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| <tr><td class="play" align="center">The Second part of King Henry the Fourth | |
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| <h3>None</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Warkworth. Before the castle</i> | |
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| <i>Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>RUMOUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.1>Open your ears; for which of you will stop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.2>The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.3>I, from the orient to the drooping west,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.4>Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.5>The acts commenced on this ball of earth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.6>Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.7>The which in every language I pronounce,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.8>Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.9>I speak of peace, while covert enmity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.10>Under the smile of safety wounds the world:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.11>And who but Rumour, who but only I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.12>Make fearful musters and prepared defence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.13>Whiles the big year, swoln with some other grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.14>Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.15>And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.16>Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.17>And of so easy and so plain a stop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.18>That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.19>The still-discordant wavering multitude,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.20>Can play upon it. But what need I thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.21>My well-known body to anatomize</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.22>Among my household? Why is Rumour here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.23>I run before King Harry's victory;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.24>Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.25>Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.26>Quenching the flame of bold rebellion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.27>Even with the rebel's blood. But what mean I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.28>To speak so true at first? my office is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.29>To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.30>Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.31>And that the king before the Douglas' rage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.32>Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.33>This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.34>Between that royal field of Shrewsbury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.35>And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.36>Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.37>Lies crafty-sick: the posts come tiring on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.38>And not a man of them brings other news</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.39>Than they have learn'd of me: from Rumour's tongues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.40>They bring smooth comforts false, worse than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=0.0.41>true wrongs.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LORD BARDOLPH</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>Who keeps the gate here, ho?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The Porter opens the gate</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>Where is the earl?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Porter</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>What shall I say you are?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>Tell thou the earl</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Porter</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>His lordship is walk'd forth into the orchard;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>Please it your honour, knock but at the gate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>And he himself wilt answer.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter NORTHUMBERLAND</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>Here comes the earl.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Porter</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>What news, Lord Bardolph? every minute now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>Should be the father of some stratagem:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>The times are wild: contention, like a horse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>And bears down all before him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>Noble earl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>Good, an God will!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18> As good as heart can wish:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>The king is almost wounded to the death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>And, in the fortune of my lord your son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>Prince Harry slain outright; and both the Blunts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>Kill'd by the hand of Douglas; young Prince John</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>And Westmoreland and Stafford fled the field;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>And Harry Monmouth's brawn, the hulk Sir John,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>Is prisoner to your son: O, such a day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>So fought, so follow'd and so fairly won,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>Came not till now to dignify the times,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>Since Caesar's fortunes!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>How is this derived?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>Saw you the field? came you from Shrewsbury?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>I spake with one, my lord, that came from thence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>A gentleman well bred and of good name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>That freely render'd me these news for true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>Here comes my servant Travers, whom I sent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>On Tuesday last to listen after news.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter TRAVERS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>My lord, I over-rode him on the way;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>And he is furnish'd with no certainties</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>More than he haply may retail from me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>Now, Travers, what good tidings comes with you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TRAVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>My lord, Sir John Umfrevile turn'd me back</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>With joyful tidings; and, being better horsed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>Out-rode me. After him came spurring hard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>A gentleman, almost forspent with speed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>That stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied horse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>He ask'd the way to Chester; and of him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>I did demand what news from Shrewsbury:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>He told me that rebellion had bad luck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>With that, he gave his able horse the head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>And bending forward struck his armed heels</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>Against the panting sides of his poor jade</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>Up to the rowel-head, and starting so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>He seem'd in running to devour the way,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>Staying no longer question.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>Ha! Again:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>Said he young Harry Percy's spur was cold?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>Of Hotspur Coldspur? that rebellion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>Had met ill luck?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59> My lord, I'll tell you what;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>If my young lord your son have not the day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>Upon mine honour, for a silken point</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>I'll give my barony: never talk of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>Why should that gentleman that rode by Travers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>Give then such instances of loss?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>Who, he?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>He was some hilding fellow that had stolen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>The horse he rode on, and, upon my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>Spoke at a venture. Look, here comes more news.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MORTON</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>Yea, this man's brow, like to a title-leaf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>Foretells the nature of a tragic volume:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>So looks the strand whereon the imperious flood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>Hath left a witness'd usurpation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>Say, Morton, didst thou come from Shrewsbury?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MORTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>I ran from Shrewsbury, my noble lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>To fright our party.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>How doth my son and brother?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>And would have told him half his Troy was burnt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>This thou wouldst say, 'Your son did thus and thus;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>Your brother thus: so fought the noble Douglas:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>But in the end, to stop my ear indeed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>Ending with 'Brother, son, and all are dead.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>MORTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>Douglas is living, and your brother, yet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>But, for my lord your son--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>Why, he is dead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>He that but fears the thing he would not know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>That what he fear'd is chanced. Yet speak, Morton;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>Tell thou an earl his divination lies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>And I will take it as a sweet disgrace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>And make thee rich for doing me such wrong.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MORTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>You are too great to be by me gainsaid:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>Your spirit is too true, your fears too certain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>Yet, for all this, say not that Percy's dead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>I see a strange confession in thine eye:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>Thou shakest thy head and hold'st it fear or sin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>To speak a truth. If he be slain, say so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>The tongue offends not that reports his death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>And he doth sin that doth belie the dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>Not he which says the dead is not alive.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>Hath but a losing office, and his tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>Remember'd tolling a departing friend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>I cannot think, my lord, your son is dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MORTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>I am sorry I should force you to believe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>That which I would to God I had not seen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>Rendering faint quittance, wearied and out-breathed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>To Harry Monmouth; whose swift wrath beat down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>The never-daunted Percy to the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>From whence with life he never more sprung up.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>In few, his death, whose spirit lent a fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>Even to the dullest peasant in his camp,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>Being bruited once, took fire and heat away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>From the best temper'd courage in his troops;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>For from his metal was his party steel'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>Which once in him abated, all the rest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>Turn'd on themselves, like dull and heavy lead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>And as the thing that's heavy in itself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>Upon enforcement flies with greatest speed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>Fly from the field. Then was the noble Worcester</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>Too soon ta'en prisoner; and that furious Scot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>The bloody Douglas, whose well-labouring sword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>Had three times slain the appearance of the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>'Gan vail his stomach and did grace the shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>Of those that turn'd their backs, and in his flight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>Stumbling in fear, was took. The sum of all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>Is that the king hath won, and hath sent out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>A speedy power to encounter you, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>Under the conduct of young Lancaster</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>And Westmoreland. This is the news at full.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>For this I shall have time enough to mourn.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>In poison there is physic; and these news,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>Having been well, that would have made me sick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>Being sick, have in some measure made me well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>And as the wretch, whose fever-weaken'd joints,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>Out of his keeper's arms, even so my limbs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>Weaken'd with grief, being now enraged with grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>Are thrice themselves. Hence, therefore, thou nice crutch!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>Thou art a guard too wanton for the head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>Now bind my brows with iron; and approach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>To frown upon the enraged Northumberland!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>Let heaven kiss earth! now let not Nature's hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.166>And let this world no longer be a stage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.167>To feed contention in a lingering act;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.168>But let one spirit of the first-born Cain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.169>Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.170>On bloody courses, the rude scene may end,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.171>And darkness be the burier of the dead!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>TRAVERS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.172>This strained passion doth you wrong, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.173>Sweet earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MORTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.174>The lives of all your loving complices</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.175>Lean on your health; the which, if you give o'er</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.176>To stormy passion, must perforce decay.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.177>You cast the event of war, my noble lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.178>And summ'd the account of chance, before you said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.179>'Let us make head.' It was your presurmise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.180>That, in the dole of blows, your son might drop:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.181>You knew he walk'd o'er perils, on an edge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.182>More likely to fall in than to get o'er;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.183>You were advised his flesh was capable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.184>Of wounds and scars and that his forward spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.185>Would lift him where most trade of danger ranged:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.186>Yet did you say 'Go forth;' and none of this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.187>Though strongly apprehended, could restrain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.188>The stiff-borne action: what hath then befallen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.189>Or what hath this bold enterprise brought forth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.190>More than that being which was like to be?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.191>We all that are engaged to this loss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.192>Knew that we ventured on such dangerous seas</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.193>That if we wrought our life 'twas ten to one;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.194>And yet we ventured, for the gain proposed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.195>Choked the respect of likely peril fear'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.196>And since we are o'erset, venture again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.197>Come, we will all put forth, body and goods.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>MORTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.198>'Tis more than time: and, my most noble lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.199>I hear for certain, and do speak the truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.200>The gentle Archbishop of York is up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.201>With well-appointed powers: he is a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.202>Who with a double surety binds his followers.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.203>My lord your son had only but the corpse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.204>But shadows and the shows of men, to fight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.205>For that same word, rebellion, did divide</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.206>The action of their bodies from their souls;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.207>And they did fight with queasiness, constrain'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.208>As men drink potions, that their weapons only</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.209>Seem'd on our side; but, for their spirits and souls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.210>This word, rebellion, it had froze them up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.211>As fish are in a pond. But now the bishop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.212>Turns insurrection to religion:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.213>Supposed sincere and holy in his thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.214>He's followed both with body and with mind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.215>And doth enlarge his rising with the blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.216>Of fair King Richard, scraped from Pomfret stones;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.217>Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.218>Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.219>Gasping for life under great Bolingbroke;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.220>And more and less do flock to follow him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.221>I knew of this before; but, to speak truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.222>This present grief had wiped it from my mind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.223>Go in with me; and counsel every man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.224>The aptest way for safety and revenge:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.225>Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.226>Never so few, and never yet more need.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. London. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FALSTAFF, with his Page bearing his sword and buckler</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my water?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>He said, sir, the water itself was a good healthy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>water; but, for the party that owed it, he might</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>have more diseases than he knew for.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>than I invent or is invented on me: I am not only</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>men. I do here walk before thee like a sow that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. If the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>prince put thee into my service for any other reason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>than to set me off, why then I have no judgment.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>Thou whoreson mandrake, thou art fitter to be worn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>in my cap than to wait at my heels. I was never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>manned with an agate till now: but I will inset you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>send you back again to your master, for a jewel,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>the juvenal, the prince your master, whose chin is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>not yet fledged. I will sooner have a beard grow in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>the palm of my hand than he shall get one on his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>cheek; and yet he will not stick to say his face is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>a face-royal: God may finish it when he will, 'tis</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>not a hair amiss yet: he may keep it still at a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>face-royal, for a barber shall never earn sixpence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>out of it; and yet he'll be crowing as if he had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>writ man ever since his father was a bachelor. He</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>may keep his own grace, but he's almost out of mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>I can assure him. What said Master Dombledon about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>the satin for my short cloak and my slops?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>He said, sir, you should procure him better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>assurance than Bardolph: he would not take his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>band and yours; he liked not the security.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>Let him be damned, like the glutton! pray God his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>tongue be hotter! A whoreson Achitophel! a rascally</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>yea-forsooth knave! to bear a gentleman in hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>and then stand upon security! The whoreson</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>smooth-pates do now wear nothing but high shoes, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>bunches of keys at their girdles; and if a man is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>through with them in honest taking up, then they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>must stand upon security. I had as lief they would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>put ratsbane in my mouth as offer to stop it with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>security. I looked a' should have sent me two and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>twenty yards of satin, as I am a true knight, and he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>sends me security. Well, he may sleep in security;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>for he hath the horn of abundance, and the lightness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>of his wife shines through it: and yet cannot he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>see, though he have his own lanthorn to light him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>Where's Bardolph?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>He's gone into Smithfield to buy your worship a horse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>Smithfield: an I could get me but a wife in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>stews, I were manned, horsed, and wived.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Lord Chief-Justice and Servant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>Sir, here comes the nobleman that committed the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>Prince for striking him about Bardolph.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56>Wait, close; I will not see him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>Lord Chief-Justice What's he that goes there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>Falstaff, an't please your lordship.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>Lord Chief-Justice He that was in question for the robbery?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>He, my lord: but he hath since done good service at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>Shrewsbury; and, as I hear, is now going with some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>charge to the Lord John of Lancaster.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>Lord Chief-Justice What, to York? Call him back again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>Sir John Falstaff!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>Boy, tell him I am deaf.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>You must speak louder; my master is deaf.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.67>Lord Chief-Justice I am sure he is, to the hearing of any thing good.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.68>Go, pluck him by the elbow; I must speak with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.69>Sir John!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.70>What! a young knave, and begging! Is there not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.71>wars? is there not employment? doth not the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.72>lack subjects? do not the rebels need soldiers?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.73>Though it be a shame to be on any side but one, it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.74>is worse shame to beg than to be on the worst side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.75>were it worse than the name of rebellion can tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.76>how to make it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.77>You mistake me, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.78>Why, sir, did I say you were an honest man? setting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.79>my knighthood and my soldiership aside, I had lied</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.80>in my throat, if I had said so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.81>I pray you, sir, then set your knighthood and our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.82>soldiership aside; and give me leave to tell you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.83>you lie in your throat, if you say I am any other</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.84>than an honest man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.85>I give thee leave to tell me so! I lay aside that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.86>which grows to me! if thou gettest any leave of me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.87>hang me; if thou takest leave, thou wert better be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.88>hanged. You hunt counter: hence! avaunt!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.89>Sir, my lord would speak with you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.90>Lord Chief-Justice Sir John Falstaff, a word with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.91>My good lord! God give your lordship good time of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.92>day. I am glad to see your lordship abroad: I heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.93>say your lordship was sick: I hope your lordship</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.94>goes abroad by advice. Your lordship, though not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.95>clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.96>you, some relish of the saltness of time; and I must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.97>humbly beseech your lordship to have a reverent care</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.98>of your health.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.99>Lord Chief-Justice Sir John, I sent for you before your expedition to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.100>Shrewsbury.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.101>An't please your lordship, I hear his majesty is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.102>returned with some discomfort from Wales.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.103>Lord Chief-Justice I talk not of his majesty: you would not come when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.104>I sent for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.105>And I hear, moreover, his highness is fallen into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.106>this same whoreson apoplexy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.107>Lord Chief-Justice Well, God mend him! I pray you, let me speak with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.108>you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.109>This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.110>an't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.111>blood, a whoreson tingling.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.112>Lord Chief-Justice What tell you me of it? be it as it is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.113>It hath its original from much grief, from study and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.114>perturbation of the brain: I have read the cause of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.115>his effects in Galen: it is a kind of deafness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.116>Lord Chief-Justice I think you are fallen into the disease; for you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.117>hear not what I say to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.118>Very well, my lord, very well: rather, an't please</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.119>you, it is the disease of not listening, the malady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.120>of not marking, that I am troubled withal.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.121>Lord Chief-Justice To punish you by the heels would amend the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.122>attention of your ears; and I care not if I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.123>become your physician.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.124>I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.125>your lordship may minister the potion of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.126>imprisonment to me in respect of poverty; but how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.127>should I be your patient to follow your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.128>prescriptions, the wise may make some dram of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.129>scruple, or indeed a scruple itself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.130>Lord Chief-Justice I sent for you, when there were matters against you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.131>for your life, to come speak with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.132>As I was then advised by my learned counsel in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.133>laws of this land-service, I did not come.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.134>Lord Chief-Justice Well, the truth is, Sir John, you live in great infamy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.135>He that buckles him in my belt cannot live in less.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.136>Lord Chief-Justice Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.137>I would it were otherwise; I would my means were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.138>greater, and my waist slenderer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.139>Lord Chief-Justice You have misled the youthful prince.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.140>The young prince hath misled me: I am the fellow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.141>with the great belly, and he my dog.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.142>Lord Chief-Justice Well, I am loath to gall a new-healed wound: your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.143>day's service at Shrewsbury hath a little gilded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.144>over your night's exploit on Gad's-hill: you may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.145>thank the unquiet time for your quiet o'er-posting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.146>that action.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.147>My lord?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.148>Lord Chief-Justice But since all is well, keep it so: wake not a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.149>sleeping wolf.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.150>To wake a wolf is as bad as to smell a fox.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.151>Lord Chief-Justice What! you are as a candle, the better part burnt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.152>out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.153>A wassail candle, my lord, all tallow: if I did say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.154>of wax, my growth would approve the truth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.155>Lord Chief-Justice There is not a white hair on your face but should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.156>have his effect of gravity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.157>His effect of gravy, gravy, gravy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.158>Lord Chief-Justice You follow the young prince up and down, like his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.159>ill angel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.160>Not so, my lord; your ill angel is light; but I hope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.161>he that looks upon me will take me without weighing:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.162>and yet, in some respects, I grant, I cannot go: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.163>cannot tell. Virtue is of so little regard in these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.164>costermonger times that true valour is turned</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.165>bear-herd: pregnancy is made a tapster, and hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.166>his quick wit wasted in giving reckonings: all the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.167>other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.168>this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.169>You that are old consider not the capacities of us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.170>that are young; you do measure the heat of our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.171>livers with the bitterness of your galls: and we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.172>that are in the vaward of our youth, I must confess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.173>are wags too.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.174>Lord Chief-Justice Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.175>that are written down old with all the characters of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.176>age? Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.177>yellow cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.178>increasing belly? is not your voice broken? your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.179>wind short? your chin double? your wit single? and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.180>every part about you blasted with antiquity? and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.181>will you yet call yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.182>My lord, I was born about three of the clock in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.183>afternoon, with a white head and something a round</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.184>belly. For my voice, I have lost it with halloing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.185>and singing of anthems. To approve my youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.186>further, I will not: the truth is, I am only old in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.187>judgment and understanding; and he that will caper</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.188>with me for a thousand marks, let him lend me the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.189>money, and have at him! For the box of the ear that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.190>the prince gave you, he gave it like a rude prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.191>and you took it like a sensible lord. I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.192>chequed him for it, and the young lion repents;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.193>marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.194>and old sack.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.195>Lord Chief-Justice Well, God send the prince a better companion!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.196>God send the companion a better prince! I cannot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.197>rid my hands of him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.198>Lord Chief-Justice Well, the king hath severed you and Prince Harry: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.199>hear you are going with Lord John of Lancaster</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.200>against the Archbishop and the Earl of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.201>Northumberland.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.202>Yea; I thank your pretty sweet wit for it. But look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.203>you pray, all you that kiss my lady Peace at home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.204>that our armies join not in a hot day; for, by the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.205>Lord, I take but two shirts out with me, and I mean</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.206>not to sweat extraordinarily: if it be a hot day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.207>and I brandish any thing but a bottle, I would I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.208>might never spit white again. There is not a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.209>dangerous action can peep out his head but I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.210>thrust upon it: well, I cannot last ever: but it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.211>was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.212>they have a good thing, to make it too common. If</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.213>ye will needs say I am an old man, you should give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.214>me rest. I would to God my name were not so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.215>terrible to the enemy as it is: I were better to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.216>eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.217>nothing with perpetual motion.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.218>Lord Chief-Justice Well, be honest, be honest; and God bless your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.219>expedition!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.220>Will your lordship lend me a thousand pound to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.221>furnish me forth?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.222>Lord Chief-Justice Not a penny, not a penny; you are too impatient to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.223>bear crosses. Fare you well: commend me to my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.224>cousin Westmoreland.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Chief-Justice and Servant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.225>If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. A man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.226>can no more separate age and covetousness than a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.227>can part young limbs and lechery: but the gout</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.228>galls the one, and the pox pinches the other; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.229>so both the degrees prevent my curses. Boy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.230>Sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.231>What money is in my purse?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.232>Seven groats and two pence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.233>I can get no remedy against this consumption of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.234>purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.235>but the disease is incurable. Go bear this letter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.236>to my Lord of Lancaster; this to the prince; this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.237>to the Earl of Westmoreland; and this to old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.238>Mistress Ursula, whom I have weekly sworn to marry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.239>since I perceived the first white hair on my chin.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.240>About it: you know where to find me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Page</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.241>A pox of this gout! or, a gout of this pox! for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.242>the one or the other plays the rogue with my great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.243>toe. 'Tis no matter if I do halt; I have the wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.244>for my colour, and my pension shall seem the more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.245>reasonable. A good wit will make use of any thing:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.246>I will turn diseases to commodity.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. York. The Archbishop's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, the Lords HASTINGS, MOWBRAY, and BARDOLPH</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.1>Thus have you heard our cause and known our means;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.2>And, my most noble friends, I pray you all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.3>Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.4>And first, lord marshal, what say you to it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.5>I well allow the occasion of our arms;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.6>But gladly would be better satisfied</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.7>How in our means we should advance ourselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.8>To look with forehead bold and big enough</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.9>Upon the power and puissance of the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.10>Our present musters grow upon the file</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.11>To five and twenty thousand men of choice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.12>And our supplies live largely in the hope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.13>Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.14>With an incensed fire of injuries.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.15>The question then, Lord Hastings, standeth thus;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.16>Whether our present five and twenty thousand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.17>May hold up head without Northumberland?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.18>With him, we may.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.19> Yea, marry, there's the point:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.20>But if without him we be thought too feeble,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.21>My judgment is, we should not step too far</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.22>Till we had his assistance by the hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.23>For in a theme so bloody-faced as this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.24>Conjecture, expectation, and surmise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.25>Of aids incertain should not be admitted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.26>'Tis very true, Lord Bardolph; for indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.27>It was young Hotspur's case at Shrewsbury.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.28>It was, my lord; who lined himself with hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.29>Eating the air on promise of supply,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.30>Flattering himself in project of a power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.31>Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.32>And so, with great imagination</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.33>Proper to madmen, led his powers to death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.34>And winking leap'd into destruction.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.35>But, by your leave, it never yet did hurt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.36>To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.37>Yes, if this present quality of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.38>Indeed the instant action: a cause on foot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.39>Lives so in hope as in an early spring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.40>We see the appearing buds; which to prove fruit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.41>Hope gives not so much warrant as despair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.42>That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.43>We first survey the plot, then draw the model;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.44>And when we see the figure of the house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.45>Then must we rate the cost of the erection;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.46>Which if we find outweighs ability,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.47>What do we then but draw anew the model</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.48>In fewer offices, or at last desist</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.49>To build at all? Much more, in this great work,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.50>Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.51>And set another up, should we survey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.52>The plot of situation and the model,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.53>Consent upon a sure foundation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.54>Question surveyors, know our own estate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.55>How able such a work to undergo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.56>To weigh against his opposite; or else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.57>We fortify in paper and in figures,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.58>Using the names of men instead of men:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.59>Like one that draws the model of a house</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.60>Beyond his power to build it; who, half through,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.61>Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.62>A naked subject to the weeping clouds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.63>And waste for churlish winter's tyranny.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.64>Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.65>Should be still-born, and that we now possess'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.66>The utmost man of expectation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.67>I think we are a body strong enough,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.68>Even as we are, to equal with the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.69>What, is the king but five and twenty thousand?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.70>To us no more; nay, not so much, Lord Bardolph.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.71>For his divisions, as the times do brawl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.72>Are in three heads: one power against the French,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.73>And one against Glendower; perforce a third</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.74>Must take up us: so is the unfirm king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.75>In three divided; and his coffers sound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.76>With hollow poverty and emptiness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.77>That he should draw his several strengths together</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.78>And come against us in full puissance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.79>Need not be dreaded.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.80>If he should do so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.81>He leaves his back unarm'd, the French and Welsh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.82>Baying him at the heels: never fear that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>LORD BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.83>Who is it like should lead his forces hither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.84>The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.85>Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.86>But who is substituted 'gainst the French,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.87>I have no certain notice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.88>Let us on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.89>And publish the occasion of our arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.90>The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.91>Their over-greedy love hath surfeited:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.92>An habitation giddy and unsure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.93>Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.94>O thou fond many, with what loud applause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.95>Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.96>Before he was what thou wouldst have him be!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.97>And being now trimm'd in thine own desires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.98>Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.99>That thou provokest thyself to cast him up.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.100>So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.101>Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.102>And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.103>And howl'st to find it. What trust is in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.104>these times?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.105>They that, when Richard lived, would have him die,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.106>Are now become enamour'd on his grave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.107>Thou, that threw'st dust upon his goodly head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.108>When through proud London he came sighing on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.109>After the admired heels of Bolingbroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.110>Criest now 'O earth, yield us that king again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.111>And take thou this!' O thoughts of men accursed!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.112>Past and to come seems best; things present worst.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.113>Shall we go draw our numbers and set on?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.114>We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. London. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, FANG and his Boy with her, and SNARE following.</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Master Fang, have you entered the action?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>FANG</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>It is entered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>Where's your yeoman? Is't a lusty yeoman? will a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>stand to 't?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FANG</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>Sirrah, where's Snare?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>O Lord, ay! good Master Snare.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SNARE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>Here, here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FANG</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>Snare, we must arrest Sir John Falstaff.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>Yea, good Master Snare; I have entered him and all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SNARE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>It may chance cost some of us our lives, for he will stab.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>Alas the day! take heed of him; he stabbed me in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>mine own house, and that most beastly: in good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>faith, he cares not what mischief he does. If his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>weapon be out: he will foin like any devil; he will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>spare neither man, woman, nor child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FANG</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>No, nor I neither: I'll be at your elbow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>FANG</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>An I but fist him once; an a' come but within my vice,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>I am undone by his going; I warrant you, he's an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>infinitive thing upon my score. Good Master Fang,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>hold him sure: good Master Snare, let him not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>'scape. A' comes continuantly to Pie-corner--saving</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>your manhoods--to buy a saddle; and he is indited to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>dinner to the Lubber's-head in Lumbert street, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>Master Smooth's the silkman: I pray ye, since my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>exion is entered and my case so openly known to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>world, let him be brought in to his answer. A</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>bear: and I have borne, and borne, and borne, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fubbed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>off, from this day to that day, that it is a shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>to be thought on. There is no honesty in such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>dealing; unless a woman should be made an ass and a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>beast, to bear every knave's wrong. Yonder he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>comes; and that errant malmsey-nose knave, Bardolph,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>with him. Do your offices, do your offices: Master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>Fang and Master Snare, do me, do me, do me your offices.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FALSTAFF, Page, and BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>How now! whose mare's dead? what's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>FANG</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>Away, varlets! Draw, Bardolph: cut me off the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>villain's head: throw the quean in the channel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>Throw me in the channel! I'll throw thee in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>channel. Wilt thou? wilt thou? thou bastardly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>rogue! Murder, murder! Ah, thou honeysuckle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>villain! wilt thou kill God's officers and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>king's? Ah, thou honey-seed rogue! thou art a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>honey-seed, a man-queller, and a woman-queller.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>Keep them off, Bardolph.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FANG</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>A rescue! a rescue!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>Good people, bring a rescue or two. Thou wo't, wo't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>thou? Thou wo't, wo't ta? do, do, thou rogue! do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>thou hemp-seed!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>Away, you scullion! you rampallion! You</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Lord Chief-Justice, and his men</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>Lord Chief-Justice What is the matter? keep the peace here, ho!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>Good my lord, be good to me. I beseech you, stand to me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>Lord Chief-Justice How now, Sir John! what are you brawling here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>Doth this become your place, your time and business?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>You should have been well on your way to York.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>Stand from him, fellow: wherefore hang'st upon him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>O most worshipful lord, an't please your grace, I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>a poor widow of Eastcheap, and he is arrested at my suit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>Lord Chief-Justice For what sum?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>It is more than for some, my lord; it is for all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>all I have. He hath eaten me out of house and home;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>he hath put all my substance into that fat belly of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>his: but I will have some of it out again, or I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>will ride thee o' nights like the mare.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>I think I am as like to ride the mare, if I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>any vantage of ground to get up.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>Lord Chief-Justice How comes this, Sir John? Fie! what man of good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>temper would endure this tempest of exclamation?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>Are you not ashamed to enforce a poor widow to so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>rough a course to come by her own?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>What is the gross sum that I owe thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>Marry, if thou wert an honest man, thyself and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>money too. Thou didst swear to me upon a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>thy wife. Canst thou deny it? Did not goodwife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>gossip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mess of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>whereby thou didst desire to eat some; whereby I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>told thee they were ill for a green wound? And</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>didst thou not, when she was gone down stairs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>desire me to be no more so familiarity with such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>poor people; saying that ere long they should call</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>me madam? And didst thou not kiss me and bid me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>fetch thee thirty shillings? I put thee now to thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>book-oath: deny it, if thou canst.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>My lord, this is a poor mad soul; and she says up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>and down the town that the eldest son is like you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>she hath been in good case, and the truth is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>poverty hath distracted her. But for these foolish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>officers, I beseech you I may have redress against them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>Lord Chief-Justice Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>manner of wrenching the true cause the false way. It</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>is not a confident brow, nor the throng of words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>that come with such more than impudent sauciness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>from you, can thrust me from a level consideration:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>you have, as it appears to me, practised upon the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and made her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>serve your uses both in purse and in person.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>Yea, in truth, my lord.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>Lord Chief-Justice Pray thee, peace. Pay her the debt you owe her, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>unpay the villany you have done her: the one you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>may do with sterling money, and the other with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>current repentance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>reply. You call honourable boldness impudent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>sauciness: if a man will make courtesy and say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>nothing, he is virtuous: no, my lord, my humble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>duty remembered, I will not be your suitor. I say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>to you, I do desire deliverance from these officers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>being upon hasty employment in the king's affairs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>Lord Chief-Justice You speak as having power to do wrong: but answer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122>in the effect of your reputation, and satisfy this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123>poor woman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>Come hither, hostess.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GOWER</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>Lord Chief-Justice Now, Master Gower, what news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>The king, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>Are near at hand: the rest the paper tells.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>As I am a gentleman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>Faith, you said so before.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>As I am a gentleman. Come, no more words of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>By this heavenly ground I tread on, I must be fain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>to pawn both my plate and the tapestry of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>dining-chambers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>Glasses, glasses is the only drinking: and for thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135>walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>the Prodigal, or the German hunting in water-work,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>is worth a thousand of these bed-hangings and these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>fly-bitten tapestries. Let it be ten pound, if thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>canst. Come, an 'twere not for thy humours, there's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>not a better wench in England. Go, wash thy face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>and draw the action. Come, thou must not be in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>this humour with me; dost not know me? come, come, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.143>know thou wast set on to this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.144>Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty nobles: i'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.145>faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, so God save me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.146>la!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.147>Let it alone; I'll make other shift: you'll be a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.148>fool still.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.149>Well, you shall have it, though I pawn my gown. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.150>hope you'll come to supper. You'll pay me all together?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.151>Will I live?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.152>Go, with her, with her; hook on, hook on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.153>Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you at supper?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.154>No more words; let's have her.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY, BARDOLPH, Officers and Boy</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.155>Lord Chief-Justice I have heard better news.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.156>What's the news, my lord?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.157>Lord Chief-Justice Where lay the king last night?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.158>At Basingstoke, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.159>I hope, my lord, all's well: what is the news, my lord?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.160>Lord Chief-Justice Come all his forces back?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.161>No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.162>Are marched up to my lord of Lancaster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.163>Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.164>Comes the king back from Wales, my noble lord?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.165>Lord Chief-Justice You shall have letters of me presently:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.166>Come, go along with me, good Master Gower.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.167>My lord!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.168>Lord Chief-Justice What's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.169>Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to dinner?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.170>I must wait upon my good lord here; I thank you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.171>good Sir John.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.172>Lord Chief-Justice Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.173>take soldiers up in counties as you go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.174>Will you sup with me, Master Gower?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.175>Lord Chief-Justice What foolish master taught you these manners, Sir John?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.176>Master Gower, if they become me not, he was a fool</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.177>that taught them me. This is the right fencing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.178>grace, my lord; tap for tap, and so part fair.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.179>Lord Chief-Justice Now the Lord lighten thee! thou art a great fool.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. London. Another street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>Before God, I am exceeding weary.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>Is't come to that? I had thought weariness durst not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>have attached one of so high blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>Faith, it does me; though it discolours the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>complexion of my greatness to acknowledge it. Doth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>it not show vilely in me to desire small beer?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>Why, a prince should not be so loosely studied as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>to remember so weak a composition.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>Belike then my appetite was not princely got; for,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>by my troth, I do now remember the poor creature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>small beer. But, indeed, these humble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>considerations make me out of love with my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>greatness. What a disgrace is it to me to remember</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>thy name! or to know thy face to-morrow! or to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>take note how many pair of silk stockings thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>hast, viz. these, and those that were thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>peach-coloured ones! or to bear the inventory of thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>shirts, as, one for superfluity, and another for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>use! But that the tennis-court-keeper knows better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>than I; for it is a low ebb of linen with thee when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>thou keepest not racket there; as thou hast not done</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>a great while, because the rest of thy low</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>countries have made a shift to eat up thy holland:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>and God knows, whether those that bawl out the ruins</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom: but the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>midwives say the children are not in the fault;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>whereupon the world increases, and kindreds are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>mightily strengthened.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>How ill it follows, after you have laboured so hard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>you should talk so idly! Tell me, how many good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>young princes would do so, their fathers being so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>sick as yours at this time is?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>Shall I tell thee one thing, Poins?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>Yes, faith; and let it be an excellent good thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>It shall serve among wits of no higher breeding than thine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>Go to; I stand the push of your one thing that you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>will tell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>Marry, I tell thee, it is not meet that I should be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>sad, now my father is sick: albeit I could tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>thee, as to one it pleases me, for fault of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>better, to call my friend, I could be sad, and sad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>indeed too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>Very hardly upon such a subject.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44>By this hand thou thinkest me as far in the devil's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>book as thou and Falstaff for obduracy and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>persistency: let the end try the man. But I tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>thee, my heart bleeds inwardly that my father is so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>sick: and keeping such vile company as thou art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>hath in reason taken from me all ostentation of sorrow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>The reason?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.51>What wouldst thou think of me, if I should weep?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.52>I would think thee a most princely hypocrite.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.53>It would be every man's thought; and thou art a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.54>blessed fellow to think as every man thinks: never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.55>a man's thought in the world keeps the road-way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.56>better than thine: every man would think me an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.57>hypocrite indeed. And what accites your most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.58>worshipful thought to think so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.59>Why, because you have been so lewd and so much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.60>engraffed to Falstaff.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.61>And to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.62>By this light, I am well spoke on; I can hear it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.63>with my own ears: the worst that they can say of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.64>me is that I am a second brother and that I am a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.65>proper fellow of my hands; and those two things, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.66>confess, I cannot help. By the mass, here comes Bardolph.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BARDOLPH and Page</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.67>And the boy that I gave Falstaff: a' had him from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.68>me Christian; and look, if the fat villain have not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.69>transformed him ape.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.70>God save your grace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.71>And yours, most noble Bardolph!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.72>Come, you virtuous ass, you bashful fool, must you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.73>be blushing? wherefore blush you now? What a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.74>maidenly man-at-arms are you become! Is't such a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.75>matter to get a pottle-pot's maidenhead?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.76>A' calls me e'en now, my lord, through a red</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.77>lattice, and I could discern no part of his face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.78>from the window: at last I spied his eyes, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.79>methought he had made two holes in the ale-wife's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.80>new petticoat and so peeped through.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.81>Has not the boy profited?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.82>Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.83>Away, you rascally Althaea's dream, away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.84>Instruct us, boy; what dream, boy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.85>Marry, my lord, Althaea dreamed she was delivered</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.86>of a fire-brand; and therefore I call him her dream.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.87>A crown's worth of good interpretation: there 'tis,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.88>boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.89>O, that this good blossom could be kept from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.90>cankers! Well, there is sixpence to preserve thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.91>An you do not make him hanged among you, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.92>gallows shall have wrong.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.93>And how doth thy master, Bardolph?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.94>Well, my lord. He heard of your grace's coming to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.95>town: there's a letter for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.96>Delivered with good respect. And how doth the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.97>martlemas, your master?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.98>In bodily health, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.99>Marry, the immortal part needs a physician; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.100>that moves not him: though that be sick, it dies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.101>not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.102>I do allow this wen to be as familiar with me as my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.103>dog; and he holds his place; for look you how be writes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.104>[Reads] 'John Falstaff, knight,'--every man must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.105>know that, as oft as he has occasion to name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.106>himself: even like those that are kin to the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.107>for they never prick their finger but they say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.108>'There's some of the king's blood spilt.' 'How</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.109>comes that?' says he, that takes upon him not to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.110>conceive. The answer is as ready as a borrower's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.111>cap, 'I am the king's poor cousin, sir.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.112>Nay, they will be kin to us, or they will fetch it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.113>from Japhet. But to the letter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.114>[Reads] 'Sir John Falstaff, knight, to the son of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.115>the king, nearest his father, Harry Prince of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.116>Wales, greeting.' Why, this is a certificate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.117>Peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.118>[Reads] 'I will imitate the honourable Romans in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.119>brevity:' he sure means brevity in breath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.120>short-winded. 'I commend me to thee, I commend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.121>thee, and I leave thee. Be not too familiar with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.122>Poins; for he misuses thy favours so much, that he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.123>swears thou art to marry his sister Nell. Repent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.124>at idle times as thou mayest; and so, farewell.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.125>Thine, by yea and no, which is as much as to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.126>say, as thou usest him, JACK FALSTAFF with my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.127>familiars, JOHN with my brothers and sisters,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.128>and SIR JOHN with all Europe.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.129>My lord, I'll steep this letter in sack and make him eat it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.130>That's to make him eat twenty of his words. But do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.131>you use me thus, Ned? must I marry your sister?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.132>God send the wench no worse fortune! But I never said so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.133>Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.134>spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.135>Is your master here in London?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.136>Yea, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.137>Where sups he? doth the old boar feed in the old frank?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.138>At the old place, my lord, in Eastcheap.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.139>What company?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.140>Ephesians, my lord, of the old church.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.141>Sup any women with him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.142>None, my lord, but old Mistress Quickly and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.143>Mistress Doll Tearsheet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.144>What pagan may that be?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.145>A proper gentlewoman, sir, and a kinswoman of my master's.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.146>Even such kin as the parish heifers are to the town</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.147>bull. Shall we steal upon them, Ned, at supper?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.148>I am your shadow, my lord; I'll follow you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.149>Sirrah, you boy, and Bardolph, no word to your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.150>master that I am yet come to town: there's for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.151>your silence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.152>I have no tongue, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.153>And for mine, sir, I will govern it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.154>Fare you well; go.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt BARDOLPH and Page</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.155>This Doll Tearsheet should be some road.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.156>I warrant you, as common as the way between Saint</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.157>Alban's and London.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.158>How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.159>in his true colours, and not ourselves be seen?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.160>Put on two leathern jerkins and aprons, and wait</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.161>upon him at his table as drawers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.162>From a God to a bull? a heavy decension! it was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.163>Jove's case. From a prince to a prentice? a low</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.164>transformation! that shall be mine; for in every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.165>thing the purpose must weigh with the folly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.166>Follow me, Ned.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Warkworth. Before the castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter NORTHUMBERLAND, LADY NORTHUMBERLAND, and LADY PERCY</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>I pray thee, loving wife, and gentle daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>Give even way unto my rough affairs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>Put not you on the visage of the times</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>And be like them to Percy troublesome.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>LADY</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>I have given over, I will speak no more:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>Do what you will; your wisdom be your guide.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>Alas, sweet wife, my honour is at pawn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>And, but my going, nothing can redeem it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>O yet, for God's sake, go not to these wars!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>The time was, father, that you broke your word,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>When you were more endeared to it than now;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>When your own Percy, when my heart's dear Harry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>Threw many a northward look to see his father</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>Who then persuaded you to stay at home?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>There were two honours lost, yours and your son's.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>For yours, the God of heaven brighten it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>For his, it stuck upon him as the sun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>In the grey vault of heaven, and by his light</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>Did all the chivalry of England move</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>To do brave acts: he was indeed the glass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>He had no legs that practised not his gait;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>Became the accents of the valiant;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>For those that could speak low and tardily</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>Would turn their own perfection to abuse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>To seem like him: so that in speech, in gait,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>In diet, in affections of delight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>In military rules, humours of blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>He was the mark and glass, copy and book,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>That fashion'd others. And him, O wondrous him!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>O miracle of men! him did you leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>Second to none, unseconded by you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>To look upon the hideous god of war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>In disadvantage; to abide a field</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur's name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>Did seem defensible: so you left him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>Never, O never, do his ghost the wrong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>To hold your honour more precise and nice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>With others than with him! let them alone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>The marshal and the archbishop are strong:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>To-day might I, hanging on Hotspur's neck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>Have talk'd of Monmouth's grave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>Beshrew your heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>Fair daughter, you do draw my spirits from me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>With new lamenting ancient oversights.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>But I must go and meet with danger there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>Or it will seek me in another place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>And find me worse provided.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>LADY</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>O, fly to Scotland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>Till that the nobles and the armed commons</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>Have of their puissance made a little taste.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>If they get ground and vantage of the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>Then join you with them, like a rib of steel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>To make strength stronger; but, for all our loves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>First let them try themselves. So did your son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>He was so suffer'd: so came I a widow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>And never shall have length of life enough</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63>To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>For recordation to my noble husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>Come, come, go in with me. 'Tis with my mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>As with the tide swell'd up unto his height,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>That makes a still-stand, running neither way:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>Fain would I go to meet the archbishop,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>But many thousand reasons hold me back.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>I will resolve for Scotland: there am I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>Till time and vantage crave my company.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. London. The Boar's-head Tavern in Eastcheap.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter two Drawers</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Drawer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.1>What the devil hast thou brought there? apple-johns?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.2>thou knowest Sir John cannot endure an apple-john.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Drawer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.3>Mass, thou sayest true. The prince once set a dish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.4>of apple-johns before him, and told him there were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.5>five more Sir Johns, and, putting off his hat, said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.6>'I will now take my leave of these six dry, round,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.7>old, withered knights.' It angered him to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.8>heart: but he hath forgot that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>First Drawer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.9>Why, then, cover, and set them down: and see if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.10>thou canst find out Sneak's noise; Mistress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.11>Tearsheet would fain hear some music. Dispatch: the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.12>room where they supped is too hot; they'll come in straight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Second Drawer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.13>Sirrah, here will be the prince and Master Poins</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.14>anon; and they will put on two of our jerkins and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.15>aprons; and Sir John must not know of it: Bardolph</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.16>hath brought word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>First Drawer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.17>By the mass, here will be old Utis: it will be an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.18>excellent stratagem.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Second Drawer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.19>I'll see if I can find out Sneak.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY and DOLL TEARSHEET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.20>I' faith, sweetheart, methinks now you are in an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.21>excellent good temperality: your pulsidge beats as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.22>extraordinarily as heart would desire; and your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.23>colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose, in good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.24>truth, la! But, i' faith, you have drunk too much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.25>canaries; and that's a marvellous searching wine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.26>and it perfumes the blood ere one can say 'What's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.27>this?' How do you now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.28>Better than I was: hem!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.29>Why, that's well said; a good heart's worth gold.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.30>Lo, here comes Sir John.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.31>[Singing] 'When Arthur first in court,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.32>--Empty the jordan.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit First Drawer</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Singing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.33>--'And was a worthy king.' How now, Mistress Doll!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.34>Sick of a calm; yea, good faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.35>So is all her sect; an they be once in a calm, they are sick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.36>You muddy rascal, is that all the comfort you give me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.37>You make fat rascals, Mistress Doll.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.38>I make them! gluttony and diseases make them; I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.39>make them not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.40>If the cook help to make the gluttony, you help to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.41>make the diseases, Doll: we catch of you, Doll, we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.42>catch of you; grant that, my poor virtue grant that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.43>Yea, joy, our chains and our jewels.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.44>'Your broaches, pearls, and ouches:' for to serve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.45>bravely is to come halting off, you know: to come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.46>off the breach with his pike bent bravely, and to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.47>surgery bravely; to venture upon the charged</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.48>chambers bravely,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.49>Hang yourself, you muddy conger, hang yourself!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.50>By my troth, this is the old fashion; you two never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.51>meet but you fall to some discord: you are both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.52>i' good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts; you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.53>cannot one bear with another's confirmities. What</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.54>the good-year! one must bear, and that must be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.55>you: you are the weaker vessel, as they say, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.56>emptier vessel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.57>Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.58>hogshead? there's a whole merchant's venture of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.59>Bourdeaux stuff in him; you have not seen a hulk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.60>better stuffed in the hold. Come, I'll be friends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.61>with thee, Jack: thou art going to the wars; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.62>whether I shall ever see thee again or no, there is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.63>nobody cares.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter First Drawer</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>First Drawer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.64>Sir, Ancient Pistol's below, and would speak with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.65>you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.66>Hang him, swaggering rascal! let him not come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.67>hither: it is the foul-mouthed'st rogue in England.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.68>If he swagger, let him not come here: no, by my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.69>faith; I must live among my neighbours: I'll no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.70>swaggerers: I am in good name and fame with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.71>very best: shut the door; there comes no swaggerers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.72>here: I have not lived all this while, to have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.73>swaggering now: shut the door, I pray you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.74>Dost thou hear, hostess?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.75>Pray ye, pacify yourself, Sir John: there comes no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.76>swaggerers here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.77>Dost thou hear? it is mine ancient.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.78>Tilly-fally, Sir John, ne'er tell me: your ancient</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.79>swaggerer comes not in my doors. I was before Master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.80>Tisick, the debuty, t'other day; and, as he said to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.81>me, 'twas no longer ago than Wednesday last, 'I'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.82>good faith, neighbour Quickly,' says he; Master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.83>Dumbe, our minister, was by then; 'neighbour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.84>Quickly,' says he, 'receive those that are civil;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.85>for,' said he, 'you are in an ill name:' now a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.86>said so, I can tell whereupon; 'for,' says he, 'you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.87>are an honest woman, and well thought on; therefore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.88>take heed what guests you receive: receive,' says</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.89>he, 'no swaggering companions.' There comes none</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.90>here: you would bless you to hear what he said:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.91>no, I'll no swaggerers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.92>He's no swaggerer, hostess; a tame cheater, i'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.93>faith; you may stroke him as gently as a puppy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.94>greyhound: he'll not swagger with a Barbary hen, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.95>her feathers turn back in any show of resistance.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.96>Call him up, drawer.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit First Drawer</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.97>Cheater, call you him? I will bar no honest man my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.98>house, nor no cheater: but I do not love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.99>swaggering, by my troth; I am the worse, when one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.100>says swagger: feel, masters, how I shake; look you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.101>I warrant you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.102>So you do, hostess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.103>Do I? yea, in very truth, do I, an 'twere an aspen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.104>leaf: I cannot abide swaggerers.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and Page</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.105>God save you, Sir John!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.106>Welcome, Ancient Pistol. Here, Pistol, I charge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.107>you with a cup of sack: do you discharge upon mine hostess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.108>I will discharge upon her, Sir John, with two bullets.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.109>She is Pistol-proof, sir; you shall hardly offend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.110>her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.111>Come, I'll drink no proofs nor no bullets: I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.112>drink no more than will do me good, for no man's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.113>pleasure, I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.114>Then to you, Mistress Dorothy; I will charge you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.115>Charge me! I scorn you, scurvy companion. What!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.116>you poor, base, rascally, cheating, lack-linen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.117>mate! Away, you mouldy rogue, away! I am meat for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.118>your master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.119>I know you, Mistress Dorothy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.120>Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.121>by this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.122>chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.123>you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.124>juggler, you! Since when, I pray you, sir? God's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.125>light, with two points on your shoulder? much!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.126>God let me not live, but I will murder your ruff for this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.127>No more, Pistol; I would not have you go off here:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.128>discharge yourself of our company, Pistol.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.129>No, Good Captain Pistol; not here, sweet captain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.130>Captain! thou abominable damned cheater, art thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.131>not ashamed to be called captain? An captains were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.132>of my mind, they would truncheon you out, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.133>taking their names upon you before you have earned</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.134>them. You a captain! you slave, for what? for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.135>tearing a poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-house? He a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.136>captain! hang him, rogue! he lives upon mouldy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.137>stewed prunes and dried cakes. A captain! God's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.138>light, these villains will make the word as odious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.139>as the word 'occupy;' which was an excellent good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.140>word before it was ill sorted: therefore captains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.141>had need look to 't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.142>Pray thee, go down, good ancient.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.143>Hark thee hither, Mistress Doll.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.144>Not I I tell thee what, Corporal Bardolph, I could</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.145>tear her: I'll be revenged of her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.146>Pray thee, go down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.147>I'll see her damned first; to Pluto's damned lake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.148>by this hand, to the infernal deep, with Erebus and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.149>tortures vile also. Hold hook and line, say I.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.150>Down, down, dogs! down, faitors! Have we not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.151>Hiren here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.152>Good Captain Peesel, be quiet; 'tis very late, i'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.153>faith: I beseek you now, aggravate your choler.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.154>These be good humours, indeed! Shall pack-horses</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.155>And hollow pamper'd jades of Asia,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.156>Which cannot go but thirty mile a-day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.157>Compare with Caesars, and with Cannibals,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.158>And Trojan Greeks? nay, rather damn them with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.159>King Cerberus; and let the welkin roar.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.160>Shall we fall foul for toys?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.161>By my troth, captain, these are very bitter words.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.162>Be gone, good ancient: this will grow to abrawl anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.163>Die men like dogs! give crowns like pins! Have we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.164>not Heren here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.165>O' my word, captain, there's none such here. What</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.166>the good-year! do you think I would deny her? For</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.167>God's sake, be quiet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.168>Then feed, and be fat, my fair Calipolis.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.169>Come, give's some sack.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.170>'Si fortune me tormente, sperato me contento.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.171>Fear we broadsides? no, let the fiend give fire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.172>Give me some sack: and, sweetheart, lie thou there.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Laying down his sword</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.173>Come we to full points here; and are etceteras nothing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.174>Pistol, I would be quiet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.175>Sweet knight, I kiss thy neaf: what! we have seen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.176>the seven stars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.177>For God's sake, thrust him down stairs: I cannot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.178>endure such a fustian rascal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.179>Thrust him down stairs! know we not Galloway nags?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.180>Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.181>shilling: nay, an a' do nothing but speak nothing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.182>a' shall be nothing here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.183>Come, get you down stairs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.184>What! shall we have incision? shall we imbrue?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Snatching up his sword</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.185>Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.186>Why, then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.187>Untwine the Sisters Three! Come, Atropos, I say!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.188>Here's goodly stuff toward!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.189>Give me my rapier, boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.190>I pray thee, Jack, I pray thee, do not draw.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.191>Get you down stairs.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drawing, and driving PISTOL out</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.192>Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forswear keeping</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.193>house, afore I'll be in these tirrits and frights.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.194>So; murder, I warrant now. Alas, alas! put up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.195>your naked weapons, put up your naked weapons.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PISTOL and BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.196>I pray thee, Jack, be quiet; the rascal's gone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.197>Ah, you whoreson little valiant villain, you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.198>He you not hurt i' the groin? methought a' made a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.199>shrewd thrust at your belly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.200>Have you turned him out o' doors?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.201>Yea, sir. The rascal's drunk: you have hurt him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.202>sir, i' the shoulder.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.203>A rascal! to brave me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.204>Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! alas, poor ape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.205>how thou sweatest! come, let me wipe thy face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.206>come on, you whoreson chops: ah, rogue! i'faith, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.207>love thee: thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.208>worth five of Agamemnon, and ten times better than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.209>the Nine Worthies: ah, villain!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.210>A rascally slave! I will toss the rogue in a blanket.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.211>Do, an thou darest for thy heart: an thou dost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.212>I'll canvass thee between a pair of sheets.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Music</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.213>The music is come, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.214>Let them play. Play, sirs. Sit on my knee, Doll.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.215>A rascal bragging slave! the rogue fled from me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.216>like quicksilver.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.217>I' faith, and thou followedst him like a church.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.218>Thou whoreson little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.219>when wilt thou leave fighting o' days and foining</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.220>o' nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter, behind, PRINCE HENRY and POINS, disguised</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.221>Peace, good Doll! do not speak like a death's-head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.222>do not bid me remember mine end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.223>Sirrah, what humour's the prince of?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.224>A good shallow young fellow: a' would have made a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.225>good pantler, a' would ha' chipp'd bread well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.226>They say Poins has a good wit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.227>He a good wit? hang him, baboon! his wit's as thick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.228>as Tewksbury mustard; there's no more conceit in him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.229>than is in a mallet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.230>Why does the prince love him so, then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.231>Because their legs are both of a bigness, and a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.232>plays at quoits well, and eats conger and fennel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.233>and drinks off candles' ends for flap-dragons, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.234>rides the wild-mare with the boys, and jumps upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.235>joined-stools, and swears with a good grace, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.236>wears his boots very smooth, like unto the sign of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.237>the leg, and breeds no bate with telling of discreet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.238>stories; and such other gambol faculties a' has,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.239>that show a weak mind and an able body, for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.240>which the prince admits him: for the prince himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.241>is such another; the weight of a hair will turn the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.242>scales between their avoirdupois.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.243>Would not this nave of a wheel have his ears cut off?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.244>Let's beat him before his whore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.245>Look, whether the withered elder hath not his poll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.246>clawed like a parrot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.247>Is it not strange that desire should so many years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.248>outlive performance?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.249>Kiss me, Doll.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.250>Saturn and Venus this year in conjunction! what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.251>says the almanac to that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.252>And look, whether the fiery Trigon, his man, be not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.253>lisping to his master's old tables, his note-book,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.254>his counsel-keeper.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.255>Thou dost give me flattering busses.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.256>By my troth, I kiss thee with a most constant heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.257>I am old, I am old.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.258>I love thee better than I love e'er a scurvy young</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.259>boy of them all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.260>What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? I shall receive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.261>money o' Thursday: shalt have a cap to-morrow. A</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.262>merry song, come: it grows late; we'll to bed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.263>Thou'lt forget me when I am gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.264>By my troth, thou'lt set me a-weeping, an thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.265>sayest so: prove that ever I dress myself handsome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.266>till thy return: well, harken at the end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.267>Some sack, Francis.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.268>Anon, anon, sir.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Coming forward</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.269>Ha! a bastard son of the king's? And art not thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.270>Poins his brother?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.271>Why, thou globe of sinful continents! what a life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.272>dost thou lead!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.273>A better than thou: I am a gentleman; thou art a drawer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.274>Very true, sir; and I come to draw you out by the ears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.275>O, the Lord preserve thy good grace! by my troth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.276>welcome to London. Now, the Lord bless that sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.277>face of thine! O, Jesu, are you come from Wales?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.278>Thou whoreson mad compound of majesty, by this light</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.279>flesh and corrupt blood, thou art welcome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.280>How, you fat fool! I scorn you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.281>My lord, he will drive you out of your revenge and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.282>turn all to a merriment, if you take not the heat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.283>You whoreson candle-mine, you, how vilely did you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.284>speak of me even now before this honest, virtuous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.285>civil gentlewoman!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.286>God's blessing of your good heart! and so she is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.287>by my troth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.288>Didst thou hear me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.289>Yea, and you knew me, as you did when you ran away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.290>by Gad's-hill: you knew I was at your back, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.291>spoke it on purpose to try my patience.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.292>No, no, no; not so; I did not think thou wast within hearing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.293>I shall drive you then to confess the wilful abuse;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.294>and then I know how to handle you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.295>No abuse, Hal, o' mine honour, no abuse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.296>Not to dispraise me, and call me pantier and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.297>bread-chipper and I know not what?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.298>No abuse, Hal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.299>No abuse?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.300>No abuse, Ned, i' the world; honest Ned, none. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.301>dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.302>might not fall in love with him; in which doing, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.303>have done the part of a careful friend and a true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.304>subject, and thy father is to give me thanks for it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.305>No abuse, Hal: none, Ned, none: no, faith, boys, none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.306>See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.307>not make thee wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.308>close with us? is she of the wicked? is thine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.309>hostess here of the wicked? or is thy boy of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.310>wicked? or honest Bardolph, whose zeal burns in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.311>nose, of the wicked?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.312>Answer, thou dead elm, answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.313>The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph irrecoverable;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.314>and his face is Lucifer's privy-kitchen, where he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.315>doth nothing but roast malt-worms. For the boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.316>there is a good angel about him; but the devil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.317>outbids him too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech126><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.318>For the women?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech127><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.319>For one of them, she is in hell already, and burns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.320>poor souls. For the other, I owe her money, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.321>whether she be damned for that, I know not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech128><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.322>No, I warrant you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech129><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.323>No, I think thou art not; I think thou art quit for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.324>that. Marry, there is another indictment upon thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.325>for suffering flesh to be eaten in thy house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.326>contrary to the law; for the which I think thou wilt howl.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech130><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.327>All victuallers do so; what's a joint of mutton or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.328>two in a whole Lent?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech131><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.329>You, gentlewoman,-</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech132><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.330>What says your grace?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech133><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.331>His grace says that which his flesh rebels against.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Knocking within</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech134><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.332>Who knocks so loud at door? Look to the door there, Francis.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PETO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech135><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.333>Peto, how now! what news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech136><b>PETO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.334>The king your father is at Westminster:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.335>And there are twenty weak and wearied posts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.336>Come from the north: and, as I came along,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.337>I met and overtook a dozen captains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.338>Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.339>And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech137><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.340>By heaven, Poins, I feel me much to blame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.341>So idly to profane the precious time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.342>When tempest of commotion, like the south</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.343>Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.344>And drop upon our bare unarmed heads.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.345>Give me my sword and cloak. Falstaff, good night.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PRINCE HENRY, POINS, PETO and BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech138><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.346>Now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.347>we must hence and leave it unpicked.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Knocking within</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.348>More knocking at the door!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.349>How now! what's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech139><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.350>You must away to court, sir, presently;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.351>A dozen captains stay at door for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech140><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.352>[To the Page] Pay the musicians, sirrah. Farewell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.353>hostess; farewell, Doll. You see, my good wenches,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.354>how men of merit are sought after: the undeserver</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.355>may sleep, when the man of action is called on.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.356>Farewell good wenches: if I be not sent away post,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.357>I will see you again ere I go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech141><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.358>I cannot speak; if my heart be not read to burst,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.359>well, sweet Jack, have a care of thyself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech142><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.360>Farewell, farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech143><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.361>Well, fare thee well: I have known thee these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.362>twenty-nine years, come peascod-time; but an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.363>honester and truer-hearted man,--well, fare thee well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech144><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.364>[Within] Mistress Tearsheet!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech145><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.365>What's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech146><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.366>[Within] Good Mistress Tearsheet, come to my master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech147><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.367>O, run, Doll, run; run, good Doll: come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>She comes blubbered</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.368>Yea, will you come, Doll?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Westminster. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING HENRY IV in his nightgown, with a Page</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>Go call the Earls of Surrey and of Warwick;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>But, ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>And well consider of them; make good speed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Page</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>How many thousand of my poorest subjects</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>And steep my senses in forgetfulness?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>Under the canopies of costly state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>In cradle of the rude imperious surge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>And in the visitation of the winds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>Who take the ruffian billows by the top,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>And in the calmest and most stillest night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>With all appliances and means to boot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter WARWICK and SURREY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>Many good morrows to your majesty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>Is it good morrow, lords?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>'Tis one o'clock, and past.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>Why, then, good morrow to you all, my lords.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>Have you read o'er the letters that I sent you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>We have, my liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>Then you perceive the body of our kingdom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>How foul it is; what rank diseases grow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>And with what danger, near the heart of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>It is but as a body yet distemper'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>Which to his former strength may be restored</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>With good advice and little medicine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>My Lord Northumberland will soon be cool'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>O God! that one might read the book of fate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>And see the revolution of the times</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>Make mountains level, and the continent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>Weary of solid firmness, melt itself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>Into the sea! and, other times, to see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>The beachy girdle of the ocean</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>And changes fill the cup of alteration</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>With divers liquors! O, if this were seen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>What perils past, what crosses to ensue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>'Tis not 'ten years gone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>Since Richard and Northumberland, great friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>Did feast together, and in two years after</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>Were they at wars: it is but eight years since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>This Percy was the man nearest my soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>Who like a brother toil'd in my affairs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>And laid his love and life under my foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>Yea, for my sake, even to the eyes of Richard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>Gave him defiance. But which of you was by--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>You, cousin Nevil, as I may remember--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To WARWICK</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>When Richard, with his eye brimful of tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>Then cheque'd and rated by Northumberland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>Did speak these words, now proved a prophecy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>'Northumberland, thou ladder by the which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>Though then, God knows, I had no such intent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>But that necessity so bow'd the state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>That I and greatness were compell'd to kiss:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>'The time shall come,' thus did he follow it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>'The time will come, that foul sin, gathering head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>Shall break into corruption:' so went on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>Foretelling this same time's condition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>And the division of our amity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>There is a history in all men's lives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>Figuring the nature of the times deceased;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82>The which observed, a man may prophesy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>With a near aim, of the main chance of things</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>As yet not come to life, which in their seeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>And weak beginnings lie intreasured.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>Such things become the hatch and brood of time;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>And by the necessary form of this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>King Richard might create a perfect guess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>That great Northumberland, then false to him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>Which should not find a ground to root upon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>Unless on you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93> Are these things then necessities?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>Then let us meet them like necessities:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>And that same word even now cries out on us:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>They say the bishop and Northumberland</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>Are fifty thousand strong.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>It cannot be, my lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>The numbers of the fear'd. Please it your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>To go to bed. Upon my soul, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102>The powers that you already have sent forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>Shall bring this prize in very easily.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>To comfort you the more, I have received</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105>A certain instance that Glendower is dead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>Your majesty hath been this fortnight ill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107>And these unseason'd hours perforce must add</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>Unto your sickness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>I will take your counsel:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>And were these inward wars once out of hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Gloucestershire. Before SHALLOW'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SHALLOW and SILENCE, meeting; MOULDY, SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, BULLCALF, a Servant or two with them</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>Come on, come on, come on, sir; give me your hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>sir, give me your hand, sir: an early stirrer, by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>the rood! And how doth my good cousin Silence?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>Good morrow, good cousin Shallow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>And how doth my cousin, your bedfellow? and your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>fairest daughter and mine, my god-daughter Ellen?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>Alas, a black ousel, cousin Shallow!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>By yea and nay, sir, I dare say my cousin William is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>become a good scholar: he is at Oxford still, is he not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>Indeed, sir, to my cost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>A' must, then, to the inns o' court shortly. I was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>once of Clement's Inn, where I think they will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>talk of mad Shallow yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>You were called 'lusty Shallow' then, cousin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>By the mass, I was called any thing; and I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>have done any thing indeed too, and roundly too.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>There was I, and little John Doit of Staffordshire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>and black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>Will Squele, a Cotswold man; you had not four such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>swinge-bucklers in all the inns o' court again: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>I may say to you, we knew where the bona-robas were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>and had the best of them all at commandment. Then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>was Jack Falstaff, now Sir John, a boy, and page to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>This Sir John, cousin, that comes hither anon about soldiers?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>The same Sir John, the very same. I see him break</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>Skogan's head at the court-gate, when a' was a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>crack not thus high: and the very same day did I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>fight with one Sampson Stockfish, a fruiterer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>behind Gray's Inn. Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>have spent! and to see how many of my old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>acquaintance are dead!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>We shall all follow, cousin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SHADOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>Certain, 'tis certain; very sure, very sure: death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>By my troth, I was not there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>Death is certain. Is old Double of your town living</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>yet?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>Dead, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>Jesu, Jesu, dead! a' drew a good bow; and dead! a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>shot a fine shoot: John a Gaunt loved him well, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>betted much money on his head. Dead! a' would have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>clapped i' the clout at twelve score; and carried</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>you a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>half, that it would have done a man's heart good to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>see. How a score of ewes now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>Thereafter as they be: a score of good ewes may be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>worth ten pounds.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>And is old Double dead?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>Here come two of Sir John Falstaff's men, as I think.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BARDOLPH and one with him</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>Good morrow, honest gentlemen: I beseech you, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>is Justice Shallow?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>county, and one of the king's justices of th e peace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>What is your good pleasure with me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>My captain, sir, commends him to you; my captain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>Sir John Falstaff, a tall gentleman, by heaven, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>a most gallant leader.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>He greets me well, sir. I knew him a good backsword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>man. How doth the good knight? may I ask how my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>lady his wife doth?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>Sir, pardon; a soldier is better accommodated than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>with a wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>It is well said, in faith, sir; and it is well said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>indeed too. Better accommodated! it is good; yea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>indeed, is it: good phrases are surely, and ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>were, very commendable. Accommodated! it comes of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>'accommodo' very good; a good phrase.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>Pardon me, sir; I have heard the word. Phrase call</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>you it? by this good day, I know not the phrase;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>but I will maintain the word with my sword to be a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>soldier-like word, and a word of exceeding good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>command, by heaven. Accommodated; that is, when a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>which is an excellent thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>It is very just.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>Look, here comes good Sir John. Give me your good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>hand, give me your worship's good hand: by my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>troth, you like well and bear your years very well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>welcome, good Sir John.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>I am glad to see you well, good Master Robert</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>Shallow: Master Surecard, as I think?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>No, Sir John; it is my cousin Silence, in commission with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>Good Master Silence, it well befits you should be of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>the peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>Your good-worship is welcome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89>Fie! this is hot weather, gentlemen. Have you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>provided me here half a dozen sufficient men?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>Marry, have we, sir. Will you sit?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>Let me see them, I beseech you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>Where's the roll? where's the roll? where's the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94>roll? Let me see, let me see, let me see. So, so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>yea, marry, sir: Ralph Mouldy! Let them appear as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>I call; let them do so, let them do so. Let me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>see; where is Mouldy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MOULDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>Here, an't please you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>What think you, Sir John? a good-limbed fellow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>young, strong, and of good friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>Is thy name Mouldy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MOULDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>Yea, an't please you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>'Tis the more time thou wert used.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>Ha, ha, ha! most excellent, i' faith! Things that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.105>are mouldy lack use: very singular good! in faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>well said, Sir John, very well said.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>Prick him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MOULDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>I was pricked well enough before, an you could have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>let me alone: my old dame will be undone now for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>one to do her husbandry and her drudgery: you need</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>not to have pricked me; there are other men fitter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>to go out than I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.113>Go to: peace, Mouldy; you shall go. Mouldy, it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>time you were spent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>MOULDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>Spent!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116>Peace, fellow, peace; stand aside: know you where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>you are? For the other, Sir John: let me see:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>Simon Shadow!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>Yea, marry, let me have him to sit under: he's like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>to be a cold soldier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.121>Where's Shadow?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>SHADOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.122>Here, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.123>Shadow, whose son art thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>SHADOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.124>My mother's son, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.125>Thy mother's son! like enough, and thy father's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.126>shadow: so the son of the female is the shadow of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.127>the male: it is often so, indeed; but much of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.128>father's substance!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.129>Do you like him, Sir John?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.130>Shadow will serve for summer; prick him, for we have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.131>a number of shadows to fill up the muster-book.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.132>Thomas Wart!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.133>Where's he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>WART</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.134>Here, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.135>Is thy name Wart?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>WART</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.136>Yea, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.137>Thou art a very ragged wart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.138>Shall I prick him down, Sir John?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.139>It were superfluous; for his apparel is built upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.140>his back and the whole frame stands upon pins:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.141>prick him no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.142>Ha, ha, ha! you can do it, sir; you can do it: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.143>commend you well. Francis Feeble!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>FEEBLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.144>Here, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.145>What trade art thou, Feeble?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>FEEBLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.146>A woman's tailor, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.147>Shall I prick him, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.148>You may: but if he had been a man's tailor, he'ld</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.149>ha' pricked you. Wilt thou make as many holes in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.150>an enemy's battle as thou hast done in a woman's petticoat?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>FEEBLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.151>I will do my good will, sir; you can have no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.152>Well said, good woman's tailor! well said,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.153>courageous Feeble! thou wilt be as valiant as the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.154>wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse. Prick the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.155>woman's tailor: well, Master Shallow; deep, Master Shallow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>FEEBLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.156>I would Wart might have gone, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.157>I would thou wert a man's tailor, that thou mightst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.158>mend him and make him fit to go. I cannot put him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.159>to a private soldier that is the leader of so many</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.160>thousands: let that suffice, most forcible Feeble.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>FEEBLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.161>It shall suffice, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.162>I am bound to thee, reverend Feeble. Who is next?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.163>Peter Bullcalf o' the green!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.164>Yea, marry, let's see Bullcalf.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>BULLCALF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.165>Here, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.166>'Fore God, a likely fellow! Come, prick me Bullcalf</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.167>till he roar again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>BULLCALF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.168>O Lord! good my lord captain,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.169>What, dost thou roar before thou art pricked?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>BULLCALF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.170>O Lord, sir! I am a diseased man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.171>What disease hast thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>BULLCALF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.172>A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir, which I caught</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.173>with ringing in the king's affairs upon his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.174>coronation-day, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.175>Come, thou shalt go to the wars in a gown; we wilt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.176>have away thy cold; and I will take such order that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.177>my friends shall ring for thee. Is here all?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.178>Here is two more called than your number, you must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.179>have but four here, sir: and so, I pray you, go in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.180>with me to dinner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.181>Come, I will go drink with you, but I cannot tarry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.182>dinner. I am glad to see you, by my troth, Master Shallow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.183>O, Sir John, do you remember since we lay all night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.184>in the windmill in Saint George's field?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.185>No more of that, good Master Shallow, no more of that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.186>Ha! 'twas a merry night. And is Jane Nightwork alive?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.187>She lives, Master Shallow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.188>She never could away with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.189>Never, never; she would always say she could not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.190>abide Master Shallow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.191>By the mass, I could anger her to the heart. She</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.192>was then a bona-roba. Doth she hold her own well?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.193>Old, old, Master Shallow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.194>Nay, she must be old; she cannot choose but be old;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.195>certain she's old; and had Robin Nightwork by old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.196>Nightwork before I came to Clement's Inn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.197>That's fifty-five year ago.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.198>Ha, cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.199>this knight and I have seen! Ha, Sir John, said I well?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.200>We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.201>That we have, that we have, that we have; in faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.202>Sir John, we have: our watch-word was 'Hem boys!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.203>Come, let's to dinner; come, let's to dinner:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.204>Jesus, the days that we have seen! Come, come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt FALSTAFF and Justices</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>BULLCALF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.205>Good Master Corporate Bardolph, stand my friend;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.206>and here's four Harry ten shillings in French crowns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.207>for you. In very truth, sir, I had as lief be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.208>hanged, sir, as go: and yet, for mine own part, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.209>I do not care; but rather, because I am unwilling,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.210>and, for mine own part, have a desire to stay with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.211>my friends; else, sir, I did not care, for mine own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.212>part, so much.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.213>Go to; stand aside.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>MOULDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.214>And, good master corporal captain, for my old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.215>dame's sake, stand my friend: she has nobody to do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.216>any thing about her when I am gone; and she is old,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.217>and cannot help herself: You shall have forty, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.218>Go to; stand aside.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>FEEBLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.219>By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once: we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.220>owe God a death: I'll ne'er bear a base mind:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.221>an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: no man is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.222>too good to serve's prince; and let it go which way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.223>it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.224>Well said; thou'rt a good fellow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>FEEBLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.225>Faith, I'll bear no base mind.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter FALSTAFF and the Justices</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.226>Come, sir, which men shall I have?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.227>Four of which you please.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.228>Sir, a word with you: I have three pound to free</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.229>Mouldy and Bullcalf.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.230>Go to; well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.231>Come, Sir John, which four will you have?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.232>Do you choose for me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.233>Marry, then, Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble and Shadow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.234>Mouldy and Bullcalf: for you, Mouldy, stay at home</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.235>till you are past service: and for your part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.236>Bullcalf, grow till you come unto it: I will none of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.237>Sir John, Sir John, do not yourself wrong: they are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.238>your likeliest men, and I would have you served with the best.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.239>Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how to choose a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.240>man? Care I for the limb, the thewes, the stature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.241>bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.242>spirit, Master Shallow. Here's Wart; you see what a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.243>ragged appearance it is; a' shall charge you and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.244>discharge you with the motion of a pewterer's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.245>hammer, come off and on swifter than he that gibbets</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.246>on the brewer's bucket. And this same half-faced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.247>fellow, Shadow; give me this man: he presents no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.248>mark to the enemy; the foeman may with as great aim</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.249>level at the edge of a penknife. And for a retreat;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.250>how swiftly will this Feeble the woman's tailor run</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.251>off! O, give me the spare men, and spare me the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.252>great ones. Put me a caliver into Wart's hand, Bardolph.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.253>Hold, Wart, traverse; thus, thus, thus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.254>Come, manage me your caliver. So: very well: go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.255>to: very good, exceeding good. O, give me always a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.256>little, lean, old, chapt, bald shot. Well said, i'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.257>faith, Wart; thou'rt a good scab: hold, there's a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.258>tester for thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.259>He is not his craft's master; he doth not do it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.260>right. I remember at Mile-end Green, when I lay at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.261>Clement's Inn--I was then Sir Dagonet in Arthur's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.262>show,--there was a little quiver fellow, and a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.263>would manage you his piece thus; and a' would about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.264>and about, and come you in and come you in: 'rah,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.265>tah, tah,' would a' say; 'bounce' would a' say; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.266>away again would a' go, and again would a' come: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.267>shall ne'er see such a fellow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.268>These fellows will do well, Master Shallow. God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.269>keep you, Master Silence: I will not use many words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.270>with you. Fare you well, gentlemen both: I thank</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.271>you: I must a dozen mile to-night. Bardolph, give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.272>the soldiers coats.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.273>Sir John, the Lord bless you! God prosper your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.274>affairs! God send us peace! At your return visit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.275>our house; let our old acquaintance be renewed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.276>peradventure I will with ye to the court.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.277>'Fore God, I would you would, Master Shallow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.278>Go to; I have spoke at a word. God keep you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.279>Fare you well, gentle gentlemen.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Justices</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.280>On, Bardolph; lead the men away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt BARDOLPH, Recruits, & c</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.281>As I return, I will fetch off these justices: I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.282>see the bottom of Justice Shallow. Lord, Lord, how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.283>subject we old men are to this vice of lying! This</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.284>same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.285>me of the wildness of his youth, and the feats he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.286>hath done about Turnbull Street: and every third</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.287>word a lie, duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.288>tribute. I do remember him at Clement's Inn like a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.289>man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.290>was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.291>radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.292>with a knife: a' was so forlorn, that his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.293>dimensions to any thick sight were invincible: a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.294>was the very genius of famine; yet lecherous as a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.295>monkey, and the whores called him mandrake: a' came</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.296>ever in the rearward of the fashion, and sung those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.297>tunes to the overscutched huswives that he heard the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.298>carmen whistle, and swear they were his fancies or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.299>his good-nights. And now is this Vice's dagger</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.300>become a squire, and talks as familiarly of John a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.301>Gaunt as if he had been sworn brother to him; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.302>I'll be sworn a' ne'er saw him but once in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.303>Tilt-yard; and then he burst his head for crowding</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.304>among the marshal's men. I saw it, and told John a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.305>Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.306>thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.307>case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.308>court: and now has he land and beefs. Well, I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.309>be acquainted with him, if I return; and it shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.310>go hard but I will make him a philosopher's two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.311>stones to me: if the young dace be a bait for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.312>old pike, I see no reason in the law of nature but I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.313>may snap at him. Let time shape, and there an end.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, MOWBRAY, LORD HASTINGS, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>What is this forest call'd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>'Tis Gaultree Forest, an't shall please your grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>Here stand, my lords; and send discoverers forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>To know the numbers of our enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>We have sent forth already.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>'Tis well done.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>My friends and brethren in these great affairs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>I must acquaint you that I have received</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>New-dated letters from Northumberland;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>Their cold intent, tenor and substance, thus:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>Here doth he wish his person, with such powers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>As might hold sortance with his quality,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>The which he could not levy; whereupon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>He is retired, to ripe his growing fortunes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>To Scotland: and concludes in hearty prayers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>That your attempts may overlive the hazard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>And fearful melting of their opposite.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>And dash themselves to pieces.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>Now, what news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>West of this forest, scarcely off a mile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>In goodly form comes on the enemy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>And, by the ground they hide, I judge their number</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>The just proportion that we gave them out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>Let us sway on and face them in the field.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>What well-appointed leader fronts us here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter WESTMORELAND</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>I think it is my Lord of Westmoreland.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>Health and fair greeting from our general,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>The prince, Lord John and Duke of Lancaster.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>Say on, my Lord of Westmoreland, in peace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>What doth concern your coming?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>Then, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>Unto your grace do I in chief address</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>The substance of my speech. If that rebellion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>Came like itself, in base and abject routs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rags,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>And countenanced by boys and beggary,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>I say, if damn'd commotion so appear'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>In his true, native and most proper shape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>You, reverend father, and these noble lords</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Had not been here, to dress the ugly form</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>Of base and bloody insurrection</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>With your fair honours. You, lord archbishop,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>Whose see is by a civil peace maintained,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>Whose white investments figure innocence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>The dove and very blessed spirit of peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>Wherefore do you so ill translate ourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>Out of the speech of peace that bears such grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>Your pens to lances and your tongue divine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>To a trumpet and a point of war?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>Wherefore do I this? so the question stands.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>Briefly to this end: we are all diseased,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>And with our surfeiting and wanton hours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>And we must bleed for it; of which disease</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>Our late king, Richard, being infected, died.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>But, my most noble Lord of Westmoreland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>I take not on me here as a physician,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>Nor do I as an enemy to peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>Troop in the throngs of military men;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>But rather show awhile like fearful war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>To diet rank minds sick of happiness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>And purge the obstructions which begin to stop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>Our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>I have in equal balance justly weigh'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>And find our griefs heavier than our offences.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>We see which way the stream of time doth run,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>And are enforced from our most quiet there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>By the rough torrent of occasion;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>And have the summary of all our griefs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>When time shall serve, to show in articles;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>Which long ere this we offer'd to the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>And might by no suit gain our audience:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>When we are wrong'd and would unfold our griefs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>We are denied access unto his person</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>Even by those men that most have done us wrong.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>The dangers of the days but newly gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>Whose memory is written on the earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>With yet appearing blood, and the examples</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>Of every minute's instance, present now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>Hath put us in these ill-beseeming arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>Not to break peace or any branch of it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>But to establish here a peace indeed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>Concurring both in name and quality.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>When ever yet was your appeal denied?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>Wherein have you been galled by the king?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>What peer hath been suborn'd to grate on you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>That you should seal this lawless bloody book</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>Of forged rebellion with a seal divine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>And consecrate commotion's bitter edge?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>My brother general, the commonwealth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>To brother born an household cruelty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>I make my quarrel in particular.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>There is no need of any such redress;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>Or if there were, it not belongs to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102>Why not to him in part, and to us all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>That feel the bruises of the days before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>And suffer the condition of these times</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>To lay a heavy and unequal hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>Upon our honours?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.107> O, my good Lord Mowbray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.108>Construe the times to their necessities,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.109>And you shall say indeed, it is the time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.110>And not the king, that doth you injuries.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.111>Yet for your part, it not appears to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.112>Either from the king or in the present time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.113>That you should have an inch of any ground</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.114>To build a grief on: were you not restored</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.115>To all the Duke of Norfolk's signories,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.116>Your noble and right well remember'd father's?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.117>What thing, in honour, had my father lost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.118>That need to be revived and breathed in me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.119>The king that loved him, as the state stood then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.120>Was force perforce compell'd to banish him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.121>And then that Harry Bolingbroke and he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.122>Being mounted and both roused in their seats,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.123>Their neighing coursers daring of the spur,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.124>Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.125>Their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.126>And the loud trumpet blowing them together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.127>Then, then, when there was nothing could have stay'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.128>My father from the breast of Bolingbroke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.129>O when the king did throw his warder down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.130>His own life hung upon the staff he threw;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.131>Then threw he down himself and all their lives</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.132>That by indictment and by dint of sword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.133>Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.134>You speak, Lord Mowbray, now you know not what.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.135>The Earl of Hereford was reputed then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.136>In England the most valiant gentlemen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.137>Who knows on whom fortune would then have smiled?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.138>But if your father had been victor there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.139>He ne'er had borne it out of Coventry:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.140>For all the country in a general voice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.141>Cried hate upon him; and all their prayers and love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.142>Were set on Hereford, whom they doted on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.143>And bless'd and graced indeed, more than the king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.144>But this is mere digression from my purpose.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.145>Here come I from our princely general</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.146>To know your griefs; to tell you from his grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.147>That he will give you audience; and wherein</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.148>It shall appear that your demands are just,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.149>You shall enjoy them, every thing set off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.150>That might so much as think you enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.151>But he hath forced us to compel this offer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.152>And it proceeds from policy, not love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.153>Mowbray, you overween to take it so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.154>This offer comes from mercy, not from fear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.155>For, lo! within a ken our army lies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.156>Upon mine honour, all too confident</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.157>To give admittance to a thought of fear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.158>Our battle is more full of names than yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.159>Our men more perfect in the use of arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.160>Our armour all as strong, our cause the best;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.161>Then reason will our heart should be as good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.162>Say you not then our offer is compell'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.163>Well, by my will we shall admit no parley.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.164>That argues but the shame of your offence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.165>A rotten case abides no handling.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.166>Hath the Prince John a full commission,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.167>In very ample virtue of his father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.168>To hear and absolutely to determine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.169>Of what conditions we shall stand upon?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.170>That is intended in the general's name:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.171>I muse you make so slight a question.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.172>Then take, my Lord of Westmoreland, this schedule,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.173>For this contains our general grievances:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.174>Each several article herein redress'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.175>All members of our cause, both here and hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.176>That are insinew'd to this action,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.177>Acquitted by a true substantial form</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.178>And present execution of our wills</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.179>To us and to our purposes confined,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.180>We come within our awful banks again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.181>And knit our powers to the arm of peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.182>This will I show the general. Please you, lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.183>In sight of both our battles we may meet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.184>And either end in peace, which God so frame!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.185>Or to the place of difference call the swords</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.186>Which must decide it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.187>My lord, we will do so.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit WESTMORELAND</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.188>There is a thing within my bosom tells me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.189>That no conditions of our peace can stand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.190>Fear you not that: if we can make our peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.191>Upon such large terms and so absolute</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.192>As our conditions shall consist upon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.193>Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.194>Yea, but our valuation shall be such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.195>That every slight and false-derived cause,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.196>Yea, every idle, nice and wanton reason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.197>Shall to the king taste of this action;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.198>That, were our royal faiths martyrs in love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.199>We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.200>That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.201>And good from bad find no partition.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.202>No, no, my lord. Note this; the king is weary</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.203>Of dainty and such picking grievances:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.204>For he hath found to end one doubt by death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.205>Revives two greater in the heirs of life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.206>And therefore will he wipe his tables clean</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.207>And keep no tell-tale to his memory</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.208>That may repeat and history his loss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.209>To new remembrance; for full well he knows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.210>He cannot so precisely weed this land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.211>As his misdoubts present occasion:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.212>His foes are so enrooted with his friends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.213>That, plucking to unfix an enemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.214>He doth unfasten so and shake a friend:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.215>So that this land, like an offensive wife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.216>That hath enraged him on to offer strokes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.217>As he is striking, holds his infant up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.218>And hangs resolved correction in the arm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.219>That was uprear'd to execution.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.220>Besides, the king hath wasted all his rods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.221>On late offenders, that he now doth lack</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.222>The very instruments of chastisement:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.223>So that his power, like to a fangless lion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.224>May offer, but not hold.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.225>'Tis very true:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.226>And therefore be assured, my good lord marshal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.227>If we do now make our atonement well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.228>Our peace will, like a broken limb united,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.229>Grow stronger for the breaking.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.230>Be it so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.231>Here is return'd my Lord of Westmoreland.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter WESTMORELAND</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.232>The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.233>To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.234>Your grace of York, in God's name then, set forward.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.235>Before, and greet his grace: my lord, we come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Another part of the forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter, from one side, MOWBRAY, attended; afterwards the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, HASTINGS, and others: from the other side, Prince John of LANCASTER, and WESTMORELAND; Officers, and others with them</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>You are well encounter'd here, my cousin Mowbray:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>Good day to you, gentle lord archbishop;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>And so to you, Lord Hastings, and to all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>My Lord of York, it better show'd with you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>When that your flock, assembled by the bell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>Encircled you to hear with reverence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>Your exposition on the holy text</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>Than now to see you here an iron man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>Cheering a rout of rebels with your drum,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>Turning the word to sword and life to death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>That man that sits within a monarch's heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>And ripens in the sunshine of his favour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>Would he abuse the countenance of the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>Alack, what mischiefs might he set abrooch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>In shadow of such greatness! With you, lord bishop,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>It is even so. Who hath not heard it spoken</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>How deep you were within the books of God?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>To us the speaker in his parliament;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>To us the imagined voice of God himself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>The very opener and intelligencer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>And our dull workings. O, who shall believe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>But you misuse the reverence of your place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>Employ the countenance and grace of heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>As a false favourite doth his prince's name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>In deeds dishonourable? You have ta'en up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>Under the counterfeited zeal of God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>The subjects of his substitute, my father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>And both against the peace of heaven and him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>Have here up-swarm'd them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>Good my Lord of Lancaster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>I am not here against your father's peace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>But, as I told my lord of Westmoreland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>The time misorder'd doth, in common sense,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>To hold our safety up. I sent your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>The parcels and particulars of our grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>The which hath been with scorn shoved from the court,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>Whereon this Hydra son of war is born;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd asleep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>With grant of our most just and right desires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>And true obedience, of this madness cured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>If not, we ready are to try our fortunes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>To the last man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46> And though we here fall down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>We have supplies to second our attempt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>If they miscarry, theirs shall second them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>And so success of mischief shall be born</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>And heir from heir shall hold this quarrel up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>Whiles England shall have generation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>You are too shallow, Hastings, much too shallow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>To sound the bottom of the after-times.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>Pleaseth your grace to answer them directly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>How far forth you do like their articles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>I like them all, and do allow them well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>And swear here, by the honour of my blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>My father's purposes have been mistook,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>And some about him have too lavishly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>Wrested his meaning and authority.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>My lord, these griefs shall be with speed redress'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>Upon my soul, they shall. If this may please you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>Discharge your powers unto their several counties,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.64>As we will ours: and here between the armies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.65>Let's drink together friendly and embrace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.66>That all their eyes may bear those tokens home</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.67>Of our restored love and amity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.68>I take your princely word for these redresses.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.69>I give it you, and will maintain my word:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.70>And thereupon I drink unto your grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.71>Go, captain, and deliver to the army</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.72>This news of peace: let them have pay, and part:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.73>I know it will well please them. Hie thee, captain.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Officer</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.74>To you, my noble Lord of Westmoreland.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.75>I pledge your grace; and, if you knew what pains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.76>I have bestow'd to breed this present peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.77>You would drink freely: but my love to ye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.78>Shall show itself more openly hereafter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.79>I do not doubt you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.80>I am glad of it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.81>Health to my lord and gentle cousin, Mowbray.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.82>You wish me health in very happy season;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.83>For I am, on the sudden, something ill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.84>Against ill chances men are ever merry;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.85>But heaviness foreruns the good event.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.86>Therefore be merry, coz; since sudden sorrow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.87>Serves to say thus, 'some good thing comes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.88>to-morrow.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.89>Believe me, I am passing light in spirit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.90>So much the worse, if your own rule be true.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Shouts within</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.91>The word of peace is render'd: hark, how they shout!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.92>This had been cheerful after victory.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.93>A peace is of the nature of a conquest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.94>For then both parties nobly are subdued,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.95>And neither party loser.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.96>Go, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.97>And let our army be discharged too.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit WESTMORELAND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.98>And, good my lord, so please you, let our trains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.99>March, by us, that we may peruse the men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.100>We should have coped withal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.101>Go, good Lord Hastings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.102>And, ere they be dismissed, let them march by.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit HASTINGS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.103>I trust, lords, we shall lie to-night together.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter WESTMORELAND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.104>Now, cousin, wherefore stands our army still?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.105>The leaders, having charge from you to stand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.106>Will not go off until they hear you speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.107>They know their duties.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter HASTINGS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>HASTINGS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.108>My lord, our army is dispersed already;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.109>Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.110>East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.111>Each hurries toward his home and sporting-place.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.112>Good tidings, my Lord Hastings; for the which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.113>I do arrest thee, traitor, of high treason:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.114>And you, lord archbishop, and you, Lord Mowbray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.115>Of capitol treason I attach you both.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MOWBRAY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.116>Is this proceeding just and honourable?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.117>Is your assembly so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.118>Will you thus break your faith?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.119>I pawn'd thee none:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.120>I promised you redress of these same grievances</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.121>Whereof you did complain; which, by mine honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.122>I will perform with a most Christian care.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.123>But for you, rebels, look to taste the due</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.124>Meet for rebellion and such acts as yours.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.125>Most shallowly did you these arms commence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.126>Fondly brought here and foolishly sent hence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.127>Strike up our drums, pursue the scatter'd stray:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.128>God, and not we, hath safely fought to-day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.129>Some guard these traitors to the block of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.130>Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Another part of the forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarum. Excursions. Enter FALSTAFF and COLEVILE, meeting</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>What's your name, sir? of what condition are you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>and of what place, I pray?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>COLEVILE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>I am a knight, sir, and my name is Colevile of the dale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>Well, then, Colevile is your name, a knight is your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>degree, and your place the dale: Colevile shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>still your name, a traitor your degree, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>dungeon your place, a place deep enough; so shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>you be still Colevile of the dale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>COLEVILE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>Are not you Sir John Falstaff?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>As good a man as he, sir, whoe'er I am. Do ye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>yield, sir? or shall I sweat for you? if I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>sweat, they are the drops of thy lovers, and they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>weep for thy death: therefore rouse up fear and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>trembling, and do observance to my mercy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>COLEVILE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>I think you are Sir John Falstaff, and in that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>thought yield me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>I have a whole school of tongues in this belly of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>mine, and not a tongue of them all speaks any other</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19>word but my name. An I had but a belly of any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>indifference, I were simply the most active fellow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>in Europe: my womb, my womb, my womb, undoes me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>Here comes our general.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PRINCE JOHN OF LANCASTER, WESTMORELAND, BLUNT, and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>The heat is past; follow no further now:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>Call in the powers, good cousin Westmoreland.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit WESTMORELAND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>When every thing is ended, then you come:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>One time or other break some gallows' back.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>I would be sorry, my lord, but it should be thus: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>never knew yet but rebuke and cheque was the reward</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31>of valour. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>bullet? have I, in my poor and old motion, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>expedition of thought? I have speeded hither with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>the very extremest inch of possibility; I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>foundered nine score and odd posts: and here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.36>travel-tainted as I am, have in my pure and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.37>immaculate valour, taken Sir John Colevile of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.38>dale, a most furious knight and valorous enemy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.39>But what of that? he saw me, and yielded; that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.40>may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.41>'I came, saw, and overcame.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.42>It was more of his courtesy than your deserving.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.43>I know not: here he is, and here I yield him: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.44>I beseech your grace, let it be booked with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.45>rest of this day's deeds; or, by the Lord, I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.46>have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.47>picture on the top on't, Colevile kissing my foot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.48>to the which course if I be enforced, if you do not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.49>all show like gilt twopences to me, and I in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.50>clear sky of fame o'ershine you as much as the full</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.51>moon doth the cinders of the element, which show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.52>like pins' heads to her, believe not the word of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.53>the noble: therefore let me have right, and let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.54>desert mount.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.55>Thine's too heavy to mount.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.56>Let it shine, then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.57>Thine's too thick to shine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.58>Let it do something, my good lord, that may do me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.59>good, and call it what you will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.60>Is thy name Colevile?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>COLEVILE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.61>It is, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.62>A famous rebel art thou, Colevile.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.63>And a famous true subject took him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>COLEVILE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.64>I am, my lord, but as my betters are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.65>That led me hither: had they been ruled by me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.66>You should have won them dearer than you have.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.67>I know not how they sold themselves: but thou, like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.68>a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.69>thank thee for thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter WESTMORELAND</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.70>Now, have you left pursuit?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.71>Retreat is made and execution stay'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.72>Send Colevile with his confederates</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.73>To York, to present execution:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.74>Blunt, lead him hence; and see you guard him sure.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt BLUNT and others with COLEVILE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.75>And now dispatch we toward the court, my lords:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.76>I hear the king my father is sore sick:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.77>Our news shall go before us to his majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.78>Which, cousin, you shall bear to comfort him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.79>And we with sober speed will follow you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.80>My lord, I beseech you, give me leave to go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.81>Through Gloucestershire: and, when you come to court,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.82>Stand my good lord, pray, in your good report.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.83>Fare you well, Falstaff: I, in my condition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.84>Shall better speak of you than you deserve.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but Falstaff</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.85>I would you had but the wit: 'twere better than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.86>your dukedom. Good faith, this same young sober-</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.87>blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.88>him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.89>There's never none of these demure boys come to any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.90>proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.91>and making many fish-meals, that they fall into a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.92>kind of male green-sickness; and then when they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.93>marry, they get wenches: they are generally fools</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.94>and cowards; which some of us should be too, but for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.95>inflammation. A good sherris sack hath a two-fold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.96>operation in it. It ascends me into the brain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.97>dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.98>vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.99>quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.100>delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.101>voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.102>excellent wit. The second property of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.103>excellent sherris is, the warming of the blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.104>which, before cold and settled, left the liver</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.105>white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.106>and cowardice; but the sherris warms it and makes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.107>it course from the inwards to the parts extreme:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.108>it illumineth the face, which as a beacon gives</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.109>warning to all the rest of this little kingdom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.110>man, to arm; and then the vital commoners and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.111>inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.112>the heart, who, great and puffed up with this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.113>retinue, doth any deed of courage; and this valour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.114>comes of sherris. So that skill in the weapon is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.115>nothing without sack, for that sets it a-work; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.116>learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil, till</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.117>sack commences it and sets it in act and use.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.118>Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.119>the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.120>father, he hath, like lean, sterile and bare land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.121>manured, husbanded and tilled with excellent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.122>endeavour of drinking good and good store of fertile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.123>sherris, that he is become very hot and valiant. If</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.124>I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.125>would teach them should be, to forswear thin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.126>potations and to addict themselves to sack.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.127>How now Bardolph?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.128>The army is discharged all and gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.129>Let them go. I'll through Gloucestershire; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.130>there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.131>I have him already tempering between my finger and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.132>my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING HENRY IV, the Princes Thomas of CLARENCE and Humphrey of GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.1>Now, lords, if God doth give successful end</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.2>To this debate that bleedeth at our doors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.3>We will our youth lead on to higher fields</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.4>And draw no swords but what are sanctified.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.5>Our navy is address'd, our power collected,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.6>Our substitutes in absence well invested,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.7>And every thing lies level to our wish:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.8>Only, we want a little personal strength;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.9>And pause us, till these rebels, now afoot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.10>Come underneath the yoke of government.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.11>Both which we doubt not but your majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.12>Shall soon enjoy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.13> Humphrey, my son of Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.14>Where is the prince your brother?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.15>I think he's gone to hunt, my lord, at Windsor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.16>And how accompanied?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.17>I do not know, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.18>Is not his brother, Thomas of Clarence, with him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.19>No, my good lord; he is in presence here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.20>What would my lord and father?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.21>Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of Clarence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.22>How chance thou art not with the prince thy brother?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.23>He loves thee, and thou dost neglect him, Thomas;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.24>Thou hast a better place in his affection</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.25>Than all thy brothers: cherish it, my boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.26>And noble offices thou mayst effect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.27>Of mediation, after I am dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.28>Between his greatness and thy other brethren:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.29>Therefore omit him not; blunt not his love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.30>Nor lose the good advantage of his grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.31>By seeming cold or careless of his will;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.32>For he is gracious, if he be observed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.33>He hath a tear for pity and a hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.34>Open as day for melting charity:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.35>Yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he's flint,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.36>As humorous as winter and as sudden</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.37>As flaws congealed in the spring of day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.38>His temper, therefore, must be well observed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.39>Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.40>When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.41>But, being moody, give him line and scope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.42>Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.43>Confound themselves with working. Learn this, Thomas,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.44>And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.45>A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.46>That the united vessel of their blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.47>Mingled with venom of suggestion--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.48>As, force perforce, the age will pour it in--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.49>Shall never leak, though it do work as strong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.50>As aconitum or rash gunpowder.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.51>I shall observe him with all care and love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.52>Why art thou not at Windsor with him, Thomas?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.53>He is not there to-day; he dines in London.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.54>And how accompanied? canst thou tell that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.55>With Poins, and other his continual followers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.56>Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.57>And he, the noble image of my youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.58>Is overspread with them: therefore my grief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.59>Stretches itself beyond the hour of death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.60>The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.61>In forms imaginary the unguided days</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.62>And rotten times that you shall look upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.63>When I am sleeping with my ancestors.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.64>For when his headstrong riot hath no curb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.65>When rage and hot blood are his counsellors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.66>When means and lavish manners meet together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.67>O, with what wings shall his affections fly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.68>Towards fronting peril and opposed decay!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.69>My gracious lord, you look beyond him quite:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.70>The prince but studies his companions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.71>Like a strange tongue, wherein, to gain the language,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.72>'Tis needful that the most immodest word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.73>Be look'd upon and learn'd; which once attain'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.74>Your highness knows, comes to no further use</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.75>But to be known and hated. So, like gross terms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.76>The prince will in the perfectness of time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.77>Cast off his followers; and their memory</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.78>Shall as a pattern or a measure live,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.79>By which his grace must mete the lives of others,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.80>Turning past evils to advantages.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.81>'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.82>In the dead carrion.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter WESTMORELAND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.83>Who's here? Westmoreland?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.84>Health to my sovereign, and new happiness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.85>Added to that that I am to deliver!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.86>Prince John your son doth kiss your grace's hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.87>Mowbray, the Bishop Scroop, Hastings and all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.88>Are brought to the correction of your law;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.89>There is not now a rebel's sword unsheath'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.90>But peace puts forth her olive every where.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.91>The manner how this action hath been borne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.92>Here at more leisure may your highness read,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.93>With every course in his particular.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.94>O Westmoreland, thou art a summer bird,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.95>Which ever in the haunch of winter sings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.96>The lifting up of day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HARCOURT</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.97>Look, here's more news.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HARCOURT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.98>From enemies heaven keep your majesty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.99>And, when they stand against you, may they fall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.100>As those that I am come to tell you of!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.101>The Earl Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.102>With a great power of English and of Scots</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.103>Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.104>The manner and true order of the fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.105>This packet, please it you, contains at large.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.106>And wherefore should these good news make me sick?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.107>Will fortune never come with both hands full,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.108>But write her fair words still in foulest letters?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.109>She either gives a stomach and no food;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.110>Such are the poor, in health; or else a feast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.111>And takes away the stomach; such are the rich,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.112>That have abundance and enjoy it not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.113>I should rejoice now at this happy news;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.114>And now my sight fails, and my brain is giddy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.115>O me! come near me; now I am much ill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.116>Comfort, your majesty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.117>O my royal father!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.118>My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself, look up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.119>Be patient, princes; you do know, these fits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.120>Are with his highness very ordinary.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.121>Stand from him. Give him air; he'll straight be well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.122>No, no, he cannot long hold out these pangs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.123>The incessant care and labour of his mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.124>Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.125>So thin that life looks through and will break out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.126>The people fear me; for they do observe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.127>Unfather'd heirs and loathly births of nature:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.128>The seasons change their manners, as the year</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.129>Had found some months asleep and leap'd them over.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.130>The river hath thrice flow'd, no ebb between;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.131>And the old folk, time's doting chronicles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.132>Say it did so a little time before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.133>That our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.134>Speak lower, princes, for the king recovers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.135>This apoplexy will certain be his end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.136>I pray you, take me up, and bear me hence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.137>Into some other chamber: softly, pray.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Another chamber.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>KING HENRY IV lying on a bed: CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others in attendance</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.1>Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.2>Unless some dull and favourable hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.3>Will whisper music to my weary spirit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.4>Call for the music in the other room.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.5>Set me the crown upon my pillow here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.6>His eye is hollow, and he changes much.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.7>Less noise, less noise!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PRINCE HENRY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.8>Who saw the Duke of Clarence?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.9>I am here, brother, full of heaviness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.10>How now! rain within doors, and none abroad!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.11>How doth the king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.12>Exceeding ill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.13> Heard he the good news yet?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.14>Tell it him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.15>He alter'd much upon the hearing it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.16>If he be sick with joy, he'll recover without physic.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.17>Not so much noise, my lords: sweet prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.18>speak low;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.19>The king your father is disposed to sleep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.20>Let us withdraw into the other room.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.21>Will't please your grace to go along with us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.22>No; I will sit and watch here by the king.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but PRINCE HENRY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.23>Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.24>Being so troublesome a bedfellow?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.25>O polish'd perturbation! golden care!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.26>That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.27>To many a watchful night! sleep with it now!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.28>Yet not so sound and half so deeply sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.29>As he whose brow with homely biggen bound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.30>Snores out the watch of night. O majesty!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.31>When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.32>Like a rich armour worn in heat of day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.33>That scalds with safety. By his gates of breath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.34>There lies a downy feather which stirs not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.35>Did he suspire, that light and weightless down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.36>Perforce must move. My gracious lord! my father!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.37>This sleep is sound indeed, this is a sleep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.38>That from this golden rigol hath divorced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.39>So many English kings. Thy due from me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.40>Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.41>Which nature, love, and filial tenderness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.42>Shall, O dear father, pay thee plenteously:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.43>My due from thee is this imperial crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.44>Which, as immediate as thy place and blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.45>Derives itself to me. Lo, here it sits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.46>Which God shall guard: and put the world's whole strength</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.47>Into one giant arm, it shall not force</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.48>This lineal honour from me: this from thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.49>Will I to mine leave, as 'tis left to me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.50>Warwick! Gloucester! Clarence!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter WARWICK, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and the rest</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.51>Doth the king call?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.52>What would your majesty? How fares your grace?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.53>Why did you leave me here alone, my lords?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.54>We left the prince my brother here, my liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.55>Who undertook to sit and watch by you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.56>The Prince of Wales! Where is he? let me see him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.57>He is not here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.58>This door is open; he is gone this way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.59>He came not through the chamber where we stay'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.60>Where is the crown? who took it from my pillow?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.61>When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.62>The prince hath ta'en it hence: go, seek him out.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.63>Is he so hasty that he doth suppose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.64>My sleep my death?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.65>Find him, my Lord of Warwick; chide him hither.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit WARWICK</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.66>This part of his conjoins with my disease,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.67>And helps to end me. See, sons, what things you are!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.68>How quickly nature falls into revolt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.69>When gold becomes her object!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.70>For this the foolish over-careful fathers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.71>Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.72>Their bones with industry;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.73>For this they have engrossed and piled up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.74>The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.75>For this they have been thoughtful to invest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.76>Their sons with arts and martial exercises:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.77>When, like the bee, culling from every flower</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.78>The virtuous sweets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.79>Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.80>We bring it to the hive, and, like the bees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.81>Are murdered for our pains. This bitter taste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.82>Yield his engrossments to the ending father.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter WARWICK</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.83>Now, where is he that will not stay so long</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.84>Till his friend sickness hath determined me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.85>My lord, I found the prince in the next room,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.86>Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.87>With such a deep demeanor in great sorrow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.88>That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.89>Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.90>With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.91>But wherefore did he take away the crown?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter PRINCE HENRY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.92>Lo, where he comes. Come hither to me, Harry.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.93>Depart the chamber, leave us here alone.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt WARWICK and the rest</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.94>I never thought to hear you speak again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.95>Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.96>I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.97>Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.98>That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.99>Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.100>Thou seek'st the greatness that will o'erwhelm thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.101>Stay but a little; for my cloud of dignity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.102>Is held from falling with so weak a wind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.103>That it will quickly drop: my day is dim.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.104>Thou hast stolen that which after some few hours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.105>Were thine without offence; and at my death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.106>Thou hast seal'd up my expectation:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.107>Thy life did manifest thou lovedst me not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.108>And thou wilt have me die assured of it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.109>Thou hidest a thousand daggers in thy thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.110>Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.111>To stab at half an hour of my life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.112>What! canst thou not forbear me half an hour?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.113>Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.114>And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.115>That thou art crowned, not that I am dead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.116>Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.117>Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.118>Only compound me with forgotten dust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.119>Give that which gave thee life unto the worms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.120>Pluck down my officers, break my decrees;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.121>For now a time is come to mock at form:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.122>Harry the Fifth is crown'd: up, vanity!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.123>Down, royal state! all you sage counsellors, hence!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.124>And to the English court assemble now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.125>From every region, apes of idleness!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.126>Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.127>Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.128>Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.129>The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.130>Be happy, he will trouble you no more;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.131>England shall double gild his treble guilt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.132>England shall give him office, honour, might;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.133>For the fifth Harry from curb'd licence plucks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.134>The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.135>Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.136>O my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.137>When that my care could not withhold thy riots,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.138>What wilt thou do when riot is thy care?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.139>O, thou wilt be a wilderness again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.140>Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.141>O, pardon me, my liege! but for my tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.142>The moist impediments unto my speech,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.143>I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.144>Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.145>The course of it so far. There is your crown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.146>And He that wears the crown immortally</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.147>Long guard it yours! If I affect it more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.148>Than as your honour and as your renown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.149>Let me no more from this obedience rise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.150>Which my most inward true and duteous spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.151>Teacheth, this prostrate and exterior bending.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.152>God witness with me, when I here came in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.153>And found no course of breath within your majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.154>How cold it struck my heart! If I do feign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.155>O, let me in my present wildness die</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.156>And never live to show the incredulous world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.157>The noble change that I have purposed!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.158>Coming to look on you, thinking you dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.159>And dead almost, my liege, to think you were,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.160>I spake unto this crown as having sense,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.161>And thus upbraided it: 'The care on thee depending</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.162>Hath fed upon the body of my father;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.163>Therefore, thou best of gold art worst of gold:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.164>Other, less fine in carat, is more precious,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.165>Preserving life in medicine potable;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.166>But thou, most fine, most honour'd: most renown'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.167>Hast eat thy bearer up.' Thus, my most royal liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.168>Accusing it, I put it on my head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.169>To try with it, as with an enemy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.170>That had before my face murder'd my father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.171>The quarrel of a true inheritor.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.172>But if it did infect my blood with joy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.173>Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.174>If any rebel or vain spirit of mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.175>Did with the least affection of a welcome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.176>Give entertainment to the might of it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.177>Let God for ever keep it from my head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.178>And make me as the poorest vassal is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.179>That doth with awe and terror kneel to it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.180>O my son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.181>God put it in thy mind to take it hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.182>That thou mightst win the more thy father's love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.183>Pleading so wisely in excuse of it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.184>Come hither, Harry, sit thou by my bed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.185>And hear, I think, the very latest counsel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.186>That ever I shall breathe. God knows, my son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.187>By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.188>I met this crown; and I myself know well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.189>How troublesome it sat upon my head.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.190>To thee it shall descend with bitter quiet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.191>Better opinion, better confirmation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.192>For all the soil of the achievement goes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.193>With me into the earth. It seem'd in me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.194>But as an honour snatch'd with boisterous hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.195>And I had many living to upbraid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.196>My gain of it by their assistances;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.197>Which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.198>Wounding supposed peace: all these bold fears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.199>Thou see'st with peril I have answered;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.200>For all my reign hath been but as a scene</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.201>Acting that argument: and now my death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.202>Changes the mode; for what in me was purchased,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.203>Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.204>So thou the garland wear'st successively.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.205>Yet, though thou stand'st more sure than I could do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.206>Thou art not firm enough, since griefs are green;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.207>And all my friends, which thou must make thy friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.208>Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.209>By whose fell working I was first advanced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.210>And by whose power I well might lodge a fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.211>To be again displaced: which to avoid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.212>I cut them off; and had a purpose now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.213>To lead out many to the Holy Land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.214>Lest rest and lying still might make them look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.215>Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.216>Be it thy course to busy giddy minds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.217>With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.218>May waste the memory of the former days.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.219>More would I, but my lungs are wasted so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.220>That strength of speech is utterly denied me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.221>How I came by the crown, O God forgive;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.222>And grant it may with thee in true peace live!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.223>My gracious liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.224>You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.225>Then plain and right must my possession be:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.226>Which I with more than with a common pain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.227>'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Lord John of LANCASTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.228>Look, look, here comes my John of Lancaster.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.229>Health, peace, and happiness to my royal father!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.230>Thou bring'st me happiness and peace, son John;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.231>But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.232>From this bare wither'd trunk: upon thy sight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.233>My worldly business makes a period.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.234>Where is my Lord of Warwick?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.235>My Lord of Warwick!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter WARWICK, and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.236>Doth any name particular belong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.237>Unto the lodging where I first did swoon?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.238>'Tis call'd Jerusalem, my noble lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.239>Laud be to God! even there my life must end.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.240>It hath been prophesied to me many years,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.241>I should not die but in Jerusalem;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.242>Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.243>But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.244>In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Gloucestershire. SHALLOW'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SHALLOW, FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, and Page</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away to-night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>What, Davy, I say!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>You must excuse me, Master Robert Shallow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>I will not excuse you; you shall not be excused;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>excuses shall not be admitted; there is no excuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>shall serve; you shall not be excused. Why, Davy!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DAVY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>Here, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>Davy, Davy, Davy, Davy, let me see, Davy; let me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>see, Davy; let me see: yea, marry, William cook,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>bid him come hither. Sir John, you shall not be excused.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>Marry, sir, thus; those precepts cannot be served:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>and, again, sir, shall we sow the headland with wheat?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>With red wheat, Davy. But for William cook: are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>there no young pigeons?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>Yes, sir. Here is now the smith's note for shoeing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>and plough-irons.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>Let it be cast and paid. Sir John, you shall not be excused.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>Now, sir, a new link to the bucket must need be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>had: and, sir, do you mean to stop any of William's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>wages, about the sack he lost the other day at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>Hinckley fair?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>A' shall answer it. Some pigeons, Davy, a couple</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>Doth the man of war stay all night, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>Yea, Davy. I will use him well: a friend i' the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>court is better than a penny in purse. Use his men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>well, Davy; for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>No worse than they are backbitten, sir; for they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>have marvellous foul linen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>Well conceited, Davy: about thy business, Davy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>Woncot against Clement Perkes of the hill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>There is many complaints, Davy, against that Visor:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>that Visor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>I grant your worship that he is a knave, sir; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>yet, God forbid, sir, but a knave should have some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>countenance at his friend's request. An honest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>is not. I have served your worship truly, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>this eight years; and if I cannot once or twice in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>have but a very little credit with your worship. The</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>knave is mine honest friend, sir; therefore, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>beseech your worship, let him be countenanced.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>Go to; I say he shall have no wrong. Look about, Davy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit DAVY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>Where are you, Sir John? Come, come, come, off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>with your boots. Give me your hand, Master Bardolph.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>I am glad to see your worship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>I thank thee with all my heart, kind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>Master Bardolph: and welcome, my tall fellow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To the Page</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>Come, Sir John.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>I'll follow you, good Master Robert Shallow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit SHALLOW</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>Bardolph, look to our horses.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt BARDOLPH and Page</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>If I were sawed into quantities, I should make four</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>dozen of such bearded hermits' staves as Master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>Shallow. It is a wonderful thing to see the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>semblable coherence of his men's spirits and his:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>they, by observing of him, do bear themselves like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>turned into a justice-like serving-man: their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>spirits are so married in conjunction with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>participation of society that they flock together in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>consent, like so many wild-geese. If I had a suit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>to Master Shallow, I would humour his men with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>imputation of being near their master: if to his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>men, I would curry with Master Shallow that no man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>could better command his servants. It is certain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>caught, as men take diseases, one of another:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>therefore let men take heed of their company. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73>keep Prince Harry in continual laughter the wearing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>out of six fashions, which is four terms, or two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>actions, and a' shall laugh without intervallums. O,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>it is much that a lie with a slight oath and a jest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>with a sad brow will do with a fellow that never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78>had the ache in his shoulders! O, you shall see him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>[Within] Sir John!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>I come, Master Shallow; I come, Master Shallow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Westminster. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter WARWICK and the Lord Chief-Justice, meeting</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>How now, my lord chief-justice! whither away?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>Lord Chief-Justice How doth the king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>Exceeding well; his cares are now all ended.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>Lord Chief-Justice I hope, not dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>He's walk'd the way of nature;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>And to our purposes he lives no more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>Lord Chief-Justice I would his majesty had call'd me with him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>The service that I truly did his life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>Hath left me open to all injuries.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>Indeed I think the young king loves you not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>Lord Chief-Justice I know he doth not, and do arm myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>To welcome the condition of the time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>Which cannot look more hideously upon me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>Than I have drawn it in my fantasy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LANCASTER, CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, WESTMORELAND, and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>O that the living Harry had the temper</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>Of him, the worst of these three gentlemen!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>How many nobles then should hold their places</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>Lord Chief-Justice O God, I fear all will be overturn'd!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>Good morrow, cousin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>We meet like men that had forgot to speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>We do remember; but our argument</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>Is all too heavy to admit much talk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>Lord Chief-Justice Peace be with us, lest we be heavier!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>And I dare swear you borrow not that face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>Though no man be assured what grace to find,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>You stand in coldest expectation:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>I am the sorrier; would 'twere otherwise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CLARENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>Which swims against your stream of quality.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>Lord Chief-Justice Sweet princes, what I did, I did in honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>Led by the impartial conduct of my soul:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>And never shall you see that I will beg</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>A ragged and forestall'd remission.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>If truth and upright innocency fail me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>I'll to the king my master that is dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>And tell him who hath sent me after him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>Here comes the prince.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING HENRY V, attended</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>Lord Chief-Justice Good morrow; and God save your majesty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>This new and gorgeous garment, majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>Sits not so easy on me as you think.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>This is the English, not the Turkish court;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50>But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>For, by my faith, it very well becomes you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>Sorrow so royally in you appears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>That I will deeply put the fashion on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>And wear it in my heart: why then, be sad;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.55>But entertain no more of it, good brothers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.56>Than a joint burden laid upon us all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.57>For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.58>I'll be your father and your brother too;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.59>Let me but bear your love, I 'll bear your cares:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.60>Yet weep that Harry's dead; and so will I;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.61>But Harry lives, that shall convert those tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.62>By number into hours of happiness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Princes</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.63>We hope no other from your majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.64>You all look strangely on me: and you most;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.65>You are, I think, assured I love you not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.66>Lord Chief-Justice I am assured, if I be measured rightly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.67>Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.68>No!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.69>How might a prince of my great hopes forget</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.70>So great indignities you laid upon me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.71>What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.72>The immediate heir of England! Was this easy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.73>May this be wash'd in Lethe, and forgotten?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.74>Lord Chief-Justice I then did use the person of your father;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.75>The image of his power lay then in me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.76>And, in the administration of his law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.77>Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.78>Your highness pleased to forget my place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.79>The majesty and power of law and justice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.80>The image of the king whom I presented,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.81>And struck me in my very seat of judgment;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.82>Whereon, as an offender to your father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.83>I gave bold way to my authority</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.84>And did commit you. If the deed were ill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.85>Be you contented, wearing now the garland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.86>To have a son set your decrees at nought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.87>To pluck down justice from your awful bench,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.88>To trip the course of law and blunt the sword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.89>That guards the peace and safety of your person;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.90>Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.91>And mock your workings in a second body.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.92>Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.93>Be now the father and propose a son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.94>Hear your own dignity so much profaned,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.95>See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.96>Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.97>And then imagine me taking your part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.98>And in your power soft silencing your son:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.99>After this cold considerance, sentence me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.100>And, as you are a king, speak in your state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.101>What I have done that misbecame my place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.102>My person, or my liege's sovereignty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.103>You are right, justice, and you weigh this well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.104>Therefore still bear the balance and the sword:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.105>And I do wish your honours may increase,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.106>Till you do live to see a son of mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.107>Offend you and obey you, as I did.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.108>So shall I live to speak my father's words:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.109>'Happy am I, that have a man so bold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.110>That dares do justice on my proper son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.111>And not less happy, having such a son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.112>That would deliver up his greatness so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.113>Into the hands of justice.' You did commit me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.114>For which, I do commit into your hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.115>The unstained sword that you have used to bear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.116>With this remembrance, that you use the same</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.117>With the like bold, just and impartial spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.118>As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.119>You shall be as a father to my youth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.120>My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.121>And I will stoop and humble my intents</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.122>To your well-practised wise directions.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.123>And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.124>My father is gone wild into his grave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.125>For in his tomb lie my affections;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.126>And with his spirit sadly I survive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.127>To mock the expectation of the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.128>To frustrate prophecies and to raze out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.129>Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.130>After my seeming. The tide of blood in me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.131>Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.132>Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.133>Where it shall mingle with the state of floods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.134>And flow henceforth in formal majesty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.135>Now call we our high court of parliament:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.136>And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.137>That the great body of our state may go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.138>In equal rank with the best govern'd nation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.139>That war, or peace, or both at once, may be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.140>As things acquainted and familiar to us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.141>In which you, father, shall have foremost hand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.142>Our coronation done, we will accite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.143>As I before remember'd, all our state:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.144>And, God consigning to my good intents,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.145>No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.146>God shorten Harry's happy life one day!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Gloucestershire. SHALLOW'S orchard.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, SILENCE, DAVY, BARDOLPH, and the Page</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>Nay, you shall see my orchard, where, in an arbour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>we will eat a last year's pippin of my own graffing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>with a dish of caraways, and so forth: come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>cousin Silence: and then to bed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>'Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>Sir John: marry, good air. Spread, Davy; spread,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>Davy; well said, Davy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>This Davy serves you for good uses; he is your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>serving-man and your husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>Sir John: by the mass, I have drunk too much sack</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>at supper: a good varlet. Now sit down, now sit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>down: come, cousin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>Ah, sirrah! quoth-a, we shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Singing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>And praise God for the merry year;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>When flesh is cheap and females dear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>And lusty lads roam here and there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>So merrily,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>And ever among so merrily.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>There's a merry heart! Good Master Silence, I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>give you a health for that anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.24>Give Master Bardolph some wine, Davy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.25>Sweet sir, sit; I'll be with you anon. most sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.26>sir, sit. Master page, good master page, sit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.27>Proface! What you want in meat, we'll have in drink:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.28>but you must bear; the heart's all.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.29>Be merry, Master Bardolph; and, my little soldier</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.30>there, be merry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.31>Be merry, be merry, my wife has all;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Singing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.32>For women are shrews, both short and tall:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.33>'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.34>And welcome merry Shrove-tide.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.35>Be merry, be merry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.36>I did not think Master Silence had been a man of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.37>this mettle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.38>Who, I? I have been merry twice and once ere now.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter DAVY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.39>There's a dish of leather-coats for you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.40>Davy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.41>Your worship! I'll be with you straight.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.42>A cup of wine, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.43>A cup of wine that's brisk and fine,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Singing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.44>And drink unto the leman mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.45>And a merry heart lives long-a.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.46>Well said, Master Silence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.47>An we shall be merry, now comes in the sweet o' the night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.48>Health and long life to you, Master Silence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.49>Fill the cup, and let it come;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Singing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.50>I'll pledge you a mile to the bottom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.51>Honest Bardolph, welcome: if thou wantest any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.52>thing, and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.53>Welcome, my little tiny thief.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To the Page</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.54>And welcome indeed too. I'll drink to Master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.55>Bardolph, and to all the cavaleros about London.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.56>I hove to see London once ere I die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.57>An I might see you there, Davy,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.58>By the mass, you'll crack a quart together, ha!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.59>Will you not, Master Bardolph?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.60>Yea, sir, in a pottle-pot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.61>By God's liggens, I thank thee: the knave will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.62>stick by thee, I can assure thee that. A' will not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.63>out; he is true bred.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.64>And I'll stick by him, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.65>Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing: be merry.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Knocking within</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.66>Look who's at door there, ho! who knocks?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit DAVY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.67>Why, now you have done me right.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To SILENCE, seeing him take off a bumper</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.68>[Singing]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.69>Do me right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.70>And dub me knight: Samingo.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.71>Is't not so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.72>'Tis so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.73>Is't so? Why then, say an old man can do somewhat.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter DAVY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DAVY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.74>An't please your worship, there's one Pistol come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.75>from the court with news.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.76>From the court! let him come in.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PISTOL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.77>How now, Pistol!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.78>Sir John, God save you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.79>What wind blew you hither, Pistol?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.80>Not the ill wind which blows no man to good. Sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.81>knight, thou art now one of the greatest men in this realm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.82>By'r lady, I think a' be, but goodman Puff of Barson.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.83>Puff!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.84>Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.85>Sir John, I am thy Pistol and thy friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.86>And helter-skelter have I rode to thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.87>And tidings do I bring and lucky joys</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.88>And golden times and happy news of price.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.89>I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.90>A foutre for the world and worldlings base!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.91>I speak of Africa and golden joys.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.92>O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.93>Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.94>And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Singing</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.95>Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.96>And shall good news be baffled?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.97>Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Furies' lap.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>SILENCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.98>Honest gentleman, I know not your breeding.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.99>Why then, lament therefore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.100>Give me pardon, sir: if, sir, you come with news</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.101>from the court, I take it there's but two ways,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.102>either to utter them, or to conceal them. I am,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.103>sir, under the king, in some authority.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.104>Under which king, Besonian? speak, or die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.105>Under King Harry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.106> Harry the Fourth? or Fifth?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.107>Harry the Fourth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.108>A foutre for thine office!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.109>Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.110>Harry the Fifth's the man. I speak the truth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.111>When Pistol lies, do this; and fig me, like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.112>The bragging Spaniard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.113>What, is the old king dead?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.114>As nail in door: the things I speak are just.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.115>Away, Bardolph! saddle my horse. Master Robert</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.116>Shallow, choose what office thou wilt in the land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.117>'tis thine. Pistol, I will double-charge thee with dignities.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.118>O joyful day!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.119>I would not take a knighthood for my fortune.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.120>What! I do bring good news.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.121>Carry Master Silence to bed. Master Shallow, my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.122>Lord Shallow,--be what thou wilt; I am fortune's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.123>steward--get on thy boots: we'll ride all night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.124>O sweet Pistol! Away, Bardolph!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.125>Come, Pistol, utter more to me; and withal devise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.126>something to do thyself good. Boot, boot, Master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.127>Shallow: I know the young king is sick for me. Let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.128>us take any man's horses; the laws of England are at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.129>my commandment. Blessed are they that have been my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.130>friends; and woe to my lord chief-justice!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.131>Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.132>'Where is the life that late I led?' say they:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.133>Why, here it is; welcome these pleasant days!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. London. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Beadles, dragging in HOSTESS QUICKLY and DOLL TEARSHEET</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.1>No, thou arrant knave; I would to God that I might</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.2>die, that I might have thee hanged: thou hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.3>drawn my shoulder out of joint.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Beadle</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.4>The constables have delivered her over to me; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.5>she shall have whipping-cheer enough, I warrant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.6>her: there hath been a man or two lately killed about her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.7>Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie. Come on; I 'll tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.8>thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal, an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.9>the child I now go with do miscarry, thou wert</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.10>better thou hadst struck thy mother, thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.11>paper-faced villain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.12>O the Lord, that Sir John were come! he would make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.13>this a bloody day to somebody. But I pray God the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.14>fruit of her womb miscarry!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>First Beadle</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.15>If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.16>you have but eleven now. Come, I charge you both go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.17>with me; for the man is dead that you and Pistol</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.18>beat amongst you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.19>I'll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.20>will have you as soundly swinged for this,--you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.21>blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.22>if you be not swinged, I'll forswear half-kirtles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>First Beadle</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.23>Come, come, you she knight-errant, come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.24>O God, that right should thus overcome might!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.25>Well, of sufferance comes ease.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.26>Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a justice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.27>Ay, come, you starved blood-hound.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.28>Goodman death, goodman bones!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.29>Thou atomy, thou!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DOLL TEARSHEET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.30>Come, you thin thing; come you rascal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>First Beadle</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.31>Very well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. A public place near Westminster Abbey.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter two Grooms, strewing rushes</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Groom</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.1>More rushes, more rushes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Groom</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.2>The trumpets have sounded twice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>First Groom</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.3>'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.4>coronation: dispatch, dispatch.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and Page</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.5>Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow; I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.6>make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.7>a' comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.8>will give me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.9>God bless thy lungs, good knight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.10>Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. O, if I had had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.11>time to have made new liveries, I would have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.12>bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.13>'tis no matter; this poor show doth better: this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.14>doth infer the zeal I had to see him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.15>It doth so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.16>It shows my earnestness of affection,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.17>It doth so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.18>My devotion,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.19>It doth, it doth, it doth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.20>As it were, to ride day and night; and not to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.21>deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.22>to shift me,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.23>It is best, certain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.24>But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.25>desire to see him; thinking of nothing else,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.26>putting all affairs else in oblivion, as if there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.27>were nothing else to be done but to see him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.28>'Tis 'semper idem,' for 'obsque hoc nihil est:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.29>'tis all in every part.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.30>'Tis so, indeed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.31>My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.32>And make thee rage.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.33>Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.34>Is in base durance and contagious prison;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.35>Haled thither</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.36>By most mechanical and dirty hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.37>Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.38>Alecto's snake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.39>For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.40>I will deliver her.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Shouts within, and the trumpets sound</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.41>There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING HENRY V and his train, the Lord Chief- Justice among them</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.42>God save thy grace, King Hal! my royal Hal!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.43>The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.44>God save thee, my sweet boy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.45>My lord chief-justice, speak to that vain man.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.46>Lord Chief-Justice Have you your wits? know you what 'tis to speak?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.47>My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.48>I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.49>How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.50>I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.51>So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.52>But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.53>Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.54>Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.55>For thee thrice wider than for other men.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.56>Reply not to me with a fool-born jest:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.57>Presume not that I am the thing I was;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.58>For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.59>That I have turn'd away my former self;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.60>So will I those that kept me company.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.61>When thou dost hear I am as I have been,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.62>Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.63>The tutor and the feeder of my riots:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.64>Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.65>As I have done the rest of my misleaders,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.66>Not to come near our person by ten mile.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.67>For competence of life I will allow you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.68>That lack of means enforce you not to evil:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.69>And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.70>We will, according to your strengths and qualities,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.71>Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.72>To see perform'd the tenor of our word. Set on.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt KING HENRY V, & c</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.73>Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.74>Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.75>have home with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.76>That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.77>grieve at this; I shall be sent for in private to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.78>him: look you, he must seem thus to the world:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.79>fear not your advancements; I will be the man yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.80>that shall make you great.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.81>I cannot well perceive how, unless you should give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.82>me your doublet and stuff me out with straw. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.83>beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.84>of my thousand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.85>Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.86>heard was but a colour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.87>A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.88>Fear no colours: go with me to dinner: come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.89>Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph: I shall be sent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.90>for soon at night.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Prince John of LANCASTER, the Lord Chief-Justice; Officers with them</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.91>Lord Chief-Justice Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.92>Take all his company along with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.93>My lord, my lord,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.94>Lord Chief-Justice I cannot now speak: I will hear you soon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.95>Take them away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.96>Si fortune me tormenta, spero contenta.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but PRINCE JOHN and the Lord Chief-Justice</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.97>I like this fair proceeding of the king's:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.98>He hath intent his wonted followers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.99>Shall all be very well provided for;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.100>But all are banish'd till their conversations</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.101>Appear more wise and modest to the world.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.102>Lord Chief-Justice And so they are.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.103>The king hath call'd his parliament, my lord.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.104>Lord Chief-Justice He hath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.105>I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.106>We bear our civil swords and native fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.107>As far as France: I beard a bird so sing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.108>Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.109>Come, will you hence?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.110>EPILOGUE</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Spoken by a Dancer</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.111>First my fear; then my courtesy; last my speech.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.112>My fear is, your displeasure; my courtesy, my duty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.113>and my speech, to beg your pardons. If you look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.114>for a good speech now, you undo me: for what I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.115>to say is of mine own making; and what indeed I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.116>should say will, I doubt, prove mine own marring.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.117>But to the purpose, and so to the venture. Be it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.118>known to you, as it is very well, I was lately here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.119>in the end of a displeasing play, to pray your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.120>patience for it and to promise you a better. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.121>meant indeed to pay you with this; which, if like an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.122>ill venture it come unluckily home, I break, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.123>you, my gentle creditors, lose. Here I promised you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.124>I would be and here I commit my body to your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.125>mercies: bate me some and I will pay you some and,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.126>as most debtors do, promise you infinitely.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.127>If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.128>you command me to use my legs? and yet that were but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.129>light payment, to dance out of your debt. But a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.130>good conscience will make any possible satisfaction,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.131>and so would I. All the gentlewomen here have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.132>forgiven me: if the gentlemen will not, then the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.133>gentlemen do not agree with the gentlewomen, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.134>was never seen before in such an assembly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.135>One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.136>much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.137>continue the story, with Sir John in it, and make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.138>you merry with fair Katharine of France: where, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.139>any thing I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.140>unless already a' be killed with your hard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.141>opinions; for Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.142>not the man. My tongue is weary; when my legs are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.143>too, I will bid you good night: and so kneel down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.144>before you; but, indeed, to pray for the queen.</A><br> | |
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