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| <H3>SCENE II. A public road near Coventry.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>bottle of sack: our soldiers shall march through;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>we'll to Sutton Co'fil' tonight.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=4>Will you give me money, captain?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=5>Lay out, lay out.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=6>This bottle makes an angel.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=7>An if it do, take it for thy labour; and if it make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>twenty, take them all; I'll answer the coinage. Bid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>my lieutenant Peto meet me at town's end.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=10>I will, captain: farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>gurnet. I have misused the king's press damnably.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>I have got, in exchange of a hundred and fifty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>soldiers, three hundred and odd pounds. I press me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>none but good house-holders, yeoman's sons; inquire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>me out contracted bachelors, such as had been asked</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>twice on the banns; such a commodity of warm slaves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>as had as lieve hear the devil as a drum; such as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>fear the report of a caliver worse than a struck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>fowl or a hurt wild-duck. I pressed me none but such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>toasts-and-butter, with hearts in their bellies no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>bigger than pins' heads, and they have bought out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>their services; and now my whole charge consists of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>ancients, corporals, lieutenants, gentlemen of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>companies, slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>sores; and such as indeed were never soldiers, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>discarded unjust serving-men, younger sons to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>younger brothers, revolted tapsters and ostlers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>trade-fallen, the cankers of a calm world and a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>long peace, ten times more dishonourable ragged than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>an old faced ancient: and such have I, to fill up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>the rooms of them that have bought out their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>services, that you would think that I had a hundred</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>and fifty tattered prodigals lately come from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A mad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march through</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Coventry with them, that's flat: nay, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>prison. There's but a shirt and a half in all my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>company; and the half shirt is two napkins tacked</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>together and thrown over the shoulders like an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>herald's coat without sleeves; and the shirt, to say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>the truth, stolen from my host at Saint Alban's, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>the red-nose innkeeper of Daventry. But that's all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>one; they'll find linen enough on every hedge.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the PRINCE and WESTMORELAND</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=50>How now, blown Jack! how now, quilt!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=51>What, Hal! how now, mad wag! what a devil dost thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>in Warwickshire? My good Lord of Westmoreland, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>cry you mercy: I thought your honour had already been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>at Shrewsbury.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=55>Faith, Sir John,'tis more than time that I were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>there, and you too; but my powers are there already.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>The king, I can tell you, looks for us all: we must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>away all night.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=59>Tut, never fear me: I am as vigilant as a cat to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>steal cream.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=61>I think, to steal cream indeed, for thy theft hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>fellows are these that come after?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=64>Mine, Hal, mine.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=65>I did never see such pitiful rascals.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=66>Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, food</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>tush, man, mortal men, mortal men.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=69>Ay, but, Sir John, methinks they are exceeding poor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>and bare, too beggarly.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=71>'Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>that; and for their bareness, I am sure they never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>learned that of me.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=74>No I'll be sworn; unless you call three fingers on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>the ribs bare. But, sirrah, make haste: Percy is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>already in the field.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=77>What, is the king encamped?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=78>He is, Sir John: I fear we shall stay too long.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=79>Well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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