Chapter XV: Act III: SCENE I. Bangor. The Archdeacon's house

_Enter_ HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, MORTIMER, _and_ GLENDOWER.[2590]

_Mort._ These promises are fair, the parties sure,
And our induction full of prosperous hope.

_Hot._ Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower,[2591]
Will you sit down?[2591]
And uncle Worcester: a plague upon it![2591] 5
I have forgot the map.[2591][2592]

_Glend._ No, here it is.[2592]
Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur,[2592]
For by that name as oft as Lancaster[2592][2593]
Doth speak of you, his cheek looks pale and with[2592][2594]
A rising sigh he wisheth you in heaven.[2592][2595] 10

_Hot._ And you in hell, as oft as lie hears Owen[2596][2597]
Glendower spoke of.[2596]

_Glend._ I cannot blame him: at my nativity[2598]
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
Of burning cressets; and at my birth[2599][2600] 15
The frame and huge foundation of the earth[2599][2601]
Shaked like a coward.[2599][2602]

_Hot._ Why, so it would have done at the same season,[2603][2604]
if your mother's cat had but kittened, though yourself had[2603][2605]
never been born.[2603][2606] 20

_Glend._ I say the earth did shake when I was born.

_Hot._ And I say the earth was not of my mind,[2607]
If you suppose as fearing you it shook.

_Glend._ The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble.

_Hot._ O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,[2608] 25
And not in fear of your nativity.
Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth[2609]
Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd
By the imprisoning of unruly wind 30
Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving,
Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down[2610]
Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth[2611]
Our grandam earth, having this distemperature,[2612]
In passion shook.

_Glend._ Cousin, of many men 35
I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave[2613]
To tell you once again that at my birth
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds
Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.[2614] 40
These signs have mark'd me extraordinary;
And all the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.[2615]
Where is he living, clipp'd in with the sea[2616]
That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,[2617] 45
Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?
And bring him out that is but woman's son[2618]
Can trace me in the tedious ways of art[2619]
And hold me pace in deep experiments.[2620]

_Hot._ I think there's no man speaks better Welsh.[2621][2622] 50
I'll to dinner.[2621][2623]

_Mort._ Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad.[2624]

_Glend._ I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

_Hot._ Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? 55

_Glend._ Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command[2625][2626]
The devil.[2626]

_Hot._ And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil[2627]
By telling truth: tell truth, and shame the devil.[2628]
If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither, 60
And I 'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil!

_Mort._ Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.[2629]

_Glend._ Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head
Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye[2630] 65
And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him[2631][2632]
Bootless home and weather-beaten back.[2632][2633]

_Hot._ Home without boots, and in foul weather too![2634]
How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?[2635]

_Glend._ Come, here's the map: shall we divide our right[2636] 70
According to our threefold order ta'en?

_Mort._ The archdeacon hath divided it[2637]
Into three limits very equally:
England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,
By south and east is to my part assign'd: 75
All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore.
And all the fertile land within that bound.
To Owen Glendower: and, dear coz, to you[2638]
The remnant northward, lying off from Trent.
And our indentures tripartite are drawn;[2639] 80
Which being sealed interchangeably,
A business that this night may execute,
To-morrow, cousin Percy, you and I[2640]
And my good Lord of Worcester will set forth
To meet your father and the Scottish power, 85
As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.
My father Glendower is not ready yet,
Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days.
Within that space you may have drawn together[2641]
Your tenants, friends, and neighbouring gentlemen. 90

_Glend._ A shorter time shall send me to you, lords:
And in my conduct shall your ladies come;
From whom you now must steal and take no leave,
For there will be a world of water shed[2642]
Upon the parting of your wives and you. 95

_Hot._ Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here,[2643]
In quantity equals not one of yours:
See how this river comes me cranking in,[2644]
And cuts me from the best of all my land
A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.[2645] 100
I'll have the current in this place damm'd up;[2646]
And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
In a new channel, fair and evenly;
It shall not wind with such a deep indent,
To rob me of so rich a bottom here. 105

_Glend._ Not wind? it shall, it must; you see it doth.

_Mort._ Yea, but[2647][2648]
Mark how he bears his course, and runs me up[2647][2648]
With like advantage on the other side;[2647]
Gelding the opposed continent as much[2647] 110
As on the other side it takes from you.[2647]

_Wor._ Yea, but a little charge will trench him here
And on this north side win this cape of land;
And then he runs straight and even.[2649]

_Hot._ I'll have it so: a little charge will do it. 115

_Glend._ I'll not have it alter'd.[2650]

_Hot._ Will not you?

_Glend._ No, nor you shall not.

_Hot._ Who shall say me nay?

_Glend._ Why, that will I.

_Hot._ Let me not understand you, then; speak it in[2651][2652]
Welsh.[2651] 120

_Glend._ I can speak English, lord, as well as you;
For I was train'd up in the English court;
Where, being but young, I framed to the harp[2653]
Many an English ditty lovely well
And gave the tongue a helpful ornament, 125
A virtue that was never seen in you.

_Hot._ Marry,[2654]
And I am glad of it with all my heart:[2654]
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers;[2655] 130
I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,[2656]
Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree;
And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,[2657]
Nothing so much as mincing poetry:
'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag. 135

_Glend._ Come, you shall have Trent turn'd.

_Hot._ I do not care: I'll give thrice so much land[2658]
To any well-deserving friend;[2658][2659]
But in the way of bargain, mark ye me,
I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. 140
Are the indentures drawn? shall we be gone?

_Glend._ The moon shines fair; you may away by night:[2660]
I'll haste the writer, and withal[2661][2662]
Break with your wives of your departure hence:[2662]
I am afraid my daughter will run mad, 145
So much she doteth on her Mortimer. [_Exit._

_Mort._ Fie, cousin Percy! how you cross my father![2663]

_Hot._ I cannot choose: sometime he angers me[2664]
With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant,[2665]
Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,[2666] 150
And of a dragon and a finless fish,
A clip-wing'd griffin and a moulten raven,[2667]
A couching lion and a ramping cat,[2668]
And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff
As puts me from my faith. I tell you what,-- 155
He held me last night at least nine hours[2669]
In reckoning up the several devils' names
That were his lackeys: I cried 'hum,' and 'well, go to,'[2670]
But mark'd him not a word. O, he is as tedious[2671]
As a tired horse, a railing wife;[2672] 160
Worse than a smoky house: I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
In any summer-house in Christendom.

_Mort._ In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,[2673] 165
Exceedingly well read, and profited[2674]
In strange concealments, valiant as a lion[2675]
And wondrous affable and as bountiful[2675][2676]
As mines of India. Shall I tell you, cousin?[2675][2677]
He holds your temper in a high respect[2675] 170
And curbs himself even of his natural scope[2678]
When you come 'cross his humour; faith, he does:[2679]
I warrant you, that man is not alive
Might so have tempted him as you have done,
Without the taste of danger and reproof: 175
But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.

_Wor._ In faith, my lord, you are too wilful-blame;[2680]
And since your coming hither have done enough
To put him quite beside his patience.[2681]
You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault: 180
Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood,--[2682]
And that's the dearest grace it renders you,--
Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage,
Defect of manners, want of government,
Pride, haughtiness, opinion and disdain: 185
The least of which haunting a nobleman[2683]
Loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain[2684]
Upon the beauty of all parts besides,[2685]
Beguiling them of commendation.

_Hot._ Well, I am school'd: good manners be your speed![2686] 190
Here come our wives, and let us take our leave.

_Re-enter_ GLENDOWER _with the_ ladies.[2687]

_Mort._ This is the deadly spite that angers me;[2688]
My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh.

_Glend._ My daughter weeps: she will not part with you;[2689]
She'll be a soldier too, she'll to the wars. 195

_Mort._ Good father, tell her that she and my aunt Percy[2690]
Shall follow in your conduct speedily.

[_Glendower speaks to her in Welsh, and she
answers him in the same._[2691]

_Glend._ She is desperate here; a peevish self-will'd
harlotry,[2692][2693]
one that no persuasion can do good upon.[2693][2694]

[_The lady speaks in Welsh._

_Mort._ I understand thy looks: that pretty Welsh 200
Which thou pour'st down from these swelling heavens[2695]
I am too perfect in; and, but for shame,
In such a parley should I answer thee.

[_The lady speaks again in Welsh._[2696]

I understand thy kisses and thou mine,
And that's a feeling disputation:[2697] 205
But I will never be a truant, love,
Till I have learn'd thy language; for thy tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,[2698]
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute. 210

_Glend._ Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad.[2699]

[_The lady speaks again in Welsh._

_Mort._ O, I am ignorance itself in this!

_Glend._ She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down[2700]
And rest your gentle head upon her lap,
And she will sing the song that pleaseth you 215
And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,
Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep[2701]
As is the difference betwixt day and night
The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team 220
Begins his golden progress in the east.[2702]

_Mort._ With all my heart I'll sit and hear her sing:
By that time will our book, I think, be drawn.

_Glend._ Do so;
And those musicians that shall play to you[2703] 225
Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,[2704]
And straight they shall be here: sit, and attend.[2705]

_Hot._ Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down:[2706]
come, quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.[2706]

_Lady P._ Go, ye giddy goose. 230

[_The music plays._[2707]

_Hot._ Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh;[2708]
And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.[2708]
By'r lady, he is a good musician.[2708]

_Lady P._ Then should you be nothing but musical, for[2708][2709]
you are altogether governed by humours. Lie still, ye[2708][2710] 235
thief, and hear the lady sing in Welsh.[2708]

_Hot._ I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish.[2711]

_Lady P._ Wouldst thou have thy head broken?[2712]

_Hot._ No.

_Lady P._ Then be still. 240

_Hot._ Neither; 'tis a woman's fault.

_Lady P._ Now God help thee!

_Hot._ To the Welsh lady's bed.

_Lady P._ What's that?

_Hot._ Peace! she sings. 245

[_Here the lady sings a Welsh song._

_Hot._ Come, Kate, I'll have your song too.[2713]

_Lady P._ Not mine, in good sooth.

_Hot._ Not yours, in good sooth! Heart! you swear[2714][2715]
like a comfit-maker's wife. 'Not you, in good sooth,' and[2716]
'as true as I live,' and 'as God shall mend me,' and 'as[2717] 250
sure as day,'[2714]
And givest such sarcenet surety for thy oaths,
As if thou never walk'st further than Finsbury.[2718]
Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
A good mouth-filling oath, and leave 'in sooth,' 255
And such protest of pepper-gingerbread,[2719]
To velvet-guards and Sunday-citizens.
Come, sing.

_Lady P._ I will not sing.

_Hot._ 'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be red-breast[2720] 260
teacher. An the indentures be drawn, I'll away within these[2721]
two hours; and so, come in when ye will.[2722] [_Exit._

_Glend._ Come, come, Lord Mortimer; you are as slow[2723]
As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go.[2724]
By this our book is drawn; we'll but seal,[2725] 265
And then to horse immediately.[2725]

_Mort._ With all my heart. [_Exeunt._

SCENE II. _London. The palace._[2726]

_Enter the_ KING, PRINCE of WALES, _and others_.

_King._ Lords, give us leave; the Prince of Wales and I[2727]
Must have some private conference: but be near at hand,[2727][2728]
For we shall presently have need of you. [_Exeunt Lords._
I know not whether God will have it so,[2729]
For some displeasing service I have done, 5
That, in his secret doom, out of my blood
He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me;
But thou dost in thy passages of life[2730]
Make me believe that thou art only mark'd
For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven 10
To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else,
Could such inordinate and low desires,
Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts,[2731]
Such barren pleasures, rude society,
As thou art match'd withal and grafted to,[2732] 15
Accompany the greatness of thy blood
And hold their level with thy princely heart?

_Prince._ So please your majesty, I would I could[2733]
Quit all offences with as clear excuse
As well as I am doubtless I can purge 20
Myself of many I am charged withal:
Yet such extenuation let me beg,
As, in reproof of many tales devised,[2734]
Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,
By smiling pick-thanks and base newsmongers, 25
I may, for some things true, wherein my youth
Hath faulty wander'd and irregular,
Find pardon on my true submission.

_King._ God pardon thee! yet let me wonder, Harry,[2735]
At thy affections, which do hold a wing 30
Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.
Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost,
Which by thy younger brother is supplied,
And art almost an alien to the hearts
Of all the court and princes of my blood: 35
The hope and expectation of thy time
Is ruin'd, and the soul of every man
Prophetically do forethink thy fall.[2736]
Had I so lavish of my presence been,
So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men, 40
So stale and cheap to vulgar company,
Opinion, that did help me to the crown,
Had still kept loyal to possession
And left me in reputeless banishment,
A fellow of no mark nor likelihood. 45
By being seldom seen, I could not stir[2737]
But like a comet I was wonder'd at;
That men would tell their children 'This is he;'
Others would say 'Where, which is Bolingbroke?'
And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, 50
And dress'd myself in such humility
That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,
Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths,
Even in the presence of the crowned king.[2738]
Thus did I keep my person fresh and new;[2739] 55
My presence, like a robe pontifical,
Ne'er seen but wonder'd at: and so my state,
Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast
And wan by rareness such solemnity.[2740]
The skipping king, he ambled up and down 60
With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,[2741]
Soon kindled and soon burnt; carded his state,[2742]
Mingled his royalty with capering fools,[2743]
Had his great name profaned with their scorns
And gave his countenance, against his name, 65
To laugh at gibing boys and stand the push[2744]
Of every beardless vain comparative,
Grew a companion to the common streets,
Enfeoff'd himself to popularity;[2745]
That, being daily swallow'd by men's eyes, 70
They surfeited with honey and began[2746]
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little[2746][2747]
More than a little is by much too much.
So when he had occasion to be seen,
He was but as the cuckoo is in June, 75
Heard, not regarded; seen, but with such eyes
As, sick and blunted with community,
Afford no extraordinary gaze,[2748]
Such as is bent on sun-like majesty
When it shines seldom in admiring eyes; 80
But rather drowzed and hung their eyelids down,[2749]
Slept in his face and render'd such aspect[2750]
As cloudy men use to their adversaries,[2751]
Being with his presence glutted, gorged and full.
And in that very line, Harry, standest thou;[2752] 85
For thou hast lost thy princely privilege
With vile participation: not an eye
But is a-weary of thy common sight,
Save mine, which hath desired to see thee more;
Which now doth that I would not have it do,[2753] 90
Make blind itself with foolish tenderness.

_Prince._ I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord,
Be more myself.

_King._ For all the world[2754]
As thou art to this hour was Richard then[2755]
When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh,[2756] 95
And even as I was then is Percy now.
Now, by my sceptre and my soul to boot,
He hath more worthy interest to the state[2757]
Than thou the shadow of succession;[2758]
For of no right, nor colour like to right, 100
He doth fill fields with harness in the realm,
Turns head against the lion's armed jaws,
And, being no more in debt to years than thou,
Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on[2759]
To bloody battles and to bruising arms. 105
What never-dying honour hath he got
Against renowned Douglas! whose high deeds,[2760]
Whose hot incursions and great name in arms
Holds from all soldiers chief majority[2761]
And military title capital 110
Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ:
Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swathling clothes,[2762]
This infant warrior, in his enterprizes
Discomfited great Douglas, ta'en him once,[2763]
Enlarged him and made a friend of him, 115
To fill the mouth of deep defiance up[2764]
And shake the peace and safety of our throne.
And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland,
The Archbishop's grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,[2765]
Capitulate against us and are up. 120
But wherefore do I tell these news to thee?
Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes,
Which art my near'st and dearest enemy?[2766]
Thou that art like enough, through vassal fear,[2767]
Base inclination and the start of spleen, 125
To fight against me under Percy's pay,
To dog his heels and curtsy at his frowns,
o show how much thou art degenerate.[2768]

_Prince._ Do not think so; you shall not find it so:
And God forgive them that so much have sway'd[2769] 130
Your majesty's good thoughts away from me!
I will redeem all this on Percy's head
And in the closing of some glorious day
Be bold to tell you that I am your son;
When I will wear a garment all of blood 135
And stain my favours in a bloody mask,[2770]
Which, wash'd away, shall scour my shame with it:
And that shall be the day, whene'er it lights,
That this same child of honour and renown,
This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight, 140
And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet.
For every honour sitting on his helm,[2771]
Would they were multitudes, and on my head[2772]
My shames redoubled! for the time will come,[2773]
That I shall make this northern youth exchange 145
His glorious deeds for my indignities.
Percy is but my factor, good my lord,
To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf;[2774]
And I will call him to so strict account,
That he shall render every glory up, 150
Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,[2775]
Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.
This, in the name of God, I promise here:[2776]
The which if He be pleased I shall perform,[2777]
I do beseech your majesty may salve 155
The long-grown wounds of my intemperance:[2778]
If not, the end of life cancels all bands;[2779]
And I will die a hundred thousand deaths[2780]
Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.

_King._ A hundred thousand rebels die in this: 160
Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein.

_Enter_ BLUNT.[2781]

How now, good Blunt? thy looks are full of speed.[2782]

_Blunt._ So hath the business that I come to speak of.[2783]
Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word
That Douglas and the English rebels met 165
The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury:
A mighty and a fearful head they are,
If promises be kept on every hand,
As ever offer'd foul play in a state.

_King._ The Earl of Westmoreland set forth to-day;[2784] 170
With him my son, Lord John of Lancaster;
For this advertisement is five days old:
On Wednesday next, Harry, you shall set forward;[2785]
On Thursday we ourselves will march: our meeting[2786]
Is Bridgenorth: and, Harry, you shall march[2786][2787] 175
Through Gloucestershire; by which account,[2786][2788]
Our business valued, some twelve days hence[2788]
Our general forces at Bridgenorth shall meet.
Our hands are full of business: let's away;
Advantage feeds him fat, while men delay.[2789] [_Exeunt._ 180

SCENE III. _Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern._[2790]

_Enter_ FALSTAFF _and_ BARDOLPH.

_Fal._ Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this
last action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why, my skin
hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown; I am withered
like an old apple-john. Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly,
while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart 5
shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. An[2791]
I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of,
I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse: the inside of a church!
Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me.

_Bard._ Sir John, you are so fretful, you cannot live long. 10

_Fal._ Why, there is it: come sing me a bawdy song;
make me merry. I was as virtuously given as a gentleman[2792]
need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above
seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house not above once[2793]
in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed,[2794] 15
three or four times; lived well, and in good compass: and
now I live out of all order, out of all compass.[2795]

_Bard._ Why, you are so fat, Sir John, that you must
needs be out of all compass, out of all reasonable compass,
Sir John. 20

_Fal._ Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life:[2796]
thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in the poop,[2797]
but 'tis in the nose of thee; thou art the Knight of the[2798]
Burning Lamp.

_Bard._ Why, Sir John, my face does you no harm.[2799] 25

_Fal._ No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use of it as
many a man doth of a Death's-head or a memento mori:
I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire, and Dives that
lived in purple; for there he is in his robes, burning,[2800]
burning. If thou wert any way given to virtue, I would swear[2801] 30
by thy face; my oath should be, 'By this fire, that's God's[2802]
angel:' but thou art altogether given over; and wert indeed,[2802]
but for the light in thy face, the son of utter darkness.[2803]
When thou rannest up Gadshill in the night to catch my[2804]
horse, if I did not think thou hadst been an ignis fatuus[2805] 35
or a ball of wildfire, there's no purchase in money. O, thou
art a perpetual triumph, an everlasting bonfire-light! Thou[2806]
hast saved me a thousand marks in links and torches,
walking with thee in the night betwixt tavern and tavern:
but the sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me 40
lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.[2807]
I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire any[2808]
time this two and thirty years; God reward me for it![2809]

_Bard._ 'Sblood, I would my face were in your belly![2810]

_Fal._ God-a-mercy! so should I be sure to be heartburned.[2811] 45

_Enter_ HOSTESS.[2812]

How now, Dame Partlet the hen! have you inquired yet
who picked my pocket?

_Host._ Why, Sir John, what do you think, Sir John? do
you think I keep thieves in my house? I have searched, I 50
have inquired, so has my husband, man by man, boy by
boy, servant by servant: the tithe of a hair was never lost[2813]
in my house before.

_Fal._ Ye lie, hostess: Bardolph was shaved, and lost
many a hair; and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked.[2814] 55
Go to, you are a woman, go.[2815]

_Host._ Who, I? no; I defy thee: God's light, I was[2816]
never called so in mine own house before.

_Fal._ Go to, I know you well enough.

_Host._ No, Sir John; you do not know me, Sir John. 60
I know you, Sir John: you owe me money, Sir John; and
now you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it: I bought you a
dozen of shirts to your back.

_Fal._ Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to
bakers' wives, and they have made bolters of them.[2817] 65

_Host._ Now, as I am a true woman, holland of eight[2818]
shillings an ell. You owe money here besides, Sir John,[2818]
for your diet and by-drinkings, and money lent you, four[2819][2820]
and twenty pound.[2820][2821]

_Fal._ He had his part of it; let him pay. 70

_Host._ He? alas, he is poor; he hath nothing.

_Fal._ How! poor? look upon his face; what call you
rich? let them coin his nose, let them coin his cheeks: I'll[2822]
not pay a denier. What, will you make a younker of me?
shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my 75
pocket picked? I have lost a seal-ring of my grandfather's
worth forty mark.

_Host._ O Jesu, I have heard the prince tell him, I know[2823]
not how oft, that that ring was copper![2824]

_Fal._ How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup: 'sblood,[2825] 80
an he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he would[2826]
say so.

_Enter the_ PRINCE _and_ PETO, _marching, and_ FALSTAFF _meets them
playing on his truncheon like a fife_.[2827]

How now, lad! is the wind in that door, i' faith? must we[2828][2829]
all march?[2829]

_Bard._ Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.[2830] 85

_Host._ My lord, I pray you, hear me.

_Prince._ What sayest thou, Mistress Quickly? How
doth thy husband? I love him well; he is an honest man.[2831]

_Host._ Good my lord, hear me.

_Fal._ Prithee, let her alone, and list to me. 90

_Prince._ What sayest thou, Jack?

_Fal._ The other night I fell asleep here behind the
arras, and had my pocket picked: this house is turned
bawdy-house; they pick pockets.

_Prince._ What didst thou lose, Jack? 95

_Fal._ Wilt thou believe me, Hal? three or four bonds
of forty pound a-piece, and a seal-ring of my grandfather's.[2832]

_Prince._ A trifle, some eight-penny matter.

_Host._ So I told him, my lord; and I said I heard
your grace say so: and, my lord, he speaks most vilely of 100
you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is; and said he would[2833]
cudgel you.

_Prince._ What! he did not?

_Host._ There's neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in
me else. 105

_Fal._ There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed[2834]
prune; nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox; and[2835]
for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the deputy's wife of
the ward to thee. Go, you thing, go.[2836]

_Host._ Say, what thing? what thing? 110

_Fal._ What thing! why, a thing to thank God on.[2837]

_Host._ I am no thing to thank God on, I would thou[2837][2838]
shouldst know it; I am an honest man's wife: and, setting
thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to call me so.

_Fal._ Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast 115
to say otherwise.

_Host._ Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?

_Fal._ What beast! why, an otter.

_Prince._ An otter, Sir John! why an otter?

_Fal._ Why, she's neither fish nor flesh; a man knows 120
not where to have her.

_Host._ Thou art an unjust man in saying so: thou or[2839]
any man knows where to have me, thou knave, thou!

_Prince._ Thou sayest true, hostess; and he slanders
thee most grossly. 125

_Host._ So he doth you, my lord; and said this other
day you ought him a thousand pound.[2840]

_Prince._ Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound?

_Fal._ A thousand pound, Hal! a million: thy love is
worth a million: thou owest me thy love. 130

_Host._ Nay, my lord, he called you Jack, and said he
would cudgel you.

_Fal._ Did I, Bardolph?

_Bard._ Indeed, Sir John, you said so.

_Fal._ Yea, if he said my ring was copper. 135

_Prince._ I say 'tis copper: darest thou be as good as
thy word now?

_Fal._ Why, Hal, thou knowest, as thou art but man, I[2841]
dare: but as thou art prince, I fear thee as I fear the roaring[2842]
of the lion's whelp. 140

_Prince._ And why not as the lion?

_Fal._ The king himself is to be feared as the lion: dost
thou think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father? nay, an I do,[2843]
I pray God my girdle break.[2844]

_Prince._ O, if it should, how would thy guts fall about 145
thy knees! But, sirrah, there's no room for faith, truth,
nor honesty in this bosom of thine; it is all filled up with[2845]
guts and midriff. Charge an honest woman with picking[2846]
thy pocket! why, thou whoreson, impudent, embossed
rascal, if there were anything in thy pocket but 150
tavern-reckonings, memorandums of bawdy-houses, and one poor
penny-worth of sugar-candy to make thee long-winded, if
thy pocket were enriched with any other injuries but
these, I am a villain: and yet you will stand to it; you will
not pocket up wrong: art thou not ashamed? 155

_Fal._ Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest in the state
of innocency Adam fell; and what should poor Jack Falstaff[2847]
do in the days of villany? Thou seest I have more
flesh than another man; and therefore more frailty. You
confess then, you picked my pocket? 160

_Prince._ It appears so by the story.

_Fal._ Hostess, I forgive thee: go, make ready breakfast;[2848]
love thy husband, look to thy servants, cherish thy[2848][2849]
guests: thou shalt find me tractable to any honest reason:[2848][2850]
thou seest I am pacified still. Nay, prithee, be gone.[2848][2851] 165
[_Exit Hostess._] Now, Hal, to the news at court: for the[2852]
robbery, lad, how is that answered?

_Prince._ O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel[2853][2854]
to thee: the money is paid back again.[2853]

_Fal._ O, I do not like that paying back; 'tis a double 170
labour.

_Prince._ I am good friends with my father, and may
do any thing.

_Fal._ Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou doest,
and do it with unwashed hands too. 175

_Bard._ Do, my lord.

_Prince._ I have procured thee, Jack, a charge of foot.

_Fal._ I would it had been of horse. Where shall I find
one that can steal well? O for a fine thief, of the age of[2855]
two and twenty or thereabouts! I am heinously[2856] 180
unprovided. Well, God be thanked for these rebels, they offend[2857]
none but the virtuous: I laud them, I praise them.

_Prince._ Bardolph!

_Bard._ My lord?

_Prince._ Go bear this letter to Lord John of Lancaster,[2858] 185
to my brother John; this to my Lord of Westmoreland.[2858][2859]
[_Exit Bardolph._] Go, Peto, to horse, to horse; for thou
and[2858][2860]
I have thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time. [_Exit
Peto._][2858][2861]
Jack, meet me to-morrow in the temple hall at two o'clock[2858]
in the afternoon.[2858][2862] 190
There shalt thou know thy charge; and there receive[2863]
Money and order for their furniture.[2863]
The land is burning; Percy stands on high;
And either we or they must lower lie. [_Exit._[2864]

_Fal._ Rare words! brave world! Hostess, my breakfast, come![2865] 195
O, I could wish this tavern were my drum! [_Exit._[2866]

FOOTNOTES:

[2590] SC. I. Bangor....] The Archdeacon of Bangor's house in Wales. Theobald. Wales. Pope.

Mortimer, and Glendower.] Lord Mortimer, Owen Glendower. Qq Ff.

[2591] Arranged as in Ff. As two lines, ending _down?... map._ in Qq.

[2592] As in Pope. As prose in Qq. As five lines, ending _is ... Hotspurre: ... you, ... sigh, ... heaven_ in Ff.

[2593] _oft_] _often_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2594] _cheek looks_] Qq. _cheekes looke_ Ff.

[2595] _sigh_] _sight_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[2596] _And ... spoke of._] As prose in Qq Ff. As two lines, the first ending _hears_, in Pope.

[2597] _oft_] Qq Ff. _often_ Pope.

[2598] _cannot blame him_] _blame him not_ Pope.

[2599] _Of.... coward_] Keightley would read as two lines, the first ending _frame_.

[2600] _and_] _know that_ Pope. _ay, and_ Capell.

[2601] _huge_] Q₁. The rest omit. _the_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2602] _Shaked_] _Shook_ Pope.

[2603] _Why ... born._] As prose in Qq Ff. As verse, the lines ending _don't ... cat ... born_, in Pope.

[2604] _Why_] om. Pope.

[2605] _but_] om. Pope.

[2606] _never_] _ne'er_ Pope.

[2607] _And I ... earth_] _I ... earth then_ Pope.

[2608] As in Qq. As two lines, the first ending _shooke_, in Ff.

[2609] _oft_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _of_ Q₄. _and_ Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.

[2610] _topples_] Qq (_toples_ Q₅ Q₆). _tombles_ F₁ F₂. _tumbles_ F₃ F₄.

[2611] _Steeples ... towers_] _High tow'rs and moss-grown steeples_ Pope.

[2612] _having_] _with_ Pope.

[2613] _crossings_] _crossing_ Q₃ Q₄.

[2614] _to_] _in_ Pope.

[2615] _common_] _commen_ Q₁.

[2616] _he_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _the_.

[2617] _Scotland, Wales_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _Scotland and Wales_. _Wales, or Scotland_ Pope.

[2618] _son_] _senne_ Q₇. _soone_ F₂.

[2619] _ways_] _way_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2620] _And_] _Or_ Pope.

[2621] As verse, the first line ending _Welsh_, in Qq Ff.

[2622] _there's_] _there is_ Pope.

[2623] _I'll_] _I will_ Staunton.

[2624] _cousin_] _brother_ Capell.

[2625] _you_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _thee_.

_cousin_] om. Pope.

[2626] _Why ... dead_] As one line in Qq. As prose in Ff.

[2627] _coz_] _coose_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _coosen_ Q₅ Q₆. The rest _cousin_.

[2628] _tell ... devil_] Printed in italics in Ff.

[2629] _Come ... chat_] As one line in Qq. As prose in Ff. As two lines, the first _Come, come,_ in Pope.

[2630] _banks_] _banke_ Q₈.

[2631] _sent_] _hent_ Q₅ F₁ F₂.

[2632] _sent him Bootless_] _sent Him bootless_ Pope.

[2633] _Bootless ... back_] _Bootless, and weather-beaten, home._ Capell.

[2634] _Home ... too_] As two lines, the first ending _boots_, in Ff.

[2635] _'scapes_] _'scaped_ Collier (Collier MS.).

_agues_] _ague_ S. Walker conj.

[2636] _Come ... right_] As two lines, the first ending _map_, in Ff.

[2637] _divided it_] _divided it already_ Hanmer. _divided it for us_ Keightley conj.

[2638] _coz_] _brother_ Capell.

[2639] _drawn_] _drawing_ Theobald conj.

[2640] _cousin_] _brother_ Capell.

[2641] [to Gle. Capell.

[2642] _For_] _Or_ S. Walker conj.

[2643] _moiety_] _portion_ Hanmer.

[2644] _cranking_] _crankling_ Pope.

[2645] _monstrous_] _mostrous_ Q₅. _monstorous_ Q₈.

_cantle_] Ff. _scantle_ Qq.

[2646] _damm'd_] _damnd_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₆. _damd_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _damn'd_ Ff. _dam'd_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2647] Arranged as in Capell. As prose in Qq. As four lines, ending _course, ... side, ... much, ... you_, in Ff.

[2648] _Yea, but Mark how he_] _But mark he_ Pope. _Yea, But mark how he_ Steevens. _Yea but mark How he_ Malone.

[2649] _And then_] _Then_ Hanmer.

_runs_] _runs me_ Staunton conj. _runs on_ Keightley conj. _runneth_ Anon. conj.

_straight and even_] _straightly and evenly_ Capell. _all straight and evenly_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[2650] _I'll_] _I will_ Pope.

[2651] _Let ... Welsh_] As one line in Qq. As prose in Ff. As verse, the first line ending _then_, in Pope.

[2652] _you_] om. Steevens conj.

[2653] _but_] om. Pope.

[2654] _Marry, And I am glad of it_] Dyce (S. Walker conj.). _Marry, and I am glad of it_ Qq Ff. _Marry, I'm glad of it_ Pope. _Marry and I'm glad of it_ Theobald. _Marry, and I'm glad on't_ Capell.

[2655] _metre_] _miter_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. _meeter_ Ff. _meter_ Q₈.

_ballad-_] Ff. _ballet_ Q₁. The rest _ballet-_.

[2656] _canstick_] Qq. _candlestick_ Ff.

_turn'd_] _tun'd_ F₄.

[2657] _set my teeth nothing on_] Q₃ Q₄. _set my teeth nothing an_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ Q₈. _set my teeth on_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _nothing set my teeth on_ Pope.

[2658] _I do ... friend;_] _I do not care: To any well-deserving friend I'll give Thrice so much land._ Capell conj.

[2659] _To any_] _As that to any_ Hanmer. _To any worthy_ S. Walker conj.

[2660] As two lines, the first ending _faire,_ in Ff.

[2661] _I'll haste_] _I will go haste_ Hanmer. _I'll in and haste_ Rann (Steevens conj.).

_I'll ... writer_] _I'll ... writer forward_ Capell.

[2662] _withal Break with your_] _withal I'll break With your young_ Collier MS.

[2663] SCENE II. Pope.

_cousin_] _brother_ Capell.

[2664] _sometime_] _sometimes_ Q₈.

[2665] _me_] om. Pope.

_of_] _of of_ Q₄ Q₅.

[2666] _the_] om. Pope.

[2667] _moulten_] _molten_ Q₁. _moulting_ Pope.

[2668] _lion_] _leon_ Q₁.

_and_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2669] _last_] _the last_ Pope. _but last_ Steevens (1793). _yester_ Anon. conj.

_least_] _the least_ Capell.

[2670] As two lines, the first ending _lacqueyes:_ in Ff.

_go to_] om. Pope.

[2671] _he is_] _he's_ Pope.

[2672] _As ... horse, a_] _As a tyred horse, a_ QqFf. _As a tir'd horse, or as a_ Pope. _As is a tired horse, a_ Capell.

[2673] _he is_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _he was_.

_a worthy_] _an honest_ F₃ F₄.

[2674] _Exceedingly_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _Exceeding_.

[2675] As four lines, ending _concealments: ... affable, ... India ... cousin,_ in Ff.

[2676] _and as_] _as_ Pope.

[2677] _cousin_] _brother_ Capell.

[2678] _curbs_] _cubs_ Q₇.

[2679] _come 'cross_] _come crosse_ Qq. _doe crosse_ F₁ F₂. _do crosse_ F₃. _do cross_ F₄.

[2680] _my lord ... wilful-blame_] _my wilful lord, you are to blame_ Collier (Collier MS.).

_too wilful-blame_] Theobald. _too willful blame_ Qq Ff. _too wilful-blunt_ or _too wilful-bent_ or _to blame, too wilful_ Johnson conj. _to wilful-blame_ Steevens conj. _too wilful-blameable_ Keightley conj.

[2681] _beside_] Q₂. The rest _besides_.

[2682] _show_] _shews_ Pope.

[2683] _nobleman_] _noble man_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₂.

[2684] _Loseth_] _Looseth_ Q₁.

[2685] _parts_] _his parts_ Long MS.

_besides_] _beside_ Capell conj.

[2686] _be_] _by_ Q₇ Q₈.

As two lines, the first ending _school'd,_ in Ff.

[2687] _our_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _your_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Ff.

_leave_] _leaves_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

Re-enter....] Enter.... Qq Ff.

[2688] SCENE III. Pope.

[2689] _she will_] Pope. The rest _shee'le_ or _sheele_ or _she'll_.

[2690] _that_] om. Pope.

_aunt_] _sister_ Capell.

[2691] [Glendower....] Qq Ff.

_her in_] _him in_ F₂. _her_ F₃ F₄.

[2692] _She is_] _She's_ Pope, reading as verse.

[2693] _She is ...upon_] _She is ... here_ as one line; the rest as prose in Qq. As three lines, ending _heere: ... harlotry ... upon_, in Ff.

[2694] _one_] om. Pope. _and one_ Collier (Collier MS.), reading 196, 197 as three lines, ending _here ... one ... upon_.

_that_] om. Steevens (1793).

[2695] _pour'st_] _powrest_ Qq. _powr'st_ Ff.

_pour'st down_] _pour'st down too_ Capell. _down pourest_ Edd. conj.

_these_] _those too_ Pope.

_swelling_] _welling_ Singer (Collier MS.).

[2696] _should I_] _I_ Q₇. _I could_ Q₈.

_speaks_] om. Qq Ff.

[2697] _feeling_] _feeble_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2698] _sweet_] _sweets_ Q₅ Q₆.

[2699] _Nay, if_] _Nay, an if_ Hanmer. _Nay, nay, if_ Keightley conj.

_you_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _thou_.

_then_] _why, then_ Steevens conj.

_run_] _e'en run_ Collier MS.

_mad_] _quite mad_ Capell.

[2700] _She ... down_] As one line in Qq. As two, the first ending _bids you_, in Ff.

_bids you on_] _bids you All on_ Pope. _bids you Upon_ Steevens.

_wanton_] om. Capell.

[2701] _'twixt_] _twixt_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _betwixt_.

[2702] _Begins his_] _Begin their_ Capell conj.

[2703] _And those_] _And tho' th'_ Hanmer (Warburton). _An those_ Rann conj.

[2704] _hence_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₈. The rest _thence_.

[2705] _And straight_] _Yet straight_ Rowe.

_attend_] _attent_ Q₆.

[2706] As verse, the first line ending _downe:_ in Qq Ff. First as prose by Pope.

[2707] [The music plays.] Qq Ff. Glendower mutters some Incantations in Welsh and a Musick plays. Capell.

[2708] As six lines, ending _Welsh, ... humorous, ... musition ... musicall, ... humors, ... Welsh,_ in Qq Ff. First as prose by Pope.

[2709] _should_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _would_.

[2710] _governed_] om. Q₇ Q₈.

[2711] _hear Lady, my_] _heare lady my_ Q₁. _heare, lady, my_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₇ Q₈. _heare Lady, my_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ (_Lady_ in italics), _heare (Lady) my_ Ff.

_brach_] _breech_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2712] _thou_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.

[2713] _Kate_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.

[2714] _Not ... day,'_] As prose in Qq. As four lines, ending _sooth?... wife: ... live; ... day:_ in Ff. Pope prints as prose to _Finsbury_ (253).

[2715] _Heart_] om. Ff.

[2716] _like_] _like to_ Collier MS.

_you_] _yours_ Collier (Collier MS).

[2717] _and 'as_] _as_ Collier MS.

[2718] _As if_] _As_ Steevens conj.

_walk'st_] _walk'dst_ Pope.

_further_] _fur'_ S. Walker conj.

[2719] _protest_] _protests_ Hanmer.

[2720] _red-breast_] _Robin-Red-Breast_ Pope.

[2721] _An_] Capell. _and_ Qq Ff. _if_ Pope.

[2722] _ye_] _you_ Q₈.

[2723] _Come, come_] _Come on_ Collier MS.

_as slow_] _slow_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2724] _hot Lord_] Ff. _Hot. Lord_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _Hot, Lord_ Q₄. Hot Lord Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈ (_Hot_ in italics).

[2725] _By ... immediately_] As in Qq Ff.

_book is_] _book's_ Steevens.

_we'll_] _we will_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_we'll ... to_] _we'll seal and then To_ Capell. _we'll but seal and then To_ Malone, _we'll seal and part To_ Collier (Collier MS.). _we'll but seal, then start_ Keightley conj.

[2726] SCENE II.] SCENE IV. Pope.

London.] Capell. Windsor. Pope.

The palace.] A room in the Palace. Capell.

[2727] _Lords, ... hand_] As four lines in Ff.

[2728] _at hand_] om. Pope.

[2729] _God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.

[2730] _thy_] Q₁ Ff. The rest _the_.

[2731] _bare_] _base_ Rowe.

_attempts_] _attaints_ Hanmer.

[2732] _to_] Qq. _too_ Ff.

[2733] _would_] _wish_ Pope.

[2734] _in_] _on_] Johnson conj.

[2735] _God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.

_God ... Harry_] As two lines in Ff.

[2736] _do_] _does_ Rowe. _doth_ Anon. conj.

[2737] _By_] _But_ Warburton.

[2738] _the presence_] _presence_ Q₂.

[2739] _did I_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _I did_.

[2740] _wan_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _wanne_ Q₇ Q₈. _wonne_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _won_ F₄.

[2741] _bavin_] _braine_ Dering MS. _baven_ Hanmer.

[2742] _carded his_] _‘scarded his_ Hanmer (Warburton). _discarded his_ Heath conj. _discarded_ Collier MS. _candled his_ Jackson conj.

[2743] _capering_] _capring_ Q₁. The rest _carping. catering_ Jackson conj.

[2744] _at_] _with_ Hanmer.

[2745] _Enfeoff’d_] Ff. _Enfeoft_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Enforc’t_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2746] _They ... loathe_] Arranged as in Pope. As one line in Qq Ff.

[2747] _sweetness_] _sweets_ Capell.

_a little_] _little_ Pope. _a little pleases_ Long MS.

[2748] _Afford_] _Offer'd_ Heath conj.

[2749] _But_] _They_ Hanmer.

[2750] _render'd_] _rendring_ Q₈.

[2751] _use_] _do_ Capell conj.

_to_] Q₁ Q₂. _to doe to_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ Q₈. _to do_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2752] _standest_] Qq Ff (_stanedst_ Q₄). _stand'st_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2753] _that_] _what_ Pope.

_Do_] _done_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2754] _myself._] _myself than I--_ Seymour conj.

_For_] _Harry, for_ Hanmer.

[2755] _to_] _at_ Pope.

[2756] _foot at_] _forth at_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _forth to_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2757] _to_] _in_ Mason conj.

[2758] _thou the_] Q₁. The rest _thou, the_.

[2759] _reverend_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _reverent_.

[2760] _renowned_] _renowmed_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃.

[2761] _soldiers_] _souldiours,_ Q₂. _souldier:_ Q₃.

[2762] _this_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _the_.

_Hotspur, Mars_] Warburton. _Hotspur Mars_ Qq. _Hotspur Mars,_ Ff.

_swathling_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _swathing_.

[2763] _him once_] _his son_ Theobald conj.

[2764] _deep_] _the deep_ F₂.

[2765] _Mortimer_] _and Mortimer_ Rowe.

[2766] _near’st_] Q₅ Q₆ Ff. The rest _nearest_ or _neerest_.

_near'st and_] _nearest,_ Anon. conj.

[2767] _Thou that_] _That thou_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _Thou_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2768] _thou art degenerate_] _degenerate thou art._ Reed (1803).

[2769] _God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.

_so much have_] _have so much_ Reed (1803).

[2770] _stain_] _hide_ Capell conj.

_favours_] _favour_ Hanmer. _features_ Capell conj.

[2771] _sitting_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₇ Q₈ F₂ F₃ F₄. _fitting_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁.

[2772] _on_] _one_ Q₆.

[2773] _shames_] _shame_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2774] _up_] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. The rest _my_.

[2775] _his_] _the_ Mason conj.

[2776] _God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.

[2777] _if ... perform,_] Qq (_performe:_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _performe._ Q₇ Q₈). _if I performe, and doe survive,_ F₁. _if I promise, and doe survive,_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _if I perform't and do survive,_ Hanmer. _my promise if I do survive_ Long MS.

_perform_] _perform it_ Keightley conj.

[2778] _intemperance_] Qq. _intemperature_ Ff.

[2779] _bands_] _bonds_ Rowe.

[2780] _a_] _an_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

_thousand_] _thousands_ Q₄ Q₆.

[2781] Enter Blunt.] Ff. Qq place it after line 162.

[2782] _Blunt? thy_] _blunt thy_ Q₁.

[2783] _hath_] _is_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2784] _forth_] _fourth_ Q₆.

[2785] _Harry_] _son Harry_ Capell.

_you shall_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _thou shalt_.

[2786] _On ... account_] Arranged as by Steevens. See note (XV).

[2787] _Is_] _Is at_ Pope.

[2788] _account ... valued_] Omitted by Pope.

[2789] _him_] _them_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

_men_] _we_ Pope (ed. 2).

[2790] SCENE III.] SCENE V. Pope.

Eastcheap....] A Tavern in East-cheap. Pope.

[2791] _An_] Pope. _And_ Qq Ff.

[2792] _make_] _to make_ Mason conj.

[2793] _to a_] _to_ Q₆ Q₇.

[2794] _quarter--_] Hanmer. _quarter_ Qq Ff.

[2795] _all compass_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _compass_.

[2796] _my_] _thy_ F₁ F₂.

[2797] _thou bearest_] _that bears_ Bubier conj.

_in_] _not in_ Theobald conj.

[2798] _Knight_] _King_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2799] _harm_] _harmee_ Q₇.

[2800] _burning, burning_] _burning_ F₃ F₄.

[2801] _given_] _give_ Q₈.

[2802] _that's ... angel_] _that ... angel_ Q₁ Q₂. Omitted in Ff.

[2803] _son_] Q₄. _sonne_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _sunne_ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂ Q₈. _sun_ F₃ F₄.

[2804] _rannest_] _runst_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

_Gadshill_] _Gads-Head_ F₂.

[2805] _thou_] Q₁ Q₂ F₃ F₄. The rest _that thou_.

[2806] _an_] _and_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2807] _at_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _as_ Q₅ Q₆ Ff. _of_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2808] _yours_] _thine_ Hanmer.

[2809] _God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.

[2810] _'Sblood_] om. Ff.

[2811] _God-a-mercy_] om. Ff.

_sure to be_] om. Q₇ Q₈.

[2812] Enter Hostess.] Enter Hotspurre F₂.

[2813] _tithe_] Theobald. _tight_ Qq Ff.

[2814] _a hair_] _haires_ Q₈.

[2815] _woman_] _false woman_ Anon. conj.

[2816] _no_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest omit.

_God's light_] Omitted in Ff.

[2817] _they_] Qq. _and they_ Ff.

[2818] _eight shillings_] Ff. _viii. s._ Qq.

[2819] _by-drinkings_] Q₄ Q₅ Ff Q₇ Q₈. _bydrinkings_ Q₁. _by drinkings_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₆.

[2820] _four and twenty_] Ff. _xxiiii._ Qq.

[2821] _pound_] Qq. _pounds_ Ff.

[2822] _them ... them_] _him ... him_ F₃ F₄.

[2823] _O Jesu_] om. Ff.

[2824] _that that_] _that_ Q₈. _that the_ Pope.

[2825] _sneak-cup_] _sneak-cap_ Q₈.

_'sblood_] om. Ff.

[2826] _an_] Boswell. _and_ Qq. _and if_ Ff.

[2827] ... and Peto,] Theobald, om. Qq Ff. and Pointz, Steevens. See note (XVI).

them] Theobald. him Qq Ff.

[2828] _i' faith_] om. Ff.

[2829] As two lines in Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. the first ending _i' faith_.

[2830] _fashion._] Qq Ff. _fashion?_ Reed (1803).

[2831] _doth_] Q₁ Q₄. _doeth_ Q₂ Q₃. _dow_ Q₅ Q₆. _does_ Ff Q₇ Q₈.

[2832] _forty_] _a forty_ Capell (corrected in MS.).

_pound_] _pounds_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2833] _as_] om. F₂.

[2834] _in a_] Q₁ F₃ F₄. The rest _a_.

[2835] _drawn_] _train'd_ Theobald conj.

[2836] _thing_] Qq. _nothing_ Ff.

[2837] _God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.

[2838] _nothing_] Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ Q₈. The rest _nothing_.

[2839] _an_] om. F₁ F₂.

[2840] _ought_] Qq Ff. _ow'd_ Rowe.

[2841] _man_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _a man_.

[2842] _prince_] Qq. _a prince_ Ff.

[2843] _an_] Capell. _and_ Qq. _if_ Ff. _an if_ Steevens.

[2844] _I pray God_] Qq. _let_ Ff.

[2845] _all_] om. Reed, Collier, Delius.

[2846] _midriff_] _midriffes_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2847] _should_] _would_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2848] _Hostess ... gone_] As six lines in Ff.

[2849] _cherish_] Qq. _and cherish_ Ff.

[2850] _guests_] Ff. _ghesse_ Q₁. The rest _ghests_ or _ghestes_.

[2851] _pacified still._] Ff. _pacified still:_ Qq. _pacify'd,--still?--_ Hanmer.

_prithee_] _prethee_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _I prethee_.

[2852] [Exit....] Qq Ff. Exit Hostess weeping. Hanmer.

_court: for_] Theobald, _court for_ Qq Ff.

[2853] As three lines in Ff.

[2854] _beef_] _beoffe_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[2855] _the age of_] om. Ff.

[2856] _two and twenty_] _xxii._ Qq.

_thereabouts_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _thereabout_.

[2857] _God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.

[2858] _Go bear ... afternoon._] As prose by Pope. As six lines, ending _Lancaster ... Westmoreland ... and I ... time ... hall ... afternoon_, in Qq Ff.

[2859] _to my brother_] _My brother_ Capell.

[2860] [Exit Bardolph.] Dyce.

_Go,_] _go,--_ Johnson, om. Capell.

_Peto_] _Poins_ Steevens (Johnson conj.). See note (XVI).

_to horse, to horse_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _to horse_.

[2861] _yet_] om. Capell. See note (XVII).

[Exit Peto.] Edd. Exit Pointz. Dyce.

[2862] _afternoon_] _afternoon precisely_ Keightley conj.

[2863] _There ... furniture._] As in Qq Ff. As prose by Pope.

[2864] _we or they_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _they or we_.

[Exit.] Dyce. Exeunt Prince, Peto, and Bar. Capell.

[2865] _Rare ... come_]As two lines in Ff.

[2866] [Exit.] Capell. Exeunt. Qq. Exeunt omnes. Ff.