Page 1681 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

I thank you. God be with you!

PISTOL
My name is Pistol called.
Exit.

KING HENRY
It sorts well with your fierceness.

Enter Fluellen and Gower.

GOWER
Captain Fluellen!

FLUELLEN

So! in the name of Jesu Christ, speak fewer. It [65] is the greatest admiration
in the universal world, when the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of
the wars is not kept. If you would take the pains but to examine the wars of
Pompey the Great, you shall find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle-taddle
nor pibble-babble in [70] Pompey’s camp. I warrant you, you shall find the

ceremonies of the wars, and the cares of it, and the forms of it, and the
sobriety of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise.

GOWER
Why, the enemy is loud, your bear him all night. [75]

FLUELLEN
[God’s plud,] if the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb, is it

meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass and a fool and a
prating coxcomb? In your own conscience now?

GOWER
I will speak lower. [80]

FLUELLEN
I pray you and beseech you that you will.
Exeunt Gower and Fluellen.