1 2 3 4 Open your Eares: For which of you will stop 5 *The vent of Hearing, when loud {Rumor} speakes? 6 I, from the Orient, to the drooping West 7 *(Making the winde my Post- horse) still vnfold 8 The Acts commenced on this Ball of Earth. 9 Vpon my Tongue, continuall Slanders ride, 10 The which, in euery Language, I pronounce, 11 Stuffing the Eares of them with false Reports: 12 I speake of Peace, while couert Enmitie 13 (Vnder the smile of Safety) wounds the World: 14 And who but {Rumour}, who but onely I 15 Make fearfull Musters, and prepar'd Defence, 16 *Whil'st the bigge yeare, swolne with some other griefes, 17 Is thought with childe, by the sterne Tyrant, Warre, 18 And no such matter? {Rumour}, is a Pipe 19 Blowne by Surmises, Ielousies, Coniectures; 20 And of so easie, and so plaine a stop, 21 That the blunt Monster, with vncounted heads, 22 The still discordant, wauering Multitude, 23 Can play vpon it. But what neede I thus 24 My well- knowne Body to Anathomize 25 Among my houshold? Why is {Rumour} heere? 26 I run before King {Harries} victory, 27 Who in a bloodie field by Shrewsburie 28 Hath beaten downe yong {Hotspurre}, and his Troopes, 29 Quenching the flame of bold Rebellion, 30 Euen with the Rebels blood. But what meane I 31 To speake so true at first? My Office is 32 To noyse abroad, that {Harry Monmouth} fell 33 Vnder the Wrath of Noble {Hotspurres} Sword: 34 And that the King, before the {Dowglas} Rage 35 Stoop'd his Annointed head, as low as death. 36 This haue I rumour'd through the peasant- Townes, 37 Betweene the Royall Field of Shrewsburie, 38 And this Worme- eaten- Hole of ragged Stone, 39 Where {Hotspurres} Father, old Northumberland, 40 Lyes crafty sicke. The Postes come tyring on, 41 And not a man of them brings other newes 42 *Then they haue learn'd of Me. From {Rumours} Tongues, 43 *They bring smooth- Comforts- false, worse then True- wrongs. 44 45 46 47 Who keepes the Gate heere hoa? 48 Where is the Earle? 49 What shall I say you are? 50 Tell thou the Earle 51 That the Lord {Bardolfe} doth attend him heere. 52 His Lordship is walk'd forth into the Orchard, 53 Please it your Honor, knocke but at the Gate, 54 And he himselfe will answer. 55 56 Heere comes the Earle. 57 * What newes Lord {Bardolfe}? Eu'ry minute now 58 Should be the Father of some Stratagem; 59 The Times are wilde: Contention (like a Horse 60 Full of high Feeding) madly hath broke loose, 61 And beares downe all before him. 62 Noble Earle, 63 I bring you certaine newes from Shrewsbury. 64 Good, #and heauen will. 65 As good as heart can wish: 66 The King is almost wounded to the death: 67 And in the Fortune of my Lord your Sonne, 68 Prince {Harrie} slaine out- right: and both the {Blunts} 69 Kill'd by the hand of {Dowglas}. Yong Prince {Iohn}, 70 And Westmerland, and Stafford, fled the Field. 71 And {Harrie Monmouth's} Brawne (the Hulke Sir {Iohn}) 72 Is prisoner to your Sonne. O, such a Day, 73 (So fought, so follow'd, and so fairely wonne) 74 Came not, till now, to dignifie the Times 75 Since {Caesars} Fortunes. 76 How is this deriu'd? 77 Saw you the Field? Came you from Shrewsbury? 78 * I spake with one (my L[ord].) that came fro[m] thence, 79 A Gentleman well bred, and of good name, 80 That freely render'd me these newes for true. 81 Heere comes my Seruant {Trauers}, whom I sent 82 On Tuesday last, to listen after Newes. 83 84 My Lord, I ouer- rod him on the way, 85 And he is furnish'd with no certainties, 86 More then he (haply) may retaile from me. 87 * Now {Trauers}, what good tidings comes fro[m] you?

88 My Lord, Sir {Iohn Vmfreuill} turn'd me backe 89 With ioyfull tydings; and (being better hors'd) 90 Out- rod me. After him, came spurring head 91 A Gentleman (almost fore- spent with speed) 92 That stopp'd by me, to breath his bloodied horse. 93 He ask'd the way to Chester: And of him 94 I did demand what Newes from Shrewsbury: 95 He told me, that Rebellion had #ill lucke, 96 And that yong {Harry Percies} Spurre was cold. 97 With that he gaue his able Horse the head, 98 And bending forwards strooke his able heeles 99 Against the panting sides of his poore Iade 100 Vp to the Rowell head, and starting so, 101 He seem'd in running, to deuoure the way, 102 Staying no longer question. 103 Ha? Againe: 104 Said he yong {Harrie Percyes} Spurre was cold? 105 (Of {Hot- Spurre}, cold- Spurre?) that Rebellion, 106 Had met #ill lucke? 107 My Lord: Ile tell you what, 108 If my yong Lord your Sonne, haue not the day, 109 Vpon mine Honor, for a silken point 110 Ile giue my Barony. Neuer talke of it. 111 * Why should the Gentleman that rode by {Trauers} 112 Giue then such instances of Losse? 113 Who, he? 114 He was some hielding Fellow, that had stolne 115 The Horse he rode- on: and vpon my life 116 Speake at aduenture. Looke, here comes more Newes. 117 118 Yea, this mans brow, like to a Title- leafe, 119 Fore- tels the Nature of a Tragicke Volume: 120 So lookes the Strond, when the Imperious Flood 121 Hath left a witnest Vsurpation. 122 Say {Morton}, did'st thou come from Shrewsbury? 123 I ran from Shrewsbury (my Noble Lord) 124 Where hatefull death put on his vgliest Maske 125 To fright our party. 126 How doth my Sonne, and Brother? 127 Thou trembl'st; and the whitenesse in thy Cheeke 128 Is apter then thy Tongue, to tell thy Errand. 129 Euen such a man, so faint, so spiritlesse, 130 So dull, so dead in looke, so woe- be- gone, 131 Drew {Priams} Curtaine, in the dead of night, 132 And would haue told him, Halfe his Troy was burn'd. 133 But {Priam} found the Fire, ere he his Tongue: 134 And I, my {Percies} death, ere thou report'st it. 135 *This, thou would'st say: Your Sonne did thus, and thus: 136 Your Brother, thus. So fought the Noble {Dowglas}, 137 Stopping my greedy eare, with their bold deeds. 138 But in the end (to stop mine Eare indeed) 139 Thou hast a Sigh, to blow away this Praise, 140 Ending with Brother, Sonne, and all are dead. 141 {Dowglas} is liuing, and your Brother, yet: 142 But for my Lord, your Sonne. 143 Why, he is dead. 144 See what a ready tongue Suspition hath: 145 He that but feares the thing, he would not know, 146 Hath by Instinct, knowledge from others Eyes, 147 That what he feard, is chanc'd. Yet speake ({Morton}) 148 Tell thou thy Earle, his Diuination Lies, 149 And I will take it, as a sweet Disgrace, 150 And make thee rich, for doing me such wrong. 151 You are too great, to be (by me) gainsaid: 152 Your Spirit is too true, your Feares too certaine. 153 Yet for all this, say not that {Percie}s dead. 154 I see a strange Confession in thine Eye: 155 Thou shak'st thy head, and hold'st it Feare, or Sinne, 156 To speake a truth. If he be slaine, say so: 157 The Tongue offends not, that reports his death: 158 And he doth sinne that doth belye the dead: 159 Not he, which sayes the dead is not aliue: 160 Yet the first bringer of vnwelcome Newes 161 Hath but a loosing Office: and his Tongue, 162 Sounds euer after as a sullen Bell 163 Remembred, knolling a departing Friend. 164 I cannot thinke (my Lord) your son is dead. 165 I am sorry, I should force you to beleeue 166 That, which I would to heauen, I had not seene. 167 But these mine eyes, saw him in bloody state, 168 Rend'ring faint quittance (wearied, and out- breath'd) 169 To {Henrie Monmouth}, whose swift wrath beate downe 170 The neuer- daunted {Percie} to the earth, 171 From whence (with life) he neuer more sprung vp. 172 In few; his death (whose spirit lent a fire, 173 Euen to the dullest Peazant in his Campe) 174 Being bruited once, tooke fire and heate away 175 From the best temper'd Courage in his Troopes. 176 For from his Mettle, was his Party steel'd; 177 Which once, in him abated, all the rest 178 Turn'd on themselues, like dull and heauy Lead: 179 And as the Thing, that's heauy in it selfe, 180 Vpon enforcement, flyes with greatest speede, 181 So did our Men, heauy in {Hotspurres} losse, 182 Lend to this weight, such lightnesse with their Feare, 183 That Arrowes fled not swifter toward their ayme, 184 Then did our Soldiers (ayming at their safety) 185 Fly from the field. Then was that Noble Worcester 186 Too soone ta'ne prisoner: and that furious Scot, 187 (The bloody {Dowglas}) whose well- labouring sword 188 Had three times slaine th' appearance of the King, 189 Gan vaile his stomacke, and did grace the shame 190 Of those that turn'd their backes: and in his flight, 191 Stumbling in Feare, was tooke. The summe of all, 192 Is, that the King hath wonne: and hath sent out 193 A speedy power, to encounter you my Lord, 194 Vnder the Conduct of yong Lancaster 195 And Westmerland. This is the Newes at full. 196 * For this, I shall haue time enough to mourne. 197 In Poyson, there is Physicke: and this newes 198 (Hauing beene well) that would haue made me sicke, 199 Being sicke, haue in some measure, made me well. 200 And as the Wretch, whose Feauer- weakned ioynts, 201 Like strengthlesse Hindges, buckle vnder life, 202 Impatient of his Fit, breakes like a fire 203 Out of his keepers armes: Euen so, my Limbes 204 *(Weak'ned with greefe) being now inrag'd with greefe, 205 *Are thrice themselues. Hence therefore thou nice crutch, 206 A scalie Gauntlet now, with ioynts of Steele 207 Must gloue this hand. And hence thou sickly Quoife, 208 Thou art a guard too wanton for the head, 209 Which Princes, flesh'd with Conquest, ayme to hit. 210 Now binde my Browes with Iron and approach 211 The ragged'st houre, that Time and Spight dare bring 212 To frowne vpon th' enrag'd Northumberland. 213 Let Heauen kisse Earth: now let not Natures hand 214 Keepe the wilde Flood confin'd: Let Order dye, 215 And let the world no longer be a stage 216 To feede Contention in a ling'ring Act: 217 But let one spirit of the First- borne {Caine}

218 Reigne in all bosomes, that each heart being set 219 On bloody Courses, the rude Scene may end, 220 And darknesse be the burier of the dead. 221 * Sweet Earle, diuorce not wisedom from your |(Honor. 222 The liues of all your louing Complices 223 Leane- on your health, the which if you giue- o're 224 To stormy Passion, must perforce decay. 225 You cast th' euent of Warre (my Noble Lord) 226 And summ'd the accompt of Chance, before you said 227 Let vs make head: It was your presurmize, 228 That in the dole of blowes, your Son might drop. 229 You knew he walk'd o're perils, on an edge 230 More likely to fall in, then to get o're: 231 You were aduis'd his flesh was capeable 232 Of Wounds, and Scarres; and that his forward Spirit 233 Would lift him, where most trade of danger rang'd, 234 Yet did you say go forth: and none of this 235 (Though strongly apprehended) could restraine 236 The stiffe- borne Action: What hath then befalne? 237 Or what hath this bold enterprize bring forth, 238 More then that #Being, which was like to be? 239 We all that are engaged to this losse, 240 Knew that we ventur'd on such dangerous Seas, 241 That if we wrought out life, was ten to one: 242 And yet we ventur'd for the gaine propos'd, 243 Choak'd the respect of likely perill fear'd, 244 And since we are o're- set, venture againe. 245 Come, we will all put forth; Body, and Goods, 246 * 'Tis more then time: And (my most Noble Lord) 247 I heare for certaine, and do speake the truth: 248 The gentle Arch- bishop of Yorke is vp 249 With well appointed Powres: he is a man 250 Who with a double Surety bindes his Followers. 251 My Lord (your Sonne) had onely but the Corpes, 252 But shadowes, and the shewes of men to fight. 253 For that same word (Rebellion) did diuide 254 The action of their bodies, from their soules, 255 And they did fight with queasinesse, constrain'd 256 As men drinke Potions; that their Weapons only 257 Seem'd on our side: but for their Spirits and Soules, 258 This word (Rebellion) it had froze them vp, 259 As Fish are in a Pond. But now the Bishop 260 Turnes Insurrection to Religion, 261 Suppos'd sincere, and holy in his Thoughts: 262 He's follow'd both with Body, and with Minde: 263 And doth enlarge his Rising, with the blood 264 Of faire King {Richard}, scrap'd from Pomfret stones, 265 Deriues from heauen, his Quarrell, and his Cause: 266 Tels them, he doth bestride a bleeding Land, 267 Gasping for life, vnder great {Bullingbrooke}, 268 And more, and lesse, do flocke to follow him. 269 I knew of this before. But to speake truth, 270 This present greefe had wip'd it from my minde. 271 Go in with me, and councell euery man 272 The aptest way for safety, and reuenge: 273 Get Posts, and Letters, and make Friends with speed, 274 Neuer so few, nor neuer yet more need. 275 276 277 * Sirra, you giant, what saies the Doct[or]. to my water? 278 * He said sir, the water it selfe was a good healthy 279 *water: but for the party that ow'd it, he might haue more 280 diseases then he knew for. 281 * Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at mee: the 282 *braine of this foolish compounded Clay- man, is not able 283 *to inuent any thing that tends to laughter, more then I 284 *inuent, or is inuented on me. I am not onely witty in my 285 *selfe, but the cause that wit is in other men. I doe heere 286 *walke before thee, like a Sow, that hath o'rewhelm'd all 287 *her Litter, but one. If the Prince put thee into my Ser-uice 288 *for any other reason, then to set mee off, why then I 289 *haue no iudgement. Thou horson Mandrake, thou art 290 *fitter to be worne in my cap, then to wait at my heeles. I 291 *was neuer mann'd with an Agot till now: but I will sette 292 *you neyther in Gold, nor Siluer, but in vilde apparell, and 293 *send you backe againe to your Master, for a Iewell. The 294 *{Iuuenall} (the Prince your Master) whose Chin is not yet 295 *fledg'd, I will sooner haue a beard grow in the Palme of 296 *my hand, then he shall get one on his cheeke: yet he will 297 *not sticke to say, his Face is a Face- Royall. Heauen may 298 *finish it when he will, it is not a haire amisse yet: he may 299 *keepe it still at a Face- Royall, for a Barber shall neuer 300 *earne six pence out of it; and yet he will be crowing, as if 301 *he had writ man euer since his Father was a Batchellour. 302 *He may keepe his owne Grace, but he is almost out of 303 *mine, I can assure him. What said M[aster]. {Dombledon}, about 304 the Satten for my short Cloake, and Slops? 305 * He said sir, you should procure him better Assu-rance, 306 *then {Bardolfe}: he wold not take his Bond & yours, 307 he lik'd not the Security. 308 * Let him bee damn'd like the Glutton, may his 309 *Tongue be hotter, a horson {Achitophel}; a Rascally- yea- forsooth- knaue, 310 *to beare a Gentleman in hand, and then 311 *stand vpon Security? The horson smooth- pates doe now 312 *weare nothing but high shoes, and bunches of Keyes at 313 *their girdles: and if a man is through with them in ho-nest 314 *Taking- vp, then they must stand vpon Securitie: I 315 *had as liefe they would put Rats- bane in my mouth, as 316 *offer to stoppe it with Security. I look'd hee should haue 317 *sent me two and twenty yards of Satten (as I am true 318 *Knight) and he sends me Security. Well, he may sleep in 319 *Security, for he hath the horne of Abundance: and the 320 *lightnesse of his Wife shines through it, and yet cannot 321 *he see, though he haue his owne Lanthorne to light him. 322 Where's {Bardolfe}? 323 * He's gone into Smithfield to buy your worship 324 a horse. 325 * I bought him in Paules, and hee'l buy mee a horse 326 *in Smithfield. If I could get mee a wife in the Stewes, I 327 were Mann'd, Hors'd, and Wiu'd. 328 329 * Sir, heere comes the Nobleman that committed 330 the Prince for striking him, about {Bardolfe}. 331 Wait close, I will not see him. 332 What's he that goes there? 333 {Falstaffe}, and't please your Lordship. 334 He that was in question for the Robbery? 335 * He my Lord, but he hath since done good seruice 336 *at Shrewsbury: and (as I heare) is now going with some 337 Charge, to the Lord {Iohn of Lancaster}. 338 What to Yorke? Call him backe againe. 339 Sir {Iohn Falstaffe}. 340 Boy, tell him, I am deafe. 341 You must speake lowder, my Master is deafe. 342 * I am sure he is, to the hearing of any thing good. 343 Go plucke him by the Elbow, I must speake with him. 344 Sir {Iohn}. 345 * What? a yong knaue and beg? Is there not wars? Is 346 *there not imployment? Doth not the K[ing]. lack subiects? Do 347 *not the Rebels want Soldiers? Though it be a shame to be

348 *on any side but one, it is worse shame to begge, then to 349 *be on the worst side, were it worse then the name of Re-bellion 350 can tell how to make it. 351 You mistake me Sir. 352 * Why sir? Did I say you were an honest man? Set-ting 353 *my Knight- hood, and my Souldiership aside, I had 354 lyed in my throat, if I had said so. 355 * I pray you (Sir) then set your Knighthood and 356 *your Souldier- ship aside, and giue mee leaue to tell you, 357 *you lye in your throat, if you say I am any other then an 358 honest man. 359 * I giue thee leaue to tell me so? I lay a- side that 360 *which growes to me? If thou get'st any leaue of me, hang 361 *me: if thou tak'st leaue, thou wer't better be hang'd: you 362 Hunt- counter, hence: Auant. 363 Sir, my Lord would speake with you. 364 Sir {Iohn Falstaffe}, a word with you. 365 * My good Lord: giue your Lordship good time of 366 *the day. I am glad to see your Lordship abroad: I heard 367 *say your Lordship was sicke. I hope your Lordship goes 368 *abroad by aduise. Your Lordship (though not clean past 369 *your youth) hath yet some smack of age in you: some rel-lish 370 *of the saltnesse of Time, and I most humbly beseech 371 your Lordship, to haue a reuerend care of your health. 372 * Sir {Iohn}, I sent you before your Expedition, to 373 Shrewsburie. 374 * If it please your Lordship, I heare his Maiestie is 375 return'd with some discomfort from Wales. 376 * I talke not of his Maiesty: you would not come 377 when I sent for you? 378 * And I heare moreouer, his Highnesse is falne into 379 this same whorson Apoplexie. 380 * Well, heauen mend him. I pray let me speak with |(you. 381 * This Apoplexie is (as I take it) a kind of Lethar-gie, 382 a sleeping of the blood, a horson Tingling. 383 What tell you me of it? be it as it is. 384 * It hath #it originall from much greefe; from study 385 *and perturbation of the braine. I haue read the cause of 386 his effects in {Galen}. It is a kinde of deafenesse. 387 * I thinke you are falne into the disease: For you 388 heare not what I say to you. 389 * Very well (my Lord) very well: rather an't please 390 *you) it is the disease of not Listning, the malady of not 391 Marking, that I am troubled withall. 392 * To punish you by the heeles, would amend the 393 *attention of your eares, & I care not if I be your Physitian 394 * I am as poore as {Iob}, my Lord; but not so Patient: 395 *your Lordship may minister the Potion of imprisonment 396 *to me, in respect of Pouertie: but how I should bee your 397 *Patient, to follow your prescriptions, the wise may make 398 some dram of a scruple, or indeede, a scruple it selfe. 399 * I sent for you (when there were matters against 400 you for your life) to come speake with me. 401 * As I was then aduised by my learned Councel, in 402 the lawes of this Land- seruice, I did not come. 403 * Wel, the truth is (sir {Iohn}) you liue in great infamy 404 * He that buckles him in my belt, ca[n]not liue in lesse. 405 * Your Meanes is very slender, and your #wast great. 406 * I would it were otherwise: I would my Meanes 407 were greater, and my waste slenderer. 408 You haue misled the youthfull Prince. 409 * The yong Prince hath misled mee. I am the Fel-low 410 with the great belly, and he my Dogge. 411 * Well, I am loth to gall a new- heal'd wound: your 412 *daies seruice at Shrewsbury, hath a little gilded ouer 413 *your Nights exploit on Gads- hill. You may thanke the 414 vnquiet time, for your quiet o're- posting that Action. 415 My Lord? 416 * But since all is wel, keep it so: wake not a sleeping |(Wolfe. 417 To wake a Wolfe, is as bad as to smell a Fox. 418 * What? you are as a candle, the better part burnt out 419 * A Wassell- Candle, my Lord; all Tallow: if I did 420 say of wax, my growth would approue the truth. 421 * There is not a white haire on your face, but shold 422 haue his effect of grauity. 423 His effect of grauy, grauy, grauy. 424 * You follow the yong Prince vp and downe, like 425 his euill Angell. 426 * Not so (my Lord) your #ill Angell is light: but I 427 *hope, he that lookes vpon mee, will take mee without, 428 *weighing: and yet, in some respects I grant, I cannot go: 429 *I cannot tell. Vertue is of so little regard in these Costor-mongers, 430 *that true valor is turn'd Beare- heard. Pregnan-cie 431 *is made a Tapster, and hath his quicke wit wasted in 432 *giuing Recknings: all the other gifts appertinent to man 433 *(as the malice of this Age shapes them) are not woorth a 434 *Gooseberry. You that are old, consider not the capaci-ties 435 *of vs that are yong: you measure the heat of our Li-uers, 436 *with the bitternes of your gals: & we that are in the 437 vaward of our youth, I must confesse, are wagges too. 438 * Do you set downe your name in the scrowle of 439 *youth, that are written downe old, with all the Charrac-ters 440 *of age? Haue you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yel-low 441 *cheeke? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an incresing 442 *belly? Is not your voice broken? your winde short? your 443 *wit single? and euery part about you blasted with Anti-quity? 444 *and wil you cal your selfe yong? Fy, fy, fy, sir {Iohn}. 445 * My Lord, I was borne with a white head, & som-thing 446 *a round belly. For my voice, I haue lost it with hal-lowing 447 *and singing of Anthemes. To approue my youth 448 *farther, I will not: the truth is, I am onely olde in iudge-ment 449 *and vnderstanding: and he that will caper with mee 450 *for a thousand Markes, let him lend me the mony, & haue 451 *at him. For the boxe of th' eare that the Prince gaue you, 452 *he gaue it like a rude Prince, and you tooke it like a sensi-ble 453 *Lord. I haue checkt him for it, and the yong Lion re-pents: 454 *Marry not in ashes and sacke- cloath, but in new 455 Silke, and old Sacke. 456 * Wel, heauen send the Prince a better companion. 457 * Heauen send the Companion a better Prince: I 458 cannot rid my hands of him. 459 * Well, the King hath seuer'd you and Prince {Har-ry}, 460 *I heare you are going with Lord {Iohn} of Lancaster, a-gainst 461 *the Archbishop, and the Earle of Northumberland 462 * Yes, I thanke your pretty sweet wit for it: but 463 *looke you pray, (all you that kisse my Ladie Peace, at 464 *home) that our Armies ioyn not in a hot day: for if I take 465 *but two shirts out with me, and I meane not to sweat ex-traordinarily: 466 *if it bee a hot day, if I brandish any thing 467 *but my Bottle, would I might neuer spit white againe: 468 *There is not a daungerous Action can peepe out his head, 469 but I am thrust vpon it. Well, I cannot last euer. 470 * Well, be honest, be honest, and heauen blesse your 471 Expedition. 472 * Will your Lordship lend mee a thousand pound, 473 to furnish me forth? 474 * Not a peny, not a peny: you are too impatient 475 *to beare crosses. Fare you well. Commend mee to my 476 Cosin Westmerland. 477 * If I do, fillop me with a three- man- Beetle. A man 478 *can no more separate Age and Couetousnesse, then he can 479 *part yong limbes and letchery: but the Gowt galles the

480 *one, and the pox pinches the other; and so both the De-grees 481 preuent my curses. Boy? 482 Sir. 483 What money is in my purse? 484 Seuen groats, and two pence. 485 * I can get no remedy against this Consumption of 486 *the purse. Borrowing onely lingers, and lingers it out, 487 *but the disease is incureable. Go beare this letter to my 488 *Lord of Lancaster, this to the Prince, this to the Earle of 489 *Westmerland, and this to old Mistris {Vrsula}, whome I 490 *haue weekly sworne to marry, since I perceiu'd the first 491 *white haire on my chin. About it: you know where to 492 *finde me. A pox of this Gowt, or a Gowt of this Poxe: 493 *for the one or th' other playes the rogue with my great 494 *toe: It is no matter, if I do halt, I haue the warres for my 495 *colour, and my Pension shall seeme the more reasonable. 496 *A good wit will make vse of any thing: I will turne dis-eases 497 to commodity. 498 499 501 * Thus haue you heard our causes, & kno our Means: 502 And my most noble Friends, I pray you all 503 Speake plainly your opinions of our hopes, 504 And first (Lord Marshall) what say you to it? 505 I well allow the occasion of our Armes, 506 But gladly would be better satisfied, 507 How (in our Meanes) we should aduance our selues 508 To looke with forhead bold and big enough 509 Vpon the Power and puisance of the King. 510 Our present Musters grow vpon the File 511 To fiue and twenty thousand men of choice: 512 And our Supplies, liue largely in the hope 513 Of great Northumberland, whose bosome burnes 514 With an incensed Fire of Iniuries. 515 * The question then (Lord {Hastings}) standeth thus 516 Whether our present fiue and twenty thousand 517 May hold- vp- head, without Northumberland: 518 With him, we may. 519 #I marry, there's the point: 520 But if without him we be thought #to feeble, 521 My iudgement is, we should not step too farre 522 Till we had his Assistance by the hand. 523 For in a Theame so bloody fac'd, as this, 524 Coniecture, Expectation, and Surmise 525 Of Aydes incertaine, should not be admitted. 526 'Tis very true Lord {Bardolfe}, for indeed 527 It was yong {Hotspurres} case, at Shrewsbury. 528 * It was (my Lord) who lin'd himself with hope, 529 Eating the ayre, on promise of Supply, 530 Flatt'ring himselfe with Proiect of a power, 531 Much smaller, then the smallest of his Thoughts, 532 And so with great imagination 533 (Proper to mad men) led his Powers to death, 534 And (winking) leap'd into destruction. 535 But (by your leaue) it neuer yet did hurt, 536 To lay downe likely- hoods, and formes of hope. 537 Yes, if this present quality of warre, 538 Indeed the instant action: a cause on foot, 539 Liues so in hope: As in an early Spring, 540 We see th' appearing buds, which to proue fruite, 541 Hope giues not so much warrant, as Dispaire 542 That Frosts will bite them. When we meane to build, 543 We first suruey the Plot, then draw the Modell, 544 And when we see the figure of the house, 545 Then must we rate the cost of the Erection, 546 Which if we finde out- weighes Ability, 547 What do we then, but draw a- new the Modell 548 In fewer offices? Or at least, desist 549 To builde at all? Much more, in this great worke, 550 (Which is (almost) to plucke a Kingdome downe, 551 And set another vp) should we suruey 552 The plot of Situation, and the Modell; 553 Consent vpon a sure Foundation: 554 Question Surueyors, know our owne estate, 555 How able such a Worke to vndergo, 556 To weigh against his Opposite? Or else, 557 We fortifie in Paper, and in Figures, 558 Vsing the Names of men, instead of men: 559 Like one, that drawes the Modell of a house 560 Beyond his power to builde it; who (halfe through) 561 Giues o're, and leaues his part- created Cost 562 A naked subiect to the Weeping Clouds, 563 And waste, for churlish Winters tyranny. 564 Grant that our hopes (yet likely of faire byrth) 565 Should be still- borne: and that we now possest 566 The vtmost man of expectation: 567 I thinke we are a Body strong enough 568 (Euen as we are) to equall with the King. 569 * What is the King but fiue & twenty thousand? 570 * To vs no more: nay not so much Lord {Bardolf}. 571 For0his diuisions (as the Times do braul) 572 Are in three Heads: one Power against the French, 573 And one against {Glendower}: Perforce a third 574 Must take vp vs: So is the vnfirme King 575 In three diuided: and his Coffers sound 576 With hollow Pouerty, and Emptinesse. 577 * That he should draw his seuerall strengths togither 578 And come against vs in full puissance 579 Need not be dreaded. 580 If he should do so, 581 He leaues his backe vnarm'd, the French, and Welch 582 Baying him at the heeles: neuer feare that. 583 * Who is it like should lead his Forces hither? 584 The Duke of Lancaster, and Westmerland: 585 Against the Welsh himselfe, and {Harrie Monmouth}. 586 But who is substituted 'gainst the French, 587 I haue no certaine notice. 588 Let vs on: 589 And publish the occasion of our Armes. 590 The Common- wealth is sicke of their owne Choice, 591 Their ouer- greedy loue hath surfetted: 592 An habitation giddy, and vnsure 593 Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. 594 O thou fond Many, with what loud applause 595 Did'st thou beate heauen with blessing {Bullingbrooke}, 596 Before he was, what thou would'st haue him be? 597 And being now trimm'd in thine owne desires, 598 Thou (beastly Feeder) art so full of him, 599 That thou prouok'st thy selfe to cast him vp. 600 So, so, (thou common Dogge) did'st thou disgorge 601 Thy glutton- bosome of the Royall {Richard}, 602 And now thou would'st eate thy dead vomit vp, 603 And howl'st to finde it. What trust is in these Times? 604 They, that when {Richard} liu'd, would haue him dye, 605 Are now become enamour'd on his graue. 606 Thou that threw'st dust vpon his goodly head 607 When through proud London he came sighing on, 608 After th' admired heeles of {Bullingbrooke}, 609 Cri'st now, O Earth, yeeld vs that King againe,

610 And take thou this (O thoughts of men accurs'd) 611 "{Past, and to Come, seemes best; things Present, worst}. 612 Shall we go draw our numbers, and set on? 613 We are Times subiects, and Time bids, be gon. 614 615 616 Mr. {Fang}, haue you entred the Action? 617 It is enter'd. 618 * Wher's your Yeoman? Is it a lusty yeoman? 619 Will he stand to it? 620 Sirrah, where's {Snare}? 621 #I, #I, good M[aster]. {Snare}. 622 Heere, heere. 623 {Snare}, we must Arrest Sir {Iohn Falstaffe}. 624 #I good M[aster]. {Snare}, I haue enter'd him, and all. 625 * It may chance cost some of vs our liues: he wil stab 626 * Alas the day: take heed of him: he stabd me 627 *in mine owne house, and that most beastly: he cares not 628 *what mischeefe he doth, if his weapon be out. Hee will 629 *foyne like any diuell, he will spare neither man, woman, 630 nor childe. 631 * If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust. 632 No, nor I neither: Ile be at your elbow. 633 * If I but fist him once: if he come but within my 634 Vice. 635 * I am vndone with his going: I warrant he is an 636 *infinitiue thing vpon my score. Good M[aster]. {Fang} hold him 637 *sure: good M[aster]. {Snare} let him not scape, he comes continu-antly 638 *to Py- Corner (sauing your manhoods) to buy a sad-dle, 639 *and hee is indited to dinner to the Lubbars head in 640 *Lombard#street, to M[aster]. {Smoothes} the Silkman. I pra' ye, since 641 *my Exion is enter'd, and my Case so openly known to the 642 *world, let him be brought in to his answer: A 100. Marke 643 *is a long one, for a poore lone woman to beare: & I haue 644 *borne, and borne, and borne, and haue bin fub'd off, and 645 *fub'd- off, from this day to that day, that it is a shame to 646 *be thought on. There is no honesty in such dealing, vnles 647 *a woman should be made an Asse and a Beast, to beare e-uery 648 Knaues wrong. 649 *Yonder he comes, and that arrant Malmesey- Nose {Bar-dolfe} 650 *with him. Do your Offices, do your offices: M[aster]. {Fang}, 651 & M[aster]. {Snare}, do me, do me, do me your Offices. 652 * How now? whose Mare's dead? what's the matter? 653 * Sir {Iohn}, I arrest you, at the suit of Mist. {Quickly}. 654 * Away Varlets, draw {Bardolfe}: Cut me off the 655 Villaines head: throw the Queane in the Channel. 656 * Throw me in the channell? Ile throw thee there. 657 *Wilt thou? wilt thou? thou bastardly rogue. Murder, mur-der, 658 *O thou Hony- suckle villaine, wilt thou kill Gods of-ficers, 659 *and the Kings? O thou hony- seed Rogue, thou art 660 a honyseed, a Man- queller, and a woman- queller. 661 * Keep them off, {Bardolfe}. A rescu, a rescu. 662 * Good people bring a rescu. Thou wilt not? thou 663 wilt not? Do, do thou Rogue: Do thou Hempseed. 664 * Away you Scullion, you Rampallian, you Fustil-lirian: 665 Ile tucke your Catastrophe. 666 What's the matter? Keepe the Peace here, hoa. 667 * Good my Lord be good to mee. I beseech you 668 stand to me. 669 * How now sir {Iohn}? What are you brauling here? 670 Doth this become your place, your time, and businesse? 671 You should haue bene well on your way to Yorke. 672 Stand from him Fellow; wherefore hang'st vpon him? 673 * Oh my most worshipfull Lord, and't please your 674 *Grace, I am a poore widdow of Eastcheap, and he is arre-sted 675 at my suit. For what summe? 676 * It is more then for some (my Lord) it is for all: all 677 *I haue, he hath eaten me out of house and home; hee hath 678 *put all my substance into that fat belly of his: but I will 679 *haue some of it out againe, or I will ride thee #o' Nights, 680 like the Mare. 681 * I thinke I am as like to ride the Mare, if I haue 682 any vantage of ground, to get vp. 683 * How comes this, Sir {Iohn}? Fy, what a man of 684 *good temper would endure this tempest of exclamation? 685 *Are you not asham'd to inforce a poore Widdowe to so 686 rough a course, to come by her owne? 687 What is the grosse summe that I owe thee? 688 * Marry (if thou wer't an honest man) thy selfe, & 689 *the mony too. Thou didst sweare to mee vpon a parcell 690 *gilt Goblet, sitting in my Dolphin- chamber at the round 691 *table, by a sea- cole fire, on Wednesday in Whitson week, 692 *when the Prince broke thy head for lik'ning him to a sin-ging 693 *man of Windsor; Thou didst sweare to me then (as I 694 *was washing thy wound) to marry me, and make mee my 695 *Lady thy wife. Canst y deny it? Did not goodwife {Keech} 696 *the Butchers wife come in then, and cal me gossip {Quick-ly}? 697 *comming in to borrow a messe of Vinegar: telling vs, 698 *she had a good dish of Prawnes: whereby y didst desire to 699 *eat some: whereby I told thee they were #ill for a greene 700 *wound? And didst not thou (when she was gone downe 701 *staires) desire me to be no more familiar with such poore 702 *people, saying, that ere long they should call me Madam? 703 *And did'st y not kisse me, and bid mee fetch thee 30.#s? I 704 put thee now to thy Book- oath, deny it if thou canst? 705 * My Lord, this is a poore mad soule: and she sayes 706 *vp & downe the town, that her eldest son is like you. She 707 *hath bin in good case, & the truth is, pouerty hath distra-cted 708 *her: but for these foolish Officers, I beseech you, I 709 may haue redresse against them. 710 * Sir {Iohn}, sir {Iohn}, I am well acquainted with your 711 *maner of wrenching the true cause, the false way. It is not 712 *a confident brow, nor the throng of wordes, that come 713 *with such (more then impudent) sawcines from you, can 714 *thrust me from a leuell consideration, I know you #ha' pra-ctis'd 715 vpon the easie- yeelding spirit of this woman. 716 Yes in troth my Lord. 717 * Prethee peace: pay her the debt you owe her, and 718 *vnpay the villany you haue done her: the one you may do 719 *with sterling mony, & the other with currant repentance. 720 * My Lord, I will not vndergo this sneape without 721 *reply. You call honorable Boldnes, impudent Sawcinesse: 722 *If a man wil curt'sie, and say nothing, he is vertuous: No, 723 *my Lord (your humble duty reme[m]bred) I will not be your 724 *sutor. I say to you, I desire deliu'rance from these Officers 725 being vpon hasty employment in the Kings Affaires. 726 * You speake, as hauing power to do wrong: But 727 *answer in the effect of your Reputation, and satisfie the 728 poore woman. 729 Come hither Hostesse. 730 Now Master {Gower}; What newes? 731 * The King (my Lord) and {Henrie} Prince of Wales 732 Are neere at hand: The rest the Paper telles. 733 As I am a Gentleman. 734 Nay, you said so before. 735 * As I am a Gentleman. Come, no more words of it 736 * By this Heauenly ground I tread on, I must be 737 *faine to pawne both my Plate, and the Tapistry of my dy-ning 738 Chambers.

739 * Glasses, glasses, is the onely drinking: and for 740 *thy walles a pretty slight Drollery, or the Storie of the 741 *Prodigall, or the Germane hunting in Waterworke, is 742 *worth a thousand of these Bed- hangings, and these Fly-bitten 743 *Tapistries. Let it be tenne pound (if thou canst.) 744 *Come, if it were not for thy humors, there is not a better 745 *Wench in England. Go, wash thy face, and draw thy 746 *Action: Come, thou must not bee in this humour with 747 me, come, I know thou was't set on to this. 748 * Prethee (Sir {Iohn}) let it be but twenty Nobles, 749 I loath to pawne my Plate, in good earnest la. 750 * Let it alone, Ile make other shift: you'l be a fool 751 still. 752 * Well, you shall haue it although I pawne my 753 *Gowne. I hope you'l come to Supper: You'l pay me al-together? 754 _ 755 * Will I liue? Go with her, with her: hooke- on, 756 hooke- on. 757 * Will you haue {Doll Teare- sheet} meet you at sup-per? 758 _ 759 No more words. Let's haue her. 760 I haue heard bitter newes. 761 What's the newes (my good Lord?) 762 Where lay the King last night? 763 At Basingstoke my Lord. 764 * I hope (my Lord) all's well. What is the newes 765 my Lord? 766 Come all his Forces backe? 767 * No: Fifteene hundred Foot, fiue hundred Horse 768 Are march'd vp to my Lord of Lancaster, 769 Against Northumberland, and the Archbishop. 770 * Comes the King backe from Wales, my noble L[ord]? 771 You shall haue Letters of me presently. 772 Come, go along with me, good M[aster]. {Gowre}. 773 My Lord. 774 What's the matter? 775 * Master {Gowre}, shall I entreate you with mee to 776 dinner? 777 I must waite vpon my good Lord heere. 778 I thanke you, good Sir {Iohn}. 779 * Sir {Iohn}, you loyter heere too long being you 780 are to take Souldiers vp, in Countries as you go. 781 Will you sup with me, Master {Gowre}? 782 * What foolish Master taught you these man-ners, 783 Sir {Iohn}? 784 * Master {Gower}, if they become mee not, hee was a 785 *Foole that taught them mee. This is the right Fencing 786 grace (my Lord) tap for tap, and so part faire. 787 * Now the Lord lighten thee, thou art a great 788 Foole. 789 790 792 Trust me, I am exceeding weary. 793 * Is it come to that? I had thought wearines durst 794 not haue attach'd one of so high blood. 795 * It doth me: though it discolours the complexion 796 *of my Greatnesse to acknowledge it. Doth it not shew 797 vildely in me, to desire small Beere? 798 * Why, a Prince should not be so loosely studied, 799 as to remember so weake a Composition. 800 * Belike then, my Appetite was not Princely 801 *got: for (in troth) I do now remember the poore Crea-ture, 802 *Small Beere. But indeede these humble considera-tions 803 *make me out of loue with my Greatnesse. What a 804 *disgrace is it to me, to remember thy name? Or to know 805 *thy face to morrow? Or to take note how many paire of 806 *Silk stockings y hast? (Viz. these, and those that were thy 807 *peach- colour'd ones:) Or to beare the Inuentorie of thy 808 *shirts, as one for superfluity, and one other, for vse. But 809 *that the Tennis- Court- keeper knowes better then I, for 810 *it is a low ebbe of Linnen with thee, when thou kept'st 811 *not Racket there, as thou hast not done a great while, be-cause 812 *the rest of thy Low Countries, haue made a shift to 813 eate vp thy Holland. 814 * How #ill it followes, after you haue labour'd so 815 *hard, you should talke so idlely? Tell me how many good 816 *yong Princes would do so, their Fathers lying so sicke, as 817 yours is? 818 Shall I tell thee one thing, {Pointz}? 819 Yes: and let it be an excellent good thing. 820 * It shall serue among wittes of no higher breed-ing 821 then thine. 822 * Go to: I stand the push of your one thing, that 823 you'l tell. 824 * Why, I tell thee, it is not meet, that I should be 825 *sad now my Father is sicke: albeit I could tell to thee (as 826 *to one it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend) 827 I could be sad, and sad indeed too. 828 Very hardly, vpon such a subiect. 829 * Thou think'st me as farre in the Diuels Booke, as 830 *thou, and {Falstaffe}, for obduracie and persistencie. Let the 831 *end try the man. But I tell thee, my hart bleeds inward-ly, 832 *that my Father is so sicke: and keeping such vild com-pany 833 *as thou art, hath in reason taken from me, all osten-tation 834 of sorrow. 835 The reason? 836 * What would'st thou think of me, if I shold weep? 837 I would thinke thee a most Princely hypocrite. 838 * It would be euery mans thought: and thou art 839 *a blessed Fellow, to thinke as euery man thinkes: neuer a 840 *mans thought in the world, keepes the Rode- way better 841 *then thine: euery man would thinke me an Hypocrite in-deede. 842 *And what accites your most worshipful thought 843 to thinke so? 844 * Why, because you haue beene so lewde, and so 845 much ingraffed to {Falstaffe}. 846 And to thee. 847 * Nay, I am well spoken of, I can heare it with 848 *mine owne eares: the worst that they can say of me is, that 849 *I am a second Brother, and that I am a proper Fellowe of 850 *my hands: and those two things I confesse I canot helpe. 851 Looke, looke, here comes {Bardolfe}. 852 * And the Boy that I gaue {Falstaffe}, he had him 853 *from me Christian, and see if the fat villain haue not trans-form'd 854 him Ape. 855 856 Saue your Grace. 857 And yours, most Noble {Bardolfe}. 858 * Come you pernitious Asse, you bashfull Foole, 859 *must you be blushing? Wherefore blush you now? what 860 *a Maidenly man at Armes are you become? Is it such a 861 matter to get a Pottle- pots Maiden- head? 862 * He call'd me euen now (my Lord) through a red 863 *Lattice, and I could discerne no part of his face from the

864 *window: at last I spy'd his eyes, and me thought he had 865 *made two holes in the Ale- wiues new Petticoat, & pee-ped 866 through. 867 Hath not the boy profited? 868 Away, you horson vpright Rabbet, away. 869 Away, you rascally {Altheas} dreame, away. 870 Instruct vs Boy: what dreame, Boy? 871 * Marry (my Lord) {Althea} dream'd, she was de-liuer'd 872 *of a Firebrand, and therefore I call him hir dream. 873 A Crownes- worth of good Interpretation: 874 There it is, Boy. 875 * O that this good Blossome could bee kept from 876 Cankers: Well, there is six pence to preserue thee. 877 * If you do not make him be hang'd among you, 878 the gallowes shall be wrong'd. 879 And how doth thy Master, {Bardolph}? 880 * Well, my good Lord: he heard of your Graces 881 comming to Towne. There's a Letter for you. 882 * Deliuer'd with good respect: And how doth the 883 Martlemas, your Master? 884 In bodily health Sir. 885 * Marry, the immortall part needes a Physitian: 886 *but that moues not him: though that bee sicke, it dyes 887 not. 888 * I do allow this Wen to bee as familiar with 889 *me, as my dogge: and he holds his place, for looke you 890 he writes. 891 * {Iohn Falstaffe Knight}: (Euery man must 892 *know that, as oft as hee hath occasion to name himselfe:) 893 *Euen like those that are kinne to the King, for they neuer 894 *pricke their finger, but they say, there is som of the kings 895 *blood spilt. How comes that (sayes he) that takes vpon 896 *him not to conceiue? the answer is as ready as a borrow-ed 897 cap: I am the Kings poore Cosin, Sir. 898 * Nay, they will be kin to vs, but they wil fetch 899 *it from {Iaphet}. But to the Letter: === {Sir Iohn Falstaffe}, 900 *{Knight, to the Sonne of the King, neerest his Father, Harrie} 901 {Prince of Wales, greeting}. 902 Why this is a Certificate. 903 Peace. 904 {I will imitate the honourable Romaines in breuitie}. 905 * Sure he meanes breuity in breath: short- winded. 906 *{I commend me to thee, I commend thee, and I leaue thee. Bee} 907 *{not too familiar with} Pointz, {for hee misuses thy Fauours so} 908 *{much, that he sweares thou art to marrie his Sister} Nell. {Re-pent} 909 {at idle times as thou mayst, and so farewell}. 910 {Thine, by yea and no: which is as much as to say, as thou} 911 {vsest him}. Iacke Falstaffe {with my Familiars}: 912 Iohn {with my Brothers and Sister: & Sir} 913 Iohn, {with all Europe}. 914 *My Lord, I will steepe this Letter in Sack, and make him 915 eate it. 916 * That's to make him eate twenty of his Words. 917 But do you vse me thus {Ned}? Must I marry your Sister? 918 * May the Wench haue no worse Fortune. But I 919 neuer said so. 920 * Well, thus we play the Fooles with the time, & 921 *the spirits of the wise, sit in the clouds, and mocke vs: Is 922 your Master heere in London? 923 Yes my Lord. 924 * Where suppes he? Doth the old Bore, feede in 925 the old Franke? 926 At the old place my Lord, in East- cheape. 927 What Company? 928 Ephesians my Lord, of the old Church. 929 Sup any women with him? 930 * None my Lord, but old Mistris {Quickly}, and M[istris]. 931 {Doll Teare- sheet}. 932 What Pagan may that be? 933 * A proper Gentlewoman, Sir, and a Kinswoman 934 of my Masters. 935 * Euen such Kin, as the Parish Heyfors are to the 936 Towne- Bull? 937 Shall we steale vpon them ({Ned}) at Supper? 938 I am your shadow, my Lord, Ile follow you. 939 * Sirrah, you boy, and {Bardolph}, no word to your 940 Master that I am yet in Towne. 941 There's for your silence. 942 I haue no tongue, sir. 943 And for mine Sir, I will gouerne it. 944 Fare ye well: go. 945 This {Doll Teare- sheet} should be some Rode. 946 * I warrant you, as common as the way betweene 947 S[aint]. Albans, and London. 948 * How might we see {Falstaffe} bestow himselfe to 949 night, in his true colours, and not our selues be seene? 950 * Put on two Leather Ierkins, and Aprons, and 951 waite vpon him at his Table, like Drawers. 952 * From a God, to a Bull? A heauie declension: It 953 *was Ioues case. From a Prince, to a Prentice, a low trans-formation, 954 *that shall be mine: for in euery thing, the pur-pose 955 must weigh with the folly. Follow me {Ned}. 956 957 959 I prethee louing Wife, and gentle Daughter, 960 Giue an euen way vnto my rough Affaires: 961 Put not you on the visage of the Times, 962 And be like them to Percie, troublesome. 963 I haue giuen ouer, I will speak no more, 964 Do what you will: your Wisedome, be your guide. 965 Alas (sweet Wife) my Honor is at pawne, 966 And but my going, nothing can redeeme it. 967 * Oh yet, for heauens sake, go not to these Warrs; 968 The Time was (Father) when you broke your word, 969 When you were more endeer'd to it, then now, 970 When your owne Percy, when my heart- deere-{#Harry}, 971 Threw many a Northward looke, to see his Father 972 Bring vp his Powres: but he did long in vaine. 973 Who then perswaded you to stay at home? 974 There were two Honors lost; Yours, and your Sonnes. 975 For Yours, may heauenly glory brighten it: 976 For His, it stucke vpon him, as the Sunne 977 In the gray vault of Heauen: and by his Light 978 Did all the Cheualrie of England moue 979 To do braue Acts. He was (indeed) the Glasse 980 Wherein the Noble- Youth did dresse themselues. 981 He had no Legges, that practic'd not his Gate: 982 And speaking thicke (which Nature made his blemish) 983 Became the Accents of the Valiant. 984 For those that could speake low, and tardily, 985 Would turne their owne Perfection, to Abuse, 986 To seeme like him. So that in Speech, in Gate, 987 In Diet, in Affections of delight, 988 In Militarie Rules, Humors of Blood,

989 He was the Marke, and Glasse, Coppy, and Booke, 990 That fashion'd others. And him, O wondrous! him, 991 O Miracle of Men! Him did you leaue 992 (Second to none) vn- seconded by you, 993 To looke vpon the hideous God of Warre, 994 In dis- aduantage, to abide a field, 995 Where nothing but the sound of {Hotspurs} Name 996 Did seeme defensible: so you left him. 997 Neuer, O neuer doe his Ghost the wrong, 998 To hold your Honor more precise and nice 999 With others, then with him. Let them alone: 1000 The Marshall and the Arch- bishop are strong. 1001 Had my sweet {Harry} had but halfe their Numbers, 1002 To day might I (hanging on {Hotspurs} Necke) 1003 Haue talk'd of {Monmouth's} Graue. 1004 Beshrew your heart, 1005 (Faire Daughter) you doe draw my Spirits from me, 1006 With new lamenting ancient Ouer- sights. 1007 But I must goe, and meet with Danger there, 1008 Or it will seeke me in another place, 1009 And finde me worse prouided. 1010 O flye to Scotland, 1011 Till that the Nobles, and the armed Commons, 1012 Haue of their Puissance made a little taste. 1013 If they get ground, and vantage of the King, 1014 Then ioyne you with them, like a Ribbe of Steele, 1015 To make Strength stronger. But, for all our loues, 1016 First let them trye themselues. So did your Sonne, 1017 He was so suffer'd; so came I a Widow: 1018 And neuer shall haue length of Life enough, 1019 To raine vpon Remembrance with mine Eyes, 1020 That it may grow, and sprowt, as high as Heauen, 1021 For Recordation to my Noble Husband. 1022 * Come, come, go in with me: 'tis with my Minde 1023 As with the Tyde, swell'd vp vnto his height, 1024 That makes a still- stand, running neyther way. 1025 Faine would I goe to meet the Arch- bishop, 1026 But many thousand Reasons hold me backe. 1027 I will resolue for Scotland: there am I, 1028 Till Time and Vantage craue my company. 1029 1030 1031 * What hast thou brought there? Apple- Iohns? 1032 *Thou know'st Sir {Iohn} cannot endure an Apple- Iohn. 1033 _ 1034 * Thou say'st true: the Prince once set a Dish 1035 *of Apple- Iohns before him, and told him there were fiue 1036 *more Sir {Iohns}: and, putting off his Hat, said, I will now 1037 *take my leaue of these sixe drie, round, old- wither'd 1038 *Knights. It anger'd him to the heart: but hee hath for-got 1039 that. 1040 * Why then couer, and set them downe: and 1041 *see if thou canst finde out {Sneakes} Noyse; Mistris {Teare- sheet} 1042 would faine haue some Musique. 1043 * Sirrha, heere will be the Prince, and Master 1044 *{Points}, anon: and they will put on two of our Ierkins, 1045 *and Aprons, and Sir {Iohn} must not know of it: {Bardolph} 1046 hath brought word. 1047 * Then here will be old {Vtis}: it will be an ex-cellent 1048 stratagem. 1049 Ile see if I can finde out {Sneake}. 1050 1051 * Sweet- heart, me thinkes now you are in an ex-cellent 1052 *good temperalitie: your Pulsidge beates as ex-traordinarily, 1053 *as heart would desire; and your Colour 1054 *(I warrant you) is as red as any Rose: But you haue 1055 *drunke too much Canaries, and that's a maruellous sear-ching 1056 *Wine; and it perfumes the blood, ere wee can say 1057 what's this. How doe you now? 1058 Better then I was: Hem. 1059 * Why that was well said: A good heart's worth 1060 Gold. Looke, here comes Sir {Iohn}. 1061 1062 * {When Arthur first in Court} === (emptie the Iordan) 1063 {and was a worthy King}: How now Mistris {Dol}? 1064 Sick of a Calme: yea, good- sooth. 1065 * So is all her Sect: if they be once in a Calme, 1066 they are sick. 1067 * You muddie Rascall, is that all the comfort you 1068 giue me? 1069 You make fat Rascalls, Mistris {Dol}. 1070 * I make them? Gluttonie and Diseases make 1071 them, I make them not. 1072 * If the Cooke make the Gluttonie, you helpe to 1073 *make the Diseases ({Dol}) we catch of you ({Dol}) we catch 1074 of you: Grant that, my poore Vertue, grant that. 1075 #I marry, our Chaynes, and our Iewels. 1076 * Your Brooches, Pearles, and Owches: For to 1077 *serue brauely, is to come halting off: you know, to come 1078 *off the Breach, with his Pike bent brauely, and to Surge-rie 1079 *brauely; to venture vpon the charg'd- Chambers 1080 brauely. 1081 * Why this is the olde fashion: you two neuer 1082 *meete, but you fall to some discord: you are both (in 1083 *good troth) as Rheumatike as two drie Tostes, you can-not 1084 *one beare with anothers Confirmities. What the 1085 *good- yere? One must beare, and that must bee you: 1086 *you are the weaker Vessell; as they say, the emptier 1087 Vessell. 1088 * Can a weake emptie Vessell beare such a huge 1089 *full Hogs- head? There's a whole Marchants Venture 1090 *of Burdeux- Stuffe in him: you haue not seene a Hulke 1091 *better stufft in the Hold. Come, Ile be friends with thee 1092 *{Iacke}: Thou art going to the Warres, and whether I 1093 *shall euer see thee againe, or no, there is no body 1094 cares. 1095 1096 * Sir, Ancient {Pistoll} is below, and would 1097 speake with you. 1098 * Hang him, swaggering Rascall, let him not 1099 *come hither: it is the foule- mouth'dst Rogue in Eng-land. 1100 _ 1101 * If hee swagger, let him not come here: I must 1102 *liue amongst my Neighbors, Ile no Swaggerers: I am 1103 *in good name, and fame, with the very best: shut the 1104 *doore, there comes no Swaggerers heere: I haue not 1105 *liu'd all this while, to haue swaggering now: shut the 1106 doore, I pray you. 1107 Do'st thou heare, Hostesse? 1108 * 'Pray you pacifie your selfe (Sir {Iohn}) there comes 1109 no Swaggerers heere.

1110 Do'st thou heare? it is mine Ancient. 1111 * Tilly- fally (Sir {Iohn}) neuer tell me, your ancient 1112 *Swaggerer comes not in my doores. I was before Master 1113 *{Tisick} the Deputie, the other day: and as hee said to me, 1114 *it was no longer agoe then Wednesday last: Neighbour 1115 *{Quickly} (sayes hee;) Master {Dombe}, our Minister, was by 1116 *then: Neighbour {Quickly} (sayes hee) receiue those that 1117 *are Ciuill; for (sayth hee) you are in an #ill Name: now 1118 *hee said so, I can tell whereupon: for (sayes hee) you are 1119 *an honest Woman, and well thought on; therefore take 1120 *heede what Guests you receiue: Receiue (sayes hee) no 1121 *swaggering Companions. There comes none heere. You 1122 *would blesse you to heare what hee said. No, Ile no 1123 Swaggerers. 1124 * Hee's no Swaggerer (Hostesse:) a tame Cheater, 1125 *hee: you may stroake him as gently, as a Puppie Grey-hound: 1126 *hee will not swagger with a Barbarie Henne, if 1127 *her feathers turne backe in any shew of resistance. Call 1128 him vp (Drawer.) 1129 * Cheater, call you him? I will barre no honest 1130 *man my house, nor no Cheater: but I doe not loue swag-gering; 1131 *I am the worse when one sayes, swagger: Feele 1132 Masters, how I shake: looke you, I warrant you. 1133 So you doe, Hostesse. 1134 * Doe I? yea, in very truth doe I, if it were an As-pen 1135 Leafe: I cannot abide Swaggerers. 1136 1137 'Saue you, Sir {Iohn}. 1138 * Welcome Ancient {Pistol}. Here ({Pistol}) I charge 1139 *you with a Cup of Sacke: doe you discharge vpon mine 1140 Hostesse. 1141 * I will discharge vpon her (Sir {Iohn}) with two 1142 Bullets. 1143 * She is Pistoll- proofe (Sir) you shall hardly of-fend 1144 her. 1145 * Come, Ile drinke no Proofes, nor no Bullets: I 1146 *will drinke no more then will doe me good, for no mans 1147 pleasure, I. 1148 * Then to you (Mistris {Dorothie}) I will charge 1149 you. 1150 * Charge me? I scorne you (scuruie Companion) 1151 *what? you poore, base, rascally, cheating, lacke- Linnen- Mate: 1152 *away you mouldie Rogue, away; I am meat for 1153 your Master. 1154 I know you, Mistris {Dorothie}. 1155 * Away you Cut- purse Rascall, you filthy Bung, 1156 *away: By this Wine, Ile thrust my Knife in your mouldie 1157 *Chappes, if you play the sawcie Cuttle with me. Away 1158 *you Bottle- Ale Rascall, you Basket- hilt stale Iugler, you. 1159 *Since when, I pray you, Sir? what, with two Points on 1160 your shoulder? much. 1161 I will murther your Ruffe, for this. 1162 * No, good Captaine {Pistol}: not heere, sweete 1163 Captaine. 1164 * Captaine? thou abhominable damn'd Cheater, 1165 *art thou not asham'd to be call'd Captaine? If Captaines 1166 *were of my minde, they would trunchion you out, for ta-king 1167 *their Names vpon you, before you haue earn'd them. 1168 *You a Captaine? you slaue, for what? for tearing a poore 1169 *Whores Ruffe in a Bawdy- house? Hee a Captaine? hang 1170 *him Rogue, hee liues vpon mouldie stew'd- Pruines, and 1171 *dry'de Cakes. A Captaine? These Villaines will make 1172 *the word Captaine odious: Therefore Captaines had 1173 neede looke to it. 1174 'Pray thee goe downe, good Ancient. 1175 Hearke thee hither, Mistris {Dol}. 1176 * Not I: I tell thee what, Corporall {Bardolph}, I 1177 could teare her: Ile be reueng'd on her. 1178 'Pray thee goe downe. 1179 * Ile see her damn'd first: to {Pluto's} damn'd Lake, 1180 *to the Infernall Deepe, where {Erebus} and Tortures vilde 1181 *also. Hold Hooke and Line, say I: Downe: downe 1182 Dogges, downe Fates: haue wee not {Hiren} here? 1183 * Good Captaine {Peesel} be quiet, it is very late: 1184 I beseeke you now, aggrauate your Choler. 1185 * These be good Humors indeede. Shall Pack-Horses, 1186 *and hollow- pamper'd Iades of Asia, which can-not 1187 *goe but thirtie miles a day, compare with {Caesar}, and 1188 *with Caniballs, and Troian Greekes? nay, rather damne 1189 *them with King {Cerberus}, and let the Welkin roare: shall 1190 wee fall foule for Toyes? 1191 * By my troth Captaine, these are very bitter 1192 words. 1193 * Be gone, good Ancient: this will grow to a 1194 Brawle anon. 1195 * Die men, like Dogges; giue Crownes like Pinnes: 1196 Haue we not {Hiren} here? 1197 * On my word (Captaine) there's none such here. 1198 *What the good- yere, doe you thinke I would denye her? 1199 I pray be quiet. 1200 * Then feed, and be fat (my faire {Calipolis}.) Come, 1201 *giue me some Sack, {Si fortune me tormente, sperato me con-tente}. 1202 *Feare wee broad- sides? No, let the Fiend giue fire: 1203 *Giue me some Sack: and Sweet- heart lye thou there: 1204 *Come wee to full Points here, and are {et cetera's} no-thing? 1205 _ 1206 {Pistol}, I would be quiet. 1207 * Sweet Knight, I kisse thy Neaffe: what? wee haue 1208 seene the seuen Starres. 1209 * Thrust him downe stayres, I cannot endure such 1210 a Fustian Rascall. 1211 * Thrust him downe stayres? know we not Gallo-way 1212 Nagges? 1213 * Quoit him downe ({Bardolph}) like a shoue- groat 1214 *shilling: nay, if hee doe nothing but speake nothing, hee 1215 shall be nothing here. 1216 Come, get you downe stayres. 1217 * What? shall wee haue Incision? shall wee em-brew? 1218 *then Death rocke me asleepe, abridge my dolefull 1219 *dayes: why then let grieuous, gastly, gaping Wounds, 1220 vntwin'd the Sisters three: Come {Atropos}, I say. 1221 Here's good stuffe toward. 1222 Giue me my Rapier, Boy. 1223 I prethee {Iack}, I prethee doe not draw. 1224 Get you downe stayres. 1225 * Here's a goodly tumult: Ile forsweare keeping 1226 *house, before Ile be in these tirrits, and frights. So: Mur-ther 1227 *I warrant now. Alas, alas, put vp your naked Wea-pons, 1228 put vp your naked Weapons. 1229 * I prethee {Iack} be quiet, the Rascall is gone: ah, 1230 you whorson little valiant Villaine, you. 1231 * Are you not hurt i'th' Groyne? me thought hee 1232 made a shrewd Thrust at your Belly. 1233 Haue you turn'd him out of doores? 1234 * Yes Sir: the Rascall's drunke: you haue hurt 1235 him (Sir) in the shoulder. 1236 A Rascall to braue me. 1237 * Ah, you sweet little Rogue, you: alas, poore Ape, 1238 *how thou sweat'st? Come, let me wipe thy Face: Come 1239 *on, you whorson Chops: Ah Rogue, I loue thee: Thou

1240 *art as valorous as {Hector} of Troy, worth fiue of {Agamem-non}, 1241 *and tenne times better then the nine Worthies: ah 1242 Villaine. 1243 * A rascally Slaue, I will tosse the Rogue in a Blan-ket. 1244 _ 1245 * Doe, if thou dar'st for thy heart: if thou doo'st, 1246 Ile canuas thee betweene a paire of Sheetes. 1247 1248 The Musique is come, Sir. 1249 * Let them play: play Sirs. Sit on my Knee, {Dol}. 1250 *A Rascall, bragging Slaue: the Rogue fled from me like 1251 Quick- siluer. 1252 * And thou followd'st him like a Church: thou 1253 *whorson little tydie Bartholmew Bore- pigge, when wilt 1254 *thou leaue fighting on dayes, and foyning on nights, and 1255 begin to patch vp thine old Body for Heauen? 1256 1257 * Peace (good {Dol}) doe not speake like a Deaths-head: 1258 doe not bid me remember mine end. 1259 Sirrha, what humor is the Prince of? 1260 * A good shallow young fellow: hee would haue 1261 *made a good Pantler, hee would haue chipp'd Bread 1262 well. 1263 They say {Poines} hath a good Wit. 1264 * Hee a good Wit? hang him Baboone, his Wit is 1265 *as thicke as Tewksburie Mustard: there is no more con-ceit 1266 in him, then is in a Mallet. 1267 Why doth the Prince loue him so then? 1268 * Because their Legges are both of a bignesse: and 1269 *hee playes at Quoits well, and eates Conger and Fennell, 1270 *and drinkes off Candles ends for Flap- dragons, and rides 1271 *the wilde- Mare with the Boyes, and iumpes vpon Ioyn'd-stooles, 1272 *and sweares with a good grace, and weares his 1273 *Boot very smooth, like vnto the Signe of the Legge; and 1274 *breedes no bate with telling of discreete stories: and such 1275 *other Gamboll Faculties hee hath, that shew a weake 1276 *Minde, and an able Body, for the which the Prince admits 1277 *him; for the Prince himselfe is such another: the 1278 *weight of an hayre will turne the Scales betweene their 1279 {Haber-de-pois}. 1280 * Would not this Naue of a Wheele haue his 1281 Eares cut off? 1282 Let vs beat him before his Whore. 1283 * Looke, if the wither'd Elder hath not his Poll 1284 claw'd like a Parrot. 1285 * Is it not strange, that Desire should so many 1286 yeeres out- liue performance? 1287 Kisse me {Dol}. 1288 * {Saturne} and {Venus} this yeere in Coniunction? 1289 What sayes the Almanack to that? 1290 * And looke whether the fierie {Trigon}, his Man, 1291 *be not lisping to his Masters old Tables, his Note- Booke, 1292 his Councell- keeper? 1293 Thou do'st giue me flatt'ring Busses. 1294 * Nay truely, I kisse thee with a most constant 1295 heart. 1296 I am olde, I am olde. 1297 * I loue thee better, then I loue ere a scuruie young 1298 Boy of them all. 1299 * What Stuffe wilt thou haue a Kirtle of? I shall 1300 *receiue Money on Thursday: thou shalt haue a Cappe 1301 *to morrow. A merrie Song, come: it growes late, 1302 *wee will to Bed. Thou wilt forget me, when I am 1303 gone. 1304 * Thou wilt set me #a weeping, if thou say'st so: 1305 *proue that euer I dresse my selfe handsome, till thy re-turne: 1306 well, hearken the end. 1307 Some Sack, {Francis}. 1308 Anon, anon, Sir. 1309 * Ha? a Bastard Sonne of the Kings? And art not 1310 thou {Poines}, his Brother? 1311 * Why thou Globe of sinfull Continents, what 1312 a life do'st thou lead? 1313 * A better then thou: I am a Gentleman, thou art 1314 a Drawer. 1315 * Very true, Sir: and I come to draw you out 1316 by the Eares. 1317 * Oh, the Lord preserue thy good Grace: Wel-come 1318 *to London. Now Heauen blesse that sweete Face 1319 of thine: what, are you come from Wales? 1320 * Thou whorson mad Compound of Maiestie: by 1321 this light Flesh, and corrupt Blood, thou art welcome. 1322 How? you fat Foole, I scorne you. 1323 * My Lord, hee will driue you out of your re-uenge, 1324 *and turne all to a merryment, if you take not the 1325 heat. 1326 * You whorson Candle- myne you, how vildly 1327 *did you speake of me euen now, before this honest, ver-tuous, 1328 ciuill Gentlewoman? 1329 * 'Blessing on your good heart, and so shee is by 1330 my troth. 1331 Didst thou heare me? 1332 * Yes: and you knew me, as you did when you 1333 *ranne away by Gads- hill: you knew I was at your back, 1334 and spoke it on purpose, to trie my patience. 1335 * No, no, no: not so: I did not thinke, thou wast 1336 within hearing. 1337 * I shall driue you then to confesse the wilfull 1338 abuse, and then I know how to handle you. 1339 No abuse ({Hall}) on mine Honor, no abuse. 1340 * Not to disprayse me? and call me Pantler, and 1341 Bread- chopper, and I know not what? 1342 No abuse ({Hal}.) 1343 No abuse? 1344 * No abuse ({Ned}) in the World: honest {Ned} none. 1345 *I disprays'd him before the Wicked, that the Wicked 1346 *might not fall in loue with him: In which doing, I haue 1347 *done the part of a carefull Friend, and a true Subiect, and 1348 *thy Father is to giue me thankes for it. No abuse ({Hal}:) 1349 none ({Ned}) none; no Boyes, none. 1350 * See now whether pure Feare, and entire Cow-ardise, 1351 *doth not make thee wrong this vertuous Gentle-woman, 1352 *to close with vs? Is shee of the Wicked? Is thine 1353 *Hostesse heere, of the Wicked? Or is the Boy of the 1354 *Wicked? Or honest {Bardolph} (whose Zeale burnes in his 1355 Nose) of the Wicked? 1356 Answere thou dead Elme, answere. 1357 * The Fiend hath prickt downe {Bardolph} irrecoue-rable, 1358 *and his Face is {Lucifers} Priuy- Kitchin, where hee 1359 *doth nothing but rost Mault- Wormes: for the Boy, 1360 *there is a good Angell about him, but the Deuill out-bids 1361 him too. 1362 For the Women? 1363 * For one of them, shee is in #Hell alreadie, and 1364 *burnes poore Soules: for the other, I owe her Mo-ney; 1365 *and whether shee bee damn'd for that, I know 1366 not. 1367 No, I warrant you.

1368 * No, I thinke thou art not: I thinke thou art quit 1369 *for that. Marry, there is another Indictment vpon thee, 1370 *for suffering flesh to bee eaten in thy house, contrary to 1371 the Law, for the which I thinke thou wilt howle. 1372 * All Victuallers doe so: What is a Ioynt of 1373 Mutton, or two, in a whole Lent? 1374 You, Gentlewoman. 1375 What sayes your Grace? 1376 * His Grace sayes that, which his flesh rebells 1377 against. 1378 * Who knocks so lowd at doore? Looke to the 1379 doore there, {Francis}? 1380 1381 {Peto}, how now? what newes? 1382 The King, your Father, is at Westminster, 1383 And there are twentie weake and wearied Postes, 1384 Come from the North: and as I came along, 1385 I met, and ouer- tooke a dozen Captaines, 1386 Bare- headed, sweating, knocking at the Tauernes, 1387 And asking euery one for Sir {Iohn Falstaffe}. 1388 * By Heauen ({Poines}) I feele me much to blame, 1389 So idly to prophane the precious time, 1390 When Tempest of Commotion, like the South, 1391 Borne with black Vapour, doth begin to melt, 1392 And drop vpon our bare vnarmed heads. 1393 Giue me my Sword, and Cloake: 1394 {Falstaffe}, good night. 1395 * Now comes in the sweetest Morsell of the 1396 *night, and wee must hence, and leaue it vnpickt. More 1397 *knocking at the doore? How now? what's the mat-ter? 1398 _ 1399 You must away to Court, Sir, presently, 1400 A dozen Captaines stay at doore for you. 1401 * Pay the Musitians, Sirrha: farewell Hostesse, 1402 *farewell {Dol}. You see (my good Wenches) how men of 1403 *Merit are sought after: the vndeseruer may sleepe, when 1404 *the man of Action is call'd on. Farewell good Wenches: 1405 *if I be not sent away poste, I will see you againe, ere I 1406 goe. 1407 * I cannot speake: if my heart bee not readie 1408 *to burst=== Well (sweete {Iacke}) haue a care of thy 1409 selfe. 1410 Farewell, farewell. 1411 * Well, fare thee well: I haue knowne thee 1412 *these twentie nine yeeres, come Pescod- time: but an 1413 *honester, and truer- hearted man=== Well, fare thee 1414 well. 1415 Mistris {Teare- sheet}. 1416 What's the matter? 1417 Bid Mistris {Teare- sheet} come to my Master. 1418 Oh runne {Dol}, runne: runne, good {Dol}. 1419 1420 1421 1422 * Goe, call the Earles of Surrey, and of Warwick: 1423 But ere they come, bid them ore- reade these Letters, 1424 And well consider of them: make good speed. 1425 How many thousand of my poorest Subiects 1426 Are at this howre asleepe? O Sleepe, O gentle Sleepe, 1427 Natures soft Nurse, how haue I frighted thee, 1428 That thou no more wilt weigh my eye- lids downe, 1429 And steepe my Sences in Forgetfulnesse? 1430 Why rather (Sleepe) lyest thou in smoakie Cribs, 1431 Vpon vneasie Pallads stretching thee, 1432 And huisht with bussing Night, flyes to thy slumber, 1433 Then in the perfum'd Chambers of the Great? 1434 Vnder the Canopies of costly State, 1435 And lull'd with sounds of sweetest Melodie? 1436 O thou dull God, why lyest thou with the vilde, 1437 In loathsome Beds, and leau'st the Kingly Couch, 1438 A Watch- case, or a common Larum- Bell? 1439 Wilt thou, vpon the high and giddie Mast, 1440 Seale vp the Ship- boyes Eyes, and rock his Braines, 1441 In Cradle of the rude imperious Surge, 1442 And in the visitation of the Windes, 1443 Who take the Ruffian Billowes by the top, 1444 Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them 1445 With deaff'ning Clamors in the slipp'ry Clouds, 1446 That with the hurley, Death it selfe awakes? 1447 Canst thou (O partiall Sleepe) giue thy Repose 1448 To the wet Sea- Boy, in an houre so rude: 1449 And in the calmest, and most stillest Night, 1450 With all appliances, and meanes to boote, 1451 Deny it to a King? Then happy Lowe, lye downe, 1452 Vneasie lyes the Head, that weares a Crowne. 1453 1454 Many good- morrowes to your Maiestie. 1455 Is it good- morrow, Lords? 1456 'Tis One #a Clock, and past. 1457 * Why then good- morrow to you all (my Lords:) 1458 Haue you read o're the Letters that I sent you? 1459 We haue (my Liege.) 1460 * Then you perceiue the Body of our Kingdome, 1461 How foule it is: what ranke Diseases grow, 1462 And with what danger, neere the Heart of it? 1463 It is but as a Body, yet distemper'd, 1464 Which to his former strength may be restor'd, 1465 With good aduice, and little Medicine: 1466 My Lord {Northumberland} will soone be cool'd. 1467 * Oh Heauen, that one might read the Book of Fate, 1468 And see the reuolution of the Times 1469 Make Mountaines leuell, and the Continent 1470 (Wearie of solide firmenesse) melt it selfe 1471 Into the Sea: and other Times, to see 1472 The beachie Girdle of the Ocean 1473 Too wide for {Neptunes} hippes; how Chances mocks 1474 And Changes fill the Cuppe of Alteration 1475 With diuers Liquors. 'Tis not tenne yeeres gone, 1476 Since {Richard}, and {Northumberland}, great friends, 1477 Did feast together; and in two yeeres after, 1478 Were they at Warres. It is but eight yeeres since, 1479 This {Percie} was the man, neerest my Soule, 1480 Who, like a Brother, toyl'd in my Affaires, 1481 And layd his Loue and Life vnder my foot: 1482 Yea, for my sake, euen to the eyes of {Richard} 1483 Gaue him defiance. But which of you was by 1484 (You Cousin {Neuil}, as I may remember) 1485 When {Richard}, with his Eye, brim- full of Teares, 1486 (Then check'd, and rated by {Northumberland}) 1487 Did speake these words (now prou'd a Prophecie:) 1488 {Northumberland}, thou Ladder, by the which

1489 My Cousin {Bullingbrooke} ascends my Throne: 1490 (Though then, Heauen knowes, I had no such intent, 1491 But that necessitie so bow'd the State, 1492 That I and Greatnesse were compell'd to kisse:) 1493 The Time shall come (thus did hee follow it) 1494 The Time will come, that foule Sinne gathering head, 1495 Shall breake into Corruption: so went on, 1496 Fore- telling this same Times Condition, 1497 And the diuision of our Amitie. 1498 There is a Historie in all mens Liues, 1499 Figuring the nature of the Times deceas'd: 1500 The which obseru'd, a man may prophecie 1501 With a neere ayme, of the maine chance of things, 1502 As yet not come to Life, which in their Seedes 1503 And weake beginnings lye entreasured: 1504 Such things become the Hatch and Brood of Time; 1505 And by the necessarie forme of this, 1506 King {Richard} might create a perfect guesse, 1507 That great {Northumberland}, then false to him, 1508 Would of that Seed, grow to a greater falsenesse, 1509 Which should not finde a ground to roote vpon, 1510 Vnlesse on you. 1511 Are these things then Necessities? 1512 Then let vs meete them like Necessities; 1513 And that same word, euen now cryes out on vs: 1514 They say, the Bishop and {Northumberland} 1515 Are fiftie thousand strong. 1516 It cannot be (my Lord:) 1517 Rumor doth double, like the Voice, and Eccho, 1518 The numbers of the feared. Please it your Grace 1519 To goe to bed, vpon my Life (my Lord) 1520 The Pow'rs that you alreadie haue sent forth, 1521 Shall bring this Prize in very easily. 1522 To comfort you the more, I haue receiu'd 1523 A certaine instance, that {Glendour} is dead. 1524 Your Maiestie hath beene this fort- night #ill, 1525 And these vnseason'd howres perforce must adde 1526 Vnto your Sicknesse. 1527 I will take your counsaile: 1528 And were these inward Warres once out of hand, 1529 Wee would (deare Lords) vnto the Holy- Land. 1530 1531 1532 1534 * Come- on, come- on, come- on: giue mee your 1535 *Hand, Sir; giue mee your Hand, Sir: an early stirrer, by 1536 the Rood. And how doth my good Cousin {Silence}? 1537 Good- morrow, good Cousin {Shallow}. 1538 * And how doth my Cousin, your Bed- fellow? 1539 *and your fairest Daughter, and mine, my God- Daughter 1540 {Ellen}? 1541 Alas, a blacke Ouzell (Cousin {Shallow}.) 1542 * By yea and nay, Sir. I dare say my Cousin {William} 1543 *is become a good Scholler? hee is at Oxford still, is hee 1544 not? 1545 Indeede Sir, to my cost. 1546 * Hee must then to the Innes of Court shortly: I 1547 *was once of {Clements} Inne; where (I thinke) they will 1548 talke of mad {Shallow} yet. 1549 You were call'd lustie {Shallow} then (Cousin.) 1550 * I was call'd any thing: and I would haue done 1551 *any thing indeede too, and roundly too. There was I, and 1552 *little {Iohn Doit} of Staffordshire, and blacke {George Bare}, 1553 *and {Francis Pick- bone}, and {Will Squele} a Cot-sal- man, you 1554 *had not foure such Swindge- bucklers in all the Innes of 1555 *Court againe: And I may say to you, wee knew where 1556 *the {Bona- Roba's} were, and had the best of them all at 1557 *commandement. Then was {Iacke Falstaffe} (now Sir {Iohn}) 1558 *a Boy, and Page to {Thomas Mowbray}, Duke of Nor-folke. 1559 _ 1560 * This Sir {Iohn} (Cousin) that comes hither anon a-bout 1561 Souldiers? 1562 * The same Sir {Iohn}, the very same: I saw him 1563 *breake {Scoggan's} Head at the Court- Gate, when hee was 1564 *a Crack, not thus high: and the very same day did I fight 1565 *with one {Sampson Stock- fish}, a Fruiterer, behinde Greyes- Inne. 1566 *Oh the mad dayes that I haue spent! and to see 1567 how many of mine olde Acquaintance are dead? 1568 Wee shall all follow (Cousin.) 1569 * Certaine: 'tis certaine: very sure, very sure: 1570 *Death is certaine to all, all shall dye. How a good Yoke 1571 of Bullocks at Stamford Fayre? 1572 Truly Cousin, I was not there. 1573 * Death is certaine. Is old {Double} of your Towne 1574 liuing yet? 1575 Dead, Sir. 1576 * Dead? See, see: hee drew a good Bow: and 1577 *dead? hee shot a fine shoote. {Iohn} of Gaunt loued 1578 *him well, and betted much Money on his head. Dead? 1579 *hee would haue clapt in the Clowt at Twelue- score, and 1580 *carryed you a fore- hand Shaft at foureteene, and foure-teene 1581 *and a halfe, that it would haue done a mans heart 1582 good to see. How a score of Ewes now? 1583 * Thereafter as they be: a score of good Ewes 1584 may be worth tenne pounds. 1585 And is olde {Double} dead? 1586 1587 * Heere come two of Sir {Iohn Falstaffes} Men (as I 1588 thinke.) 1589 Good- morrow, honest Gentlemen. 1590 I beseech you, which is Iustice {Shallow}? 1591 * I am {Robert Shallow} (Sir) a poore Esquire of this 1592 *Countie, and one of the Kings Iustices of the Peace: 1593 What is your good pleasure with me? 1594 * My Captaine (Sir) commends him to you: 1595 *my Captaine, Sir {Iohn Falstaffe}: a tall Gentleman, and a 1596 most gallant Leader. 1597 * Hee greetes me well: (Sir) I knew him a 1598 *good Back- Sword- man. How doth the good Knight? 1599 may I aske, how my Lady his Wife doth? 1600 * Sir, pardon: a Souldier is better accommoda-ted, 1601 then with a Wife. 1602 * It is well said, Sir; and it is well said, indeede, 1603 *too: Better accommodated? it is good, yea indeede is 1604 *it: good phrases are surely, and euery where very com-mendable. 1605 *Accommodated, it comes of {Accommodo}: 1606 very good, a good Phrase. 1607 * Pardon, Sir, I haue heard the word. Phrase 1608 *call you it? by this Day, I know not the Phrase: but 1609 *I will maintaine the Word with my Sword, to bee a 1610 *Souldier- like Word, and a Word of exceeding good 1611 *Command. Accommodated: that is, when a man is 1612 *(as they say) accommodated: or, when a man is, being

1613 *whereby he thought to be accommodated, which is an 1614 excellent thing. 1615 1616 * It is very iust: Looke, heere comes good Sir 1617 *{#Iohn}. Giue me your hand, giue me your Worships good 1618 *hand: Trust me, you looke well: and beare your yeares 1619 very well. Welcome, good Sir {Iohn}. 1620 * I am glad to see you well, good M[aster]. {Robert Shal-low}: 1621 Master {Sure- card} as I thinke? 1622 * No sir {Iohn}, it is my Cosin {Silence}: in Commissi-on 1623 with mee. 1624 * Good M[aster]. {Silence}, it well befits you should be of 1625 the peace. 1626 Your good Worship is welcome. 1627 * Fye, this is hot weather (Gentlemen) haue you 1628 prouided me heere halfe a dozen of sufficient men? 1629 Marry haue we sir: Will you sit? 1630 Let me see them, I beseech you. 1631 * Where's the Roll? Where's the Roll? Where's 1632 *the Roll? Let me see, let me see, let me see: so, so, so, so: 1633 *yea marry Sir. {Raphe Mouldie}: let them appeare as I call: 1634 *let them do so, let them do so: Let mee see, Where is 1635 {Mouldie}? 1636 Heere, if it please you. 1637 * What thinke you (Sir {Iohn}) a good limb'd fel-low: 1638 yong, strong, and of good friends. 1639 Is thy name {Mouldie}? 1640 Yea, if it please you. 1641 'Tis the more time thou wert vs'd. 1642 * Ha, ha, ha, most excellent. Things that are moul-die, 1643 *lacke vse: very singular good. Well saide Sir {Iohn}, 1644 very well said. 1645 Pricke him. 1646 * I was prickt well enough before, if you could 1647 *haue let me alone: my old Dame will be vndone now, for 1648 *one to doe her Husbandry, and her Drudgery; you need 1649 *not to haue prickt me, there are other men fitter to goe 1650 out, then I. 1651 * Go #too: peace {Mouldie}, you shall goe. {Mouldie}, 1652 it is time you were spent. 1653 Spent? 1654 * Peace, fellow, peace; stand aside: Know you 1655 *where you are? For the other sir {Iohn}: Let me see: {Simon} 1656 {Shadow}. 1657 * #I marry, let me haue him to sit vnder: he's like to 1658 be a cold souldier. 1659 Where's {Shadow}? 1660 Heere sir. 1661 {Shadow}, whose sonne art thou? 1662 My Mothers sonne, Sir. 1663 * Thy Mothers sonne: like enough, and thy Fa-thers 1664 *shadow: so the sonne of the Female, is the shadow 1665 *of the Male: it is often so indeede, but not of the Fathers 1666 substance. 1667 Do you like him, sir {Iohn}? 1668 * {Shadow} will serue for Summer: pricke him: For 1669 *wee haue a number of shadowes to fill vppe the Muster- Booke. 1670 _ 1671 {Thomas Wart}? 1672 Where's he? 1673 Heere sir. 1674 Is thy name {Wart}? 1675 Yea sir. 1676 Thou art a very ragged Wart. 1677 Shall I pricke him downe, 1678 Sir {Iohn}? 1679 * It were superfluous: for his apparrel is built vp-on 1680 *his backe, and the whole frame stands vpon pins: prick 1681 him no more. 1682 * Ha, ha, ha, you can do it sir: you can doe it: I 1683 commend you well. 1684 {Francis Feeble}. 1685 Heere sir. 1686 What Trade art thou {Feeble}? 1687 A Womans Taylor sir. 1688 Shall I pricke him, sir? 1689 You may: 1690 *But if he had beene a mans Taylor, he would haue prick'd 1691 *you. Wilt thou make as many holes in an enemies Bat-taile, 1692 as thou hast done in a Womans petticote? 1693 * I will doe my good #will sir, you can haue no 1694 more. 1695 * Well said, good Womans Tailour: Well sayde 1696 *Couragious {Feeble}: thou wilt bee as valiant as the wrath-full 1697 *Doue, or most magnanimous Mouse. Pricke the wo-mans 1698 *Taylour well Master {Shallow}, deepe Maister {Shal-low}. 1699 _ 1700 I would {Wart} might haue gone sir. 1701 * I would thou wert a mans Tailor, that y might'st 1702 *mend him, and make him fit to goe. I cannot put him to 1703 *a priuate souldier, that is the Leader of so many thou-sands. 1704 Let that suffice, most Forcible {Feeble}. 1705 It shall suffice. 1706 * I am bound to thee, reuerend {Feeble}. Who is 1707 the next? 1708 {Peter Bulcalfe} of the Greene. 1709 Yea marry, let vs see {Bulcalfe}. 1710 Heere sir. 1711 * Trust me, a likely Fellow. Come, pricke me {Bul-calfe} 1712 till he roare againe. 1713 Oh, good my Lord Captaine. 1714 What? do'st thou roare before th'art prickt. 1715 Oh sir, I am a diseased man. 1716 What disease hast thou? 1717 * A whorson cold sir, a cough sir, which I caught 1718 *with Ringing in the Kings affayres, vpon his Coronation 1719 day, sir. 1720 * Come, thou shalt go to the Warres in a Gowne: 1721 *we will haue away thy Cold, and I will take such order, 1722 that thy friends shall ring for thee. Is heere all? 1723 * There is two more called then your number: 1724 *you must haue but foure heere sir, and so I pray you go in 1725 with me to dinner. 1726 * Come, I will goe drinke with you, but I cannot 1727 *tarry dinner. I am glad to see you in good troth, Master 1728 {Shallow}. 1729 * O sir {Iohn}, doe you remember since wee lay all 1730 night in the Winde- mill, in S[aint]. Georges Field. 1731 * No more of that good Master {Shallow}: No 1732 more of that. 1733 * Ha? it was a merry night. And is {Iane Night-worke} 1734 aliue? 1735 She liues, M[aster]. {Shallow}. 1736 She neuer could away with me. 1737 * Neuer, neuer: she would alwayes say shee could 1738 not abide M[aster]. {Shallow}. 1739 * I could anger her to the heart: shee was then a 1740 {Bona- Roba}. Doth she hold her owne well. 1741 Old, old, M[aster]. {Shallow}. 1742 * Nay, she must be old, she cannot choose but be

1743 *old: certaine shee's old: and had {Robin Night- worke}, by 1744 old {Night- worke}, before I came to {Clements} Inne. 1745 That's fiftie fiue yeeres agoe. 1746 * Hah, Cousin {Silence}, that thou hadst seene that, 1747 *that this Knight and I haue seene: hah, Sir {Iohn}, said I 1748 well? 1749 * Wee haue heard the Chymes at mid- night, Ma-ster 1750 {Shallow}. 1751 * That wee haue, that wee haue; in faith, Sir {Iohn}, 1752 *wee haue: our watch- word was, Hem- Boyes. Come, 1753 *let's to Dinner; come, let's to Dinner: Oh the dayes that 1754 wee haue seene. Come, come. 1755 * Good Master Corporate {Bardolph}, stand my 1756 *friend, and heere is foure {Harry} tenne shillings in French 1757 *Crownes for you: in very truth, sir, I had as lief be hang'd 1758 *sir, as goe: and yet, for mine owne part, sir, I do not care; 1759 *but rather, because I am vnwilling, and for mine owne 1760 *part, haue a desire to stay with my friends: else, sir, I did 1761 not care, for mine owne part, so much. 1762 Go- too: stand aside. 1763 * And good Master Corporall Captaine, for my 1764 *old Dames sake, stand my friend: shee hath no body to 1765 *doe any thing about her, when I am gone: and she is old, 1766 and cannot helpe her selfe: you shall haue fortie, sir. 1767 Go- too: stand aside. 1768 * I care not, a man can die but once: wee owe a 1769 *death. I will neuer beare a base minde: if it be my desti-nie, 1770 *so: if it be not, so: no man is too good to serue his 1771 *Prince: and let it goe which way it will, he that dies this 1772 yeere, is quit for the next. 1773 Well said, thou art a good fellow. 1774 Nay, I will beare no base minde. 1775 Come sir, which men shall I haue? 1776 Foure of which you please. 1777 * Sir, a word with you: I haue three pound, to 1778 free {Mouldie} and {Bull- calfe}. 1779 Go- too: well. 1780 Come, sir {Iohn}, which foure will you haue? 1781 Doe you chuse for me. 1782 * Marry then, {Mouldie}, {Bull- calfe}, {Feeble}, and 1783 {Shadow}. 1784 * {Mouldie}, and {Bull- calfe}: for you {Mouldie}, stay 1785 *at home, till you are past seruice: and for your part, {Bull- calfe}, 1786 grow till you come vnto it: I will none of you. 1787 * Sir {Iohn}, Sir {Iohn}, doe not your selfe wrong, they 1788 *are your likelyest men, and I would haue you seru'd with 1789 the best. 1790 * Will you tell me (Master {Shallow}) how to chuse 1791 *a man? Care I for the Limbe, the Thewes, the stature, 1792 *bulke, and bigge assemblance of a man? giue mee the 1793 *spirit (Master {Shallow}.) Where's {Wart}? you see what 1794 *a ragged appearance it is: hee shall charge you, and 1795 *discharge you, with the motion of a Pewterers Ham-mer: 1796 *come off, and on, swifter then hee that gibbets on 1797 *the Brewers Bucket. And this same halfe- fac'd fellow, 1798 *{Shadow}, giue me this man: hee presents no marke to the 1799 *Enemie, the foe- man may with as great ayme leuell at 1800 *the edge of a Pen- knife: and for a Retrait, how swiftly 1801 *will this {Feeble}, the Womans Taylor, runne off. O, giue 1802 *me the spare men, and spare me the great ones. Put me a 1803 Calyuer into {Warts} hand, {Bardolph}. 1804 Hold {Wart}, Trauerse: thus, thus, thus. 1805 * Come, manage me your Calyuer: so: very well, 1806 *go- too, very good, exceeding good. O, giue me alwayes 1807 *a little, leane, old, chopt, bald Shot. Well said {Wart}, thou 1808 art a good Scab: hold, there is a Tester for thee. 1809 * Hee is not his Crafts- master, hee doth not doe 1810 *it right. I remember at Mile- end- Greene, when I lay 1811 *at {Clements} Inne, I was then Sir {Dagonet} in {Arthurs} 1812 *Show: there was a little quiuer fellow, and hee would 1813 *manage you his Peece thus: and hee would about, 1814 *and about, and come you in, and come you in: Rah, 1815 *tah, tah, would hee say, Bownce would hee say, and 1816 *away againe would hee goe, and againe would he come: 1817 I shall neuer see such a fellow. 1818 * These fellowes will doe well, Master {Shallow}. 1819 *Farewell Master {Silence}, I will not vse many wordes with 1820 *you: fare you well, Gentlemen both: I thanke you: 1821 *I must a dozen mile to night. {Bardolph}, giue the Souldiers 1822 Coates. 1823 * Sir {Iohn}, Heauen blesse you, and prosper your 1824 *Affaires, and send vs Peace. As you returne, visit 1825 *my house. Let our old acquaintance be renewed: per-aduenture 1826 I will with you to the Court. 1827 I would you would, Master {Shallow}. 1828 * Go- too: I haue spoke at a word. Fare you 1829 well. 1830 * Fare you well, gentle Gentlemen. On {Bar-dolph}, 1831 *leade the men away. As I returne, I will fetch off 1832 *these Iustices: I doe see the bottome of Iustice {Shal-low}. 1833 *How subiect wee old men are to this vice of Ly-ing? 1834 *This same staru'd Iustice hath done nothing but 1835 *prate to me of the wildenesse of his Youth, and the 1836 *Feates hee hath done about Turnball- street, and euery 1837 *third word a Lye, duer pay'd to the hearer, then the 1838 *Turkes Tribute. I doe remember him at {Clements} Inne, 1839 *like a man made after Supper, of a Cheese- paring. When 1840 *hee was naked, hee was, for all the world, like a forked 1841 *Radish, with a Head fantastically caru'd vpon it with a 1842 *Knife. Hee was so forlorne, that his Dimensions (to 1843 *any thicke sight) were inuincible. Hee was the very 1844 *{Genius} of Famine: hee came euer in the rere- ward of 1845 *the Fashion: And now is this Vices Dagger become a 1846 *Squire, and talkes as familiarly of {Iohn} of Gaunt, as if 1847 *hee had beene sworne Brother to him: and Ile be sworne 1848 *hee neuer saw him but once in the Tilt- yard, and then he 1849 *burst his Head, for crowding among the Marshals men. 1850 *I saw it, and told {Iohn} of Gaunt, hee beat his owne 1851 *Name, for you might haue truss'd him and all his Ap-parrell 1852 *into an Eele- skinne: the Case of a Treble Hoe-boy 1853 *was a Mansion for him: a Court: and now hath 1854 *hee Land, and Beeues. Well, I will be acquainted with 1855 *him, if I returne: and it shall goe hard, but I will make 1856 *him a Philosophers two Stones to me. If the young 1857 *Dace be a Bayt for the old Pike, I see no reason, in the 1858 *Law of Nature, but I may snap at him. Let time shape, 1859 and there an end. 1860 1861 1863 What is this Forrest call'd? 1864 * 'Tis Gaultree Forrest, and't shall please your 1865 Grace. 1866 * Here stand (my Lords) and send discouerers forth, 1867 To know the numbers of our Enemies.

1868 Wee haue sent forth alreadie. 1869 'Tis well done. 1870 My Friends, and Brethren (in these great Affaires) 1871 I must acquaint you, that I haue receiu'd 1872 New- dated Letters from {Northumberland}: 1873 Their cold intent, tenure, and substance thus. 1874 Here doth hee wish his Person, with such Powers 1875 As might hold sortance with his Qualitie, 1876 The which hee could not leuie: whereupon 1877 Hee is retyr'd, to ripe his growing Fortunes, 1878 To Scotland; and concludes in heartie prayers, 1879 That your Attempts may ouer- liue the hazard, 1880 And fearefull meeting of their Opposite. 1881 * Thus do the hopes we haue in him, touch ground, 1882 And dash themselues to pieces. 1883 1884 Now? what newes? 1885 West of this Forrest, scarcely off a mile, 1886 In goodly forme, comes on the Enemie: 1887 And by the ground they hide, I iudge their number 1888 Vpon, or neere, the rate of thirtie thousand. 1889 The iust proportion that we gaue them out. 1890 Let vs sway- on, and face them in the field. 1891 1892 What well- appointed Leader fronts vs here? 1893 I thinke it is my Lord of Westmerland. 1894 Health, and faire greeting from our Generall, 1895 The Prince, Lord {Iohn}, and Duke of Lancaster. 1896 Say on (my Lord of Westmerland) in peace: 1897 What doth concerne your comming? 1898 Then (my Lord) 1899 Vnto your Grace doe I in chiefe addresse 1900 The substance of my Speech. If that Rebellion 1901 Came like it selfe, in base and abiect Routs, 1902 Led on by bloodie Youth, guarded with Rage, 1903 And countenanc'd by Boyes, and Beggerie: 1904 I say, if damn'd Commotion so appeare, 1905 In his true, natiue, and most proper shape, 1906 You (Reuerend Father, and these Noble Lords) 1907 Had not beene here, to dresse the ougly forme 1908 Of base, and bloodie Insurrection, 1909 With your faire Honors. You, Lord Arch- bishop, 1910 Whose Sea is by a Ciuill Peace maintain'd, 1911 Whose Beard, the Siluer Hand of Peace hath touch'd, 1912 Whose Learning, and good Letters, Peace hath tutor'd, 1913 Whose white Inuestments figure Innocence, 1914 The Doue, and very blessed Spirit of Peace. 1915 Wherefore doe you so #ill translate your selfe, 1916 Out of the Speech of Peace, that beares such grace, 1917 Into the harsh and boystrous Tongue of Warre? 1918 Turning your Bookes to Graues, your Inke to Blood, 1919 Your Pennes to Launces, and your Tongue diuine 1920 To a lowd Trumpet, and a Point of Warre. 1921 Wherefore doe I this? so the Question stands. 1922 Briefely to this end: Wee are all diseas'd, 1923 And with our surfetting, and wanton howres, 1924 Haue brought our selues into a burning Feuer, 1925 And wee must bleede for it: of which Disease, 1926 Our late King {Richard} (being infected) dy'd. 1927 But (my most Noble Lord of Westmerland) 1928 I take not on me here as a Physician, 1929 Nor doe I, as an Enemie to Peace, 1930 Troope in the Throngs of Militarie men: 1931 But rather shew #a while like fearefull Warre, 1932 To dyet ranke Mindes, sicke of happinesse, 1933 And purge th' obstructions, which begin to stop 1934 Our very Veines of Life: heare me more plainely. 1935 I haue in equall ballance iustly weigh'd, 1936 *What wrongs our Arms may do, what wrongs we suffer, 1937 And finde our Griefes heauier then our Offences. 1938 Wee see which way the streame of Time doth runne, 1939 And are enforc'd from our most quiet there, 1940 By the rough Torrent of Occasion, 1941 And haue the summarie of all our Griefes 1942 (When time shall serue) to shew in Articles; 1943 Which long ere this, wee offer'd to the King, 1944 And might, by no Suit, gayne our Audience: 1945 When wee are wrong'd, and would vnfold our Griefes, 1946 Wee are deny'd accesse vnto his Person, 1947 Euen by those men, that most haue done vs wrong. 1948 The dangers of the dayes but newly gone, 1949 Whose memorie is written on the Earth 1950 With yet appearing blood; and the examples 1951 Of euery Minutes instance (present now) 1952 Hath put vs in these ill- beseeming Armes: 1953 Not to breake Peace, or any Branch of it, 1954 But to establish here a Peace indeede, 1955 Concurring both in Name and Qualitie. 1956 When euer yet was your Appeale deny'd? 1957 Wherein haue you beene galled by the King? 1958 What Peere hath beene suborn'd, to grate on you, 1959 That you should seale this lawlesse bloody Booke 1960 Of forg'd Rebellion, with a Seale diuine? 1961 My Brother generall, the Common- wealth, 1962 I make my Quarrell, in particular. 1963 There is no neede of any such redresse: 1964 Or if there were, it not belongs to you. 1965 Why not to him in part, and to vs all, 1966 That feele the bruizes of the dayes before, 1967 And suffer the Condition of these Times 1968 To lay a heauie and vnequall Hand vpon our Honors? 1969 O my good Lord {Mowbray}, 1970 Construe the Times to their Necessities, 1971 And you shall say (indeede) it is the Time, 1972 And not the King, that doth you iniuries. 1973 Yet for your part, it not appeares to me, 1974 Either from the King, or in the present Time, 1975 That you should haue an ynch of any ground 1976 To build a Griefe on: were you not restor'd 1977 To all the Duke of Norfolkes Seignories, 1978 Your Noble, and right well- remembred Fathers? 1979 What thing, in Honor, had my Father lost, 1980 That need to be reuiu'd, and breath'd in me? 1981 The King that lou'd him, as the State stood then, 1982 Was forc'd, perforce compell'd to banish him: 1983 And then, that {Henry Bullingbrooke} and hee 1984 Being mounted, and both rowsed in their Seates, 1985 Their neighing Coursers daring of the Spurre, 1986 Their armed Staues in charge, their Beauers downe, 1987 Their eyes of fire, sparkling through sights of Steele, 1988 And the lowd Trumpet blowing them together: 1989 Then, then, when there was nothing could haue stay'd 1990 My Father from the Breast of {Bullingbrooke}; 1991 O, when the King did throw his Warder downe, 1992 (His owne Life hung vpon the Staffe hee threw) 1993 Then threw hee downe himselfe, and all their Liues, 1994 That by Indictment, and by dint of Sword, 1995 Haue since mis- carryed vnder {Bullingbrooke}.

1996 * You speak (Lord {Mowbray}) now you know not what. 1997 The Earle of Hereford was reputed then 1998 In England the most valiant Gentleman. 1999 *Who knowes, on whom Fortune would then haue smil'd? 2000 But if your Father had beene Victor there, 2001 Hee ne're had borne it out of Couentry. 2002 For all the Countrey, in a generall voyce, 2003 Cry'd hate vpon him: and all their prayers, and loue, 2004 Were set on {Herford}, whom they doted on, 2005 And bless'd, and grac'd, and did more then the King. 2006 But this is meere digression from my purpose. 2007 Here come I from our Princely Generall, 2008 To know your Griefes; to tell you, from his Grace, 2009 That hee will giue you Audience: and wherein 2010 It shall appeare, that your demands are iust, 2011 You shall enioy them, euery thing set off, 2012 That might so much as thinke you Enemies. 2013 But hee hath forc'd vs to compell this Offer, 2014 And it proceedes from Pollicy, not Loue. 2015 {Mowbray}, you ouer- weene to take it so: 2016 This Offer comes from Mercy, not from Feare. 2017 For loe, within a Ken our Army lyes, 2018 Vpon mine Honor, all too confident 2019 To giue admittance to a thought of feare. 2020 Our Battaile is more full of Names then yours, 2021 Our Men more perfect in the vse of Armes, 2022 Our Armor all as strong, our Cause the best; 2023 Then Reason will, our hearts should be as good. 2024 Say you not then, our Offer is compell'd. 2025 Well, by my #will, wee shall admit no Parley. 2026 That argues but the shame of your offence: 2027 A rotten Case abides no handling. 2028 Hath the Prince {Iohn} a full Commission, 2029 In very ample vertue of his Father, 2030 To heare, and absolutely to determine 2031 Of what Conditions wee shall stand vpon? 2032 That is intended in the Generals Name: 2033 I muse you make so slight a Question. 2034 * Then take (my Lord of Westmerland) this Schedule, 2035 For this containes our generall Grieuances: 2036 Each seuerall Article herein redress'd, 2037 All members of our Cause, both here, and hence, 2038 That are insinewed to this Action, 2039 Acquitted by a true substantiall forme, 2040 And present execution of our wills, 2041 To vs, and to our purposes confin'd, 2042 Wee come within our awfull Banks againe, 2043 And knit our Powers to the Arme of Peace. 2044 * This will I shew the Generall. Please you Lords, 2045 In sight of both our Battailes, wee may meete 2046 At either end in peace: which Heauen so frame, 2047 Or to the place of difference call the Swords, 2048 Which must decide it. 2049 My Lord, wee will doe so. 2050 There is a thing within my Bosome tells me, 2051 That no Conditions of our Peace can stand. 2052 Feare you not, that if wee can make our Peace 2053 Vpon such large termes, and so absolute, 2054 As our Conditions shall consist vpon, 2055 Our Peace shall stand as firme as Rockie Mountaines. 2056 #I, but our valuation shall be such, 2057 That euery slight, and false- deriued Cause, 2058 Yea, euery idle, nice, and wanton Reason, 2059 Shall, to the King, taste of this Action: 2060 That were our Royall faiths, Martyrs in Loue, 2061 Wee shall be winnowed with so rough a winde, 2062 That euen our Corne shall seeme as light as Chaffe, 2063 And good from bad finde no partition. 2064 No, no (my Lord) note this: the King is wearie 2065 Of daintie, and such picking Grieuances: 2066 For hee hath found, to end one doubt by Death, 2067 Reuiues two greater in the Heires of Life. 2068 And therefore will hee wipe his Tables cleane, 2069 And keepe no Tell- tale to his Memorie, 2070 That may repeat, and Historie his losse, 2071 To new remembrance. For full well hee knowes, 2072 Hee cannot so precisely weede this Land, 2073 As his mis- doubts present occasion: 2074 His foes are so en- rooted with his friends, 2075 That plucking to vnfixe an Enemie, 2076 Hee doth vnfasten so, and shake a friend. 2077 So that this Land, like an offensiue wife, 2078 That hath enrag'd him on, to offer strokes, 2079 As he is striking, holds his Infant vp, 2080 And hangs resolu'd Correction in the Arme, 2081 That was vprear'd to execution. 2082 Besides, the King hath wasted all his Rods, 2083 On late Offenders, that he now doth lacke 2084 The very Instruments of Chasticement: 2085 So that his power, like to a Fanglesse Lion 2086 May offer, but not hold. 2087 'Tis very true: 2088 And therefore be assur'd (my good Lord Marshal) 2089 If we do now make our attonement well, 2090 Our Peace, will (like a broken Limbe vnited) 2091 Grow stronger, for the breaking. 2092 Be it so: 2093 Heere is return'd my Lord of Westmerland. 2094 2095 * The Prince is here at hand: pleaseth your Lordship 2096 To meet his Grace, iust distance 'tweene our Armies? 2097 * Your Grace of Yorke, in heauen's name then 2098 forward. 2099 * Before, and greet his Grace (my Lord) we come. 2100 2101 * You are wel encountred here (my cosin {Mowbray}) 2102 Good day to you, gentle Lord Archbishop, 2103 And so to you Lord {Hastings}, and to all. 2104 My Lord of Yorke, it better shew'd with you, 2105 When that your Flocke (assembled by the Bell) 2106 Encircled you, to heare with reuerence 2107 Your exposition on the holy Text, 2108 Then now to see you heere an Iron man 2109 Chearing a rowt of Rebels with your Drumme, 2110 Turning the Word, to Sword; and Life to death: 2111 That man that sits within a Monarches heart, 2112 And ripens in the Sunne- shine of his fauor, 2113 Would hee abuse the Countenance of the King, 2114 Alack, what Mischiefes might hee set abroach, 2115 In shadow of such Greatnesse? With you, Lord Bishop, 2116 It is euen so. Who hath not heard it spoken, 2117 How deepe you were within the Bookes of Heauen? 2118 To vs, the Speaker in his Parliament; 2119 To vs, th' imagine Voyce of Heauen it selfe: 2120 The very Opener, and Intelligencer, 2121 Betweene the Grace, the Sanctities of Heauen; 2122 And our dull workings. O, who shall beleeue, 2123 But you mis- vse the reuerence of your Place, 2124 Employ the Countenance, and Grace of Heauen, 2125 As a false Fauorite doth his Princes Name, 2126 In deedes dis- honorable? You haue taken vp,

2127 Vnder the counterfeited Zeale of Heauen, 2128 The Subiects of Heauens Substitute, my Father, 2129 And both against the Peace of Heauen, and him, 2130 Haue here vp- swarmed them. 2131 Good my Lord of Lancaster, 2132 I am not here against your Fathers Peace: 2133 But (as I told my Lord of Westmerland) 2134 The Time (mis- order'd) doth in common sence 2135 Crowd vs, and crush vs, to this monstrous Forme, 2136 To hold our safetie vp. I sent your Grace 2137 The parcels, and particulars of our Griefe, 2138 *The which hath been with scorne shou'd from the Court: 2139 Whereon this {Hydra}- Sonne of Warre is borne, 2140 Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd asleepe, 2141 With graunt of our most iust and right desires; 2142 And true Obedience, of this Madnesse cur'd, 2143 Stoope tamely to the foot of Maiestie. 2144 If not, wee readie are to trye our fortunes, 2145 To the last man. 2146 And though wee here fall downe, 2147 Wee haue Supplyes, to second our Attempt: 2148 If they mis- carry, theirs shall second them. 2149 And so, successe of Mischiefe shall be borne, 2150 And Heire from Heire shall hold this Quarrell vp, 2151 Whiles England shall haue generation. 2152 You are too shallow ({Hastings}) 2153 Much too shallow, 2154 To sound the bottome of the after- Times. 2155 Pleaseth your Grace, to answere them directly, 2156 How farre- forth you doe like their Articles. 2157 I like them all, and doe allow them well: 2158 And sweare here, by the honor of my blood, 2159 My Fathers purposes haue beene mistooke, 2160 And some, about him, haue too lauishly 2161 Wrested his meaning, and Authoritie. 2162 My Lord, these Griefes shall be with speed redrest: 2163 Vpon my Life, they shall. If this may please you, 2164 Discharge your Powers vnto their seuerall Counties, 2165 As wee will ours: and here, betweene the Armies, 2166 Let's drinke together friendly, and embrace, 2167 That all their eyes may beare those Tokens home, 2168 Of our restored Loue, and Amitie. 2169 I take your Princely word, for these redresses. 2170 I giue it you, and will maintaine my word: 2171 And thereupon I drinke vnto your Grace. 2172 Goe Captaine, and deliuer to the Armie 2173 This newes of Peace: let them haue pay, and part: 2174 I know, it will well please them. 2175 High thee Captaine. 2176 To you, my Noble Lord of Westmerland. 2177 I pledge your Grace: 2178 And if you knew what paines I haue bestow'd, 2179 To breede this present Peace, 2180 You would drinke freely: but my loue to ye, 2181 Shall shew it selfe more openly hereafter. 2182 I doe not doubt you. 2183 I am glad of it. 2184 Health to my Lord, and gentle Cousin {Mowbray}. 2185 You wish me health in very happy season, 2186 For I am, on the sodaine, something #ill. 2187 Against #ill Chances, men are euer merry, 2188 But heauinesse fore- runnes the good euent. 2189 * Therefore be merry (Cooze) since sodaine sorrow 2190 Serues to say thus: some good thing comes to morrow. 2191 Beleeue me, I am passing light in spirit. 2192 So much the worse, if your owne Rule be true. 2193 * The word of Peace is render'd: hearke how 2194 they showt. 2195 This had been chearefull, after Victorie. 2196 A Peace is of the nature of a Conquest: 2197 For then both parties nobly are subdu'd, 2198 And neither partie looser. 2199 Goe (my Lord) 2200 And let our Army be discharged too: 2201 And good my Lord (so please you) let our Traines 2202 March by vs, that wee may peruse the men 2203 Wee should haue coap'd withall. 2204 Goe, good Lord {Hastings}: 2205 And ere they be dismiss'd, let them march by. 2206 I trust (Lords) wee shall lye to night together. 2207 2208 Now Cousin, wherefore stands our Army still? 2209 The Leaders hauing charge from you to stand, 2210 Will not goe off, vntill they heare you speake. 2211 They know their duties. 2212 Our Army is dispers'd: 2213 *Like youthfull Steeres, vnyoak'd, they tooke their course 2214 East, West, North, South: or like a Schoole, broke vp, 2215 Each hurryes towards his home, and sporting place. 2216 * Good tidings (my Lord {Hastings}) for the which, 2217 I doe arrest thee (Traytor) of high Treason: 2218 And you Lord Arch- bishop, and you Lord {Mowbray}, 2219 Of Capitall Treason, I attach you both. 2220 Is this proceeding iust, and honorable? 2221 Is your Assembly so? 2222 Will you thus breake your faith? 2223 I pawn'd thee none: 2224 I promis'd you redresse of these same Grieuances 2225 Whereof you did complaine; which, by mine Honor, 2226 I will performe, with a most Christian care. 2227 But for you (Rebels) looke to taste the due 2228 Meet for Rebellion, and such Acts as yours. 2229 Most shallowly did you these Armes commence, 2230 Fondly brought here, and foolishly sent hence. 2231 Strike vp our Drummes, pursue the scatter'd stray, 2232 Heauen, and not wee, haue safely fought to day. 2233 Some guard these Traitors to the Block of Death, 2234 Treasons true Bed, and yeelder vp of breath. 2235 2236 * What's your Name, Sir? of what Condition are 2237 you? and of what place, I pray? 2238 I am a Knight, Sir: 2239 And my Name is {Colleuile} of the Dale. 2240 * Well then, {Colleuile} is your Name, a Knight is 2241 *your Degree, and your Place, the Dale. {Colleuile} shall 2242 *still be your Name, a Traytor your Degree, and the Dun-geon 2243 *your Place, a place deepe enough: so shall you be 2244 still {Colleuile} of the Dale. 2245 Are not you Sir {Iohn Falstaffe}? 2246 * As good a man as he sir, who ere I am: doe yee 2247 *yeelde sir, or shall I sweate for you? if I doe sweate, they 2248 *are the drops of thy Louers, and they weep for thy death, 2249 *therefore rowze vp Feare and Trembling, and do obser-uance 2250 to my mercy. 2251 * I thinke you are Sir {Iohn Falstaffe}, & in that thought 2252 yeeld me. 2253 * I haue a whole Schoole of tongues in this belly of 2254 *mine, and not a Tongue of them all, speakes anie other 2255 *word but my name: #and I had but a belly of any indiffe-rencie, 2256 *I were simply the most actiue fellow in Europe: 2257 *my wombe, my wombe, my wombe vndoes mee. Heere 2258 comes our Generall.

2259 2260 The heat is past, follow no farther now: 2261 Call in the Powers, good Cousin {Westmerland}. 2262 Now {Falstaffe}, where haue you beene all this while? 2263 When euery thing is ended, then you come. 2264 These tardie Tricks of yours will (on my life) 2265 One time, or other, breake some Gallowes back. 2266 * I would bee sorry (my Lord) but it should bee 2267 *thus: I neuer knew yet, but rebuke and checke was the 2268 *reward of Valour. Doe you thinke me a Swallow, an Ar-row, 2269 *or a Bullet? Haue I, in my poore and olde Motion, 2270 *the expedition of Thought? I haue speeded hither with 2271 *the very extremest ynch of possibilitie. I haue fowndred 2272 *nine score and odde Postes: and heere (trauell- tainted 2273 *as I am) haue, in my pure and immaculate Valour, taken 2274 *Sir {Iohn Colleuile} of the Dale, a most furious Knight, and 2275 *valorous Enemie: But what of that? hee saw mee, and 2276 *yeelded: that I may iustly say with the hooke- nos'd 2277 fellow of Rome, I came, saw, and ouer- came. 2278 * It was more of his Courtesie, then your deser-uing. 2279 _ 2280 * I know not: heere hee is, and heere I yeeld 2281 *him: and I beseech your Grace, let it be book'd, with 2282 *the rest of this dayes deedes; or I sweare, I will haue it 2283 *in a particular Ballad, with mine owne Picture on the top 2284 *of it ({Colleuile} kissing my foot:) To the which course, if 2285 *I be enforc'd, if you do not all shew like gilt two- pences 2286 *to me; and I, in the cleare Skie of Fame, o're- shine you 2287 *as much as the Full Moone doth the Cynders of the Ele-ment 2288 *(which shew like Pinnes- heads to her) beleeue not 2289 *the Word of the Noble: therefore let mee haue right, 2290 and let desert mount. 2291 Thine's too heauie to mount. 2292 Let it shine then. 2293 Thine's too thick to shine. 2294 * Let it doe something (my good Lord) that may 2295 doe me good, and call it what you will. 2296 Is thy Name {Colleuile}? 2297 It is (my Lord.) 2298 A famous Rebell art thou, {Colleuile}. 2299 And a famous true Subiect tooke him. 2300 I am (my Lord) but as my Betters are, 2301 That led me hither: had they beene rul'd by me, 2302 You should haue wonne them dearer then you haue. 2303 * I know not how they sold themselues, but thou 2304 *like a kinde fellow, gau'st thy selfe away; and I thanke 2305 thee, for thee. 2306 2307 Haue you left pursuit? 2308 Retreat is made, and Execution stay'd. 2309 Send {Colleuile}, with his Confederates, 2310 To Yorke, to present Execution. 2311 {Blunt}, leade him hence, and see you guard him sure. 2312 2313 And now dispatch we toward the Court (my Lords) 2314 I heare the King, my Father, is sore sicke. 2315 Our Newes shall goe before vs, to his Maiestie, 2316 Which (Cousin) you shall beare, to comfort him: 2317 And wee with sober speede will follow you. 2318 * My Lord, I beseech you, giue me leaue to goe 2319 *through Gloucestershire: and when you come to Court, 2320 stand my good Lord, 'pray, in your good report. 2321 Fare you well, {Falstaffe}: I, in my condition, 2322 Shall better speake of you, then you deserue. 2323 * I would you had but the wit: 'twere better 2324 *then your Dukedome. Good faith, this same young so-ber- blooded 2325 *Boy doth not loue me, nor a man cannot 2326 *make him laugh: but that's no maruaile, hee drinkes no 2327 *Wine. There's neuer any of these demure Boyes come 2328 *to any proofe: for thinne Drinke doth so ouer- coole 2329 *their blood, and making many Fish- Meales, that they 2330 *fall into a kinde of Male Greene- sicknesse: and then, 2331 *when they marry, they get Wenches. They are generally 2332 *Fooles, and Cowards; which some of vs should be too, 2333 *but for inflamation. A good Sherris- Sack hath a two- fold 2334 *operation in it: it ascends me into the Braine, dryes 2335 *me there all the foolish, and dull, and cruddie Vapours, 2336 *which enuiron it: makes it apprehensiue, quicke, forge-tiue, 2337 *full of nimble, fierie, and delectable shapes; which 2338 *deliuer'd o're to the Voyce, the Tongue, which is the 2339 *Birth, becomes excellent Wit. The second propertie of 2340 *your excellent Sherris, is, the warming of the Blood: 2341 *which before (cold, and setled) left the Liuer white, and 2342 *pale; which is the Badge of Pusillanimitie, and Cowar-dize: 2343 *but the Sherris warmes it, and makes it course 2344 *from the inwards, to the parts extremes: it illuminateth 2345 *the Face, which (as a Beacon) giues warning to all the 2346 *rest of this little Kingdome (Man) to Arme: and then 2347 *the Vitall Commoners, and in- land pettie Spirits, muster 2348 *me all to their Captaine, the Heart; who great, and pufft 2349 *vp with his Retinue, doth any Deed of Courage: and this 2350 *Valour comes of Sherris. So, that skill in the Weapon 2351 *is nothing, without Sack (for that sets it a- worke:) and 2352 *Learning, a meere Hoord of Gold, kept by a Deuill, till 2353 *Sack commences it, and sets it in act, and vse. Hereof 2354 *comes it, that Prince {Harry} is valiant: for the cold blood 2355 *hee did naturally inherite of his Father, hee hath, like 2356 *leane, stirrill, and bare Land, manured, husbanded, and 2357 *tyll'd, with excellent endeauour of drinking good, and 2358 *good store of fertile Sherris, that hee is become very hot, 2359 *and valiant. If I had a thousand Sonnes, the first Principle 2360 *I would teach them, should be to forsweare thinne Pota-tions, 2361 *and to addict themselues to Sack. 2362 How now {Bardolph}? 2363 The Armie is discharged all, and gone. 2364 * Let them goe: Ile through Gloucestershire, 2365 *and there will I visit Master {Robert Shallow}, Esquire: I 2366 *haue him alreadie tempering betweene my finger and my 2367 thombe, and shortly will I seale with him. Come away. 2368 2369 2370 2371 * Now Lords, if Heauen doth giue successefull end 2372 To this Debate, that bleedeth at our doores, 2373 Wee will our Youth lead on to higher Fields, 2374 And draw no Swords, but what are sanctify'd. 2375 Our Nauie is addressed, our Power collected, 2376 Our Substitutes, in absence, well inuested, 2377 And euery thing lyes leuell to our wish; 2378 Onely wee want a little personall Strength: 2379 And pawse vs, till these Rebels, now a- foot, 2380 Come vnderneath the yoake of Gouernment. 2381 Both which we doubt not, but your Maiestie 2382 Shall soone enioy.

2383 * {Humphrey} (my Sonne of Gloucester) where is 2384 the Prince, your Brother? 2385 * I thinke hee's gone to hunt (my Lord) at Wind-sor. 2386 _ 2387 And how accompanied? 2388 I doe not know (my Lord.) 2389 * Is not his Brother, {Thomas} of Clarence, with 2390 him? 2391 No (my good Lord) hee is in presence heere. 2392 What would my Lord, and Father? 2393 * Nothing but well to thee, {Thomas} of Clarence. 2394 How chance thou art not with the Prince, thy Brother? 2395 Hee loues thee, and thou do'st neglect him ({Thomas}.) 2396 Thou hast a better place in his Affection, 2397 Then all thy Brothers: cherish it (my Boy) 2398 And Noble Offices thou may'st effect 2399 Of Mediation (after I am dead) 2400 Betweene his Greatnesse, and thy other Brethren. 2401 Therefore omit him not: blunt not his Loue, 2402 Nor loose the good aduantage of his Grace, 2403 By seeming cold, or carelesse of his #will. 2404 For hee is gracious, if hee be obseru'd: 2405 Hee hath a Teare for Pitie, and a Hand 2406 Open (as Day) for melting Charitie: 2407 Yet notwithstanding, being incens'd, hee's Flint, 2408 As humorous as Winter, and as sudden, 2409 As Flawes congealed in the Spring of day. 2410 His temper therefore must be well obseru'd: 2411 Chide him for faults, and doe it reuerently, 2412 When you perceiue his blood enclin'd to mirth: 2413 But being moodie, giue him Line, and scope, 2414 Till that his passions (like a Whale on ground) 2415 *Confound themselues with working. Learne this {Thomas}, 2416 And thou shalt proue a shelter to thy friends, 2417 A Hoope of Gold, to binde thy Brothers in: 2418 That the vnited Vessell of their Blood 2419 (Mingled with Venome of Suggestion, 2420 As force, perforce, the Age will powre it in) 2421 Shall neuer leake, though it doe worke as strong 2422 As {Aconitum}, or rash Gun- powder. 2423 I shall obserue him with all care, and loue. 2424 * Why art thou not at Windsor with him ({Tho-mas}?) 2425 _ 2426 * Hee is not there to day: hee dines in Lon-don. 2427 _ 2428 * And how accompanyed? Canst thou tell 2429 that? 2430 * With {Pointz}, and other his continuall fol-lowers. 2431 _ 2432 Most subiect is the fattest Soyle to Weedes: 2433 And hee (the Noble Image of my Youth) 2434 Is ouer- spread with them: therefore my griefe 2435 Stretches it selfe beyond the howre of death. 2436 The blood weepes from my heart, when I doe shape 2437 (In formes imaginarie) th' vnguided Dayes, 2438 And rotten Times, that you shall looke vpon, 2439 When I am sleeping with my Ancestors. 2440 For when his head- strong Riot hath no Curbe, 2441 When Rage and hot- Blood are his Counsailors, 2442 When Meanes and lauish Manners meete together; 2443 Oh, with what Wings shall his Affections flye 2444 Towards fronting Perill, and oppos'd Decay? 2445 * My gracious Lord, you looke beyond him quite: 2446 The Prince but studies his Companions, 2447 *Like a strange Tongue: wherein, to gaine the Language, 2448 'Tis needfull, that the most immodest word 2449 Be look'd vpon, and learn'd: which once attayn'd, 2450 Your Highnesse knowes, comes to no farther vse, 2451 But to be knowne, and hated. So, like grosse termes, 2452 The Prince will, in the perfectnesse of time, 2453 Cast off his followers: and their memorie 2454 Shall as a Patterne, or a Measure, liue, 2455 By which his Grace must mete the liues of others, 2456 Turning past- euills to aduantages. 2457 * 'Tis seldome, when the #Bee doth leaue her Combe 2458 In the dead Carrion. 2459 2460 Who's heere? {Westmerland}? 2461 Health to my Soueraigne, and new happinesse 2462 Added to that, that I am to deliuer. 2463 Prince {Iohn}, your Sonne, doth kisse your Graces Hand: 2464 {Mowbray}, the Bishop, {Scroope}, {Hastings}, and all, 2465 Are brought to the Correction of your Law. 2466 There is not now a Rebels Sword vnsheath'd, 2467 But Peace puts forth her Oliue euery where: 2468 The manner how this Action hath beene borne, 2469 Here (at more leysure) may your Highnesse reade, 2470 With euery course, in his particular. 2471 O {Westmerland}, thou art a Summer Bird, 2472 Which euer in the haunch of Winter sings 2473 The lifting vp of day. 2474 2475 Looke, heere's more newes. 2476 From Enemies, Heauen keepe your Maiestie: 2477 And when they stand against you, may they fall, 2478 As those that I am come to tell you of. 2479 The Earle {Northumberland}, and the Lord {Bardolfe}, 2480 With a great Power of English, and of Scots, 2481 Are by the Sherife of Yorkeshire ouerthrowne: 2482 The manner, and true order of the fight, 2483 This Packet (please it you) containes at large. 2484 And wherefore should these good newes 2485 Make me sicke? 2486 Will Fortune neuer come with both hands full, 2487 But write her faire words still in foulest Letters? 2488 Shee eyther giues a Stomack, and no Foode, 2489 (Such are the poore, in health) or else a Feast, 2490 And takes away the Stomack (such are the Rich, 2491 That haue aboundance, and enioy it not.) 2492 I should reioyce now, at this happy newes, 2493 And now my Sight fayles, and my Braine is giddie. 2494 O me, come neere me, now I am much #ill. 2495 Comfort your Maiestie. 2496 Oh, my Royall Father. 2497 * My Soueraigne Lord, cheare vp your selfe, looke 2498 vp. 2499 Be patient (Princes) you doe know, these Fits 2500 Are with his Highnesse very ordinarie. 2501 Stand from him, giue him ayre: 2502 Hee'le straight be well. 2503 No, no, hee cannot long hold out: these pangs, 2504 Th' incessant care, and labour of his Minde, 2505 Hath wrought the Mure, that should confine it in, 2506 So thinne, that Life lookes through, and will breake out. 2507 The people feare me: for they doe obserue 2508 Vnfather'd Heires, and loathly Births of Nature: 2509 The Seasons change their manners, as the Yeere 2510 Had found some Moneths asleepe, and leap'd them ouer. 2511 * The Riuer hath thrice flow'd, no ebbe betweene: 2512 And the old folke (Times doting Chronicles) 2513 Say it did so, a little time before 2514 That our great Grand- sire {Edward} sick'd, and dy'de.

2515 * Speake lower (Princes) for the King reco-uers. 2516 _ 2517 This Apoplexie will (certaine) be his end. 2518 I pray you take me vp, and beare me hence 2519 Into some other Chamber: softly 'pray. 2520 Let there be no noyse made (my gentle friends) 2521 Vnlesse some dull and fauourable hand 2522 Will whisper Musicke to my wearie Spirit. 2523 Call for the Musicke in the other Roome. 2524 Set me the Crowne vpon my Pillow here. 2525 His eye is hollow, and hee changes much. 2526 Lesse noyse, lesse noyse. 2527 2528 Who saw the Duke of Clarence? 2529 I am here (Brother) full of heauinesse. 2530 * How now? Raine within doores, and none 2531 abroad? How doth the King? 2532 Exceeding #ill. 2533 Heard hee the good newes yet? 2534 Tell it him. 2535 Hee alter'd much, vpon the hearing it. 2536 If hee be sicke with Ioy, 2537 Hee'le recouer without Physicke. 2538 Not so much noyse (my Lords) 2539 Sweet Prince speake lowe, 2540 The King, your Father, is dispos'd to sleepe. 2541 Let vs with- draw into the other Roome. 2542 #Wil't please your Grace to goe along with vs? 2543 No: I will sit, and watch here, by the King. 2544 Why doth the Crowne lye there, vpon his Pillow, 2545 Being so troublesome a Bed- fellow? 2546 O pollish'd Perturbation! Golden Care! 2547 That keep'st the Ports of Slumber open wide, 2548 To many a watchfull Night: sleepe with it now, 2549 Yet not so sound, and halfe so deepely sweete, 2550 As hee whose Brow (with homely Biggen bound) 2551 Snores out the Watch of Night. O Maiestie! 2552 When thou do'st pinch thy Bearer, thou do'st sit 2553 Like a rich Armor, worne in heat of day, 2554 That scald'st with safetie: by his Gates of breath, 2555 There lyes a dowlney feather, which stirres not: 2556 Did hee suspire, that light and weightlesse dowlne 2557 Perforce must moue. My gracious Lord, my Father, 2558 This sleepe is sound indeede: this is a sleepe, 2559 That from this Golden Rigoll hath diuorc'd 2560 So many English Kings. Thy due, from me, 2561 Is Teares, and heauie Sorrowes of the Blood, 2562 Which Nature, Loue, and filiall tendernesse, 2563 Shall (O deare Father) pay thee plenteously. 2564 My due, from thee, is this Imperiall Crowne, 2565 Which (as immediate from thy Place, and Blood) 2566 Deriues it selfe to me. Loe, heere it sits, 2567 Which Heauen shall guard: 2568 *And put the worlds whole strength into one gyant Arme, 2569 It shall not force this Lineall Honor from me. 2570 This, from thee, will I to mine leaue, 2571 As 'tis left to me. 2572 2573 {Warwicke, Gloucester, Clarence}. 2574 Doth the King call? 2575 * What would your Maiestie? how fares your 2576 Grace? 2577 * Why did you leaue me here alone (my Lords?) 2578 We left the Prince (my Brother) here (my Liege) 2579 Who vndertooke to sit and watch by you. 2580 * The Prince of Wales? where is hee? let mee 2581 see him. 2582 This doore is open, hee is gone this way. 2583 * Hee came not through the Chamber where wee 2584 stayd. 2585 * Where is the Crowne? who tooke it from my 2586 Pillow? 2587 * When wee with- drew (my Liege) wee left it 2588 heere. 2589 The Prince hath ta'ne it hence: 2590 Goe seeke him out. 2591 Is hee so hastie, that hee doth suppose 2592 *My sleepe, my death? Finde him (my Lord of Warwick) 2593 Chide him hither: this part of his conioynes 2594 With my disease, and helpes to end me. 2595 See Sonnes, what things you are: 2596 How quickly Nature falls into reuolt, 2597 When Gold becomes her Obiect? 2598 For this, the foolish ouer- carefull Fathers 2599 Haue broke their sleepes with thoughts, 2600 Their braines with care, their bones with industry. 2601 For this, they haue ingrossed and pyl'd vp 2602 The canker'd heapes of strange- atchieued Gold: 2603 For this, they haue beene thoughtfull, to inuest 2604 Their Sonnes with Arts, and Martiall Exercises: 2605 When, like the #Bee, culling from euery flower 2606 The vertuous Sweetes, our Thighes packt with Wax, 2607 Our Mouthes with Honey, wee bring it to the Hiue; 2608 And like the Bees, are murthered for our paines. 2609 This bitter taste yeelds his engrossements, 2610 To the ending Father. 2611 2612 Now, where is hee, that will not stay so long, 2613 Till his Friend Sicknesse hath determin'd me? 2614 * My Lord, I found the Prince in the next Roome, 2615 Washing with kindly Teares his gentle Cheekes, 2616 With such a deepe demeanure, in great sorrow, 2617 That Tyranny, which neuer quafft but blood, 2618 Would (by beholding him) haue wash'd his Knife 2619 With gentle eye- drops. Hee is comming hither. 2620 But wherefore did hee take away the Crowne? 2621 2622 Loe, where hee comes. Come hither to me ({Harry}.) 2623 Depart the Chamber, leaue vs heere alone. 2624 I neuer thought to heare you speake againe. 2625 Thy wish was Father ({Harry}) to that thought: 2626 I stay too long by thee, I wearie thee. 2627 Do'st thou so hunger for my emptie Chayre, 2628 That thou wilt needes inuest thee with mine Honors, 2629 Before thy howre be ripe? O foolish Youth! 2630 *Thou seek'st the Greatnesse, that will ouer- whelme thee. 2631 Stay but a little: for my Cloud of Dignitie 2632 Is held from falling, with so weake a winde, 2633 That it will quickly drop: my Day is dimme. 2634 Thou hast stolne that, which after some few howres 2635 Were thine, without offence: and at my death 2636 Thou hast seal'd vp my expectation. 2637 Thy Life did manifest, thou lou'dst me not, 2638 And thou wilt haue me dye assur'd of it. 2639 Thou hid'st a thousand Daggers in thy thoughts, 2640 Which thou hast whetted on thy stonie heart, 2641 To stab at halfe an howre of my Life. 2642 What? canst thou not forbeare me halfe an howre?

2643 Then get thee gone, and digge my graue thy selfe, 2644 And bid the merry Bels ring to thy eare 2645 That thou art Crowned, not that I am dead. 2646 Let all the Teares, that should bedew my Hearse 2647 Be drops of Balme, to sanctifie thy head: 2648 Onely compound me with forgotten dust. 2649 Giue that, which gaue thee life, vnto the Wormes: 2650 Plucke downe my Officers, breake my Decrees; 2651 For now a time is come, to mocke at Forme. 2652 Henry the fift is Crown'd: Vp Vanity, 2653 Downe Royall State: All you sage Counsailors, hence: 2654 And to the English Court, assemble now 2655 From eu'ry Region, Apes of Idlenesse. 2656 Now neighbor- Confines, purge you of your Scum: 2657 Haue you a Ruffian that will sweare? drinke? dance? 2658 Reuell the night? Rob? Murder? and commit 2659 The oldest sinnes, the newest kinde of wayes? 2660 Be happy, he will trouble you no more: 2661 England, shall double gill'd, his trebble guilt. 2662 England, shall giue him Office, Honor, #Might: 2663 For the Fift {Harry}, from curb'd License pluckes 2664 The muzzle of Restraint; and the wilde Dogge 2665 Shall flesh his tooth in euery Innocent. 2666 O my poore Kingdome (sicke, with ciuill blowes) 2667 When that my Care could not with- hold thy Ryots, 2668 What wilt thou do, when Ryot is thy Care? 2669 O, thou wilt be a Wildernesse againe, 2670 Peopled with Wolues (thy old Inhabitants.) 2671 O pardon me (my Liege) 2672 But for my Teares, 2673 The most Impediments vnto my Speech, 2674 I had fore- stall'd this deere, and deepe Rebuke, 2675 Ere you (with greefe) had spoke, and I had heard 2676 The course of it so farre. There is your Crowne, 2677 And he that weares the Crowne immortally, 2678 Long guard it yours. If I affect it more, 2679 Then as your Honour, and as your Renowne, 2680 Let me no more from this Obedience rise, 2681 Which my most true, and inward duteous Spirit 2682 Teacheth this prostrate, and exteriour bending. 2683 Heauen witnesse with me, when I heere came in, 2684 And found no course of breath within your Maiestie, 2685 How cold it strooke my heart. If I do faine, 2686 O let me, in my present wildenesse, dye, 2687 And neuer liue, to shew th' incredulous World, 2688 The Noble change that I haue purposed. 2689 Comming to looke on you, thinking you dead, 2690 (And dead almost (my Liege) to thinke you were) 2691 I spake vnto the Crowne (as hauing sense) 2692 And thus vpbraided it. The Care on thee depending, 2693 Hath fed vpon the body of my Father, 2694 Therefore, thou best of Gold, art worst of Gold. 2695 Other, lesse fine in Charract, is more precious, 2696 Preseruing life, in Med'cine potable: 2697 But thou, most Fine, most Honour'd, most Renown'd, 2698 Hast eate the Bearer vp. 2699 Thus (my Royall Liege) 2700 Accusing it, I put it on my Head, 2701 To try with it (as with an Enemie, 2702 That had before my face murdred my Father) 2703 The Quarrell of a true Inheritor. 2704 But if it did infect my blood with Ioy, 2705 Or swell my Thoughts, to any straine of Pride, 2706 If any Rebell, or vaine spirit of mine, 2707 Did, with the least Affection of a Welcome, 2708 Giue entertainment to the #might of it, 2709 Let heauen, for euer, keepe it from my head, 2710 And make me, as the poorest Vassaile is, 2711 That doth with awe, and terror kneele to it. 2712 O my Sonne! 2713 Heauen put it in thy minde to take it hence, 2714 That thou might'st ioyne the more, thy Fathers loue, 2715 Pleading so wisely, in excuse of it. 2716 Come hither {Harrie}, sit thou by my bedde, 2717 And heare (I thinke, the very latest Counsell 2718 That euer I shall breath: Heauen knowes, my Sonne) 2719 By what by- pathes, and indirect crook'd- wayes 2720 I met this Crowne: and I my selfe know well 2721 How troublesome it sate vpon my head. 2722 To thee, it shall descend with better Quiet, 2723 Better Opinion, better Confirmation: 2724 For all the soyle of the Atchieuement goes 2725 With me, into the Earth. It seem'd in mee, 2726 But as an Honour snatch'd with boyst'rous hand, 2727 And I had many liuing, to vpbraide 2728 My gaine of it, by their Assistances, 2729 Which dayly grew to Quarrell, and to Blood- shed, 2730 Wounding supposed Peace. 2731 All these bold Feares, 2732 Thou seest (with perill) I haue answered: 2733 For all my Reigne, hath beene but as a Scene 2734 Acting that argument. And now my death 2735 Changes the Moode: For what in me, was purchas'd, 2736 Falles vpon thee, in a more Fayrer sort. 2737 So thou, the Garland wear'st successiuely. 2738 Yet, though thou stand'st more sure, then I could do, 2739 Thou art not firme enough, since greefes are greene: 2740 And all thy Friends, which thou must make thy Friends 2741 Haue but their stings, and teeth, newly tak'n out, 2742 By whose fell working, I was first aduanc'd, 2743 And by whose power, I well might lodge a Feare 2744 To be againe displac'd. Which to auoyd, 2745 I cut them off: and had a purpose now 2746 To leade out many to the Holy Land; 2747 Least rest, and lying still, might make them looke 2748 Too neere vnto my State. 2749 Therefore (my {Harrie}) 2750 Be it thy course to busie giddy Mindes 2751 *With Forraigne Quarrels: that Action hence borne out, 2752 May waste the memory of the former dayes. 2753 More would I, but my Lungs are wasted so, 2754 That strength of Speech it vtterly deni'de mee. 2755 How I came by the Crowne, O heauen forgiue: 2756 And grant it may, with thee, in true peace liue. 2757 My gracious Liege: 2758 You wonne it, wore it: kept it, gaue it me, 2759 Then plaine and right must my possession be; 2760 Which I, with more, then with a Common paine, 2761 'Gainst all the World, will rightfully maintaine. 2762 2764 Looke, looke, 2765 Heere comes my {Iohn} of Lancaster: 2766 Health, Peace, and Happinesse, 2767 To my Royall Father. 2768 Thou bring'st me happinesse and Peace 2769 (Sonne {Iohn}:) 2770 But health (alacke) with youthfull wings is flowne 2771 From this bare, wither'd Trunke. Vpon thy sight 2772 My worldly businesse makes a period.

2773 Where is my Lord of Warwicke? 2774 My Lord of Warwicke. 2775 Doth any name particular, belong 2776 Vnto the Lodging, where I first did swoon'd? 2777 'Tis call'd {Ierusalem}, my Noble Lord. 2778 Laud be to heauen: 2779 Euen there my life must end. 2780 It hath beene prophesi'de to me many yeares, 2781 I should not dye, but in {Ierusalem}: 2782 Which (vainly) I suppos'd the Holy- Land. 2783 But beare me to that Chamber, there Ile lye: 2784 In that {Ierusalem}, shall {Harry} dye. 2785 2786 2788 * By Cocke and Pye, you shall not away to night. 2789 What {Dauy}, I say. 2790 You must excuse me, M[aster]. {Robert Shallow}. 2791 * I will not excuse you: you shall not be excused. 2792 *Excuses shall not be admitted: there is no excuse shall 2793 serue: you shall not be excus'd. 2794 Why {Dauie}. 2795 Heere sir. 2796 * {Dauy, Dauy, Dauy}, let me see ({Dauy}) let me see: 2797 *{William} Cooke, bid him come hither. Sir {Iohn}, you shal 2798 not be excus'd. 2799 * Marry sir, thus: those Precepts cannot bee 2800 *seru'd: and againe sir, shall we sowe the head- land with 2801 Wheate? 2802 * With red Wheate {Dauy}. But for {William} Cook: 2803 are there no yong Pigeons? 2804 Yes Sir. 2805 Heere is now the Smithes note, for Shooing, 2806 And Plough- Irons. 2807 Let it be cast, and payde: Sir {Iohn}, you shall 2808 not be excus'd. 2809 * Sir, a new linke to the Bucket must needes bee 2810 *had: And Sir, doe you meane to stoppe any of {Williams} 2811 *Wages, about the Sacke he lost the other day, at {Hinckley} 2812 Fayre? 2813 He shall answer it: 2814 *Some Pigeons {Dauy}, a couple of short- legg'd Hennes: a 2815 *ioynt of Mutton, and any pretty little tine Kickshawes, 2816 tell {William} Cooke. 2817 Doth the man of Warre, stay all night sir? 2818 Yes {Dauy}: 2819 *I will vse him well. A Friend i'th Court, is better then a 2820 *penny in purse. Vse his men well {Dauy}, for they are ar-rant 2821 Knaues, and will backe- bite. 2822 * No worse then they are bitten, sir: For they 2823 haue maruellous fowle linnen. 2824 * Well conceited {Dauy}: about thy Businesse, 2825 {#Dauy}. 2826 I beseech you sir, 2827 *To countenance {William Visor} of Woncot, against {Cle-ment} 2828 {Perkes} of the hill. 2829 * There are many Complaints {Dauy}, against that 2830 *{Visor}, that {Visor} is an arrant Knaue, on my know-ledge. 2831 _ 2832 * I graunt your Worship, that he is a knaue (Sir:) 2833 *But yet heauen forbid Sir, but a Knaue should haue some 2834 *Countenance, at his Friends request. An honest man sir, 2835 *is able to speake for himselfe, when a Knaue is not. I haue 2836 *seru'd your Worshippe truely sir, these eight yeares: and 2837 *if I cannot once or twice in a Quarter beare out a knaue, 2838 *against an honest man, I haue but a very litle credite with 2839 *your Worshippe. The Knaue is mine honest Friend Sir, 2840 *therefore I beseech your Worship, let him bee Counte-nanc'd. 2841 _ 2842 Go #too, 2843 I say he shall haue no wrong: Looke about {Dauy}. 2844 Where are you Sir {Iohn}? Come, off with your Boots. 2845 Giue me your hand M[aster]. {Bardolfe}. 2846 I am glad to see your Worship. 2847 * I thanke thee, with all my heart, kinde Master 2848 {Bardolfe}: and welcome my tall Fellow: 2849 Come Sir {Iohn}. 2850 * Ile follow you, good Master {Robert Shallow}. 2851 *{Bardolfe}, looke to our Horsses. If I were saw'de into 2852 *Quantities, I should make foure dozen of such bearded 2853 *Hermites staues, as Master {Shallow}. It is a wonderfull 2854 *thing to see the semblable Coherence of his mens spirits, 2855 *and his: They, by obseruing of him, do beare themselues 2856 *like foolish Iustices: Hee, by conuersing with them, is 2857 *turn'd into a Iustice- like Seruingman. Their spirits are 2858 *so married in Coniunction, with the participation of So-ciety, 2859 *that they flocke together in consent, like so ma-ny 2860 *Wilde- Geese. If I had a suite to Mayster {Shallow}, I 2861 *would humour his men, with the imputation of beeing 2862 *neere their Mayster. If to his Men, I would currie with 2863 *Maister {Shallow}, that no man could better command his 2864 *Seruants. It is certaine, that either wise bearing, or ig-norant 2865 *Carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of 2866 *another: therefore, let men take heede of their Compa-nie. 2867 *I will deuise matter enough out of this {Shallow}, to 2868 *keepe Prince {Harry} in continuall Laughter, the wearing 2869 *out of sixe Fashions (which is foure Tearmes) or two Ac-tions, 2870 *and he shall laugh with {Interuallums}. O it is much 2871 *that a Lye (with a slight Oath) and a iest (with a sadde 2872 *brow) will doe, with a Fellow, that neuer had the Ache 2873 *in his shoulders. O you shall see him laugh, till his Face 2874 be like a wet Cloake, #ill laid vp. 2875 Sir {Iohn}. 2876 * I come Master {Shallow}, I come Master {Shallow}. 2877 2878 2879 2881 * How now, my Lord Chiefe Iustice, whe-ther 2882 away? 2883 How doth the King? 2884 Exceeding well: his Cares 2885 Are now, all ended. 2886 I hope, not dead. 2887 Hee's walk'd the way of Nature, 2888 And to our purposes, he liues no more. 2889 * I would his Maiesty had call'd me with him, 2890 The seruice, that I truly did his life, 2891 Hath left me open to all iniuries.

2892 Indeed I thinke the yong King loues you not. 2893 I know he doth not, and do arme my selfe 2894 To welcome the condition of the Time, 2895 Which cannot looke more hideously vpon me, 2896 Then I haue drawne it in my fantasie. 2897 2899 Heere come the heauy Issue of dead {Harrie}: 2900 O, that the liuing {Harrie} had the temper 2901 Of him, the worst of these three Gentlemen: 2902 How many Nobles then, should hold their places, 2903 That must strike saile, to Spirits of vilde sort? 2904 Alas, I feare, all will be ouer- turn'd. 2905 * Good morrow Cosin Warwick, good morrow. 2906 Good morrow, Cosin. 2907 We meet, like men, that had forgot to speake. 2908 We do remember: but our Argument 2909 Is all too heauy, to admit much talke. 2910 * Well: Peace be with him, that hath made vs heauy 2911 Peace be with vs, least we be heauier. 2912 * O, good my Lord, you haue lost a friend indeed: 2913 And I dare sweare, you borrow not that face 2914 Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your owne. 2915 * Though no man be assur'd what grace to finde, 2916 You stand in coldest expectation. 2917 I am the sorrier, would 'twere otherwise. 2918 * Wel, you must now speake Sir {Iohn Falstaffe} faire, 2919 Which swimmes against your streame of Quality. 2920 Sweet Princes: what I did, I did in Honor, 2921 Led by th' Imperiall Conduct of my Soule, 2922 And neuer shall you see, that I will begge 2923 A ragged, and fore- stall'd Remission. 2924 If Troth, and vpright Innocency fayle me, 2925 Ile to the King (my Master) that is dead, 2926 And tell him, who hath sent me after him. 2927 Heere comes the Prince. 2928 2929 * Good morrow: and heauen saue your Maiesty 2930 This new, and gorgeous Garment, Maiesty, 2931 Sits not so easie on me, as you thinke. 2932 Brothers, you mixe your Sadnesse with some Feare: 2933 This is the English, not the Turkish Court: 2934 Not {Amurah}, an {Amurah} succeeds, 2935 But {Harry}, {Harry}: Yet be sad (good Brothers) 2936 For (to speake truth) it very well becomes you: 2937 Sorrow, so Royally in you appeares, 2938 That I will deeply put the Fashion on, 2939 And weare it in my heart. Why then be sad, 2940 But entertaine no more of it (good Brothers) 2941 Then a ioynt burthen, laid vpon vs all. 2942 For me, by Heauen (I bid you be assur'd) 2943 Ile be your Father, and your Brother too: 2944 Let me but beare your Loue, Ile beare your Cares; 2945 But weepe that {Harrie}'s dead, and so will I. 2946 But {Harry} liues, that shall conuert those Teares 2947 By number, into houres of Happinesse. 2948 } We hope no other from your Maiesty. 2949 You all looke strangely on me: and you most, 2950 You are (I thinke) assur'd, I loue you not. 2951 I am assur'd (if I be measur'd rightly) 2952 Your Maiesty hath no iust cause to hate mee. 2953 * No? How might a Prince of my great hopes forget 2954 So great Indignities you laid vpon me? 2955 What? Rate? Rebuke? and roughly send to Prison 2956 Th' immediate Heire of England? Was this easie? 2957 May this be wash'd in {Lethe}, and forgotten? 2958 I then did vse the Person of your Father: 2959 The Image of his power, lay then in me, 2960 And in th' administration of his Law, 2961 Whiles I was busie for the Commonwealth, 2962 Your Highnesse pleased to forget my place, 2963 The Maiesty, and power of Law, and Iustice, 2964 The Image of the King, whom I presented, 2965 And strooke me in my very Seate of Iudgement: 2966 Whereon (as an Offender to your Father) 2967 I gaue bold way to my Authority, 2968 And did commit you. If the deed were #ill, 2969 Be you contented, wearing now the Garland, 2970 To haue a Sonne, set your Decrees at naught? 2971 To plucke downe Iustice from your awefull Bench? 2972 To trip the course of Law, and blunt the Sword 2973 That guards the peace, and safety of your Person? 2974 Nay more, to spurne at your most Royall Image, 2975 And mocke your workings, in a Second body? 2976 Question your Royall Thoughts, make the case yours: 2977 Be now the Father, and propose a Sonne: 2978 Heare your owne dignity so much prophan'd, 2979 See your most dreadfull Lawes, so loosely slighted; 2980 Behold your selfe, so by a Sonne disdained: 2981 And then imagine me, taking your part, 2982 And in your power, soft silencing your Sonne: 2983 After this cold considerance, sentence me; 2984 And, as you are a King, speake in your State, 2985 What I haue done, that misbecame my place, 2986 My person, or my Lieges Soueraigntie. 2987 * You are right Iustice, and you weigh this well: 2988 Therefore still beare the Ballance, and the Sword: 2989 And I do wish your Honors may encrease, 2990 Till you do liue, to see a Sonne of mine 2991 Offend you, and obey you, as I did. 2992 So shall I liue, to speake my Fathers words: 2993 Happy am I, that haue a man so bold, 2994 That dares do Iustice, on my proper Sonne; 2995 And no lesse happy, hauing such a Sonne, 2996 That would deliuer vp his Greatnesse so, 2997 Into the hands of Iustice. You did commit me: 2998 For which, I do commit into your hand, 2999 Th' vnstained Sword that you haue vs'd to beare: 3000 With this Remembrance; That you vse the same 3001 With the like bold, iust, and impartiall spirit 3002 As you haue done 'gainst me. There is my hand, 3003 You shall be as a Father, to my Youth: 3004 My voice shall sound, as you do prompt mine eare, 3005 And I will stoope, and humble my Intents, 3006 To your well- practis'd, wise Directions. 3007 And Princes all, beleeue me, I beseech you: 3008 My Father is gone wilde into his Graue, 3009 (For in his Tombe, lye my Affections) 3010 And with his Spirits, sadly I suruiue, 3011 To mocke the expectation of the World; 3012 To frustrate Prophesies, and to race out 3013 Rotten Opinion, who hath writ me downe 3014 After my seeming. The Tide of Blood in me, 3015 Hath prowdly flow'd in Vanity, till now. 3016 Now doth it turne, and ebbe backe to the Sea, 3017 Where it shall mingle with the state of Floods, 3018 And flow henceforth in formall Maiesty. 3019 Now call we our High Court of Parliament, 3020 And let vs choose such Limbes of Noble Counsaile,

3021 That the great Body of our State may go 3022 In equall ranke, with the best gouern'd Nation, 3023 That Warre, or Peace, or both at once may be 3024 As things acquainted and familiar to vs, 3025 In which you (Father) shall haue formost hand. 3026 Our Coronation done, we will accite 3027 (As I before remembred) all our State, 3028 And heauen (consigning to my good intents) 3029 No Prince, nor Peere, shall haue iust cause to say, 3030 Heauen shorten {Harries} happy life, one day. 3031 3032 3034 * Nay, you shall see mine Orchard: where, in an 3035 *Arbor we will eate a last yeares Pippin of my owne graf-fing, 3036 *with a dish of Carrawayes, and so forth. (Come Co-sin 3037 {Silence}, and then to bed. 3038 You haue heere a goodly dwelling, and a rich. 3039 * Barren, barren, barren: Beggers all, beggers all 3040 *Sir {Iohn}: Marry, good ayre. Spread {Dauy}, spread {Dauie}: 3041 Well said {Dauie}. 3042 * This {Dauie} serues you for good vses: he is your 3043 Seruingman, and your Husband. 3044 * A good Varlet, a good Varlet, a very good Var-let, 3045 *Sir {Iohn}: I haue drunke too much Sacke at Supper. A 3046 *good Varlet. Now sit downe, now sit downe: Come 3047 Cosin. 3048 * Ah sirra (quoth- a) we shall doe nothing but eate, 3049 *and make good cheere, and praise heauen for the merrie 3050 *yeere: when flesh is cheape, and Females deere, and lustie 3051 *Lads rome heere, and there: so merrily, and euer among 3052 so merrily. 3053 * There's a merry heart, good M[aster]. {Silence}, Ile giue 3054 you a health for that anon. 3055 Good M[aster]. {Bardolfe}: some wine, {Dauie}. 3056 * Sweet sir, sit: Ile be with you anon: most sweete 3057 *sir, sit. Master Page, good M[aster]. Page, sit: Proface. What 3058 *you want in meate, wee'l haue in drinke: but you beare, 3059 the heart's all. 3060 * Be merry M[aster]. {Bardolfe}, and my little Souldiour 3061 there, be merry. 3062 Be merry, be merry, my wife ha's all. 3063 For women are Shrewes, both short, and tall: 3064 'Tis merry in Hall, when Beards wagge all; 3065 And welcome merry Shrouetide. Be merry, be merry. 3066 * I did not thinke M[aster]. {Silence} had bin a man of this 3067 Mettle. 3068 * Who I? I haue beene merry twice and once, ere 3069 now. 3070 There is a dish of Lether- coats for you. 3071 {Dauie}. 3072 * Your Worship: Ile be with you straight. A cup 3073 of Wine, sir? 3074 * A Cup of Wine, that's briske and fine, & drinke 3075 vnto the Leman mine: and a merry heart liues long- a. 3076 Well said, M[aster]. {Silence}. 3077 * If we shall be merry, now comes in the sweete of 3078 the night. 3079 Health, and long life to you, M[aster]. {Silence}. 3080 * Fill the Cuppe, and let it come. Ile pledge you a 3081 mile to the bottome. 3082 * Honest {Bardolfe}, welcome: If thou want'st any 3083 *thing, and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart. Welcome my 3084 *little tyne theefe, and welcome indeed too: Ile drinke to 3085 M[aster]. {Bardolfe}, and to all the Cauileroes about London. 3086 I hope to see London, once ere I die. 3087 If I might see you there, {Dauie}. 3088 * You'l cracke a quart together? Ha, will you not 3089 M[aster]. {Bardolfe}? 3090 Yes Sir, in a pottle pot. 3091 * I thanke thee: the knaue will sticke by thee, I 3092 can assure thee that. He will not out, he is true bred. 3093 And Ile sticke by him, sir. 3094 * Why there spoke a King: lack nothing, be merry. 3095 Looke, who's at doore there, ho: who knockes? 3096 Why now you haue done me right. 3097 * Do me right, and dub me Knight, {Samingo}. Is't 3098 not so? 3099 'Tis so. 3100 * Is't so? Why then say an old man can do somwhat. 3101 * If it please your Worshippe, there's one {Pistoll} 3102 come from the Court with newes. 3103 From the Court? Let him come in. 3104 3105 How now Pistoll? 3106 Sir {Iohn}, 'saue you sir. 3107 What winde blew you hither, Pistoll? 3108 * Not the #ill winde which blowes none to good, 3109 *sweet Knight: Thou art now one of the greatest men in 3110 the Realme. 3111 * Indeed, I thinke he bee, but Goodman {Puffe} of 3112 Barson. 3113 * Puffe? puffe in thy teeth, most recreant Coward 3114 *base. Sir {Iohn}, I am thy Pistoll, and thy Friend: helter 3115 *skelter haue I rode to thee, and tydings do I bring, and 3116 *luckie ioyes, and golden Times, and happie Newes of 3117 price. 3118 * I prethee now deliuer them, like a man of this 3119 World. 3120 A footra for the World, and Worldlings base, 3121 I speake of Affrica, and Golden ioyes. 3122 O base Assyrian Knight, what is thy newes? 3123 Let King {Couitha} know the truth thereof. 3124 And Robin- hood, Scarlet, and Iohn. 3125 Shall dunghill Curres confront the {Hellicons}? 3126 And shall good newes be baffel'd? 3127 Then Pistoll lay thy head in Furies lappe. 3128 Honest Gentleman, 3129 I know not your breeding. 3130 Why then Lament therefore. 3131 Giue me pardon, Sir. 3132 *If sir, you come with news from the Court, I take it, there 3133 *is but two wayes, either to vtter them, or to conceale 3134 them. I am Sir, vnder the King, in some Authority. 3135 Vnder which King? 3136 {Bezonian}, speake, or dye. 3137 Vnder King {Harry}. 3138 {Harry} the Fourth? or Fift? 3139 {Harry} the Fourth. 3140 A footra for thine Office. 3141 Sir {Iohn}, thy tender Lamb- kinne, now is King, 3142 {Harry} the Fift's the man, I speake the truth. 3143 When Pistoll lyes, do this, and figge- me, like 3144 The bragging Spaniard.

3145 What, is the old King dead? 3146 As naile in doore. 3147 The things I speake, are iust. 3148 Away {Bardolfe}, Sadle my Horse, 3149 Master {Robert Shallow}, choose what Office thou wilt 3150 *In the Land, 'tis thine. {Pistol}, I will double charge thee 3151 With Dignities. 3152 O ioyfull day: 3153 I would not take a Knighthood for my Fortune. 3154 What? I do bring good newes. 3155 * Carrie Master {Silence} to bed: Master {Shallow}, my 3156 *Lord {Shallow}, be what thou wilt, I am Fortunes Steward. 3157 *Get on thy Boots, wee'l ride all night. Oh sweet Pistoll: 3158 *Away {Bardolfe}: Come Pistoll, vtter more to mee: and 3159 *withall deuise something to do thy selfe good. Boote, 3160 *boote Master {Shallow}, I know the young King is sick for 3161 *mee. Let vs take any mans Horsses: The Lawes of Eng-land 3162 *are at my command'ment. Happie are they, which 3163 *haue beene my Friendes: and woe vnto my Lord Chiefe 3164 Iustice. 3165 Let Vultures vil'de seize on his Lungs also: 3166 Where is the life that late I led, say they? 3167 Why heere it is, welcome those pleasant dayes. 3168 3169 3171 * No, thou arrant knaue: I would I might dy, 3172 *that I might haue thee hang'd: Thou hast drawne my 3173 shoulder out of ioynt. 3174 * The Constables haue deliuer'd her ouer to mee: 3175 *and shee shall haue Whipping cheere enough, I warrant 3176 *her. There hath beene a man or two (lately) kill'd about 3177 her. 3178 * Nut- hooke, nut- hooke, you Lye: Come on, Ile 3179 *tell thee what, thou damn'd Tripe- visag'd Rascall, if the 3180 *Childe I now go with, do miscarrie, thou had'st better 3181 *thou had'st strooke thy Mother, thou Paper- fac'd Vil-laine. 3182 _ 3183 * O that Sir {Iohn} were come, hee would make 3184 *this a bloody day to some body. But I would the Fruite 3185 of her Wombe might miscarry. 3186 * If it do, you shall haue a dozen of Cushions 3187 *againe, you haue but eleuen now. Come, I charge you 3188 *both go with me: for the man is dead, that you and Pi-stoll 3189 beate among you. 3190 * Ile tell thee what, thou thin man in a Censor; I 3191 *will haue you as soundly swindg'd for this, you blew-Bottel'd 3192 *Rogue: you filthy famish'd Correctioner, if you 3193 be not swing'd, Ile forsweare halfe Kirtles. 3194 Come, come, you shee- Knight- arrant, come. 3195 * O, that right should thus o'recome #might. Wel 3196 of sufferance, comes ease. 3197 Come you Rogue, come: 3198 Bring me to a Iustice. 3199 Yes, come you staru'd Blood- hound. 3200 Goodman death, goodman Bones. 3201 Thou Anatomy, thou. 3202 Come you thinne Thing: 3203 Come you Rascall. 3204 Very well. 3205 3206 3207 More Rushes, more Rushes. 3208 The Trumpets haue sounded twice. 3209 * It will be two of the Clocke, ere they come 3210 from the Coronation. 3211 3212 * Stand heere by me, M[aster]. {Robert Shallow}, I will 3213 *make the King do you Grace. I will leere vpon him, as 3214 *he comes by: and do but marke the countenance that hee 3215 will giue me. 3216 Blesse thy Lungs, good Knight. 3217 * Come heere {Pistol}, stand behind me. O if I had 3218 *had time to haue made new Liueries, I would haue be-stowed 3219 *the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But it is 3220 *no matter, this poore shew doth better: this doth inferre 3221 the zeale I had to see him. 3222 It doth so. 3223 It shewes my earnestnesse in affection. 3224 It doth so. 3225 My deuotion. 3226 It doth, it doth, it doth. 3227 As it were, to ride day and night, 3228 And not to deliberate, not to remember, 3229 Not to haue patience to shift me. 3230 It is most certaine. 3231 * But to stand stained with Trauaile, and sweating 3232 *with desire to see him, thinking of nothing else, putting 3233 *all affayres in obliuion, as if there were nothing els to bee 3234 done, but to see him. 3235 * 'Tis {semper idem}: for {obsque hoc nihil est}. 'Tis all 3236 in euery part. 3237 'Tis so indeed. 3238 * My Knight, I will enflame thy Noble Liuer, and 3239 *make thee rage. Thy {Dol}, and {Helen} of thy noble thoghts 3240 *is in base Durance, and contagious prison: Hall'd thi-ther 3241 *by most Mechanicall and durty hand. Rowze vppe 3242 *Reuenge from Ebon den, with fell Alecto's Snake, for 3243 {#Dol} is in. Pistol, speakes nought but troth. 3244 I will deliuer her. 3245 * There roar'd the Sea: and Trumpet Clangour 3246 sounds. 3247 3250 Saue thy Grace, King {Hall}, my Royall {Hall}. 3251 * The heauens thee guard, and keepe, most royall 3252 Impe of Fame. 3253 'Saue thee my sweet Boy. 3254 * My Lord Chiefe Iustice, speake to that vaine 3255 man. 3256 Haue you your wits? 3257 Know you what 'tis you speake? 3258 * My King, my Ioue; I speake to thee, my heart. 3259 * I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy Prayers: 3260 How #ill white haires become a Foole, and Iester?

3261 I haue long dream'd of such a kinde of man, 3262 So surfeit- swell'd, so old, and so prophane: 3263 But being awake, I do despise my dreame. 3264 Make lesse thy body (hence) and more thy Grace, 3265 Leaue gourmandizing; Know the Graue doth gape 3266 For thee, thrice wider then for other men. 3267 Reply not to me, with a Foole- borne Iest, 3268 Presume not, that I am the thing I was, 3269 For heauen doth know (so shall the world perceiue) 3270 That I haue turn'd away my former Selfe, 3271 So will I those that kept me Companie. 3272 When thou dost heare I am, as I haue bin, 3273 Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou was't 3274 The Tutor and the Feeder of my Riots: 3275 Till then, I banish thee, on paine of death, 3276 As I haue done the rest of my Misleaders, 3277 Not to come neere our Person, by ten mile. 3278 For competence of life, I will allow you, 3279 That lacke of meanes enforce you not to euill: 3280 And as we heare you do reforme your selues, 3281 We will according to your strength, and qualities, 3282 Giue you aduancement. Be it your charge (my Lord) 3283 To see perform'd the tenure of our word. Set on. 3284 3285 Master {Shallow}, I owe you a thousand pound. 3286 * #I marry Sir {Iohn}, which I beseech you to let me 3287 haue home with me. 3288 * That can hardly be, M[aster]. {Shallow}, do not you grieue 3289 *at this: I shall be sent for in priuate to him: Looke you, 3290 *he must seeme thus to the world: feare not your aduance-ment: 3291 I will be the man yet, that shall make you great. 3292 * I cannot well perceiue how, vnlesse you should 3293 *giue me your Doublet, and stuffe me out with Straw. I 3294 *beseech you, good Sir {Iohn}, let mee haue fiue hundred of 3295 my thousand. 3296 * Sir, I will be as good as my word. This that you 3297 heard, was but a colour. 3298 * A colour I feare, that you will dye in, Sir {Iohn}. 3299 Feare no colours, go with me to dinner: 3300 Come Lieutenant {Pistol}, come {Bardolfe}, 3301 I shall be sent for soone at night. 3302 Go carry Sir {Iohn Falstaffe} to the Fleete, 3303 Take all his Company along with him. 3304 My Lord, my Lord. 3305 * I cannot now speake, I will heare you soone: 3306 Take them away. 3307 {Si fortuna me tormento, spera me contento}. 3308 3309 I like this faire proceeding of the Kings: 3310 He hath intent his wonted Followers 3311 Shall all be very well prouided for: 3312 But all are banisht, till their conuersations 3313 Appeare more wise, and modest to the world. 3314 And so they are. 3315 The King hath call'd his Parliament, 3316 My Lord. 3317 He hath. 3318 I will lay oddes, that ere this yeere expire, 3319 We beare our Ciuill Swords, and Natiue fire 3320 As farre as France. I heare a Bird so sing, 3321 Whose Musicke (to my thinking) pleas'd the King. 3322 Come, will you hence? 3323 FINIS.

3324 3325 *{First, my Feare: then, my Curtsie: last, my Speech}. 3326 *{My Feare, is your Displeasure: My Curtsie, my Dutie:} 3327 *{And my speech, to Begge your Pardons. If you looke for a} 3328 *{good speech now, you vndoe me: For what I haue to say, is} 3329 *{of mine owne making: and what (indeed) I should say, will} 3330 *({I doubt) prooue mine owne marring. But to the Purpose}, 3331 *{and so to the Venture. Be it knowne to you (as it is very} 3332 *{well) I was lately heere in the end of a displeasing Play, to pray your Patien 3333 *{for it, and to promise you a Better: I did meane (indeede) to pay you with thi 3334 *{which if (like an #ill Venture) it come vnluckily home, I breake; and you, my 3335 *{Creditors lose. Heere I promist you I would be, and heere I commit my Bodie} 3336 *{to your Mercies: Bate me some, and I will pay you some, and (as most Debtors d 3337 {promise you infinitely}. 3338 *{If my Tongue cannot entreate you to acquit me: will you command me to vse} 3339 *{my Legges? And yet that were but light payment, to Dance out of your debt: But 3340 *{a good Conscience, will make any possible satisfaction, and so will I. All the 3341 *{heere haue forgiuen me, if the Gentlemen will not, then the Gentlemen} 3342 *{do not agree with the Gentlewomen, which was neuer seene before, in such an As 3343 _ 3344 *{One word more, I beseech you: if you be not too much cloid with Fat Meate}, 3345 *{our humble Author will continue the Story (with} Sir Iohn {in it) and make yo 3346 *{merry, with faire} Katherine {of} France: {where (for any thing I know}) Fal-s 3347 *{shall dye of a sweat, vnlesse already he be kill'd with your hard Opinions:} 3348 *{For} Old- Castle {dyed a Martyr, and this is not the man. My Tongue is wearie} 3349 *{when my Legs are too, I will bid you good night; and so kneele downe before yo 3350 {But (indeed) to pray for the Queene}.

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