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King Henry the Fourth, II. iv
47

Give me some sack; and, sweetheart, lie thou there. 196

[Laying down his sword.]

Come we to full points here, and are et ceteras nothing?

Fal. Pistol, I would be quiet.

Pist. Sweet knight, I kiss thy neif. What!
we have seen the seven stars. 200

Dol. For God's sake, thrust him down stairs!
I cannot endure such a fustian rascal.

Pist. 'Thrust him down stairs!' know we not
Galloway nags? 204

Fal. Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-
groat
shilling: nay, an a' do nothing but speak
nothing, a' shall be nothing here.

Bard. Come, get you down stairs. 208

Pist. What! shall we have incision? Shall we imbrue? [Snatching up his sword.]
Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days!
Why then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds
Untwine the Sisters Three! Come, Atropos, I say! 212

Host. Here's goodly stuff toward!

Fal. Give me my rapier, boy.

Dol. I pray thee, Jack, I pray thee, do not
draw. 216

Fal. Get you down stairs. [Drawing.]

Host. Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forswear
keeping house, afore I'll be in these tirrits and
frights. So; murder, I warrant now. Alas, alas! 220
put up your naked weapons; put up your naked
weapons. [Exeunt Bardolph and Pistol.]


197 full points: a full stop
199 neif: fist
200 seven stars: the Pleiades
202 fustian: nonsensical
204 Galloway nags: small and inferior breed of horses
205 Quoit: pitch
shove-groat; cf. n.
209 imbrue: draw blood
212 Sisters Three: the Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos
213 toward: at hand
219 tirrits: blunder for terrors (?)