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Henry the Fifth, IV. viii

Gow. How now, sir! you villain!

Will. Do you think I'll be forsworn?

Flu. Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give

treason his payment into 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 is a

friend of the Duke Alençon's.

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

Flu. 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.

K. Hen. How now! what's the matter?

Flu. My liege, here is a villain and a traitor,

that, look your Grace, has struck the glove which

your majesty is take out of the helmet of Alençon.

Will. My liege, this was my glove; here is the

fellow of it; and he that I gave it to in change

promised to wear it in his cap: I promised to

strike him, if he did: I met this man with my

glove in his cap, and I have been as good as my

word.

Flu. Your majesty hear now,—saving your

majesty's manhood,—what an arrant, rascally,

beggarly, lousy knave it is. I hope your majesty

is pear me testimony and witness, and will

avouchment, that this is the glove of Alençon that

your majesty is give me; in your conscience now.

 37 is pear: will bear

38 avouchment: make acknowledgment 