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Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS
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GOWER and WILLIAMS enter. |
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WILLIAMS
I warrant it is to knight you, Captain.
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WILLIAMS
I’m sure it is to knight you, Captain.
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Enter FLUELLEN
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FLUELLEN enters, wearing WILLIAMS’s glove. |
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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.
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FLUELLEN
As it is God’s will and pleasure, Captain, I entreat you to come quickly to the king. There is more good fortune in store for you than you could ever imagine.
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WILLIAMS
Sir, know you this glove?
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WILLIAMS
Sir, do you recognize this glove?
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FLUELLEN
Know the glove! I know the glove is a glove.
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FLUELLEN
Know the glove! I know the glove is a glove.
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WILLIAMS
I know this, and thus I challenge it. (strikes him)
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WILLIAMS
Well, I recognize this one (indicates the glove FLUELLEN wears in his cap), and I hereby challenge you. (strikes him)
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FLUELLEN
'Sblood, an arrant traitor as any ’s in the universal world, or
in France, or in England!
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FLUELLEN
Good God! As absolute a traitor as any in the whole entire world—or even France or England!
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GOWER
How now, sir? You villain!
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GOWER
What is this, you villain!
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WILLIAMS
Do you think I’ll be forsworn?
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WILLIAMS
Do you think I’d break my oath?
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FLUELLEN
Stand away, Captain Gower. I will give treason his payment
into plows, I warrant you.
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FLUELLEN
Stand aside, Captain Gower. I’ll reward treason with blows, I promise you.
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WILLIAMS
I am no traitor.
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WILLIAMS
I’m not a traitor.
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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 Alençon’s.
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FLUELLEN
An infamous lie! I accuse you in the name of the king. Arrest him: he’s a friend of the duke of Alençon’s.
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