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| <H3>SCENE III. London. Before a tavern.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter PISTOL, Hostess, NYM, BARDOLPH, and Boy</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=2>No; for my manly heart doth yearn.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Bardolph, be blithe: Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>And we must yearn therefore.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=6>Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>heaven or in hell!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=8>Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Arthur's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A' made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>a finer end and went away an it had been any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>christom child; a' parted even just between twelve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>flowers and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. 'How now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>sir John!' quoth I 'what, man! be o' good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>cheer.' So a' cried out 'God, God, God!' three or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>should not think of God; I hoped there was no need</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>they were as cold as any stone, and so upward and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>upward, and all was as cold as any stone.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>NYM</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=27>They say he cried out of sack.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=28>Ay, that a' did.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=29>And of women.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=30>Nay, that a' did not.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>Boy</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=31>Yes, that a' did; and said they were devils</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>incarnate.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=33>A' could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>never liked.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>Boy</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=35>A' said once, the devil would have him about women.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=36>A' did in some sort, indeed, handle women; but then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>he was rheumatic, and talked of the whore of Babylon.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>Boy</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=38>Do you not remember, a' saw a flea stick upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Bardolph's nose, and a' said it was a black soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>burning in hell-fire?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=41>Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>that's all the riches I got in his service.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>NYM</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=43>Shall we shog? the king will be gone from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Southampton.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=45>Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>Look to my chattels and my movables:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Let senses rule; the word is 'Pitch and Pay:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>Trust none;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Therefore, Caveto be thy counsellor.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>Go, clear thy c rystals. Yoke-fellows in arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>Boy</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=55>And that's but unwholesome food they say.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=56>Touch her soft mouth, and march.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=57>Farewell, hostess.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kissing her</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>NYM</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=58>I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but, adieu.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=59>Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech22><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=60>Farewell; adieu.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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