To seem like him: So that, in speech, in gait, In military rules, humours of blood, He was the mark and glass, copy and book, That fashion'd others. And him,-O wondrous him! Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur's name North. Beshrew your heart, Fair daughter! you do draw my spirits from me, But I must go, and meet with danger there; And find me worse provided. Lady N. O, fly to Scotland, Till that the nobles, and the armed commons, Have of their puissance made a little taste. Lady P. If they get ground and vantage of the king, Then join you with them, like a rib of steel, * Ill-betide, North. Come, come, go in with me: 'tis with my mind, As with the tide swell'd up unto its height, [Exeunt. SCENE IV. London. A room in the Boar's Head Tavern, in Eastcheap. Enter two Drawers. 1 Draw. What the devil hast thou brought there? apple-Johns? thou know'st, sir John cannot endure an apple-John*. 2 Draw. Mass, thou sayest true: The prince once set a dish of apple-Johns before him, and told him, there were five more sir Johns: and, putting off his hat, said, I will now take my leave of these six dry, round, old, wither'd knights. It angered him to the heart; but he hath forgot that. 1 Draw. Why then, cover, and set them down: And see if thou canst find out Sneak's noiset; mistress Tear-sheet would fain hear some musick. Despatch:-The room where they supped is too hot; they'll come in straight. 2 Draw. Sirrah, here will be the prince, and master Poins anon: and they will put on two of our * An apple that will keep two years. + Sneak was a street minstrel: a noise of musicians auciently signified a concert. jerkins, and aprous; and sir John must not know of it: Bardolph hath brought word. 1 Draw. By the mass, here will be old utis*: It will be an excellent stratagem. 2 Draw. I'll see, if I can find out Sneak. Enter Hostess and Doll Tear-sheet. [Exit. Host. I'faith, sweet heart, methinks now you are in an excellent good temperality: your pulsidge beats as extraordinarily as heart would desire; and your colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose : But, i'faith, you have drunk too much canaries; and that's a marvellous searching wine, and it perfumes the blood ere one can say,-What's this? How do you now? Doll. Better than I was. Hem. Host. Why, that's well said; a good heart's worth gold. Look, here comes sir John. Enter Falstaff, singing. Fal. When Arthur first in court-Empty the jordan. And was a worthy king: [Exit Drawer.] How now, mistress Doll? Host. Sick of a calm: yea, good sooth. Fal. So is all her sect; an they be once in a calm, they are sick. Doll. You muddy rascal, is that all the comfort you give me? Fal. You make fat rascals, mistress Doll. Doll. I make them! gluttony and diseases make them; I make them not. Fal. If the cook help to make the gluttony, you help to make the diseases, Doll: we catch of you, Doll, we catch of you; grant that, my poor virtue, grant that. * Merry doings. Doll. Ay, marry; our chains, and our jewels. Fal. Your brooches, pearls, and owches;-for to serve bravely, is to come halting off, you know: To come off the breach with his pike bent bravely, and to surgery bravely; to venture upon the charged chambers bravely: Doll. Hang yourself, you muddy conger, hang yourself! Host. By my troth, this is the old fashion; you two never meet, but you fall to some discord: you are both, in good troth, as rheumatick as two dry toasts; you cannot one bear with another's confirmities. What the good yeart! one must bear, and that must be you: [To Doll.] you are the weaker vessel, as they say, the emptier vessel. Doll. Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full hogshead? there's a whole merchant's venture of Bourdeaux stuff in him; you have not seen a hulk better stuffed in the hold.-Come, I'll be friends with thee, Jack: thou art going to the wars; and whether I shall ever see thee again, or no, there is nobody cares. Re-enter Drawer. Draw. Sir, ancient‡ Pistol's below, and would speak with you. Doll. Hang him, swaggering rascal! let him not come hither: it is the foul-mouth'dst rogue in England. Host. If he swagger, let him not come here: no, by my faith; I must live amongst my neighbours ; I'll no swaggerers: I am in good name and fame with the very best:-Shut the door;-there comes no swaggerers here: I have not lived all this while, to have swaggering now:-shut the door, I pray you. Small pieces of ordnance. + Mrs. Quickly's blunder for goujere, i, e. pox. Ensign. Fal. Dost thou hear, hostess ?→→ Host. Pray you, pacify yourself, sir Jolin; there comes no swaggerers* here. Fal. Dost thou hear? it is mine ancient. Host. Tilly-fally, sir John, never tell me; your ancient swaggerer comes not in my doors. I was before master Tisick, the deputy, the other day; and, as he said to me,-it was no longer ago than Wednesday last,- Neighbour Quickly, says he ;master Dumb, our minister, was by then;-Neighbour Quickly, says he, receive those that are civil; for, saith he, you are in an ill name;-now he said so, I can tell whereupon; for, says he, you are an honest woman, and well thought on; therefore take heed what guests you receive: Receive, says he, no swaggering companions.-There comes none here; you would bless you to hear what he said:-no, I'll no swaggerers. Fal. He's no swaggerer, hostess; a tame cheatert, he; you may stroke him as gently as a puppy greyhound: he will not swagger with a Barbary hen, if her feathers turn back in any show of resistance.Call him up, drawer. Host. Cheater, call you him? I will bar no honest man my house, nor no cheater: But I do not love swaggering; by my troth, I am the worse, when one says-swagger: feel, masters, how I shake; look you, I warrant you. Doll. So you do, hostess. Host. Do I? yea, in very truth, do I, an 'twere an aspen leaf: I cannot abide swaggerers. Enter Pistol, Bardolph, and Page. Pist. 'Save you, sir John! Fal. Welcome, ancient Pistol. Here, Pistol, I charge you with a cup of sack: do you discharge upon mine hostess. A blustering, fighting fellow. + Gamester. |