news from the court, I take it, there is but two ways; either to utter them, or to conceal them. I am, fir, under the king, in fome authority.

Pift. Under which king, "Bezonian? fpeak, or die.
Shal. Under king Harry.

Pift. Harry the fourth? or fifth?

Shal. Harry the fourth.

Pift. A foutra for thine office!—

Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king;
Harry the fifth's the man. I fpeak the truth :
When Pistol lies, do this; and * fig me, like
The bragging Spaniard.

Fal. What is the old king dead?

Pift. As nail in door: the things I fpeak, are juft. Fal. Away, Bardolph; faddle my horfe.-Mafter Robert Shallow, chufe what office thou wilt in the land, 'tis thine.-Pistol, I will double-charge thee with dignities. Bard. O joyful day!-I would not take a knighthood for my fortune.

Pift. What? I do bring good news?

Fal. Carry mafter Silence to bed.-Master Shallow, my lord Shallow, be what thou wilt, I am fortune's steward. Get on thy boots; we'll ride all night :-Oh, fweet Pistol ! -Away, Bardolph.-Come, Pistol, utter more to me; and, withal, devise something to do thyself good.-Boot, boot, master Shallow; I know, the young king is fick for me. Let us take any man's horfes; the laws of England are at my commandment. Happy are they which have been my friends; and woe to my lord chief justice!

w Bezonian ?]-bafe fcoundrel.

*fig me, like the bragging Spaniard.]-Infult me after the Spanis mode, by putting the thumb between the fore and middle finger; whence the phrafe, "A fig for you."

2 As nail in door :]-the nail on which the knocker strikes in fome pld doors.

Pift. Let vultures vile feize on his lungs also !
Where is the life that late I led, fay they :-
Why, here it is; Welcome these pleasant days.

[Exeunt.

Enter hoftefs Quickly, Doll Tear-fheet, and Beadles.

Hoft. No, thou arrant knave; I would I might die, that I might have thee hang'd: thou haft drawn my fhoulder out of joint.

Bead. The conftables have deliver'd her over to me; and the fhall have whipping-cheer enough, I warrant her: There hath been a man or two, lately, kill'd about her.

Dol. Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie. Come on; I'll tell thee what, thou damn'd tripe-visag'd rascal; if the child I now go with, do miscarry, thou hadft better thou hadst struck thy mother, thou paper-fac'd villain.

Hoft. O the Lord, that fir John were come! he would make this a bloody day to fomebody. But I pray God, the fruit of her womb mifcarry!

a

Bead. If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions again; you have but eleven now. Come, I charge you both go with me; for the man is dead, that you and

Piftol beat among you.

b

Dol. I'll tell thee what, thou thin man in a cenfer! I will have you as foundly fwing'd for this, you blue

a

Nut-book, nut. book,]-Rogue, or catch-pole.

a dozen of cufbions]-to carry on the farce of pregnancy.

▷ thou thin man in a cenfer !]-thou refemblance of tuch figure in a brafen dish, rais'd in imboss'd work, which adorned the bottom of it. blue bottle rogue !]-from his blue livery; alluding to the fly fo

called.

bottle

bottle-rogue! you filthy famifh'd correctioner! if you not fwing'd, I'll forfwear half-kirtles.

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Bead. Come, come, you the knight-errant; come. Hoft. O, that right fhould thus overcome might! Well; of fufferance comes ease.

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Dol. Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a justice.
Hoft. Ay; come, you starv'd blood-hound.

Dol. Goodman death! goodman bones!
Hoft. Thouatomy, thou!

Dol. Come, you thin thing; come, you frafcal!
Bead. Very well.

i Groom.

Enter two Grooms, ftrewing rushes.

More rushes, more rushes.

2 Groom. The trumpets have founded twice.

[Exeunt.

1 Groom. It will be two o'clock ere they come from the coronation: Dispatch, diípatch. [Exeunt Grooms.

Enter Falstaff, Shallow, Piftol, Bardolph, and the Boy.

Fal. Stand here by me, mafter Robert Shallow; I will make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him, as 'a comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he will give me.

Pift. 'Bless thy lungs, good knight!

Fal. Come here, Piftol; ftand behind me.--O, if I had had time to have made new liveries, I would have bestow'd the thousand pound I borrow'd of you. [To Shallow.] But 'tis no matter; this poor fhow doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had to fee him.

a balf-kirtles.]-bed-gowns, probably the drefs of the courtezans

of that time.

frafcal!]-lean deer.

atomy,-anatomy, fkeleton.

& More rupes,)-o firew the floor. Sha!.

Shal. It doth fo.

Fal. It fhews my earnestness of affection.

Pift. It doth fo.

Fal. My devotion.

Shal. It doth, it doth, it doth.

Fal. As it were, to ride day and night; and not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to shift me. Shak It is most certain.

Fal. But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with defire to fee him: thinking of nothing else; putting all affairs else in oblivion; as if there were nothing else to be done, but to fee him.

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Pift. 'Tis femper idem, for abfque hoc nihil eft: Tis all in every part.

Shal. 'Tis fo, indeed.

Pift. My knight, I will enflame thy noble liver,

And make thee rage.

Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,

Is in bafe durance, and contagious prifon;
Haul'd thither

By moft mechanical and dirty hand :

Rouze up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto's snake,
For Doll is in; Piftol fpeaks nought but truth.

Fal. I will deliver her.

Pift. There roar'd the fea, and trumpet-clangor founds.

The trumpets found. Enter the King, and his train.

Fal. God fave thy grace, king Hal! my royal Hal! Pift. The heavens thee guard and keep, moft royal 1imp of fame!

Fal. God fave thee, my fweet boy!

King. My lord chief juftice, fpeak to that vain man.
Ch. Juft. Have you your wits? know you what 'tis you

speak?

'Tis all in all, and all in every part.

i imp]-child.

Fal.

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Fal. My king! my Jove! I fpeak to thee, my heart! King. I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool, and jefter!

I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,
So furfeit-fwell'd, fo old, and fo profane;
But, being awake, I do despise my dream.
Make lefs thy body, hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandizing; know, the

grave doth

For thee thrice wider than for other men :

Reply not to me with a fool-born jeft;
Prefume not, that I am the thing I was:

gape

For heaven doth know, fo fhall the world perceive,
That I have turn'd away my former felf;
So will I thofe that kept me company.
When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
Approach me; and thou shalt be as thou waft,
The tutor and the feeder of

my riots:

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'Till then, I banish thee on pain of death,-
As I have done the reft of my misleaders,-
Not to come near our perfon by ten miles.
For competence of life, I will allow you;
That lack of means enforce you not to evil;
And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,
We will, according to your ftrength, and qualities,-
Give you advancement.-Be it your charge, my lord,
To fee perform'd the tenor of our word.-

Set on.
[Exit King, &c.
Fal. Mafter Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.
Shal. Ay, marry, fir John; which I befeech you to let
me have home with me.

Fal. That can hardly be, mafter Shallow. Do not you grieve at this; I fhall be fent for in private to him: look you, he must seem thus to the world. Fear not your advancement; I will be the man yet, that fhall make you great.

Shel,"