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the glove which your majesty is take out of the helmet of Alençon.

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 did. I
met this [30] 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 testimony
and witness, [35] and will avouchment that this is the glove of Alençon that
your majesty is give me; in your conscience now?

KING HENRY

Give me thy glove, soldier: look, here is the fellow of it.
’Twas I, indeed, thou promised’st to strike; [40]
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
How canst thou make me satisfaction?

WILLIAMS
All offences, my lord, come from the heart: [45] never came any from mine
that might offend your majesty.

KING HENRY
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, [50] your garments, your lowliness; and what your

highness suffered under that shape, I beseech you, take it for your own fault