Act 4, Scene 4: The field of battle

SCENE IV. The field of battle.

    Alarum. Excursions. Enter PISTOL, French Soldier, and Boy

PISTOL

    Yield, cur!

French Soldier

    Je pense que vous etes gentilhomme de bonne qualite.

PISTOL

    Qualtitie calmie custure me! Art thou a gentleman?
    what is thy name? discuss.

French Soldier

    O Seigneur Dieu!

PISTOL

    O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman:
    Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark;
    O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,
    Except, O signieur, thou do give to me
    Egregious ransom.

French Soldier

    O, prenez misericorde! ayez pitie de moi!

PISTOL

    Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys;
    Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat
    In drops of crimson blood.

French Soldier

    Est-il impossible d'echapper la force de ton bras?

PISTOL

    Brass, cur!
    Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,
    Offer'st me brass?

French Soldier

    O pardonnez moi!

PISTOL

    Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?
    Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French
    What is his name.

Boy

    Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele?

French Soldier

    Monsieur le Fer.

Boy

    He says his name is Master Fer.

PISTOL

    Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret
    him: discuss the same in French unto him.

Boy

    I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.

PISTOL

    Bid him prepare; for I will cut his throat.

French Soldier

    Que dit-il, monsieur?

Boy

    Il me commande de vous dire que vous faites vous
    pret; car ce soldat ici est dispose tout a cette
    heure de couper votre gorge.

PISTOL

    Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy,
    Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns;
    Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword.

French Soldier

    O, je vous supplie, pour l'amour de Dieu, me
    pardonner! Je suis gentilhomme de bonne maison:
    gardez ma vie, et je vous donnerai deux cents ecus.

PISTOL

    What are his words?

Boy

    He prays you to save his life: he is a gentleman of
    a good house; and for his ransom he will give you
    two hundred crowns.

PISTOL

    Tell him my fury shall abate, and I the crowns will take.

French Soldier

    Petit monsieur, que dit-il?

Boy

    Encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner
    aucun prisonnier, neanmoins, pour les ecus que vous
    l'avez promis, il est content de vous donner la
    liberte, le franchisement.

French Soldier

    Sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remercimens; et
    je m'estime heureux que je suis tombe entre les
    mains d'un chevalier, je pense, le plus brave,
    vaillant, et tres distingue seigneur d'Angleterre.

PISTOL

    Expound unto me, boy.

Boy

    He gives you, upon his knees, a thousand thanks; and
    he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into
    the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave,
    valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England.

PISTOL

    As I suck blood, I will some mercy show.
    Follow me!

Boy

    Suivez-vous le grand capitaine.

    Exeunt PISTOL, and French Soldier
    I did never know so full a voice issue from so
    empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty
    vessel makes the greatest sound.' Bardolph and Nym
    had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i'
    the old play, that every one may pare his nails with
    a wooden dagger; and they are both hanged; and so
    would this be, if he durst steal any thing
    adventurously. I must stay with the lackeys, with
    the luggage of our camp: the French might have a
    good prey of us, if he knew of it; for there is
    none to guard it but boys.

    Exit

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