this, you blue-bottle rogue! you filthy famished
correctioner! if you be not swinged, I'll for-
swear half-kirtles. 24
First Bead. Come, come, you she knight-errant, come.
Host. O God, that right should thus overcome
might! Well, of sufferance comes ease.
Dol. Come, you rogue, come: bring me to 28
a justice.
Host. Ay; come, you starved blood-hound.
Dol. Goodman death! goodman bones!
Host. Thou atomy, thou! 32
Dol. Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal!
First Bead. Very well. Exeunt.
Scene Five
[A public Place near Westminster Abbey]
Enter two Grooms, strewers of rushes.
First Groom. More rushes, more rushes.
Sec. Groom. The trumpets have sounded
twice.
First Groom. 'Twill be two o'clock ere they 4
come from the coronation. Dispatch, dispatch.
Trumpets sound, and the King and his train pass over the stage. After them, enter Falstaff, Shallow, Pistol, Bardolph, and the Boy.
Fal. Stand here by me, Master Robert Shal-
low; I will make the king do you grace. I will
22 blue-bottle: the reference is to the beadle's blue livery
24 half-kirtles: waists or skirts
27 of sufferance: out of suffering
32 atomy: Dame Quickly's confusion of 'atom' with 'anatomy' = skeleton
