Chapter XXII: Act V

SCENE I. _Gloucestershire._ SHALLOW'S _house_.

_Enter_ SHALLOW, FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, _and_ PAGE.[4274]

_Shal._ By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away to-night.[4275]
What, Davy, I say!

_Fal._ You must excuse me, Master Robert Shallow.

_Shal._ I will not excuse you; you shall not be excused;
excuses shall not be admitted; there is no excuse shall serve; 5
you shall not be excused. Why, Davy!

_Enter_ DAVY.

_Davy._ Here, sir.

_Shal._ Davy, Davy, Davy, Davy, let me see, Davy; let[4276]
me see, Davy; let me see: yea, marry, William cook, bid[4277]
him come hither. Sir John, you shall not be excused. 10

_Davy._ Marry, sir, thus; those precepts cannot be served:
and, again, sir, shall we sow the headland with wheat?[4278]

_Shal._ With red wheat, Davy. But for William cook:
are there no young pigeons?

_Davy._ Yes, sir. Here is now the smith's note for
shoeing[4279][4280] 15
and plough-irons.[4280]

_Shal._ Let it be cast and paid. Sir John, you shall not
be excused.

_Davy._ Now, sir, a new link to the bucket must needs be[4281]
had: and, sir, do you mean to stop any of William's wages, 20
about the sack he lost the other day at Hinckley fair?[4282]

_Shal._ A' shall answer it. Some pigeons, Davy, a couple
of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any pretty little
tiny kickshaws, tell William cook.[4283]

_Davy._ Doth the man of war stay all night, sir? 25

_Shal._ Yea, Davy. I will use him well: a friend i' the[4284]
court is better than a penny in purse. Use his men well,
Davy; for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite.

_Davy._ No worse than they are backbitten, sir; for they[4285]
have marvellous foul linen.[4286] 30

_Shal._ Well conceited, Davy: about thy business, Davy.

_Davy._ I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor
of Woncot against Clement Perkes of the hill.[4287]

_Shal._ There is many complaints, Davy, against that[4288]
Visor: that Visor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge. 35

_Davy._ I grant your worship that he is a knave, sir; but
yet, God forbid, sir, but a knave should have some countenance[4289]
at his friend's request. An honest man, sir, is able to
speak for himself, when a knave is not. I have served your
worship truly, sir, this eight years; and if I cannot once[4290] 40
or twice in a quarter bear out a knave against an honest
man, I have but a very little credit with your worship.[4291]
The knave is mine honest friend, sir; therefore, I beseech
your worship, let him be countenanced.[4292]

_Shal._ Go to; I say he shall have no wrong. Look[4293] 45
about, Davy. [_Exit Davy_] Where are you, Sir John?[4293][4294]
Come, come, come, off with your boots. Give me your[4293][4295]
hand, Master Bardolph.[4293]

_Bard._ I am glad to see your worship.

_Shal._ I thank thee with all my heart, kind Master[4296] 50
Bardolph: and welcome, my tall fellow [_to the Page._][4297]
Come, Sir John.

_Fal._ I'll follow you, good Master Robert Shallow. [_Exit[4298]
Shallow._] Bardolph, look to our horses. [_Exeunt Bardolph[4298][4299]
and Page._] If I were sawed into quantities, I should make[4299] 55
four dozen of such bearded hermits' staves as Master Shallow.[4300]
It is a wonderful thing to see the sembable coherence of
his men's spirits and his: they, by observing of him, do bear[4301]
themselves like foolish justices; he, by conversing with them,
is turned into a justice-like serving-man: their spirits are so 60
married in conjunction with the participation of society that
they flock together in consent, like so many wild-geese. If I[4302]
had a suit to Master Shallow, I would humour his men with
the imputation of being near their master: if to his men, I
would curry with Master Shallow that no man could better 65
command his servants. It is certain that either wise bearing
or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of
another: therefore let men take heed of their company. I
will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince
Harry in continual laughter the wearing out of six fashions,[4303] 70
which is four terms, or two actions, and a' shall laugh[4304]
without intervallums. O, it is much that a lie with a slight[4305]
oath and a jest with a sad brow will do with a fellow that
never had the ache in his shoulders! O, you shall see
him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up! 75

_Shal._ [_Within_] Sir John![4306]

_Fal._ I come, Master Shallow; I come, Master Shallow.

[_Exit._[4307]

SCENE II. _Westminster. The palace._

_Enter_ WARWICK _and the_ LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, _meeting_.[4308]

_War._ How now, my lord chief justice! whither away?[4309]

_Ch. Just._ How doth the king?

_War._ Exceeding well; his cares are now all ended.[4310]

_Ch. Just._ I hope, not dead.

_War._ He's walk'd the way of nature;
And to our purposes he lives no more. 5

_Ch. Just._ I would his majesty had call'd me with him:
The service that I truly did his life
Hath left me open to all injuries.

_War._ Indeed I think the young king loves you not.

_Ch. Just._ I know he doth not, and do arm myself 10
To welcome the condition of the time,
Which cannot look more hideously upon me[4311]
Than I have drawn it in my fantasy.

_Enter_ LANCASTER, CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, WESTMORELAND,
_and others_.[4312]

_War._ Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry:
O that the living Harry had the temper 15
Of him, the worst of these three gentlemen![4313]
How many nobles then should hold their places,
That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!

_Ch. Just._ O God, I fear all will be overturn'd![4314]

_Lan._ Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.[4315] 20

_Glou._ } Good morrow, cousin.[4316]
_Clar._ }

_Lan._ We meet like men that had forgot to speak.

_War._ We do remember; but our argument
Is all too heavy to admit much talk.

_Lan._ Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy! 25

_Ch. Just._ Peace be with us, lest we be heavier!

_Glou._ O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed;[4317]
And I dare swear you borrow not that face
Of sceming sorrow, it is sure your own.

_Lan._ Though no man be assured what grace to find, 30
You stand in coldest expectation:
I am the sorrier; would 'twere otherwise.

_Clar._ Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair;
Which swims against your stream of quality.

_Ch. Just._ Sweet princes, what I did, I did in honour, 35
Led by the impartial conduct of my soul;[4318]
And never shall you see that I will beg
A ragged and forestall'd remission.[4319][4320]
If truth and upright innocency fail me,[4320][4321]
I'll to the king my master that is dead, 40
And tell him who hath sent me after him.

_War._ Here comes the prince.

_Enter_ KING HENRY _the fifth, attended_.[4322]

_Ch. Just._ Good morrow; and God save your majesty![4323]

_King._ This new and gorgeous garment, majesty,[4324]
Sits not so easy on me as you think. 45
Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear:[4325]
This is the English, not the Turkish court;
Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,[4326]
But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,
For, by my faith, it very well becomes you:[4327] 50
Sorrow so royally in you appears
That I will deeply put the fashion on
And wear it in my heart: why then, be sad;
But entertain no more of it, good brothers,
Than a joint burden laid upon us all. 55
For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured,
I'll be your father and your brother too;
Let me but bear your love. I'll bear your cares:
Yet weep that Harry's dead; and so will I;[4328]
But Harry lives, that shall convert those tears 60
By number into hours of happiness.

_Princes._ We hope no other from your majesty.[4329]

_King._ You all look strangely on me: and you most;[4330]
You are, I think, assured I love you not.

_Ch. Just._ I am assured, if I be measured rightly, 65
Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me.

_King._ No![4331]
How might a prince of my great hopes forget[4331]
So great indignities you laid upon me?[4332]
What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison 70
The immediate heir of England! Was this easy?
May this be wash'd in Lethe, and forgotten?[4333]

_Ch. Just._ I then did use the person of your father;
The image of his power lay then in me:
And, in the administration of his law, 75
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
Your highness pleased to forget my place,
The majesty and power of law and justice,
The image of the king whom I presented,
And struck me in my very seat of judgement; 80
Whereon, as an offender to your father,
I gave bold way to my authority,
And did commit you. If the deed were ill,[4334]
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,[4334]
To have a son set your decrees at nought,[4335] 85
To pluck down justice from your awful bench.[4335]
To trip the course of law and blunt the sword
That guards the peace and safety of your person;[4335]
Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image
And mock your workings in a second body.[4335] 90
Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;
Be now the father and propose a son,
Hear your own dignity so much profaned,
See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd; 95
And then imagine me taking your part[4336]
And in your power soft silencing your son:[4337]
After this cold considerance, sentence me;
And, as you are a king, speak in your state
What I have done that misbecame my place, 100
My person, or my liege's sovereignty.

_King._ You are right, justice, and you weigh this well;
Therefore still bear the balance and the sword:
And I do wish your honours may increase,
Till you do live to see a son of mine 105
Offend you, and obey you, as I did.
So shall I live to speak my father's words:
'Happy am I, that have a man so bold,
That dares do justice on my proper son;
And not less happy, having such a son,[4338] 110
That would deliver up his greatness so
Into the hands of justice.' You did commit me:[4339]
For which, I do commit into your hand
The unstained sword that you have used to bear;
With this remembrance, that you use the same 115
With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit
As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand.
You shall be as a father to my youth:
My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear,
And I will stoop and humble my intents 120
To your well-practised wise directions.
And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you;
My father is gone wild into his grave,[4340][4341]
For in his tomb lie my affections;[4340]
And with his spirit sadly I survive,[4342] 125
To mock the expectation of the world,
To frustrate prophecies and to raze out
Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down[4343]
After my seeming. The tide of blood in me[4344]
Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now: 130
Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea,
Where it shall mingle with the state of floods[4345]
And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
Now call we our high court of parliament:
And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel, 135
That the great body of our state may go
In equal rank with the best govern'd nation;
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us;
In which you, father, shall have foremost hand.[4346] 140
Our coronation done, we will accite,
As I before remember'd, all our state:
And, God consigning to my good intents,[4347]
No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say,
God shorten Harry's happy life one day! [_Exeunt._[4348] 145

SCENE III. _Gloucestershire._ SHALLOW'S _orchard_.

_Enter_ FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, SILENCE, DAVY, BARDOLPH, _and
the_ Page.[4349]

_Shal._ Nay, you shall see my orchard, where, in an[4350]
arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin of my own graffing,[4351]
with a dish of caraways, and so forth: come, cousin Silence:
and then to bed.

_Fal._ 'Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and[4352] 5
a rich.

_Shal._ Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all,
Sir John: marry, good air. Spread, Davy; spread, Davy:
well said, Davy.[4353]

_Fal._ This Davy serves you for good uses; he is your 10
serving-man and your husband.[4354]

_Shal._ A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet,
Sir John: by the mass, I have drunk too much sack at[4355]
supper: a good varlet. Now sit down, now sit down:
come, cousin. 15

_Sil._ Ah, sirrah! quoth-a, we shall[4356][4357]
+Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer,+[4357][4358][4359]
[_Singing._
+And praise God for the merry year;+[4358][4360]
+When flesh is cheap and females dear,+[4358][4361]
+And lusty lads roam here and there+[4358][4362] 20
+So merrily,+[4358][4363]
+And ever among so merrily.+[4358]

_Fal._ There's a merry heart! Good Master Silence,[4364]
I'll give you a health for that anon.[4365]

_Shal._ Give Master Bardolph some wine, Davy.[4366] 25

_Davy._ Sweet sir, sit; I'll be with you anon; most
sweet sir, sit. Master page, good master page, sit. Proface![4367]
What you want in meat, we'll have in drink: but[4368]
you must bear; the heart's all. [_Exit._[4369]

_Shal._ Be merry, Master Bardolph; and, my little 30
soldier there, be merry.

_Sil._ +Be merry, be merry, my wife has all;+[4359][4370][4371]
[_Singing._
+For women are shrews, both short and tall:+[4370]
+'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all,+[4370][4372]
+And welcome merry Shrove-tide.+[4370] 35
+Be merry, be merry.+[4370][4373]

_Fal._ I did not think Master Silence had been a man of
this mettle.[4374]

_Sil._ Who, I? I have been merry twice and once ere
now. 40

_Re-enter_ DAVY.[4375]

_Davy._ There's a dish of leather-coats for you.

[_To Bardolph._[4376]

_Shal._ Davy!

_Davy._ Your worship! I'll be with you straight [_to[4377]
Bardolph._] A cup of wine, sir?[4377]

_Sil._ +A cup of wine that's brisk and fine,+[4359][4378]
[_Singing._ 45
+And drink unto the leman mine;+[4378]
+And a merry heart lives long-a.+[4378]

_Fal._ Well said, Master Silence.

_Sil._ An we shall be merry, now comes in the sweet[4379][4380]
o' the night.[4380][4381] 50

_Fal._ Health and long life to you, Master Silence.

_Sil._ +Fill the cup, and let it come;+[4382][4383] [_Singing._
+I'll pledge you a mile to the bottom.+[4382][4384]

_Shal._ Honest Bardolph, welcome: if thou wantest any
thing, and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart. Welcome, my 55
little tiny thief [_to the Page_], and welcome indeed too. I'll[4385]
drink to Master Bardolph, and to all the cavaleros about[4386]
London.

_Davy._ I hope to see London once ere I die.[4387]

_Bard._ An I might see you there, Davy,--[4388] 60

_Shal._ By the mass, you'll crack a quart together, ha![4389]
will you not, Master Bardolph?

_Bard._ Yea, sir, in a pottle-pot.[4390]

_Shal._ By God's liggens, I thank thee: the knave will[4391]
stick by thee, I can assure thee that. A' will not out;
he[4392][4393] 65
is true bred.[4393]

_Bard._ And I'll stick by him, sir.

_Shal._ Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing: be
merry. [_Knocking within._] Look who's at door there, ho![4394]
who knocks? [_Exit Davy._[4395] 70

_Fal._ Why, now you have done me right.[4396]

[_To Silence, seeing him take off a bumper._

_Sil._ +Do me right.+[4397][4398] [_Singing._
+And dub me knight:+[4397]
+Samingo.+[4397]
Is't not so? 75

_Fal._ 'Tis so.

_Sil._ Is't so? Why then, say an old man can do somewhat.[4399]

_Re-enter_ DAVY.[4400]

_Davy._ An't please your worship, there's one Pistol[4401]
come from the court with news. 80

_Fal._ From the court! let him come in.

_Enter_ PISTOL.[4402]

How now, Pistol![4403]

_Pist._ Sir John, God save you![4404]

_Fal._ What wind blew you hither, Pistol?

_Pist._ Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.[4405] 85
Sweet knight, thou art now one of the greatest men in
this realm.[4406]

_Sil._ By'r lady, I think a' be, but goodman Puff of[4407]
Barson.[4408]

_Pist._ Puff! 90
Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base![4409]
Sir John, I am thy Pistol and thy friend,[4409]
And helter-skelter have I rode to thee,[4409][4410]
And tidings do I bring and lucky joys[4409]
And golden times and happy news of price.[4409] 95

_Fal._ I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this[4411]
world.

_Pist._ A foutre for the world and worldlings base![4412][4413]
I speak of Africa and golden joys.[4413]

_Fal._ O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news?[4413] 100
Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof.[4413][4414]

_Sil._ +And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John.+[4413][4415] [_Singing._

_Pist._ Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons?[4413]
And shall good news be baffled?[4413]
Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Furies' lap.[4413][4416] 105

_Shal._ Honest gentleman, I know not your breeding.[4417]

_Pist._ Why then, lament therefore.

_Shal._ Give me pardon, sir: if, sir, you come with news[4418]
from the court, I take it there's but two ways, either to[4419]
utter them, or to conceal them. I am, sir, under the king,[4420] 110
in some authority.

_Pist._ Under which king, Besonian? speak, or die.[4421]

_Shal._ Under King Harry.

_Pist._ Harry the fourth? or fifth?

_Shal._ Harry the fourth.

_Pist._ A foutre for thine office![4422]
Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king;[4423] 115
Harry the fifth's the man. I speak the truth:[4423]
When Pistol lies, do this; and fig me, like[4423]
The bragging Spaniard.[4423]

_Fal._ What, is the old king dead?

_Pist._ As nail in door: the things I speak are just.[4424] 120

_Fal._ Away, Bardolph! saddle my horse. Master[4425]
Robert Shallow, choose what office thou wilt in the land,[4425]
'tis thine. Pistol, I will double-charge thee with dignities.[4425]

_Bard._ O joyful day!
I would not take a knighthood for my fortune.[4426] 125

_Pist._ What! I do bring good news.[4427]

_Fal._ Carry Master 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. O sweet[4428]
Pistol! Away, Bardolph! [_Exit Bard._] Come, Pistol, utter[4429] 130
more to me; and withal devise something to do thyself
good. Boot, boot, Master Shallow: I know the young[4430]
king is sick for me. Let us take any man's horses; the
laws of England are at my commandment. Blessed are[4431]
they that have been my friends; and woe to my lord
chief-justice![4431][4432] 135

_Pist._ Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also!
'Where is the life that late I led?' say they:[4433]
Why, here it is; welcome these pleasant days! [_Exeunt._[4434]

SCENE IV. _London. A street._

_Enter_ Beadles, _dragging in_ HOSTESS QUICKLY _and_ DOLL
TEARSHEET.[4435]

_Host._ No, thou arrant knave; I would to God that I[4436]
might die, that I might have thee hanged: thou hast drawn
my shoulder out of joint.

_First Bead._ The constables have delivered her over to[4437]
me; and she shall have whipping-cheer enough, I warrant[4438] 5
her: there hath been a man or two lately killed about her.[4439]

_Dol._ Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie. Come on; I'll tell[4440]
thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal, an the child[4441]
I now go with do miscarry, thou wert better thou hadst[4442]
struck thy mother, thou paper-faced villain. 10

_Host._ O the Lord, that Sir John were come! he would[4443]
make this a bloody day to somebody. But I pray God the[4444]
fruit of her womb miscarry![4445]

_First Bead._ If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions
again; you have but eleven now. Come, I charge you both 15
go with me; for the man is dead that you and Pistol beat
amongst you.[4446]

_Dol._ I'll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I[4447]
will have you as soundly swinged for this,--you blue-bottle[4448]
rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not 20
swinged, I'll forswear half-kirtles.

_First Bead._ Come, come, you she knight-errant, come.[4449]

_Host._ O God, that right should thus overcome might![4450]
Well, of sufferance comes ease.

_Dol._ Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a justice. 25

_Host._ Ay, come, you starved blood-hound.[4451]

_Dol._ Goodman death, goodman bones!

_Host._ Thou atomy, thou![4452]

_Dol._ Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal.

_First Bead._ Very well. [_Exeunt._ 30

SCENE V. _A public place near Westminster Abbey._

_Enter two_ Grooms, _strewing rushes_.[4453]

_First Groom._ More rushes, more rushes.[4454]

_Sec. Groom._ The trumpets have sounded twice.

_First Groom._ 'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from[4455]
the coronation: dispatch, dispatch. [_Exeunt._

_Enter_ FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH _and_ Page.[4456]

_Fal._ Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow; I will[4457] 5
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.

_Pist._ God bless thy lungs, good knight.[4458]

_Fal._ Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. O, if I had 10
had time to have made new liveries, I would have bestowed
the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But 'tis no matter;[4459]
this poor show doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had
to see him.

_Shal._ It doth so.[4460] 15

_Fal._ It shows my earnestness of affection,--[4461]

_Shal._ It doth so.[4462]

_Fal._ My devotion,--

_Shal._ It doth, it doth, it doth.[4462]

_Fal._ As it were, to ride day and night; and not to 20
deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to shift
me,--

_Shal._ It is best, certain.[4463]

_Fal._ But to stand stained with travel, and sweating[4464]
with desire to see him; thinking of nothing else, putting[4464] 25
all affairs else in oblivion, as if there were nothing else
to[4464][4465]
be done but to see him.[4464]

_Pist._ 'Tis 'semper idem,' for 'obsque hoc nihil est:'[4466]
'tis all in every part.[4467]

_Shal._ 'Tis so, indeed. 30

_Pist._ My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,[4468]
And make thee rage.[4468]
Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,[4468][4469]
Is in base durance and contagious prison;[4468][4469]
Haled thither[4468][4469][4470] 35
By most mechanical and dirty hand:[4468][4469][4471]
Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto's snake,[4468][4469]
For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.[4468][4469]

_Fal._ I will deliver her.

[_Shouts within, and the trumpets sound._[4472]

_Pist._ There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds. 40

_Enter the_ KING _and his train, the_ LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE _among
them_.[4473]

_Fal._ God save thy grace, King Hal! my royal Hal![4474][4475]

_Pist._ The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal
imp of fame!

_Fal._ God save thee, my sweet boy![4475]

_King._ My lord chief-justice, speak to that vain man. 45

_Ch. Just._ Have you your wits? know you what 'tis you speak?[4476]

_Fal._ My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!

_King._ I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester![4477]
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,[4478] 50
So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane;
But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.[4479]
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men. 55
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest:
Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,[4480]
That I have turn'd away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company. 60
When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,
The tutor and the feeder of my riots:
Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death,
As I have done the rest of my misleaders, 65
Not to come near our person by ten mile.[4481]
For competence of life I will allow you,
That lack of means enforce you not to evil:[4482]
And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,[4483]
We will, according to your strengths and qualities,[4484] 70
Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,[4485]
To see perform'd the tenour of our word.[4486][4487]
Set on.[4486] [_Exeunt King, &c._[4488]

_Fal._ Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.[4489]

_Shal._ Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to[4490] 75
let me have home with me.

_Fal._ That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not
you grieve at this; I shall be sent for in private to him:
look you, he must seem thus to the world: fear not your
advancements; I will be the man yet that shall make you[4491] 80
great.

_Shal._ I cannot well perceive how, unless you should[4492]
give me your doublet, and stuff me out with straw. I beseech
you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred of my
thousand. 85

_Fal._ Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you
heard was but a colour.

_Shal._ A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John.[4493]

_Fal._ Fear no colours: go with me to dinner: come,[4494]
Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph: I shall be sent for soon[4494] 90
at night.[4494]

_Re-enter_ PRINCE JOHN, _the_ LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE; Officers _with
them_.[4495]

_Ch. Just._ Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet:
Take all his company along with him.

_Fal._ My lord, my lord,--

_Ch. Just._ I cannot now speak: I will hear you soon. 95
Take them away.

_Pist._ Si fortuna me tormenta, spero contenta.

[_Exeunt all but Prince John and the Chief-Justice._[4496]

_Lan._ I like this fair proceeding of the king's:
He hath intent his wonted followers
Shall all be very well provided for;[4497] 100
But all are banish'd till their conversations[4497]
Appear more wise and modest to the world.[4498]

_Ch. Just._ And so they are.

_Lan._ The king hath call'd his parliament, my lord.

_Ch. Just._ He hath. 105

_Lan._ I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,
We bear our civil swords and native fire
As far as France: I heard a bird so sing,[4499]
Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
Come, will you hence? [_Exeunt._ 110

FOOTNOTES:

[4274] Gloucestershire ... house.] Glostershire. Pope. Shallow's Seat in Glostershire. Theobald.

Enter ...] Enter Shallow, Falstaffe, and Bardolfe. Q. Enter Shallow, Silence, Falslaffe, Bardolfe, Page, and Davy. Ff.

[4275] _sir_] Q. om. Ff.

[4276] _Davy_] Four times in Q; thrice in Ff.

[4277] _yea, marry_] Q. om. Ff.

[4278] _headland_] _hade land_ Q.

[4279] _Yes_] QF₁. _Yee_ F₂. _Yea_ F₃ F₄.

[4280] As three lines in Ff.

[4281] _Now_] Q. om. Ff.

[4282] _the other day_] Ff. Omitted in Q.

_Hinckley_] _Hunckly_ Q.

[4283] _tiny_] _tinie_ Q. _tine_ Ff.

[4284] _Yea_] Q. _Yes_ Ff.

[4285] _backbitten_] Q. _bitten_ Ff.

[4286] _marvellous_] _maruailes_ Q.

[4287] _Woncot_] Ff. _Wencote_ Q. _Wancot_ Johnson. _Wincot_ Reed (1803). _Wilnecot_ Collier conj.

[4288] _is_] Q. are Ff.

[4289] _God_] Q. _heaven_ Ff.

[4290] _this_ Q. _these_ Ff.

_and if_] Ff. _and_ Q.

[4291] _but a very little_] Ff. _litle_ Q. _but very little_ Pope.

[4292] _your worship_] Ff. _you_ Q.

[4293] _I say ... Bardolph_] Printed as three lines in Ff.

[4294] [Exit Davy.] Capell. om. QFf.

[4295] _Come, come, come,_] Q. _Come,_ Ff.

[4296] _all_] om. Q.

[4297] [to the Page] Rowe. om. Q Ff.

[4298] [Exit Shallow.] Capell. Exeunt Shallow, Silence, &c. Theobald, om. QFf.

[4299] [Exeunt Bardolph ...] Capell. om. QFf.

[4300] _hermits' staves_] _hermit-staves_ Capell.

[4301] _of him_] Ff. _him_ Q.

[4302] _consent_] _concent_ Malone.

[4303] _Harry_] QFf. _Henry_ Rowe.

[4304] _a'_] _a_ Q. _he_ Ff.

[4305] _without_] Q. _with_ Ff.

[4306] [Within] Theobald. om. QFf.

[4307] [Exit.] Exit Falstaff. Theobald. Exeunt. Ff. om. Q.

[4308] SCENE II. Westminster. The Palace.] Westminster. A room in the Palace. Capell. London. Pope. The Court in London. Theobald.

Enter ...] Capell. Enter the Earle of Warwicke, and the Lord Chiefe Iustice. Ff. Enter Warwike, duke Humphrey, L. chiefe Iustice, Thomas Clarence, Prince Iohn, Westmerland. Q.

[4309] _whither_] _whether_ F₁.

[4310] _Exceeding ... ended_] As in Q. As two lines in Ff, the first ending _cares_.

[4311] _upon_] _on_ Pope.

[4312] Enter ...] Enter Iohn of Lancaster, Gloucester, and Clarence. Ff. Enter Iohn, Thomas, and Humphrey. Q.

Westmoreland, and others] Capell.

[4313] _him_] Ff. _he_ Q.

[4314] _O God_] Q. _Alas_ Ff.

[4315] _Warwick, good morrow_] _Warick_ Pope.

[4316] Glo. Cla.] Glou. Clar. Ff. Prin. ambo. Q.

[4317] _you have_] _you've_ Pope.

[4318] _impartial_] Q. _imperiall_ Ff.

[4319] _A ragged and forestall'd_] (_Arraigned and forestall'd_) Becket conj.

_ragged_] _rated_ Warburton.

[4320] _remission. If ... me,_] Ff. _remission, If ... me._ Q.

[4321] _truth_] Q. _troth_ Ff.

[4322] Enter ...] Enter the new King, attended. Capell. Enter the Prince, and Blunt. Q. Enter Prince Henry. Ff.

[4323] SCENE III. Pope.

_Good morrow; and God_] Q. _Good morrow: and heaven_ Ff. _Heaven_ Pope.

[4324] King.] Prince. QFf (and throughout the scene).

[4325] _mix_] F₃ F₄. _mixe_ F₁ F₂. _mixt_ Q.

[4326] _Amurath ... Amurath_] Q. _Amurah ... Amurah_ Ff.

[4327] _by my faith_] Q. _to speak truth_ Ff.

[4328] _Yet_] Q. _But_ Ff.

[4329] Princes.] Bro. Q. John, &c. Ff.

_other_] Ff. _otherwise_ Q.

[4330] [to the Ch. Justice. Capell.

[4331] _No! How might_] Steevens. _No! might_ Pope. _No? How might_ QFf (reading 67, 68 as one line).

[4332] _So great_] _So gross_ S. Walker conj.

[4333] _Lethe_] _lethy_ Q.

[4334] _ill, Be_] QF₁. _ill. Be_ F₂ F₃. _ill; Be_ F₄.

[4335] _nought, ... bench, ... person; ... body._] _naught?... bench?... person?... body?_ QFf.

[4336] _your_] QF₃ F₄. _you_ F₁ F₂.

[4337] _soft_] _so_ Theobald.

[4338] _not_] Q. _no_ Ff.

[4339] _justice. You_] Ff. _justice you_ Q.

_did commit_] _committed_ Pope.

[4340] _My ... affections_] _My father's gone into his grave, and in His tomb lye all my wild affections_ Hanmer.

[4341] _wild_] _wail'd_ Pope.

[4342] _And_] _For_ Hanmer.

[4343] _who_] _which_ Pope.

[4344] _The tide of blood in me_] _Tho' my tide of blood_ Pope.

[4345] _state of floods_] _floods of state_ Hanmer.

[4346] _you_] See note (X).

[4347] _And, God consigning_] _And (God consigning_ Q. _And heaven (consigning_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _And (Heaven consigning_ F₄.

[4348] _God_] Q. _Heaven_ Ff.

[4349] SCENE III.] SCENE IV. Pope.

Gloucestershire ... orchard.] Glostershire. Orchard of S.'s House. Capell.

Davy, Bardolph, and the Page.] Davy, Bardolfe, Page. Q. Bardolfe, Page, and Pistoll. Ff.

[4350] _my_] Q. _mine_ Ff.

[4351] _my_] Ff. _mine_ Q.

[4352] _'Fore God_] Q. om. Ff.

_a goodly_] Ff. _goodly_ Q.

[4353] _said_] _spread_ Anon. conj.

[4354] _husband_] QF₁ F₂. _husbandman_ F₃ F₄.

[4355] _by the mass_] Q. om. Ff.

_drunk_] _drank_ Rowe.

[4356] _Ah_] F₁ F₃ F₄ _A_ QF₂.

[4357] _we shall Do_] _We_ Farmer conj. MS.

[4358] _Do nothing ... merrily._] As prose in QFf. First as verse by Rowe, reading _We shall do nothing...._

[4359] [Singing.] Rowe.

[4360] _God_] Q. _heaven_ Ff.

[4361] _cheap and ... dear,_] _cheap: and ... dear_ Farmer conj. MS.

[4362] _And_] _With_ Farmer conj. MS. _roam_] _more_ F₄.

[4363] _So merrily_] om. Farmer conj. MS.

[4364] _heart!... Silence,_] Johnson and Capell. _heart, ... Silence._ QFf.

[4365] _give you a health_] QF₁. _give you health_ F₂. _drink your health_ F₃ F₄.

[4366] _Give ... some_] Q. _Good M. Bardolfe: some_ Ff.

[4367] _Master page_] _Master page, sit_ F₄.

_Proface!_] _Perforce!_ Johnson conj.

[4368] [seating them at another table. Capell.

[4369] _must_] Q. om. Ff.

[Exit.] Theobald. om. QFf.

[4370] As verse in Ff. As prose in Q.

[4371] _wife has all_] QF₄. _wife ha's all_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _wife's as all_ Rann (Farmer conj.).

[4372] _wag_] F₃ F₄. _wags_ Q. _wagge_ F₁ F₂.

[4373] _Be merry, be merry._] See note (XV).

[4374] _mettle_] Ff. _mettall_ Q.

[4375] Re-enter Davy.] Theobald. om. QFf.

[4376] _There's_] Q. _There is_ Ff.

[To Bard.] setting them, and some wine, on Bardolph's table. Capell.

[4377] [to Bard.] Capell.

[4378] _A cup ... long-a_] As prose in QFf. As verse first by Rowe.

[4379] _An ... merry,_] Capell. _And ... merry,_ Q. _if ... merry,_ Ff. _And ... merry;--_ Malone.

[4380] _now ... night_] As part of a song by Rann (Malone conj.).

[4381] _o' the_] _a' th_ Q. _of the_ Ff.

[4382] _Fill ... bottom._] As prose in QFf. First as verse by Capell.

[4383] [Singing.] Capell.

[4384] _you a mile_] QF₁ F₂. _you were't a mile_ F₃ F₄.

[4385] _tiny_] Q. _tyne_ Ff. [to the Page] Capell.

[4386] _cavaleros_] _cabileros_ Q. _cavileroes_ Ff.

[4387] _once_] om. Pope.

[4388] _An_] _And_ Q. _If_ Ff.

[4389] _By the mass_] Q. om. Ff.

[4390] _Yea_] Q. _Yes_ Ff.

[4391] _By ... liggens_] Q. om. Ff. _By ... liggens_ Collier (ed. 1).

[4392] _thee that. A'_] _thee that. He_ Ff. _thee that a_ Q.

[4393] _he is_] Ff. _a tis_ Q.

[4394] [Knocking within.] One knockes at doore. Q (after line 67). Omitted in Ff.

_there, ho!_] _there ho,_ Q. _there, ho:_ Ff.

[4395] [Exit Davy.] Capell. om. QFf.

[4396] [To Silence ... bumper.] Capell.

[4397] As prose in QFf.

[4398] [Singing.] Rowe.

[4399] _Is’t so?_] Q F₁. _Is’t?_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[4400] Re-enter Davy.] Capell. om. QFf.

[4401] _An’t_] _And’t_ Q. _If it_ Ff.

[4402] [rising. Capell.

Enter Pistol.] Q (after line 80) and Ff.

[4403] SCENE V. Pope.

[4404] _God save you_] Q. _’save you sir_ Ff.

[4405] _no man to good_] Q. _none to good_ Ff. _no man good_ Pope. _good to no man_ Capell conj. _to no man good_ Rann (Malone conj., withdrawn).

[4406] _this_] Q. _the_ Ff.

[4407] _By'r lady_] _Birlady_ Q. _Indeed_ Ff.

_a'_] _a_ Q. _he_ Ff.

[4408] _Barson_] _Barston_ Rann.

[4409] _Puff in ... price_] As prose in QFf. First as verse by Pope.

[4410] _And_] _and_ Q. om. Ff.

[4411] _pray thee_] Q. _prethee_ Ff.

[4412] _foutre_] _footre_ Q. _footra_ Ff.

_worldlings_] _wordlings_ F₂.

[4413] As verse in Ff. As prose in Q.

[4414] _Cophetua_] _Conetua_ Q. _Covitha_ Ff.

[4415] _John_] _little John_ Hanmer.

[Singing.] Steevens.

[4416] _Furies'_] Capell. _Furies_ QFf. _Fury's_ Rowe.

[4417] As two lines in Ff.

[4418] _if, sir,_] _If_ Hanmer.

[4419] _there's_] _there are_ Hanmer.

[4420] _to conceal_] Ff. _conceale_ Q.

[4421] As in Q. As two lines, the first ending _King?_ in Ff.

_Besonian_] Q. _Bezonian_ Ff.

[4422] _foutre_] _fowtre_ Q. _footra_ Ff.

[4423] As verse in Ff. As prose in Q.

[4424] As two lines in Ff.

[4425] As prose in Q. As four lines, ending _horse ... wilt ... thee ... dignities_, in Ff.

[4426] _knighthood_] Ff. _knight_ Q.

[4427] _What!... news._] _What?... newes._ QFf. _What?... news?_ Pope.

[4428] _steward--get_] _steward, get_ Q. _steward. Get_ Ff.

[4429] [Exit Bard.] Capell.

[4430] _Boot, boot_] _Boots, boots_ S. Walker conj.

[4431] _Blessed ... that_] Q. _Happy ... which_ Ff.

[4432] _to_] Q. _unto_ Ff.

[4433] _vile_] QF₄. _vil'de_ F₁ F₂. _vild_ F₃.

[4434] _welcome ... days!_] _'welcome ... days!'_ Grant White conj.

_these pleasant days_] _these pleasant dayes_ Q. _those pleasant dayes_ Ff (_days_ F₄). _this pleasant day_ Pope.

[Exeunt.] Ff. Exit. Q.

[4435] SCENE IV.] SCENE VI. Pope.

London. A street.] A street in London. Theobald. London. Pope.

Enter ...] Malone. Enter Sincklo and three or foure officers. Q. Enter Hostesse Quickly, Dol Teare-sheete, and Beadles. Ff. See note (XVI).

[4436] _to God that_] Q. om. Ff.

[4437] First Bead.] Malone. Bead. Rowe. Sincklo. Q. Off. Ff (and throughout the scene).

[4438] _enough_] Ff. om. Q.

[4439] _lately_] Ff. om. Q.

[4440] Dol.] Ff. Whoore. Q (and throughout the scene).

[4441] _an_] Malone. _and_ Q. if Ff.

[4442] _now_] Ff. om. Q.

_wert_] Q. _had'st_ Ff.

[4443] _the Lord_] Q. om. Ff.

_he_] Ff. _I_ Q.

[4444] _I pray God_] Q. _I would_ Ff.

[4445] _miscarry_] Q. _might miscarry_ Ff.

[4446] _amongst_] Q. _among_ Ff.

[4447] _you ... you_] Q. _thee ... thou_ Ff.

[4448] _blue-bottle_] _blewbottle_ Q. _blew-Bottel'd_ F₁ F₂. _blew-Bottl'd_ F₃ F₄.

[4449] _errant_] _arrant_ QFf.

[4450] _God_] Q. om. Ff.

_overcome_] Q. _o'recome_ Ff.

[4451] _Ay, come_] _I come_ Q. _Yes, come_ Ff.

[4452] _atomy_] Q. _anatomy_ Ff.

[4453] SCENE V.] SCENE VII. Pope.

A public ...] Theobald.

Enter ...] Enter strewers of rushes. Q. Enter two Groomes. Ff.

[4454] First Groom.] See note (xvii).

[4455] _'Twill ... o'clock_] _Twill ... a clocke_ Q. _It will ... of the clocke_ Ff.

_clock ere_] _clock: here_ Anon. conj.

[4456] _dispatch, dispatch_] Q. om. Ff.

[Exeunt.] Exeunt Grooms. F₃ F₄. Exit Groo. F₁ F₂. om. Q.

Enter ...] Ff. Trumpets sound, and the King, and his traine pass ouer the stage: after them enter Falstaffe, Shallow, Pistol, Bardolfe, and the Boy Q. See note (XVIII).

[4457] _Robert_] Ff. om. Q.

[4458] _God_] Q. om. Ff.

[4459] _'tis_] _tis_ Q. _it is_ Ff.

[4460] Shal.] Ff. Pist. Q.

[4461] _of_] Q. _in_ Ff.

[4462] Shal.] Hanmer. Pist. QFf.

[4463] _best, certain_] Edd. _best certaine_ Q. _most certaine_ Ff.

[4464] _But ... him_] Continued to Shallow in Q.

[4465] _affairs else_] Q. _affairs_ Ff.

[4466] _obsque_] QF₁. _absque_ F₂ F₃ F₄. See note (VI).

[4467] _'tis all in every part_] Ff. _tis in every part_ Q. _'tis all in all and all in every part_ Warburton. Fal. _'Tis ... part_ Ritson conj.

[4468] _My ... truth_] Arranged as by Capell. As prose in QFf.

[4469] _Thy ... truth_] First as verse by Pope.

[4470] _Haled_] _halde_ Q. _hall'd_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _hal'd_ F₄. _Hauld_ Pope.

[4471] _most mechanical and_] _mechanick_ Pope, reading _Hauld ... hand:_ as one line.

_hand_] _hands_ F₃ F₄.

[4472] [Shouts....] Steevens.

[4473] Enter....] The trumpets sound. Enter King Henrie the Fift, Brothers, Lord Chiefe Iustice. Ff. Enter the King and his traine. Q.

[4474] SCENE VIII. Pope.

[4475] _God_] Q. om. Ff.

[4476] _Have ... speak?_] As in Q. As two lines in Ff.

[4477] _hairs_] _heires_ Q.

_become_] _becomes_ Q.

[4478] _dream'd_] _dreampt_ Q.

[4479] _awaked_] _awakt_ Q. _awake_ Ff.

[4480] _God_] Q. _heaven_ Ff.

[4481] _mile_] _miles_ Pope.

[4482] _evil_] _evills_ Q.

[4483] _reform_] _reforme_ Q F₁. _redeeme_ F₂. _redeem_ F₃ F₄.

[4484] _strengths_] Q. _strength_ Ff.

[4485] _Be it_] _Be't_ Pope.

[4486] _To ... on_] Pope. As one line in Q Ff.

[4487] _our_] Ff. _my_ Q.

[4488] [Exeunt....] Pope. Exit King. Ff. om. Q.

[4489] SCENE IX. Pope.

[4490] _Yea_] Q. _I_ Ff.

[4491] _advancements_] Q. _advancement_ Ff.

[4492] _well_] Ff. om. Q.

_should_] Ff. om. Q.

[4493] _that I fear_] Q. _I feare, that_ Ff.

[4494] _Fear ... night_] As three lines in Q Ff.

[4495] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter Iustice and prince Iohn. Q. om. Ff.

[4496] _Si ... contenta_] Q. _Si fortuna me tormento, spera me contento_ Ff. See note (VI).

[Exeunt ...] Exit. Manet Lancaster and Chiefe Iustice. Ff. exeunt. Q (after line 93).

[4497] _all_] QF₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄.

[4498] _to_] QF₁. _in_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[4499] _heard_] _heare_ F₁.