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King Henry the Fourth, III. iii
77

Fal. What thing! why, a thing to thank
God on. 133

Host. I am no thing to thank God on, I
would thou shouldst know it; I am an honest
man's wife; and, setting thy knighthood aside,
thou art a knave to call me so. 137

Fal. Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art
a beast to say otherwise.

Host. Say, what beast, thou knave thou? 140

Fal. What beast! why, an otter.

Prince. An otter, Sir John! why, an otter?

Fal. Why? she's neither fish nor flesh; a
man knows not where to have her. 144

Host. Thou art an unjust man in saying so:
thou or any man knows where to have me, thou
knave thou!

Prince. Thou sayest true, hostess; and he
slanders thee most grossly. 149

Host. So he doth you, my lord; and said this
other day you ought him a thousand pound.

Prince. Sirrah! do I owe you a thousand
pound? 153

Fal. A thousand pound, Hal! a million: thy
love is worth a million; thou owest me thy love.

Host. Nay, my lord, he called you Jack, and
said he would cudgel you. 157

Fal. Did I, Bardolph?

Bard. Indeed, Sir John, you said so.

Fal. Yea; if he said my ring was copper. 160

Prince. I say 'tis copper: darest thou be as
good as thy word now?

Fal. Why, Hal, thou knowest, as thou art

151 ought: owed