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    Princes and noble lords,
    What answer shall I make to this base 21 man?
    Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars 22 ,
     On equal terms to give him chastisement? 23
    Either I must, or have mine honour soiled
    With th’attainder 25 of his sland’rous lips.—
    Throws down his gage
        There is my gage, the manual seal of death 26
    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 30 of my knightly sword.
    BULLINGBROOK     Bagot, forbear 31 . Thou shalt not take it up.
    AUMERLE     Excepting one 32 , I would he were the best
    In all this presence that hath moved 33 me so.
    FITZWATERS     If that thy valour stand 34 on sympathy,
    To Aumerle
        There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage 35 to thine.
    Throws down his gage
        By that fair sun that shows me where thou stand’st,
    I heard thee say, and vauntingly 37 thou spak’st it,
    That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester’s death.
    If thou deniest 39 it twenty times, thou liest,
    And I will turn 40 thy falsehood to thy heart,
    Where it was forgèd, with my rapier’s point.
    AUMERLE     Thou dar’st not, coward, live to see the day.
    FITZWATERS     Now by my soul, I would it were this hour.
    AUMERLE     Fitzwaters, thou art damned to hell for this.
    PERCY     Aumerle, thou liest: his honour is as true
    In this appeal 46 as thou art all unjust.
    And that thou art so, there I throw my gage,
    To prove it on thee to th’extremest point

    Of mortal breathing 48 . Seize it, if thou dar’st.
    Throws down his gage
    AUMERLE      An if 50 I do not, may my hands rot off
    Picks up the gage
        And never brandish more 51 revengeful steel
    Over the glittering helmet of my foe!
    SURREY     My lord Fitzwaters, I do remember well
    The very time Aumerle and you did talk.
    FITZWATERS     My lord, ’tis very true. You were in presence 55 then
    And you can witness with me this is true.
    SURREY     As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true.
    FITZWATERS     Surrey, thou liest.
    SURREY     Dishonourable boy!
    That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword
    That it shall render 61 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 mine honour’s pawn.
    Throws down his gage
         Engage it to the trial 65 , if thou dar’st.
    FITZWATERS     How fondly 66 dost thou spur a forward horse!
    If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live,
    I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness 68 ,
    And spit upon him, whilst I say he lies,
    And lies, and lies. There is my bond of faith,
    Throws down his gage
        To tie 71 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 banished Norfolk say
    That thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy men
    To execute the noble duke at Calais.
    AUMERLE     Some honest Christian trust me with a gage.
    Borrows a gage, then throws it down
         That 78 Norfolk lies, here do I throw down this,
        If he may be repealed 79 , to try his honour.
    BULLINGBROOK     These differences 80 shall all rest under gage
    Till Norfolk be repealed. Repealed he shall be,
    And, though mine enemy, restored again
    To all his lands and signories 83 . When he’s returned,
    Against Aumerle we will enforce his trial 84 .
    CARLISLE     That honourable day shall ne’er be seen.
    Many a time hath banished Norfolk fought
    For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field 87 ,
     Streaming the ensign 88 of the Christian cross
    Against black