I was never called so in my own house before. 72
Fal. Go to, I know you well enough.
Host. No, Sir John; you do not know me,
Sir John: I know you, Sir John: you owe me
money, Sir John, and now you pick a quarrel to
beguile me of it: I bought you a dozen of shirts
to your back. 78
Fal. Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given
them away to bakers' wives, and they have
made bolters of them. 81
Host. Now, as I am true woman, holland of
eight shillings an ell. You owe money here be-
sides, Sir John, for your diet and by-drinkings,
and money lent you, four-and-twenty pound. 85
Fal. He had his part of it; let him pay.
Host. He! alas! he is poor; he hath nothing.
Fal. How! poor? look upon his face; what
call you rich? let them coin his nose, let them
coin his cheeks. I'll not pay a denier. What!
will you make a younker of me? shall I not take
mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my
pocket picked? I have lost a seal-ring of my
grandfather's worth forty mark.
Host. O Jesu! I have heard the prince tell
him, I know not how oft, that that ring was
copper. 97
Fal. How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup;
sblood! an he were here, I would cudgel him
like a dog, if he would say so. 100
Enter the Prince and Peto marching. Falstaff meets them, playing on his truncheon like a fife.
79 dowlas: coarse linen
81 bolters: sieves
82 holland: fine linen
83 ell: yard and a quarter
90 denier: the tenth part of a penny
91 younker: young greenhorn
98 sneak-cup: one who shirks his liquor (?)
