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Act IV: Scene 8

SCENE VIII. Before King Henry's pavilion.

[Enter Gower and Williams.]

WILLIAMS.
I warrant it is to knight you, Captain.

[Enter Fluellen.]

FLUELLEN.
God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you now,
come apace to the King. There is more good toward you
peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of.

WILLIAMS.
Sir, know you this glove?

FLUELLEN.
Know the glove! I know the glove is a glove.

WILLIAMS.
I know this; and thus I challenge it.

[Strikes him.]

FLUELLEN.
'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the universal
world, or in France, or in England!

GOWER.
How now, sir! you villain!

WILLIAMS.
Do you think I'll be forsworn?

FLUELLEN.
Stand away, Captain Gower. I will give treason his
payment into plows, I warrant you.

WILLIAMS.
I am no traitor.


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