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