Friday, 10 April 2015

TRANSLATION

FLUELLEN
An please your Majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law in the world.
FLUELLEN
If it pleases your Majesty, let his neck pay the price, if there is any martial law in the world.


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KING HENRY
How canst thou make me satisfaction?
KING HENRY
How can you square things with me?

WILLIAMS
All offenses, my lord, come from the heart. Never came any from mine that might offend your Majesty.
WILLIAMS
All offenses come from the heart, my lord, and nothing intended to offend your Majesty ever came from mine.

KING HENRY
It was ourself thou didst abuse.
KING HENRY
You abused me to my face.

WILLIAMS
Your Majesty came not like yourself. You appeared to me but as a common man. Witness the night, your garments, your lowliness. And what your Highness suffered under that shape, I beseech you take it for your own fault and not mine, for, had you been as I took you for, I made no offense. Therefore, I beseech your Highness pardon me.
WILLIAMS
Your Majesty didn’t present yourself as the king. You represented yourself as just a common man. Consider the time of night, what you were wearing, and how ordinary you looked. Anything your Highness suffered in that disguise, I beg you to see it as your own fault and not mine, because if you’d been what I took you for, there would have been no offense. Therefore, I beg your Highness, pardon me.

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KING HENRY
Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns
And give it to this fellow.—Keep it, fellow,
And wear it for an honor in thy cap
Till I do challenge it.—Give him the crowns.
—And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.
KING HENRY
Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with gold coins and give it to this fellow. Keep it, my friend, and wear it as a badge of honor in your cap until I challenge it.—Give him the money.—And you, Captain, must make it up with him.

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FLUELLEN
By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle enough in his belly.—Hold, there is twelve pence for you, and I pray you to serve God and keep you out of prawls and prabbles and quarrels and dissensions, and I warrant you it is the better for you.
FLUELLEN
By this day and this light, the fellow is certainly brave. Here, twelve pence for you. I urge you to serve God and stay out of brawls and dust-ups and quarrels and disputes. I promise it will be better for you if you do.

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WILLIAMS
I will none of your money.
WILLIAMS
I’ll have none of your money.


FLUELLEN
It is with a good will. I can tell you it will serve you to mend your shoes. Come, wherefore should you be so pashful? Your shoes is not so good. 'Tis a good silling, I warrant you, or I will change it.
FLUELLEN
It’s meant in good will. I tell you, you can use it to get your shoes fixed. Come, why be so hesitant? Your shoes are in pretty bad shape. It’s a good shilling, I promise you. If not, I’ll get another one for you.


Enter an English HERALD
An English HERALD nters.

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KING HENRY
Now, herald, are the dead numbered?
KING HENRY
Now, herald, have the dead been counted?

HERALD
Here is the number of the slaughtered French.
HERALD
Here is the count of the slaughtered French.

KING HENRY
What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?
KING HENRY
What prisoners of rank have been taken, uncle?



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EXETER
Charles, duke of Orléans, nephew to the king;
John, duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt.
Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,
Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.
EXETER
Charles duke of Orléans, nephew to the king; John duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt: of other lords and barons, knights and squires, a full fifteen hundred, besides common men.




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KING HENRY
This note doth tell me of ten thousand French
That in the field lie slain. Of princes in this number
And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead
One hundred twenty-six. Added to these,
Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,
Eight thousand and four hundred, of the which,
Five hundred were but yesterday dubbed knights.
So that in these ten thousand they have lost,
There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries.
The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires,
And gentlemen of blood and quality.

KING HENRY
This paper tells me of ten thousand Frenchmen who lie dead on the battlefield. Among them are one hundred twenty-six princes and standard-bearing nobles. Add to these eight thousand four hundred knights, squires, and brave gentlemen, five hundred of whom were given the title of knight only yesterday. Among the ten thousand the French have lost only sixteen hundred are mercenaries. The rest of the dead are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires, and gentlemen of birth and rank

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