beat amongst you Whoore I le tell you what you thin man in a censor I will haue you as soundly swingde for this you blew bottle rogue you filthy famisht correctioner if you be not swingde I le forsweare halfe kirtles Sinck Come come you shee Knight-arrant come Host. O God that right should thus ouercom might wel of sufferance comes â—ase Whoore Come you rogue come bring me to a iustice Host. I come you starude blood-hound Whoore Goodman death goodman bones Host. Thou Atomy thou Whoore Come you thinne thing come you rascall Sinck Very well Enter strewers of rushes 1 More rushes more rushes 2 The trumpets haue sounded twice 3 T will be two a clocke ere they come from the coronation dispatch dispatch Trumpets sound and the King and his traine passe ouer the stage after them enter Falstaffe Shallow Pistol Bardolfe and the Boy Falst. Stand heere by me maister Shallow I will make the King doe you grace I will leere vpon him as a comes by and do but marke the countenaunce that he will giue me Pist. God blesse thy lungs good Knight Falst. Come heere Pistoll stand behinde mee O if I had had time to haue made new liueries I woulde haue bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you but t is no matter this poore shew doth better this doth inferre the zeale I had to seâ— him Pist. It doth so Falst. It shewes my earnestnesse of affection Pist. It doth so Falst. My deuotion Pist. It doth it doth it doth Fal. As it were to ride day night and not to deliberate not to remember not to haue pacience to shift me Shal It is best certain but to stand stained with trauaile and sweating with desire to see him thinking of nothing els putting 〈◊〉 affaires else in obliuion as if there were nothing els to bee done but to see him Pist. T is sempâ—r idem for obsque hoc nihil est t is in euery part Shal. T is so indeede Pist. My Knight I will inflame thy noble liuer and make thee rage thy Dol and Helen of thy noble thoughts is in base durance and contagious prison halde thither by most mechanical and durtie hand rowze vp reuenge from Ebon den with fell Alectoesnake for Doll is in Pistoll speakes nought but truth Falst. I will deliuer her Pist. There roared the sea and trumpet Clang or sounds Enter the King and his traine Falst. God saue thy grace King Hall my royall Hall Pist. The heauens thee gard and keep most royal â—mpe of faine Falst. God saue thee my sweet boy King My Lord chiefe iustice speake to that vaine man Iust. Haue you your wits know you what t is you speake Falst. My King my Ioue I speake to thee my heart King I know thee not old man fall to thy praiers How ill white heires becomes a foole and iester I haue long dreampt of such a kind of man So surfet-sweld so old and so prophane But being awakt I do despise my dreame Make lesse thy body hence and more thy grace Leaue gourmandizing know the graue doth gape For thee thrice wider then for other men Reply not to me with a foole-borne iest Presume not that I am the thing I was For God doth know so shall the world perceiue That I haue turnd away my former selfe So will I those that kept me company When thou dost heare I am as I haue bin Approch me and thou shalt be as thou wast The tutor and thâ— feeder of my riots Till then I banish thee on paine of death As I haue done the rest of my misleaders Not to come neare our person by ten mile For competence of life I wil allow you That lacke of meanes enforce you not to euills And as we heare you do reforme your selues We will according to your strengths and qualities Giue you aduauncement Be it your charge my lord To see performd the tenure of my word set on Iohn Master Shallow I ow you a thousand pound Shal. Yea mary sir Iohn which I beseech you to let me haue home with me Iohn That can hardly be master Shalow do not you grieue at this I shall be sent for in priuate to him looke you hee must seeme thus to the world feare not your aduauncements I will be the man yet that shal make you great Shal. I cannot perceiue how vnlesse you giue me your dublet and stuffe me out with straw I beseech you good sir Iohn let me haue fiue hundred of my thousand Iohn Sir I will be as good as my worde this that you heard was but a collour Shall A collor that I feare you will die in sir Iohn Iohn Feare no colours go with me to dinner Come lieftenant Pistol come Bardolfe Enter Iustice and prince Iohn I shall be sent for soone at night Iustice Go cary sir Iohn Falstalfe to the Fleet Take all his company along with him Fal. My lord my lord Iust. I cannot now speake I will heare you soone take them away exeunt Pist. Si fortuname tormenta spero contenta Iohn I like this faire proceeding of the Kings He hath intent his wonted followers Shall all be very well prouided for But all are banisht till their conuersations Appeare more wise and modest to the worlde Iust. And so they are Iohn The King hath cald his parlament my lord Iust. He hath Iohn I wil lay ods that ere this yeere expire We beare our ciuil swords and natiue fier As farre as France I heard a bird so sing Whose musique to my thinking pleasde the King Come will you hence Epilogue First my feare then my cursie last my speech My feare is your displeasure my cursy my duty my speech to beg your pardons if you looke for a good speech now you vndo me for what I haue to say is of mine owne making and what indeed I should say wil I doubt proue mine own marring but to the purpose and so to the venture Be it knowne to you as it is very well I was lately here in the end of a displeasing play to pray your patience for it and to promise you a better I meant indeed to pay you with this which if like an il venture it come vnluckily home I breake and you my gentle creditors loose here I promisde you I would be and here I commit my body to your mercies bate me some and I will pay you some and as most debtors do promise you infinitely and so I kneele downe before you but indeed to pray for the Queene If my tongue cannot intreate you to acquit mee will you commaund me to vse my legges And yet that were but light payment to daunce out of your debt but a good conscience will make any possible satisfaction and so woulde I all the Gentlewomen heere haue forgiuen me if the Gentlemen will not then the Gentlemen doe not agree with the Gentlewomen which was neuer seene in such an assemblie One word more I beseech you if you bee not too much cloyd with fatte meate our humble Author will continue the storie with sir Iohn in it and make you merry with faire Katharine of Fraunce where for any thing I knowe Falstaffe shall die of a sweat vnlesse already a be killd with your harde opinions for Olde-castle died Martyre and this is not the man my tongue is weary when my legges are too I wil bid you good night FINIS
in such dealing vnlesse a woman should be made an asse and a beast to beare euery knaues wrong yonder he comes and that arrant malmsie-nose knaue Bardolfe with him do your offices do your offices master PhaÌ„g master Snare do me do me do me your offices Enter sir Iohn and Bardolfe and the boy Falst. How now whose mare's dead what 's the matter Phang I arrest you at the sute of mistris quickly Falst. Away varlets draw Bardolfe cut me off the villaines head throw the queane in the channell Host. Throw me in the channell I le throw thee in the channel wilt thou wilt thou thou bastardly rogue murder murder a thou honisuckle villaine wilt thou kill Gods officers and the Kings a thou honiseed rogue thou art a honiseed a man queller and a woman queller Falst. Keepe them off Bardolfe Offic. A reskew a reskew Host. Good people bring a reskew or two thou wot wot thou thou wot wot ta do do thou rogue do thou hempseed Boy Away you scullian you rampallian you fustilarian I le tickle your catastrophe Enter Lord chiefe iustice and his men Lord What is the matter keepe the peace here ho. Hostesse Good my lord be good to me I beseech you stand to me Lord How now sir Iohn what are you brawling here Doth this become your place your time and businesse You should haue bin well on your way to Yorke Stand from him fellow wherefore hang'st thou vpon him Host. O my most worshipful Lord and 't please your grace I am a poore widdow of Eastâ—heape and he is arrested at my sute Lord For what summe Host. It is more then for some my Lord it is for al I haue he hath eaten me out of house and home he hath put all my substance into that fat belly of his but I will haue some of it out againe or I wil ride thee a nights like the mare Falst. I think I am as like to ride the mare if I haue any vantage of ground to get vp Lord How comes this sir Iohn what man of good temper would endure this tempest of exclamation are you not ashamed to inforce a poore widdow to so rough a course to come by her owne Falst. What is the grosse summe that I owe thee Host. Mary if thou wert an honest man thy selfe and the mony too thou didst sweare to me vpon a parcell guilt goblet sitting in my dolphin chamber at the round table by a sea cole fire vpon wednesday in Wheeson weeke when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing man of Winsor thou didst sweare to me theÌ„ as I was washing thy wound to marry me and make me my lady thy wife canst thou deny 〈◊〉 did not goodwife Keech the butchers wife come in then and cal me gossip Quickly comming in to borow a messe of vinegar telling vs she had a good dish of prawnes whereby thou didst desire to eate some whereby I told thee they were ill for a greene wound and didst thou not when she was gone down stayers desire me to be no more so familiarity with such poore people saying that ere long they should cal me madam and didst thou not kisse me and bid me fetch thee thirtie shillings I put thee now to thy booke oath dome it if thon canst Falst. My lord this is a poore madeâ—oule and she saies vp and downe the towne that her eldest sonne is like you she hath bin in good case and the trueth is pouerty hath distracted her but for these foolish officers I beseech you I may haue redresse against them Lo. Sir Iohn sir Iohn I am wel acquainted with your maner of wrenching the true cause the false way it is not a confident brow nor the throng of words that come with such more then impudent sawcines from you can thrust me from a leuel conâ—ideration you haue as it appeares to me practisde vpon the easie yeelding spirite of this woman and made her serue your vses both in purse and in person Host. Yea in truth my Lord. Lo. Pray thee peace pay her the debt you owe her and vnpay the villany you haue done with her the one you may doe with sterling mony and the other with currant repentance Falst. My Lord I will not vndergoe this snepe without reply you cal honorable boldnes impudent sawcinesse if a man wil make curtsie and say nothing he is vertuous no my Lord my humble duty remembred I will not bee your sâ—â—er I say to you I do desire deliuerance from these officers being vpon hasty imployment in the Kings affayres Lord You speake as hauing power to do wrong but answer in th' effect of your reputation and satisfie the poore woman Falst. Come hither hostesse Lord Now master Gower what newes enter a messenger Gower The King my Lord and Harry prince of Wales Are neare at hand the rest the paper tells Falst. As I am a gentleman Host. Faith you said so before Falst. As I am a gentleman come no more words of it Host. By this heaunly ground I tread on I must be faine to pawne both my plate the tapestry of my dining chambers Falst. Glasses glasses is the onely drinking and for thy wals a pretty sleight drollery or the storie of the prodigal or the Iarman hunting in waterworke is worth a thousand of these bed-hangers and these flie bitten tapestrie let it be x. â— if thou canst come and t were not for thy humors there 's not a better wench in England goe wash thy face and draw the action come thou must not be in this humor with me dost not know me come come I know thou wast set on to this Host. Pray thee sir Iohn let it be but twentie nobles ifaith I am loath to pawne my pâ—â—te so God saue me law Falst. Let it alone I le make other shift you le be a foole stil. Host. Well you shall haue it though I pawne my gowne I hope you le come to supper you le pay me altogether Falst. Wil I liue goe with her with her hooke on hooke on exit hostesse and sergeant Host. Will you haue Doll Tere-sheet meete you at supper Falst. No more words le ts haue her Lord I haue heard better newes Falst. What 's the newes my lord Lord Where lay the King to night Mess. At Billingsgate my Lord. Falst. I hope my Lord al 's wel what is the newes my lord Lord Come all his forces backe Mess. No fifteen hundred foot fiue hundred horse Are marcht vp to my lord of Lancaster Against Northumberland and the Archbishop Falst. Comes the King back from Wales my noble lord Lord You shall haue letters of me presently Come go along with me good master Gower Falst. My lord Lord What 's the matter Falstaffe Maister Gower shall I intreate you with mee to dinner Gower I must waite vpon my good lord here I thank you good sir Iohn Lord Sir Iohn you loyter heere too long Being you are to
not see him Iustice What 's hee that goes there seru. Falstaâ—fe and 't please your lordship Iust. He that was in question for the rob'ry seru. He my Lord but he hath since done good seruice at Shrewsbury as heare is now going with some charge to the lord Iohn of â—ancaster Iust. What to Yorke call him backe againe seru. Sir Iohn Falstaffe Iohn Boy tell him I am deafe Boy You must speake lowder my master is deafe Iust. I am sure he is to the hearing of any thing good goe plucke him by the elbow I must speake with him seru. Sir Iohn Falst. What a yong knaue and begging is there not wars is there not employment doth not the King lacke subiects do not the rebels need souldiers though it be a shame to be on any side but one it is worse shame to beg then to be on the worst side were it worse then the name of Rebellion can tell how to make it seru. You mistake me sir. Iohn Why sir did I say you were an honest man setting my knighthood and my souldiership aside I had lied in my throat if I had said so seru. I pray you sir then set your knighthood and your soldiership aside and giue me leaue to tell you you lie in your throate if you say I am any other then an honest man Iohn I giue thee leaue to tell me so I lay aside that which growes to me if thou getst any leaue of me hang me if thou takst leaue thou wert better be hangd you hunt couÌ„ter hence auaunt seru. Sir my Lord would speake with you Iust. Siâ— Iohn Falstaffe a word with you Falst. My good Lord God giue your lordship good time of day I am glad to see your lordship abroade I heard say your lordship was sicke I hope your lordship goes abroade by aduise your lordship though not clean past your youth haue yet some smack of an aguein you some relish of the saltnes of time in you and I most humbly beseech your lordship to haue a reuerend care of your health Iustice Sir Iohn I sent for you before your expedition to Shrewsbury sir Iohn An dt please your lorship I heare his maiesty is returnd with some discomfort from Wales Iust. I talke not of his maiesty you would not come when I sent for you Falst. And I heare moreouer his highnes is falne into this same horson a poplexi Iust. Well God mend him I pray you let me speake with you Falst. This appoplexi as I take it is a kind of lethergie and 't please your lordship a kind of sleeping in the bloud a horson tingling Iust. What tell you me of it be it as it is Falst. It hath it originall from much griefe from study and perturbation of the braine I haue read the cause of his effects in Galen it is a kind of deafenes Iust. I think you are falne into the disease for you heare noâ— what I say to you Old Very wel my lord very wel rather and 't please you it is the disease of not listning the maladie of not marking that I am troubled withall Iust. To punish you by the heeles would amend the attention of your eares and I care not if I doe become your phisitian Falst. I am as poore as Iob my lord but not so pacient your Lordship may minister the potion of imprisonment to me in respect of pouerty but how I should be your pacient to follow your prescriptions the wise may make som dramme of a scruple or indeede a scruple it selfe Iust. I sent for you when there were matters against you for your life to come speake with me Falst. As I was then aduisde by my learned counsail in the lawes of this land seruice I did not come Iust. Wel the truth is sir Iohn you liue in great infamy Falst. He that buckles himselfe in my belt cannot liue in lesse Iust. Your meanes are very slender and your waste is great Falst. I would it were otherwise I would my meanes were greater and my waste slender Iust. You haue misled the youthfull prince Falst. The yong prince hath misled me I am the felow with the great belly and he my dogge Iust. Wel I am loth to gall a new heald wound your daies seruice at Shrewsbury hath a little guilded ouer your nights exploit on Gadshill you may thanke thâ—vnquiet time for your quiet oreposting that action Falst. My lord Iust. But since all is well keepe it so wake not a sleeping wolfe Falst. To wake a wolfe is as bad as smell a fox Iust. VVhat you are as a candle the better part burnt out Falst. A wassel candle my lord al tallow if I did say of wax my growth would approue the truth Iust. There is not a white haire in your face but should haue his effect of grauity Falst. His effect of grauy grauie grauie Iust. You â—ollow the yong prince vp and downe like his ill angell Falst. Not so my lord your ill angell is light but I hope he that lookes vpon me will take me without weighing and yet in some respects I grant I cannot go I cannot tell vertue is of so little regard in these costar-mongers times that true valour is turnd â—erod Pregnancie is made a Tapster his quick wit wasted in giuing reckonings all the other giftes appertinent to man as the malice of his age shapes the one not worth a goosbery you that are old consider not the capacities of vs that are yong you doe measure the heate of our liuers with the bitternesse of your gâ—lles and we that are in the vaward of our youth I must confesse are wagges too Lo. Do you set downe your name in the scroule of youth that are written downe old with all the characters of age haue you not a moist eie a dry hand a yelow cheeke a white beard a decreasing leg an increasing belly is not your voice broken your winde short your chinne double your wit single and euery part about you blasted with antiquitie and will you yet call your selfe yong fie fie fie sir Iohn Iohn My Lorde I was borne about three of the clocke in the afternoone with a white head and something a round bellie for my voyce I haue lost it with hallowing and singing of Anthems to approoue my youth further I will not the truth is I am onely olde in iudgement and vnderstanding and hee that wil caper with me for a thousand markes let him lend me the money and haue at him for the boxe of the â—eâ—re that the Prince gaue you he gaue it like a rude Prince and you tooke it like a sensible Lord I haue checkt him for it and the yong lion repents mary not in ashes and sackcloth but in new silke and olde sacke Lord Well God send the prince a better companion Iohn God send the companion a better prince I cannot ridde my hands of him Lord Well the King hath seuerd you I heare you are going with lord Iohn
What 's the matter Bard. Bid mistris Tere-sheete come to my maister Host. O runne Doll runne runne good Doll come shee comes blubberd yea wil you come Doll exeunt Enter Iustice Shallow and Iustice Silens Sha. Come on come on come on giue me your hand sir giue me your hand sir an early stirrer by the Roode and how doth my good coosin Silence Si. Good morrow good coosine Shallow Sha. And how doth my coosin your bedfellow and your fairest daughter and mine my god-daughter Ellen Si. Alas a blacke woosel coosin Shallow Sha. By yea and no sir I dare say my coosin William is become a good scholler he is at Oxford stil is he not Si. Indeede sir to my cost Sha. A must then to the Innes a court shortly I was once of Clements Inne where I thinke they wil talke of mad Shallow yet Si. You were calld Lusty Shallow then coosin Sha. By the masse I was calld any thing and I would haue done any thing indeede too and roundly too there was I and little Iohn Doyt of Staffordshire and blacke George Barnes and Francis Pickebone and Will Squele a Cotsole man you had not foure such swinge bucklers in all the Innes a court againe and I may say to you wee knewe where the bona robes were and had the best of them all at commaundement then was Iacke Falstaffe now sir Iohn a boy and page to Thomas Mowbray duke of Norffolke Si. This sir Iohn coosin that comes hither anone about souldiers Sha. The same sir Iohn the very same I see him breake Skoggins head at the Court gate when a was a Cracke not thus high and the very same day did I fight with one Samson Stockefish a Fruiterer behinde Greyes Inne Iesu Iesu the mad dayes that I haue spent and to see how many of my olde acquaintance are dead Si. We shal all follow coosin Sha. Certaine t is certaine very sure very sure death as the Psalmist saith is certaine to all all shall die How a good yoke of bullockes at Samforth faire Si. By my troth I was not there Sha. Death is certaine Is old Dooble of your towne liuing yet Si. Dead sir. Sha. Iesu Iesu dead a drew a good bow and dead a shot a fine shoote Iohn a Gaunt loued him well and betted much money on his head Dead a woulde haue clapt i th clowt at twelue score and carried you a forehand shaft a fourteene and foureteene and a halfe that it would haue doone a mans heart good to see How a score of Ewes now Si. Thereafter as they bee a score of good ewes may bee worth ten pounds Sha. And is olde Dooble dead Si. Here come two of sir Iohn Falstaffes men as I thinke Enter Bardolfe and one with him Good morrow honest gentlemen Bardolfe I beseech you which is iustice Shallow Sha I am Robart Shallowe sir a poore Esquier of this Countie and one of the Kings iustices of the peace what is your good pleasure with me Bard My Captaine sir commends him to you my Captain sir Iohn Falstaffe a tall gentleman by heauen and a most gallant Leader Sha He greetes me wel sir I knew him a good backsword man how doth the good Knight may I aske how my Ladie his wife doth Bar. Sir pardon a souldiour is better accommodate theâ— with a wife Shal. It is well said infaith sir and it is well said indeed too better accomodated it is good yea indeede is it good phrases are surely and euer were very commendable accommodated it comes of accommodo very good a good phrase Bar. Pardon sir I haue heard the word Phrase call you it by this daye I knowe not the phrase but I will maintaine the word with my sword to be a souldierlike word and a word of exceeding good command by heauen accommodated that is when a man is as they say accommodated or when a man is being whereby a may be thought to be accommodated which is an excellent thing Enter Falstaffe Iust. It is very iust look here comes good sir Iohn giue me your good hand giue me your worshippes good hand by my troth you like well and beare your yeeres very well welcome good sir Iohn Falst. I am glad to see you well good master Robert Shallow master Soccard as I thinke Shal. No sir Iohn it is my cosen Scilens in commssion with me Falst. Good master Scilens it well befits you should be of the peace Scil. Your good worship is welcome Fal. Fie this is hot weather gentlemen haue you prouided me here halfe a dozen sufficient men Shal. Mary haue we sir wil you sit Fal. Let me see them I beseech you Shal. Where 's the roule where 's the roule where 's the roule let me see let me see let me see so so so so so so so yea mary sir Rafe Mouldy let them appeare as I cal let them do so let them do so let me see where is Mouldy Mouldy Here and 't please you Shal. What think you sir Iohn a good limbde felow yong strong and of good friends Fal. Is thy name Mouldie Moul. Yea and 't please you Fal. T is the more time thou wert vsde Shal. Ha ha ha most excellent yfaith things that are mouldy lacke vse very singular good infaith well said sir Iohn very well said Iohn prickes him Moul. I was prickt wel enough before and you could haue let me alone my old dame will be vndone now for one to doe her husbandrie and her drudgery you need not to haue prickt me there are other men fitter to go out then I. Fal. Go to peace Mouldy you shall go Mouldy it is time you were spent Moul. Spent Shal. Peace fellow peace stand aside know you where you are for th' other sir Iohn let me see Simon Shadow Fal. Yea mary let me haue him to sit vnder hee s like to be a cold soldiour Shal. Where 's Shadow Shad. Here sir. Fal. Shadow whose sonne art thou Shad. My mothers sonne sir. Fal. Thy mothers sonneâ— like enough and thy fathers shadow so the sonne of the female is the shadow of the male it is often so indeede but much of the fathers substance Shal. Do you like him sir Iohn Fal. Shadow wil serue for summer pricke him for we haue a number of shadowes fill vp the muster booke Shal. Thomas Wart Fal. Where 's he Wart Here sir. Fal. Is thy name Wart Wart Yea sir. Fal. Thou art a very ragged wart Shal. Shall I pricke him sir Iohn Fal. It were superfluous for apparell is built vpon his back and the whole frame stands vpon pins pâ—icke him no more Shal. Ha ha ha you can do it sir you can do it I commend you well Francis Feeble Feeble Here sir. Shal. What trade art thou Feeble Feeble A womans tailer sir. Shal. Shall I pricke him sir Fâ—l You may but if he had bin a mans tailer hee 'd a prickt you wilt thou make as manie holes in an enemies battaile as
thou hast done in a womans peticoate Feeble I will do my good will sir you can haue no more Fal. Well saide good womans tailer well saide couragious Feeble thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathfull doue or most magnanimous mouse pricke the womans tailer wel M. Shallow deepe M. Shallow Feeble I would Wart might haue gone sir. Fal. I would thou wert a mans tailer that thou mightst mend him and make him fit to goe I cannot put him to a priuate souldier that is the leader of so many thousands let that suffice most forcible Feeble Feeble It shall suffice sir. Fal. I am bound to thee reuerend Feeble who is next Shal. Peter Bul-calfe o' th greene Fal. Yea mary le ts see Bul-calfe Bul. Here sir. Eal. Fore God a likely fellow come pricke Bul-calfe til hee roare againe Bul. O Lord good my lord captaine Falst. What dost thou roare before thou art prickt Bul. O Lord sir I am a diseased man Fal. What disease hast thou Bul. A horson cold sir a cough sir which I cought with ringing in the Kings affaires vpon his coronation day sir. Fal. Come thou shalt go to the warres in a gowne we wil haue away thy cold and I wil take such order that thy friendes shal ring for thee Is here all Shal. Here is two more cald then your number you must haue but foure here sir and so I pray you goe in with mee to dinner Fa. Come I wil go drink with you but I caÌ„not tary dinner I am glad to see you by my troth master Shallow Shal. O sir Iohn do you remember since we lay all night in the windmil in saint Georges field Fal. No more of that master Shallow Shal. Ha t was a merry night and is lane Night-worke aliue Falst. She liues master Shallow Shal. She neuer could away with me Fa. Neuer neuer she wold alwaies say she could not abide master Shallow Sha. By the masse I coâ—ld anger her tooâ—th heart she was then a bona roba doth she hold her owne wel Fal. Old old master Shallow Shal. Nay she must be old she cannot chuse but be old certain shee s old had Robin Night-work by old Night-work before I came to Clements inne Scilens That 's fiftie fiue yeare ago Shal. Ha cousen Scilens that thou hadst seene that that this Knight and I haue seene ha sir Iohn said I wel Fal We haue heard the chimes at midnight M. Shallow Sha. That we haue that we haue that we haue in faith sir Iohn we haue our watch-worde was Hemboies come le ts to dinner come le ts to dinner Iesus the daies that wee haue seene come come exeunt Bul. Good maister corporate Bardolfe stand my friend here 's foure Harry tenshillings in french crowns for you in very truth sir I had as liue be hangd sir as go and yet for mine owne part sir I do not care but rather because I am vnwilling and for mine owne part haue a desire to stay with my friends else sir I did not care for mine owne part so much Bard. Go to stand aside Moul. And good M. corporall captaine for my old dames sake stand my friend she has no body to doe any thing about her when I am gone and she is old and cannot helpe her selfe you shall haue forty sir. Bar. Go to stand aside Feeble By my troth I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death I le nere beare a base mind and 't bee my destny so and 't be not so no man's too good to serue's prince and let it go which way it will he that dies this yeere is quit for the next Bar Well said th' art a good fellow Feeble Faith I le beare no base mind Enter Falstaffe and the Iustices Fal. Come sir which men shall I haue Shal. Foure of which you please Bar Sir a word with you I haue three pound to free Mouldy and Bulcalfe Fal. Go to well Shal. Come sir Iohn which foure wil you haue Fal. Do you chuse for me Shal. Mary then Mouldy Bulcalfe Feeble and Sadow Fal. Mouldy and Bulcalfe for you Mouldy stay at home til you are past seruice and for your part Bulcalfe grow til you come vnto it I will none of you Shal. Sir Iohn sir Iohn doe not your selfe wrong they are your likeliest men and I would haue you serude with the best Fal. Wil you tel me master Shallow how to chuse a man care I for the limbe the thewes the stature bulke and big assemblance of a man giue me the spirit M. Shalow here 's Wart you see what a ragged apparance it is a shall charge you and discharge you with the motion of a pewterers hammer come off and on swifter then he that gibbets on the brewers bucket and this same halfe facde fellow Shadow giue me this man he presents no marke to the enemy the fo-man may with as great aime leuel at the edge of a pen-knife and for a retraite how swiftly wil this Feeble the womans Tailer runne off O giue mee the spare men and spare me the great ones putte mee a caliuer into Warts hand Bardolfe Bar. Hold Wart trauers thas thas thas Fal. Come mannage me your caliuer so very wel go to very good exceeding good O giue me alwaies a little leane olde chopt Ballde shot well said yfaith Wart th' art a good scab hold there 's a tester for thee Shal. He is not his crafts-master he doth not do it right I remember at Mile-end-greene when I lay at Clements Inne I was then sir Dagonet in Arthurs show there was a little quiuer fellow and a would mannage you his peece thus and a would about and about and come you in and come you in rah tah tah would a say bounce would a say and away again would a go and againe would a come I shall nere see such a fellow Fal. These fellowes wooll doe well M. Shallow God keep you M. Scilens I will not vse many words with you fare you wel gentlemen both I thank you I must a dosen mile to night Bardolfe giue the souldiers coates Shal. Sir Iohn the Lord blesse you God prosper your affaires God send vs peace at your returne visit our house let our old acquaintance be renewed peraduenture I will with ye to the court Fal. Fore God would you would Shal. Go to I haue spoke at a word God keep you Fal. Fare you well gentle gentlemen exit 〈◊〉 On Bardolfe leade the men away as I returne I will fetch off these iustices I do see the bottome of iustice Shallow Lord Lord how subiect we old men are to this vice of lying this same staru'd iustice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildnesse of his youth and the feates he hath done about Turne-bull street and euery third word a lie dewer paid to the hearâ—r then the Turkes tribute I doe remember him at Clements Inne like a man made after supper of a cheese