No Fear Shakespeare
Henry V
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Act 4, Scene 8, Page 3
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FLUELLEN
An please your Majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there
is any martial law in the world.
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FLUELLEN
If it pleases your Majesty, let his neck pay the price, if there is any martial law in the world.
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KING HENRY
How canst thou make me satisfaction?
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KING HENRY
How can you square things with me?
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WILLIAMS
All offenses, my lord, come from the heart. Never came any
from mine that might offend your Majesty.
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WILLIAMS
All offenses come from the heart, my lord, and nothing intended to offend your Majesty ever came from mine.
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KING HENRY
It was ourself thou didst abuse.
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KING HENRY
You abused me to my face.
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WILLIAMS
Your Majesty came not like yourself. You appeared to me
but as a common man. Witness the night, your garments,
your lowliness. And what your Highness suffered under
that shape, I beseech you take it for your own fault and not
mine, for, had you been as I took you for, I made no offense.
Therefore, I beseech your Highness pardon me.
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WILLIAMS
Your Majesty didn’t present yourself as the king. You represented yourself as just a common man. Consider the time of night, what you were wearing, and how ordinary you looked. Anything your Highness suffered in that disguise, I beg you to see it as your own fault and not mine, because if you’d been what I took you for, there would have been no offense. Therefore, I beg your Highness, pardon me.
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KING HENRY
Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns
And give it to this fellow.—Keep it, fellow,
And wear it for an honor in thy cap
Till I do challenge it.—Give him the crowns.
—And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.
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KING HENRY
Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with gold coins and give it to this fellow. Keep it, my friend, and wear it as a badge of honor in your cap until I challenge it.—Give him the money.—And you, Captain, must make it up with him.
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FLUELLEN
By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle enough in
his belly.—Hold, there is twelve pence for you, and I pray
you to serve God and keep you out of prawls and prabbles
and quarrels and dissensions, and I warrant you it is the
better for you.
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FLUELLEN
By this day and this light, the fellow is certainly brave. Here, twelve pence for you. I urge you to serve God and stay out of brawls and dust-ups and quarrels and disputes. I promise it will be better for you if you do.
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WILLIAMS
I will none of your money.
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WILLIAMS
I’ll have none of your money.
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