That guards the peace and safety of your person: And then imagine me taking your part. King. You are right, justice, and you weigh this well; Therefore still bear the balance, and the sword: Till you do live to see a son of mine The unstain'd sword that you have us'd to bear; 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; To your well-practis'd, wise directions.- Our coronation done, we will accite, As I before remember'd, all our state: No prince, nor peer, shall have just cause to say,— SCENE III. Glostershire. The Garden of Shallow's House. Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, SILENCE, BARDolph, the Page, and Davy. Shal. Nay, you shall see mine orchard; where, in an arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin of my own grassing, with a dish of caraways 97, and so forth;come, cousin Silence;-and then to bed. Fal. 'Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling, and a rich. Shal. Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all, sir John:-marry, good air.-Spread, Davy; spread, Davy: well said, Davy. Fal. This Davy serves you for good uses; he is your serving-man, and your husbandman. Shal. A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet, sir John.-By the mass, I have drunk too much sack at supper:-a good varlet. Now sit down, now sit down:-come, cousin. Sil. Ah, sirrah! quoth-a,-we shall Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer, [Singing. And ever among so merrily. Fal. There's a merry heart!-Good master Silence, I'll give you a health for that anon. Shal. Give master Bardolph some wine, Davy. Davy. Sweet sir, sit; [Seating Bardolph and the Page at another table.] I'll be with you anon:most sweet sir, sit.- -Master page, good master page, sit: proface 95! What you want in meat we'll have in drink. But you must bear; The heart's all. [Exit. Shal. Be merry, master Bardolph;—and my little soldier there, be merry. Sil. Be merry, be merry, my wife's as all; [Singing. For women are shrews, both short and tall: 'Tis Be merry in hall, when beards wag all, merry, Fal. I did not think, master Silence had been a man of this mettle. Sil. Who I? I have been merry twice and once, ere now. Re-enter DAVY. Davy. There is a dish of leather-coats 99 for you. [Setting them before Bardolph. Shal. Davy, Davy. Your worship?-I'll be with you straight. [To Bard.]-A cup of wine, sir? Sil. A cup of wine, that's brisk and fine, [Singing. And drink unto the leman mine; And a merry heart lives long-a. Fal. Well said, master Silence. Sil. And we shall be merry;-now comes in the sweet of the night. Fal. Health and long life to you, master Silence! I'll pledge you a mile to the bottom. Shal. Honest Bardolph, welcome: If thou want'st any thing, and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart.— Welcome, my little tiny thief? [To the Page.] and welcome, indeed, too. I'll drink to master Bardolph, and to all the cavaleroes about London. Davy. I hope to see London once ere I die. Bard. An I might see you there, Davy,— Shal. By the mass, you'll crack a quart together. Ha! will you not, master Bardolph ? Bard. Yes, sir, in a pottle pot. Shal. I thank thee:-The knave will stick by thee, I can assure thee that: he will not out; he is true bred. Bard. And I'll stick by him, sir. Shal. Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing: be merry. [Knocking heard.] Look who's at door there: Ho! who knocks! [Exit Davy. Fal. Why, now you have done me right. [To Silence, who drinks a bumper. Sil. Do me right, And dub me knight. Is't not so? Fal. 'Tis so. [Singing. |