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y arise of it; For I do know Fluellen valiant, And, touch'd with choler, hot as gunpowder, And quickly will return an injury: Follow, (_GLOSTER crosses to R._) and see there be no harm between them.-- [_WARWICK and GLOSTER exeunt R.H._ Go you with me, Uncle of Exeter. [_Exeunt Omnes, L.H._ _Trumpets sound._ [Footnote IV.27: _Or void the field;_] i.e., avoid, withdraw from the field.] [Footnote IV.28: _----+raught+ me his hand,_] _Raught_ is the old preterite of the verb _to reach_.] [Footnote IV.29: _----Monmouth caps;_] Monmouth caps were formerly much worn, and Fuller, in his "Worthies of Wales," says the best caps were formerly made at Monmouth.] [Footnote IV.30: _----great sort,_] High rank.] [Footnote IV.31: _----quite from the answer of his degree._] A man of such station as is not bound to hazard his person to _answer_ to a challenge from one of the soldier's _low degree_.] SCENE VI.--BEFORE KING HENRY'S PAVILION. _Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS, R.H._ _Will._ I warrant it is to knight you, captain. _Enter FLUELLEN, R.H._ _Flu._ Heaven's will and pleasure, captain, I peseech you now, come apace to the king: there is more goot toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of. _Will._ Sir, know you this glove? _Flu._ (C.) Know the glove! I know, the glove is a glove. _Will._ (R.C.) I know this; and thus I challenge it. [_Strikes him._ _Flu._ 'Sblud, an arrant traitor as any's in the universal 'orld, or in France, or in England! _Gow._ (L.C.) How now, sir! you villain! _Will._ Do you think I'll be forsworn? _Flu._ Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his payment in plows, I warrant you. _Will._ I am no traitor. _Flu._ 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 GLOSTER,(P) R.H._ _Glos._ (_crosses to C._) How now, how now! what's the matter? _Flu._ My lord of Gloster, here is (praised be Heaven for it!) 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, EXETER, and others, U.E.L.H._ _K. Hen._ (_coming down centre._) How now! what's the matter? _Flu._ (L.H.) My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that, look your grace, has struck the glove which your maj
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