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- Edition: Famous Victories of Henry V
Famous Victories of Henry V (Modern)
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O good Mounser.
Come, come, you vigliacco.
Oh, I will, sir, I will.
Come quickly, you peasant.
I will, sir. What shall I give you?
Marry, thou shalt give me 1428one, two, tre, four hundred crowns.
Nay, sir, I will give you more. 1430I will give you as many crowns as will lie on your sword.
Wilt thou give me as many crowns 1432as will lie on my sword?
Ay, marry will I. Ay, but you must lay down your 1434sword, or else they will not lie on your sword.
18.9.11435Here the Frenchman lays down his sword, and 1436the clown [Derrick] takes it up and hurls him down.
Thou villain, darest thou look up?
O you villain, now you lie at my mercy, 1441dost thou remember since thou lammst me in thy short ell? 1442O villain, now I will strike off thy head.
What, is he gone? Mass, I am glad of it, 1446for if he had stayed I was afraid he would have stirred again, 1447and then I should have been spilt. 1448But I will away to kill more Frenchmen.
18.13.1[Exit Derrick.]