which saies the dead is not aliue Yet the first bringer of vnwelcome newes Hath but a loosing office and his tongue Sounds euer after as a â—ullen bell Remembred tolling a departing friend Bard. I cannot thinke my Lord your sonne is dead Mour. I am sory I should force you to beleeue That which I would to God I had not seene But these mine eies saw him in bloudy state Rendring faint quittance wearied and out-breathd To Harry Monmouth whose swift wrath beat downe The neuer daunted Percy to the earth From whence with life he neuer more sprung vp In few his death whose spirite lent a fire Euen to the dullest peasant in his campe Being bruted once tooke fire and heate away From the best temperd courage in his troopes For from his mettâ—l was his party steeled Which once in him abated oâ— the rest Turnd on themselues like dull and heauy lead And as the thing that 's heauy in it selfe Vpon enforcement flies with greatest speed So did our men heauy in Hot-spurs losse Lend to this weight such lightnosse with their feare That arrowes fled not swifter toward their ayme Than did our souldiers aiming at their safetie Fly from the field then was that noble Worcester So soone tane prisoner and that furious Scot The bloudy Douglas whose well labouring sword Had three times slaine th' appearance of the King â—an vaile his stomacke and did grace the shame Of those that turnd their backes and in his flight Stumbling in feare was tooke the summe of all Is that the King hath wonne and hath sent out A speedy power to incounter you my lord Vnder the conduct of yong Lancaster And Westmerland this is the news at ful Earle For this I shal haue time enough to mourne In poison there is phisicke and these newes Hauing beene wel that would haue made me sicke Being sicke haue in some measure made me wel And as the wretch whose feuer-weakned ioynts Like strengthlesse hinges buckle â—â—der life Impacient of his fit breakes likâ—â— fire Out of his keepers armes euen so my limbes Weakened with griefe being â—ow enragde with griefe Are thrice themselues hence therfore thou nice crutch A scaly gauntlet now with ioynts of steele Must gloue this hand and hence thou sickly coâ—â—e Thou art a guard too wanton for the head Which princes fleshâ— with conquest ayme to hit Now bind my browes 〈◊〉 yron and approach The raggedst houre 〈…〉 and Spight dare bring To frowne vpon th' 〈◊〉 Northumberland Let heauen kisse earth now let not Natures hand Keepe the wild floud conâ—ind let Order die And let this world no longer be a stage To feed contention in a lingring act But let one spirite of the first borne Cain Raigne in all bosomes that ech heart being set On bloudy courses the rude sceane may end And darknesse be the burier of the dead Vmfr. This strained passion doth you wrong my lord Bard. Sweet earle diuorce not wisedom from your honor Mour. The liues of all your louing complices Leaue on you health the which if you giue ore To stormy passion must perforce decay Bard. We all that are ingaged to this losse Knew that we ventured on such dangerous seas That if we wrought out life t was ten to one And yet we venturd for the gaine proposde Choakt the respect of likely perill fear'd And since we are oreset venture againe Come we will al put forth body and goods Mour. T is more then time and my most noble lord I heare for certaine and dare speake the truth North. I knew of this before but to speake truth This present griefe had wipte it from my mind Go in with me and counsell euery man The aptest way for safety and reuenge Get postes and letters and make friends with speed Neuer so few and neuer yet more need exeunt Enter sir Iohn alone with his page bearing his sword and buckler Iohn Sirra you giant what saies the doctor to my water Page He said sir the water it self was a good healthy water but for the party that owed it he might haue moe diseases then he knew for Iohn Men of al sorts take a pride to gird at me the braine of this foolish compouÌ„ded clay-man is not able to inuent any thing that intends to laughter more then I inuent or is inueÌ„ted on me I am not only witty in my selfe but the cause that wit is in other men I do here walk before thee like a sow that hath ouerwhelmd al her litter but one if the prince put thee into my seruice for any other reason then to sett me off why then I haue no iudgement thou horeson mandrake thou art sitter to be worne in my cap then to wait at my heels I was neuer manned with an agot till now but I wil in-set you neither in golde nor siluer but in vile apparell and send you backe againe to your master for a iewell the â—â—uenall the prince your master whose chin is not yet fledge I will sooner haue a beard grow in the palme of my hand then he shal get one off his cheek yet he will not sticke to say his face is a face royal God may finish it when he will t is not a haire amisse yet he may keepe it still at a face royall for a barber shall neuer earne sixpence out of it and yet hee le be crowing as if he had writte man euer since his father was a batcheler he may keepe his owne grace but hee s almost out of mine I can assure him what said master Dommelton about the sattin for my short cloake and my sloppes Boy He saide sir you should procure him better assurance then Bardolfe he would not take his band and yours he liked not the securitie sir Iohn Let him be damn'd like the glutton pray God his tongue be hotter a horeson A chitophella rascall yea forsooth knaue to beare a gentle man in hand and then stand vpon security the horson smoothy-pates doe now weare nothing but hie shooes and bunches of keyes at their girdles and if a man is through with them in honest taking vp then they must stand vppon security I had as liue they would put ratsbane in my mouth as offer to stop it with security I lookt a should haue sent me two and twenty yards of sattin as I am a true knight and he sends me security well he may sleepe in security for he hath the horne of abundance and the lightnesse of his wife shines through it where 's Bardolf yet can not he see though he haue his owne lanthorne to light him Boy Hee s gone in Smithfield to buy your worship a horse sir Iohn I bought him in Paules and hee le buy me a horse in Smithfield and I could get me but a wife in the stewes I were manâ—d horsde and wiuâ—d Enter Lord chiefe Iustice. Boy Sir here comes the noble man that committed the prince for striking him about Bardolfe sir Iohn Wait close I will
As I before remembred all our state And God consigning to my good intents No prince nor peere shall haue iust cause to say God shorten Harries happy life one day exit Enter sir Iohn Shallow Scilens Dauy Bardolfe page Shal. Nay you shall see my orchard where in an arbour we will eate a last yeeres pippen of mine owne graffing with a dish of carrawaies and so forth come coosin Scilens and then to bed Falst. Fore God you haue here goodly dwelling and rich Shal. Barraine barraine barraine beggars all beggars all sir Iohn mary good ayre spread Dauy spread Dauy well saide Dauy. Fal. This Dauy serues you for good vses hee is your seruing-man and your husband Shal. A good varlet a good varlet a very good varlet sir Iohn by the mas I haue drunke too much sacke at supper a good varlet now sit downe now sit downe come cosin Scilens A sirra quoth a we shall do nothing but eate and make good cheere and praise God for the merry yeere when â—lesh is cheape and females dear and lusty laddes roame here and there so merely and euer among so merily sir Iohn There 's a merry heart good M. Silens I le giue you a health for that anon Shal. Giue master Bardolfe some wine Dauy. Dauy Sweet sir sit I le be with you anon most sweet sir sit master Page good master Page sit proface what you want in meate wee le haue in drink but you must beare the heart's al. Shal. Be mery master Bardolfe and my litle souldier there be merry Scilens Be merry be mery my wife has all for women are shrowes both short and tall t is merry in hal when beards wags all and welcome mery shrouetide be mery be mery Falst. I did not thinke master Scilens had bin a man of this mettall Scilens Who I I haue beene mery twice and once ere now Enter Dauy. Dauy There 's a dish of Lether-coates for you Shal. Dauy Dauy Your worship I le be with you straight a cup of wine sir. Scilens A cup of wine that 's briske and fine and drinke vnto the leman mine and a mery heart liuâ—â— long a. Falst. Well said master Scilens Scilens And we shall be mery now comes in the sweete a' th night Falst Health and long life to you master Scilens Scilens Fill the cuppe and let it come I le pledge you a mile too th bottome Shal. Honest Bardolfe welcome if thou wantst any thing and wilt not call be shrew thy heart welcome my little tiny theefe and welcome indeede too I le drink to master Bardolfe and to all the cabileros about London Dauy I hope to see London once ere I die Bar. And I might see you there Dauy Shal. By the mas you le crack a quarte together ha will you not master Bardolfe Bar. Yea sir in a pottle pot Sha. By Gods liggens I thanke thee the knaue will sticke by thee I can assure thee that a wil not out a t is true bred Bar. And I le stick by him sir. One knockes at doore Sha. Why there spoke a King lacke nothing be mery looke who 's at doore there ho who knockes Falst. Why now you haue done me right Sâ—lens Do me right and dub me Knight samingoâ—ist not so Falst. T is so Silens I st so why then say an olde man can do somewhat Dauy And t please your worship there 's one Pistoll come from the court with newes enter Pistol Falst. From the Court let him come in how now Pistol Pistol Sir Iohn God saue you Falst. What wind blew you hither Pistol Pistol Not the ill winde which blowes no man to good sweete Knight thou art now one of the greatest men in this Realme Silens Birlady I think a bâ— but goodman Puffe of Barson Pisto Puffe Puffe ith thy teeth most recreant coward base sir Iohn I am thy Pistol and thy frend and helter skelter haue I rode to thee and tidings do I bring and luckie ioyes and golden times and happy news of price Iohn I pray thee now deliuer them like a man of this world Pistol A footre for the world and worldlings base I speake of Affrica and golden ioyes Iohn O base Assirian Knight what is thy newes let King Couetua know the truth thereof Scilens And Robin Hood Scarlet and Iohn Pistol Shal dunghill curs confront the Helicons and shall good newes be baffled then Pistoll lay thy head in Furies lap Shal. Honest gentleman I know not your breeding Pistol Why then lament therefore Shal. Giue me pardon sir if sir you come with newes from the court I take it there 's but two waies either to vtter them or conceale them I am sir vnder the King in some authoritie Pistol Vnder which King Besonian speake or die Shal. Vnder King Harry Pistol Harry the fourth or fift Shal. Harry the fourth Pist A fowtre for thine office sir Iohn thy tender lambkin now is King Harry the fifts the man I speake the truth when Pistol lies do this and fig me like the bragging spaniard Falst. What is the old King dead Pistol As nayle in doore the things I speake are iust Fal. Away Bardolfe saddle my horse M. Robert Shallow choose what office thou wilt in the land t is thine Pistol I will double charge thee with dignities Bard. O ioyful day I would not take a Knight for my fortune Pistol What I do bring good newes Falst. Carry master Scilens to bed master Shallow my lord Shalow be what thou wilt I am fortunes steward get on thy boots wee l ride al night ô sweet Pistol away Bardolf com Pistol vtter more to me and withall deuise something to doe thy selfe good boote boote master Shallow I know the yong King is sicke for me let vs take any mans horses the lawes of England are at my commandement blessed are they that haue bin my friends and woe to my Lord chiefe Iustice. Pist. Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also where is the life that late I led say they why here it is welcome these plesant dayes exit Enter Sincklo and three or foure officers Host. No thou arrant knaue I would to God that I might die that I might haue thee hangd thou hast drawn my shoulder out of ioynt Sincklo The Constables haue deliuered her ouer to mee and shee shal haue whipping cheere I warrant her there hath beene a man or two kild about her Whoore Nut-hooke Nut-hooke you lie come on I le tell thee what thou damnd tripe visagde rascall and the child I go with do miscarry thou wert better thou hadst strook thy mother thou paper-facde villaine Host. O the Lord that sir Iohn were come I would make this a bloody day to some body but I pray God the fruite of her wombe miscarry Sincklo If it doe you shall haue a dozzen of cushions againe you haue but eleuen nowe come I charge you both goe with mee for the man is dead that you and Pistoll
in such dealing vnlesse a woman should be made an asse and a beast to beare euery knaues wrong yonder he comes and that arrant malmsie-nose knaue Bardolfe with him do your offices do your offices master PhaÌ„g master Snare do me do me do me your offices Enter sir Iohn and Bardolfe and the boy Falst. How now whose mare's dead what 's the matter Phang I arrest you at the sute of mistris quickly Falst. Away varlets draw Bardolfe cut me off the villaines head throw the queane in the channell Host. Throw me in the channell I le throw thee in the channel wilt thou wilt thou thou bastardly rogue murder murder a thou honisuckle villaine wilt thou kill Gods officers and the Kings a thou honiseed rogue thou art a honiseed a man queller and a woman queller Falst. Keepe them off Bardolfe Offic. A reskew a reskew Host. Good people bring a reskew or two thou wot wot thou thou wot wot ta do do thou rogue do thou hempseed Boy Away you scullian you rampallian you fustilarian I le tickle your catastrophe Enter Lord chiefe iustice and his men Lord What is the matter keepe the peace here ho. Hostesse Good my lord be good to me I beseech you stand to me Lord How now sir Iohn what are you brawling here Doth this become your place your time and businesse You should haue bin well on your way to Yorke Stand from him fellow wherefore hang'st thou vpon him Host. O my most worshipful Lord and 't please your grace I am a poore widdow of Eastâ—heape and he is arrested at my sute Lord For what summe Host. It is more then for some my Lord it is for al I haue he hath eaten me out of house and home he hath put all my substance into that fat belly of his but I will haue some of it out againe or I wil ride thee a nights like the mare Falst. I think I am as like to ride the mare if I haue any vantage of ground to get vp Lord How comes this sir Iohn what man of good temper would endure this tempest of exclamation are you not ashamed to inforce a poore widdow to so rough a course to come by her owne Falst. What is the grosse summe that I owe thee Host. Mary if thou wert an honest man thy selfe and the mony too thou didst sweare to me vpon a parcell guilt goblet sitting in my dolphin chamber at the round table by a sea cole fire vpon wednesday in Wheeson weeke when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing man of Winsor thou didst sweare to me theÌ„ as I was washing thy wound to marry me and make me my lady thy wife canst thou deny 〈◊〉 did not goodwife Keech the butchers wife come in then and cal me gossip Quickly comming in to borow a messe of vinegar telling vs she had a good dish of prawnes whereby thou didst desire to eate some whereby I told thee they were ill for a greene wound and didst thou not when she was gone down stayers desire me to be no more so familiarity with such poore people saying that ere long they should cal me madam and didst thou not kisse me and bid me fetch thee thirtie shillings I put thee now to thy booke oath dome it if thon canst Falst. My lord this is a poore madeâ—oule and she saies vp and downe the towne that her eldest sonne is like you she hath bin in good case and the trueth is pouerty hath distracted her but for these foolish officers I beseech you I may haue redresse against them Lo. Sir Iohn sir Iohn I am wel acquainted with your maner of wrenching the true cause the false way it is not a confident brow nor the throng of words that come with such more then impudent sawcines from you can thrust me from a leuel conâ—ideration you haue as it appeares to me practisde vpon the easie yeelding spirite of this woman and made her serue your vses both in purse and in person Host. Yea in truth my Lord. Lo. Pray thee peace pay her the debt you owe her and vnpay the villany you haue done with her the one you may doe with sterling mony and the other with currant repentance Falst. My Lord I will not vndergoe this snepe without reply you cal honorable boldnes impudent sawcinesse if a man wil make curtsie and say nothing he is vertuous no my Lord my humble duty remembred I will not bee your sâ—â—er I say to you I do desire deliuerance from these officers being vpon hasty imployment in the Kings affayres Lord You speake as hauing power to do wrong but answer in th' effect of your reputation and satisfie the poore woman Falst. Come hither hostesse Lord Now master Gower what newes enter a messenger Gower The King my Lord and Harry prince of Wales Are neare at hand the rest the paper tells Falst. As I am a gentleman Host. Faith you said so before Falst. As I am a gentleman come no more words of it Host. By this heaunly ground I tread on I must be faine to pawne both my plate the tapestry of my dining chambers Falst. Glasses glasses is the onely drinking and for thy wals a pretty sleight drollery or the storie of the prodigal or the Iarman hunting in waterworke is worth a thousand of these bed-hangers and these flie bitten tapestrie let it be x. â— if thou canst come and t were not for thy humors there 's not a better wench in England goe wash thy face and draw the action come thou must not be in this humor with me dost not know me come come I know thou wast set on to this Host. Pray thee sir Iohn let it be but twentie nobles ifaith I am loath to pawne my pâ—â—te so God saue me law Falst. Let it alone I le make other shift you le be a foole stil. Host. Well you shall haue it though I pawne my gowne I hope you le come to supper you le pay me altogether Falst. Wil I liue goe with her with her hooke on hooke on exit hostesse and sergeant Host. Will you haue Doll Tere-sheet meete you at supper Falst. No more words le ts haue her Lord I haue heard better newes Falst. What 's the newes my lord Lord Where lay the King to night Mess. At Billingsgate my Lord. Falst. I hope my Lord al 's wel what is the newes my lord Lord Come all his forces backe Mess. No fifteen hundred foot fiue hundred horse Are marcht vp to my lord of Lancaster Against Northumberland and the Archbishop Falst. Comes the King back from Wales my noble lord Lord You shall haue letters of me presently Come go along with me good master Gower Falst. My lord Lord What 's the matter Falstaffe Maister Gower shall I intreate you with mee to dinner Gower I must waite vpon my good lord here I thank you good sir Iohn Lord Sir Iohn you loyter heere too long Being you are to