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Henry the Fifth, V. i

Pist. I take thy groat in earnest of revenge.

Flu. If I owe you anything I will pay you in

cudgels: you shall be a woodmonger, and buy

nothing of me but cudgels. God be wi' you, and

keep you, and heal your pate.

Pist. All hell shall stir for this.

Gow. Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly

knave. Will you mock at an ancient tradition,

begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as

a memorable trophy of predeceased valour, and

dare not avouch in your deeds any of your words?

I have seen you gleeking and galling at this

gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, be-

cause he could not speak English in the native

garb, he could not therefore handle an English

cudgel: you find it otherwise; and henceforth

let a Welsh correction teach you a good English

condition. Fare ye well.

Pist. Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?

News have I that my Doll is dead i' the spital

Of malady of France:

And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.

Old I do wax, and from my weary limbs

Honour is cudgell'd. Well, bawd I'll turn,

And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand.

To England will I steal, and there I'll steal:

And patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars,

And swear I got them in the Gallia wars.

 75 respect: consideration

77 avouch: support

78 gleeking: scoffing

galling: jeering

81 garb: manner

84 condition: disposition

85 huswife: jilt 