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Henry the Fifth, III. vi

 K. Hen. How now, Fluellen! cam'st thou from the bridge?

Flu. Ay, so please your majesty. The Duke

of Exeter hath very gallantly maintained the

pridge: the French is gone off, look you, and there

is gallant and most prave passages. Marry, th'

athversary was have possession of the pridge,

but he is enforced to retire, and the Duke of

Exeter is master of the pridge. I can tell your

majesty the duke is a prave man.

K. Hen. What men have you lost, Fluellen?

Flu. The perdition of th' athversary hath been

very great, reasonable great: marry, for my

part, I think the duke hath lost never a man but

one that is like to be executed for robbing a

church; one Bardolph, if your majesty know the

man: his face is all bubukles, and whelks, and

knobs, and flames o' fire; and his lips blows at

his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes

plue and sometimes red; but his nose is exe-

cuted, and his fire's out.

K. Hen. We would have all such offenders so

cut off: and we give express charge that in our

marches through the country there be nothing

compelled from the villages, nothing taken but

paid for, none of the French upbraided or

abused in disdainful language; for when lenity

and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler

gamester is the soonest winner.

Mont. You know me by my habit.

 100 passages: deeds

106 perdition: losses

111 bubukles: carbuncles

whelks: boils

123 S. d. Tucket: trumpet signal

124 habit: herald's coat 