_Aum._ Princes and noble lords,[1557] What answer shall I make to this base man? 20 Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars,[1558] On equal terms to give him chastisement?[1559] Either I must, or have mine honour soil'd[1560] With the attainder of his slanderous lips.[1561] There is my gage, the manual seal of death, 25 That marks thee out for hell: I say, thou liest,[1562] And will maintain what thou hast said is false[1563] In thy heart-blood, though being all too base[1564] To stain the temper of my knightly sword. _Boling._ Bagot, forbear; thou shalt not take it up. 30 _Aum._ Excepting one, I would he were the best In all this presence that hath moved me so. _Fitz._ If that thy valour stand on sympathy,[1565] There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine: By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st,[1566] 35 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;[1567] And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart, Where it was forged, with my rapier's point. 40 _Aum._ Thou darest not, coward, live to see that day.[1568] _Fitz._ Now, by my soul, I would it were this hour. _Aum._ Fitzwater, thou art damn'd to hell for this.[1569] _Percy._ Aumerle, thou liest; his honour is as true In this appeal as thou art all unjust; 45 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. _Aum._ An if I do not, may my hands rot off[1570] And never brandish more revengeful steel 50 Over the glittering helmet of my foe! _Another Lord._ I task the earth to the like, forsworn Aumerle;[1571][1572] And spur thee on with full as many lies[1571] As may be holloa'd in thy treacherous ear[1571][1573] From sun to sun: there is my honour's pawn;[1571][1574] 55 Engage it to the trial, if thou darest.[1571] _Aum._ Who sets me else? by heaven, I'll throw at all:[1571] I have a thousand spirits in one breast,[1571] To answer twenty thousand such as you.[1571] _Surrey._ My Lord Fitzwater, I do remember well[1575][1576] 60 The very time Aumerle and you did talk.[1575][1577] _Fitz._ 'Tis very true: you were in presence then;[1578] And you can witness with me this is true. _Surrey._ As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true.[1579] _Fitz._ Surrey, thou liest.[1580]