No Fear Shakespeare

Henry V

William Shakespeare

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Act 5, Scene 1, Page 2

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PISTOL
Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.
PISTOL
Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.

FLUELLEN
There is one goat for you. (strikes him) Will you be so good, scald knave, as eat it?
FLUELLEN
Here’s a goat for you. (strikes him with a club) Will you be good enough to eat it, mangy rascal?

PISTOL
Base Trojan, thou shalt die.
PISTOL
Dissolute lowlife, you shall die.

FLUELLEN
You say very true, scald knave, when God’s will is. I will desire you to live in the meantime and eat your victuals. Come, there is sauce for it. (strikes him) You called me yesterday “mountain squire,” but I will make you today a squire of low degree. I pray you, fall to. If you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.
FLUELLEN
That’s very true, mangy rascal, when it pleases God. Meanwhile, I’d be gratified if you’d live and eat your food. Come, here’s some sauce to go with it. (strikes him with his club) Yesterday you called me “mountain squire.” Today I’ll make you squire of the low ground. Go on, eat up. If you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.

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GOWER
Enough, Captain. You have astonished him.
GOWER
Enough, Captain. You’ve stunned him.

FLUELLEN
I say I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat his pate four days.—Bite, I pray you. It is good for your green wound and your ploody coxcomb.
FLUELLEN
I tell you, I’ll either make him eat some part of this leek or give him a four-day head-bashing.—Go on, bite. It’s good for your fresh wound and your bloody noggin.

PISTOL
Must I bite?
PISTOL
Must I bite?

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FLUELLEN
Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and out of question, too, and ambiguities.
FLUELLEN
Yes, absolutely, no question or ambiguity about it.

PISTOL
By this leek, I will most horribly revenge. I eat and eat, I swear—
PISTOL
By this leek, I swear I’ll make you pay for this. (FLUELLEN threatens to strike him) Okay, okay, I’m eating it—

FLUELLEN
Eat, I pray you. Will you have some more sauce to your leek? There is not enough leek to swear by.
FLUELLEN
Please do. Would you like some more sauce to go with it? There isn’t enough leek left for you to swear on.

PISTOL
Quiet thy cudgel. Thou dost see I eat.
PISTOL
Lay off, already! Can’t you see I’m eating?

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