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In this your cousin's death. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
Princes and noble lords, |
What answer shall I make to this base man? |
Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars, |
On equal terms to give him chastisement? |
Either I must, or have mine honour soil'd |
With the attainder of his slanderous lips. |
There is my gage, the manual seal of death, |
That marks thee out for hell: I say, thou liest, |
And will maintain what thou hast said is false |
In thy heart-blood, though being all too base |
To stain the temper of my knightly sword. |
HENRY BOLINGBROKE: |
Bagot, forbear; thou shalt not take it up. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
Excepting one, I would he were the best |
In all this presence that hath moved me so. |
LORD FITZWATER: |
If that thy valour stand on sympathy, |
There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine: |
By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st, |
I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spakest it |
That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester's death. |
If thou deny'st it twenty times, thou liest; |
And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart, |
Where it was forged, with my rapier's point. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
Thou darest not, coward, live to see that day. |
LORD FITZWATER: |
Now by my soul, I would it were this hour. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
Fitzwater, thou art damn'd to hell for this. |
HENRY PERCY: |
Aumerle, thou liest; his honour is as true |
In this appeal as thou art all unjust; |
And that thou art so, there I throw my gage, |
To prove it on thee to the extremest point |
Of mortal breathing: seize it, if thou darest. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
An if I do not, may my hands rot off |
And never brandish more revengeful steel |
Over the glittering helmet of my foe! |
Lord: |
I task the earth to the like, forsworn Aumerle; |
And spur thee on with full as many lies |
As may be holloa'd in thy treacherous ear |
From sun to sun: there is my honour's pawn; |
Engage it to the trial, if thou darest. |
DUKE OF AUMERLE: |
Who sets me else? by heaven, I'll throw at all: |
I have a thousand spirits in one breast, |
To answer twenty thousand such as you. |
DUKE OF SURREY: |
My Lord Fitzwater, I do remember well |
The very time Aumerle and you did talk. |
LORD FITZWATER: |
'Tis very true: you were in presence then; |
And you can witness with me this is true. |
DUKE OF SURREY: |
As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true. |
LORD FITZWATER: |
Surrey, thou liest. |
DUKE OF SURREY: |
Dishonourable boy! |
That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword, |
That it shall render vengeance and revenge |
Till thou the lie-giver and that lie do lie |
In earth as quiet as thy father's skull: |
In proof whereof, there is my honour's pawn; |
Engage it to the trial, if thou darest. |
LORD FITZWATER: |
How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse! |
If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live, |
I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness, |
And spit upon him, whilst I say he lies, |
And lies, and lies: there is my bond of faith, |
To tie thee to my strong correction. |
As I intend to thrive in this new world, |
Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal: |
Besides, I heard the banish'd Norfolk say |
That thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy men |
To execute the noble duke at Calais. |
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