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Fal. Setting thy womanhood afide, thou art a beast to fay otherwise.

Hoft. Say, what beaft, thou

knave thou? Fal. What beaft? why, an Otter.

P. Henry. An Otter, Sir John, why an Otter? Fal Why? he's neither fish nor flesh; a man knows not where to have her.

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Hoft. Thou art an unjust man in faying fo thou, or any man knows where to have me thou knave, thou! P. Henry Thou fay't true, hoftefs, and he flanders thee moft grofsly. Have mid spot!

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Hoft. So he doth you, my lord, and faid this other day, you ow'd him a thousand pound,

P. Henry Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound? Fal. A thoufands pound, Hal? a millions thy love is worth a million; thou ow ft me thy love.

Hoft. Nay, my lord, he call'd you Jack, and faid he would cudgel you.

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Fal. Yea, if he faid, my ring was copper.

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Fal. Why, Hall, thou know'ft, as thou art but a man, I dare, but as thou art a Prince, I fear thee, as I fear the roaring of the Lion's whelp.

P. Henry. And why not as the Lion?

Fal. The King himself is to be fear'd as the Lion; doft thou think, I'll fear thee, as I fear thy father? nay, if I do, let my Girdle break!

P. Henry. O, if it should, how would thy guts fall about thy knees! But, Sirrah, there's no room for faith, truth, nor honefty, in this bofom of thine; it is all

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Fal. Doft thou hear, Hal? thou know' binthe state of innocency, Adam fell: and what fhould spoor Jack Falstaff do, in the days of villany? thou feelts I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty. You confefs then, you pickt my pocket?

P. Henry. It appears fo by the ftory.

Fal. Hoftefs, I forgive thee: go make ready Breakfaft; love thy husband, look to thy fervants, and cherish thy guests: thou shalt find me tractable to any honeft reafon: thou feeft, I am pacify'd ftill. Nay, I pr'ythee, be gone. 4669 29 mat[Exit Hoftefs. Now, Hal, to the news at Court: for the robbery, lad, how is That answer'd? CON

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P. Henry. Go bear this letter to lord John of Lancafter, to my brother John. This to my lord of Weftmorland; go, Peto, to horfe; for thou and I have thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time. Jack, meet me to

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In this fine age, were not thought flattery,
Such attribution fhould the Douglas have,
As not a foldier of this feafon's ftamp

Should go fo gen'ral currant through the World.
By heav'n, I cannot flatter: I defie
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The tongues of foothers. But a braver place
In my heart's love hath no man than your self.
Nay, task me to my words approve me, lord.
Dow. Thou art the King of honour;

No man fo potent breathes upon the ground,
But I will beard him, wously on yo

Enter a Messenger.

Hot, Do, and 'tis well

What letters haft thou

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C3 Hot Lastera from him? why comes he not himself?

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Meff. He cannot come, my lord, he's grievous fick. Hot. Heav'ns! how has he the leifure to be fick In fuch a juftling time? Who leads his Power; Under whofe government come they along?

Me. His letters bear his mind, not I his mind. Wor. I pr'ythee, tell me, doth he keep his bed? Me. He did, my lord, four days ere I fet forth: And at the time of my departure thence,

He was much fear'd by his phyficians.

Wor. I would, the ftate of time had firft been whole, Ere he by fickness had been vifited;

His health was never better worth than now.

Hot. Sick now? droop now? this fickness doth infect

The very life-blood of our enterprize;

'Tis catching hither, even to our Camp.
He writes me here, that inward ficknefs-
And that his friends by deputation

Could not fo foon be drawn: nor thought he meet
To lay fo dangerous and dear a Truft
On any foul remov'd, but on his own.
Yet doth he give us bold advertisement,

That with our small conjunction we fhould on,
To fee how fortune is difpos'd to us:

For, as he writes, there is no quailing now;
Because the King is certainly poffeft

Of all our purposes. What fay you to it?
Wor. Your father's fickness is a maim to us.
Hot. A perillous gafh, a very limb lopt off:
And yet, in faith, 'tis not; his prefent want
Seems more than we fhall find it. Were it good,
To fet the exact wealth of all our states

All at one Caft? to fet fo rich a Main

On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
It were not good; for therein should we read
The very bottom, and the foul of hope,
The very lift, the very utmost Bound
Of all our fortunes..

Dow. Faith, and fo we should;
Where now remains a fweet reverfion.

We

We now may boldly fpend, upon the hope

Of what is to come in:

A comfort of retirement lives in this.

Hot. A rendezvous, a home to fly unto, If that the Devil and Mifchance look big Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.

Wor. But yet I would your father had been here:
The quality and hair of our attempt
Brooks no divifion it will be thought
By fome, that know not why he is away,
That wisdom, loyalty, and meer dislike
Of our proceedings, kept the Earl from hence.
And think, how fuch an apprehenfion
May turn the tide of fearful faction,
And breed a kind of question in our caufe:
For well you know, we of th' offending fide
Muft keep aloof from strict arbitrement;
And stop all fight-holes, every loop, from whence
The eye of reafon may pry in upon us:
This abfence of your father draws a curtain,
That fhews the ignorant a kind of fear
Before not dreamt upon.

Hot. You ftrain too far

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I rather of his abfence make this ufe:

It lends a luftre, and more great opinion,
A larger Dare to our great enterprife,

Than if the Earl were here: for men must think,
If we without his help can make a head,
To push against the Kingdom; with his help,
We fhall o'erturn it topfie turvy down.

Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole.

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Dow. As heart can think; there is not fuch a word

Spoke of in Scotland, as this term of fear,

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Enter Sir Richard Vernon.

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Hot. My coufin Fernon, welcome, by my foul! Ver. Pray God, my news be worth a welcome, lord. The Earl of Westmorland, fev'n thousand ftrong, Is marching hither, with Prince John of Lançafter. Hot. No harm; what more?

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