the country there be nothing compelled from
the villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the French upbraided or
abused in disdainful language; for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom,

the gentler gamester is the soonest winner. [115]

Tucket. Enter Montjoy.

MONTJOY
You know me by my habit.

KING HENRY
Well then I know thee: what shall I know of thee?

MONTJOY