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thyself and the money too. Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny it? Did not goodwife Keech, the butcherโ€™s wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns; whereby thou didst desire to eat some; whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound? And didst thou not, when she was gone down stairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity with such poor people; saying that ere long they should call me madam? And didst thou not kiss me and bid me fetch thee thirty shillings? I put thee now to thy book-oath: deny it, if thou canst. Falstaff My lord, this is a poor mad soul; and she says up and down the town that the eldest son is like you: she hath been in good case, and the truth is, poverty hath distracted her. But for these foolish officers, I beseech you I may have redress against them. Chief-Justice Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with your manner of wrenching the true cause the false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng of words that come with such more than impudent sauciness from you, can thrust me from a level consideration: you have, as it appears to me, practised upon the easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and made her serve your uses both in purse and in person. Hostess Yea, in truth, my lord. Chief-Justice Pray thee, peace. Pay her the debt you owe her, and unpay the villany you have done her: the one you may do with sterling money, and the other with current repentance. Falstaff My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply. You call honourable boldness impudent sauciness: if a man will make courtesy and say nothing, he is virtuous: no, my lord, my humble duty remembered, I will not be your suitor. I say to you, I do desire deliverance from these officers, being upon hasty employment in the kingโ€™s affairs. Chief-Justice You speak as having power to do wrong: but answer in the effect of your reputation, and satisfy this poor woman. Falstaff Come hither, hostess. Enter Gower. Chief-Justice Now, Master Gower, what news? Gower

The king, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales
Are near at hand: the rest the paper tells.

Falstaff As I am a gentleman. Hostess Faith, you said so before. Falstaff As I am a gentleman. Come, no more words of it. Hostess By this heavenly ground I tread on, I must be fain to pawn both my plate and the tapestry of my dining-chambers. Falstaff Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking: and for thy walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of the Prodigal, or the German hunting in water-work, is worth a thousand of these bed-hangings and these fly-bitten tapestries. Let it be ten pound, if thou canst. Come, an โ€™twere not for thy humours, thereโ€™s not a better wench in England. Go, wash thy face, and draw the action. Come, thou must not be in this humour with me; dost not know me? come, come, I know thou wast set on to this. Hostess Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty nobles: iโ€™ faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, so God save me, la! Falstaff Let it alone; Iโ€™ll make other shift: youโ€™ll be a fool still. Hostess Well, you shall have it, though I pawn my gown. I hope youโ€™ll come to supper. Youโ€™ll pay me all together? Falstaff Will I live? To Bardolph. Go, with her, with her; hook on, hook on. Hostess Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you at supper? Falstaff No more words; letโ€™s have her. Exeunt Hostess, Bardolph, Officers and Boy. Chief-Justice I have heard better news. Falstaff Whatโ€™s the news, my lord? Chief-Justice Where lay the king last night? Gower At Basingstoke, my lord. Falstaff I hope, my lord, allโ€™s well: what is the news, my lord? Chief-Justice Come all his forces back? Gower

No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse,
Are marchโ€™d up to my lord of Lancaster,
Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.

Falstaff Comes the king back from Wales, my noble lord? Chief-Justice

You shall have letters of me presently:
Come, go along with me, good Master Gower.

Falstaff My lord! Chief-Justice Whatโ€™s the matter? Falstaff Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to dinner? Gower I must wait upon my good lord here; I thank you, good Sir John. Chief-Justice Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are to take soldiers up in counties as you go. Falstaff Will you sup with me, Master Gower? Chief-Justice What foolish master taught you these manners, Sir John? Falstaff Master Gower, if they become me not, he was a fool that taught them me. This is the right fencing grace, my lord; tap for tap, and so part fair. Chief-Justice Now the Lord lighten thee! thou art a great fool. Exeunt. Scene II

London. Another street.

Enter Prince Henry and Poins. Prince Before God, I am exceeding weary. Poins Isโ€™t come to that? I had thought weariness durst not have attached one of so high blood. Prince Faith, it does me; though it discolours the complexion of my greatness to acknowledge it. Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer? Poins Why, a prince should not be so loosely studied as to remember so weak a composition. Prince Belike then my appetite was not princely got; for, by my troth, I do now remember the poor creature, small beer. But, indeed, these humble considerations make me out of love with my greatness. What a disgrace is it to me to remember thy name! or to know thy face to-morrow! or to take
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