William Shakespeare: The Life of King Henry V

ACT FOURTH. 8. SCENE VIII. Before King Henry's pavilion.

[Enter Gower and Williams.]

WILLIAMS.
I warrant it is to knight you, Captain.

[Enter Fluellen.]

FLUELLEN.
God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you now,
come apace to the King. There is more good toward you
peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of.

WILLIAMS.
Sir, know you this glove?

FLUELLEN.
Know the glove! I know the glove is a glove.

WILLIAMS.
I know this; and thus I challenge it.

[Strikes him.]

FLUELLEN.
'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the universal
world, or in France, or in England!

GOWER.
How now, sir! you villain!

WILLIAMS.
Do you think I'll be forsworn?

FLUELLEN.
Stand away, Captain Gower. I will give treason his
payment into plows, I warrant you.

WILLIAMS.
I am no traitor.

FLUELLEN.
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 Gloucester.]

WARWICK.
How now, how now! what's the matter?

FLUELLEN.
My lord of Warwick, here is--praised be God 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 and Exeter.]

KING HENRY.
How now! what's the matter?

FLUELLEN.
My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that, look your Grace,