Dol. I make them! gluttony and diseases
make them; I make them not.
Fal. If the cook help to make the glut-
tony, you help to make the diseases, Doll: we 48
catch of you, Doll, we catch of you; grant that,
my poor virtue, grant that.
Dol. Yea, joy, our chains and our jewels.
Fal. 'Your brooches, pearls, and owches':— 52
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,— 56
Dol. 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: 60
you are both, i' good truth, as rheumatic as two
dry toasts; you cannot one bear with another's
confirmities. What the good-year! one must
bear, and that must be you: you are the weaker 64
vessel, as they say, the emptier vessel.
Dol. Can a weak empty vessel bear such a
huge full hogshead? there's a whole merchant's
venture of Bordeaux stuff in him: you have not 68
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. 72
Enter Drawer [Francis].
Fran. Sir, Ancient Pistol's below, and would
speak with you.
52 Cf. n.
owches: jewels
56 chambers: small cannon
57 conger: eel
61 rheumatic: error for 'splenetic' (?)
63 good-year: corruption of French 'goujere,' 'the pox'
73 Ancient: ensign or second lieutenant, Peto being Captain Falstaff's first lieutenant
