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Henry the Fifth, IV. i

shot out of an elder-gun, that a poor and a

private displeasure can do against a monarch.

You may as well go about to turn the sun to

ice with fanning in his face with a peacock's

feather. You'll never trust his word after!

come, 'tis a foolish saying.

K. Hen. Your reproof is something too round;

I should be angry with you if the time were con-

venient.

Will. Let it be a quarrel between us, if you

live.

K. Hen. I embrace it.

Will. How shall I know thee again?

K. Hen. Give me any gage of thine, and I

will wear it in my bonnet: then, if ever thou

darest acknowledge it, I will make it my quarrel.

Will. Here's my glove: give me another of

thine.

K. Hen. There.

Will. This will I also wear in my cap: if ever

thou come to me and say after to-morrow, 'This

is my glove,' by this hand I will take thee a box

on the ear.

K. Hen. If ever I live to see it, I will challenge

it.

Will. Thou darest as well be hanged.

K. Hen. Well, I will do it, though I take thee

in the king's company.

Will. Keep thy word: fare thee well.

Bates. Be friends, you English fools, be

friends: we have French quarrels enow, if you

could tell how to reckon.

 213 elder-gun: popgun

215 go about: attempt

219 round: plain-spoken

226 gage: pledge 