| question to be asked. There is a thing, Harry, | |
| which thou hast often heard of and it is known to | |
| many in our land by the name of pitch: this pitch, | |
| as ancient writers do report, doth defile; so doth | |
| the company thou keepest: for, Harry, now I do not | |
| speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in | |
| pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in | |
| woes also: and yet there is a virtuous man whom I | |
| have often noted in thy company, but I know not his name. | |
| PRINCE HENRY What manner of man, an it like your majesty? | |
| FALSTAFF A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a | |
| cheerful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble | |
| carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, | |
| by'r lady, inclining to three score; and now I | |
| remember me, his name is Falstaff: if that man | |
| should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry, | |
| I see virtue in his looks. If then the tree may be | |
| known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then, | |