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KING HENRY

I wear it for a memorable honour; [100]
For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.

FLUELLEN
All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty’s Welsh plood out of your
pody, I can tell you that: God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases his

grace, and his majesty too! [105]

KING HENRY
Thanks, good my countryman.

FLUELLEN
By Jeshu. I am your majesty’s countryman, I care not who know it; I will
confess it to all the ’orld: I need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised
be God, so long as your majesty is an honest man. [110]

Enter Williams.

KING HENRY

God keep me so! − Our heralds go with him:
Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither.
[Exeunt Heralds with Montjoy.]

EXETER
Soldier, you must come to the King.

KING HENRY

Soldier, why wearest thou that glove in thy [115] cap?

WILLIAMS

An’t please your majesty, ’tis the gage of one that I should fight withal, if he
be alive.

KING HENRY
An Englishman?