The second Part of King Henry the Fourth.
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And take thou this (O thoughts of men accurs'd)
"Past, and to Come, seemes best; things Present, worst.
"Past, and to Come, seemes best; things Present, worst.
Mow.
Shall we go draw our numbers, and set on?
Shall we go draw our numbers, and set on?
Hast.
We are Times subiects, and Time bids, be gon.
We are Times subiects, and Time bids, be gon.
Actus Secundus. Scæna Prima.
Enter Hostesse, with two Officers, Fang, and Snare.
Hostesse.
Mr. Fang, haue you entred the Action?
Mr. Fang, haue you entred the Action?
Fang.
It is enter'd.
It is enter'd.
Hostesse.
Wher's your Yeoman? Is it a lusty yeoman?
Will he stand to it?
Wher's your Yeoman? Is it a lusty yeoman?
Will he stand to it?
Fang.
Sirrah, where's Snare?
Sirrah, where's Snare?
Hostesse.
I, I, good M. Snare.
I, I, good M. Snare.
Snare.
Heere, heere.
Heere, heere.
Fang.
Snare, we must Arrest Sir Iohn Falstaffe.
Snare, we must Arrest Sir Iohn Falstaffe.
Host.
I good M. Snare, I haue enter'd him, and all.
I good M. Snare, I haue enter'd him, and all.
Sn.
It may chance cost some of vs our liues: he wil stab
It may chance cost some of vs our liues: he wil stab
Hostesse.
Alas the day: take heed of him: he stabd me
in mine owne house, and that most beastly: he cares not
what mischeefe he doth, if his weapon be out. Hee will
foyne like any diuell, he will spare neither man, woman,
nor childe.
Alas the day: take heed of him: he stabd me
in mine owne house, and that most beastly: he cares not
what mischeefe he doth, if his weapon be out. Hee will
foyne like any diuell, he will spare neither man, woman,
nor childe.
Fang.
If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.
If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.
Hostesse.
No, nor I neither: Ile be at your elbow.
No, nor I neither: Ile be at your elbow.
Fang.
If I but fist him once: if he come but within my Vice.
If I but fist him once: if he come but within my Vice.
Host.
I am vndone with his going: I warrant he is an
infinitiue thing vpon my score. Good M. Fang hold him
sure: good M. Snare let him not scape, he comes continuantly
to Py-Corner (sauing your manhoods) to buy a saddle,
and hee is indited to dinner to the Lubbars head in
Lombard street, to M. Smoothes the Silkman. I pra' ye, since
my Exion is enter'd, and my Case so openly known to the
world, let him be brought in to his answer: A 100. Marke
is a long one, for a poore lone woman to beare: & I haue
borne, and borne, and borne, and haue bin fub'd off, and
fub'd-off, from this day to that day, that it is a shame
to be thought on. There is no honesty in such dealing, vnles
a woman should be made an Asse and a Beast, to beare euery
Knaues wrong.
Enter Falstaffe and Bardolfe.
Yonder he comes, and that arrant Malmesey-Nose Bardolfe
with him. Do your Offices, do your offices: M. Fang,
& M. Snare, do me, do me, do me your Offices.
I am vndone with his going: I warrant he is an
infinitiue thing vpon my score. Good M. Fang hold him
sure: good M. Snare let him not scape, he comes continuantly
to Py-Corner (sauing your manhoods) to buy a saddle,
and hee is indited to dinner to the Lubbars head in
Lombard street, to M. Smoothes the Silkman. I pra' ye, since
my Exion is enter'd, and my Case so openly known to the
world, let him be brought in to his answer: A 100. Marke
is a long one, for a poore lone woman to beare: & I haue
borne, and borne, and borne, and haue bin fub'd off, and
fub'd-off, from this day to that day, that it is a shame
to be thought on. There is no honesty in such dealing, vnles
a woman should be made an Asse and a Beast, to beare euery
Knaues wrong.
Enter Falstaffe and Bardolfe.
Yonder he comes, and that arrant Malmesey-Nose Bardolfe
with him. Do your Offices, do your offices: M. Fang,
& M. Snare, do me, do me, do me your Offices.
Fal.
How now? whose Mare's dead? what's the matter?
How now? whose Mare's dead? what's the matter?
Fang.
Sir Iohn, I arrest you, at the suit of Mist. Quickly.
Sir Iohn, I arrest you, at the suit of Mist. Quickly.
Falst.
Away Varlets, draw Bardolfe: Cut me off the
Villaines head: throw the Queane in the Channel.
Away Varlets, draw Bardolfe: Cut me off the
Villaines head: throw the Queane in the Channel.
Host.
Throw me in the channell? Ile throw thee there.
Wilt thou? wilt thou? thou bastardly rogue. Murder, murder,
O thou Hony-suckle villaine, wilt thou kill Gods officers,
and the Kings? O thou hony-seed Rogue, thou art
a honyseed, a Man-queller, and a woman-queller.
Throw me in the channell? Ile throw thee there.
Wilt thou? wilt thou? thou bastardly rogue. Murder, murder,
O thou Hony-suckle villaine, wilt thou kill Gods officers,
and the Kings? O thou hony-seed Rogue, thou art
a honyseed, a Man-queller, and a woman-queller.
Falst.
Keep them off, Bardolfe.
Keep them off, Bardolfe.
Fang.
A rescu, a rescu.
A rescu, a rescu.
Host.
Good people bring a rescu. Thou wilt not? thou
wilt not? Do, do thou Rogue: Do thou Hempseed.
Good people bring a rescu. Thou wilt not? thou
wilt not? Do, do thou Rogue: Do thou Hempseed.
Page.
Away you Scullion, you Rampallian, you Fustillirian:
Ile tucke your Catastrophe.
Away you Scullion, you Rampallian, you Fustillirian:
Ile tucke your Catastrophe.
Enter Ch. Iustice.
Iust.
What's the matter? Keepe the Peace here, hoa.
What's the matter? Keepe the Peace here, hoa.
Host.
Good my Lord be good to mee. I beseech you stand to me.
Good my Lord be good to mee. I beseech you stand to me.
Ch.Iust.
How now sir Iohn? What are you brauling here?
Doth this become your place, your time, and businesse?
You should haue bene well on your way to Yorke.
Stand from him Fellow; wherefore hang'st vpon him?
How now sir Iohn? What are you brauling here?
Doth this become your place, your time, and businesse?
You should haue bene well on your way to Yorke.
Stand from him Fellow; wherefore hang'st vpon him?
Host.
Oh my most worshipfull Lord, and't please your
Grace, I am a poore widdow of Eastcheap, and he is arrested
at my suit.
Oh my most worshipfull Lord, and't please your
Grace, I am a poore widdow of Eastcheap, and he is arrested
at my suit.
Ch.Iust.
For what summe?
For what summe?
Host.
It is more then for some (my Lord) it is for all: all
I haue, he hath eaten me out of house and home; hee hath
put all my substance into that fat belly of his: but I will
haue some of it out againe, or I will ride thee o' Nights,
like the Mare.
It is more then for some (my Lord) it is for all: all
I haue, he hath eaten me out of house and home; hee hath
put all my substance into that fat belly of his: but I will
haue some of it out againe, or I will ride thee o' Nights,
like the Mare.
Falst.
I thinke I am as like to ride the Mare, if I haue
any vantage of ground, to get vp.
I thinke I am as like to ride the Mare, if I haue
any vantage of ground, to get vp.
Ch.Iust.
How comes this, Sir Iohn? Fy, what a man of
good temper would endure this tempest of exclamation?
Are you not asham'd to inforce a poore Widdowe to so
rough a course, to come by her owne?
How comes this, Sir Iohn? Fy, what a man of
good temper would endure this tempest of exclamation?
Are you not asham'd to inforce a poore Widdowe to so
rough a course, to come by her owne?
Falst.
What is the grosse summe that I owe thee?
What is the grosse summe that I owe thee?
Host.
Marry (if thou wer't an honest man) thy selfe, &
the mony too. Thou didst sweare to mee vpon a parcell
gilt Goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber at the round
table, by a sea-cole fire, on Wednesday in Whitson week,
when the Prince broke thy head for lik'ning him to a singing
man of Windsor; Thou didst sweare to me then (as I
was washing thy wound) to marry me, and make mee my
Lady thy wife. Canst yͧ deny it? Did not goodwife Keech
the Butchers wife come in then, and cal me gossip Quickly?
comming in to borrow a messe of Vinegar: telling vs,
she had a good dish of Prawnes: whereby thou didst desire to
eat some: whereby I told thee they were ill for a greene
wound? And didst not thou (when she was gone downe
staires) desire me to be no more familiar with such poore
people, saying, that ere long they should call me Madam?
And did'st yͧ not kisse me, and bid mee fetch thee 30.s? I
put thee now to thy Book-oath, deny it if thou canst?
Marry (if thou wer't an honest man) thy selfe, &
the mony too. Thou didst sweare to mee vpon a parcell
gilt Goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber at the round
table, by a sea-cole fire, on Wednesday in Whitson week,
when the Prince broke thy head for lik'ning him to a singing
man of Windsor; Thou didst sweare to me then (as I
was washing thy wound) to marry me, and make mee my
Lady thy wife. Canst yͧ deny it? Did not goodwife Keech
the Butchers wife come in then, and cal me gossip Quickly?
comming in to borrow a messe of Vinegar: telling vs,
she had a good dish of Prawnes: whereby thou didst desire to
eat some: whereby I told thee they were ill for a greene
wound? And didst not thou (when she was gone downe
staires) desire me to be no more familiar with such poore
people, saying, that ere long they should call me Madam?
And did'st yͧ not kisse me, and bid mee fetch thee 30.s? I
put thee now to thy Book-oath, deny it if thou canst?
Fal.
My Lord, this is a poore mad soule: and she sayes
vp & downe the town, that her eldest son is like you. She
hath bin in good case, & the truth is, pouerty hath distracted
her: but for these foolish Officers, I beseech you, I
may haue redresse against them.
My Lord, this is a poore mad soule: and she sayes
vp & downe the town, that her eldest son is like you. She
hath bin in good case, & the truth is, pouerty hath distracted
her: but for these foolish Officers, I beseech you, I
may haue redresse against them.
Iust.
Sir Iohn, sir Iohn, I am well acquainted with your
maner of wrenching the true cause, the false way. It is not
a confident brow, nor the throng of wordes, that come
with such (more then impudent) sawcines from you, can
thrust me from a leuell consideration, I know you ha' practis'd
vpon the easie-yeelding spirit of this woman.
Sir Iohn, sir Iohn, I am well acquainted with your
maner of wrenching the true cause, the false way. It is not
a confident brow, nor the throng of wordes, that come
with such (more then impudent) sawcines from you, can
thrust me from a leuell consideration, I know you ha' practis'd
vpon the easie-yeelding spirit of this woman.
Host.
Yes in troth my Lord.
Yes in troth my Lord.
Iust.
Prethee peace: pay her the debt you owe her, and
vnpay the villany you haue done her: the one you may do
with sterling mony, & the other with currant repentance.
Prethee peace: pay her the debt you owe her, and
vnpay the villany you haue done her: the one you may do
with sterling mony, & the other with currant repentance.
Fal.
My Lord, I will not vndergo this sneape without
reply. You call honorable Boldnes, impudent Sawcinesse:
If a man wil curt'sie, and say nothing, he is vertuous: No,
my Lord (your humble duty reme[m]bred) I will not be your
sutor. I say to you, I desire deliu'rance from these Officers
being vpon hasty employment in the Kings Affaires.
My Lord, I will not vndergo this sneape without
reply. You call honorable Boldnes, impudent Sawcinesse:
If a man wil curt'sie, and say nothing, he is vertuous: No,
my Lord (your humble duty reme[m]bred) I will not be your
sutor. I say to you, I desire deliu'rance from these Officers
being vpon hasty employment in the Kings Affaires.
Iust.
You speake, as hauing power to do wrong: But
answer in the effect of your Reputation, and satisfie the
poore woman.
You speake, as hauing power to do wrong: But
answer in the effect of your Reputation, and satisfie the
poore woman.
Falst.
Come hither Hostesse.
Come hither Hostesse.
Enter M. Gower
Ch.Iust.
Now Master Gower; What newes?
Now Master Gower; What newes?
Gow.
The King (my Lord) and Henrie Prince of Wales
Are neere at hand: The rest the Paper telles.
The King (my Lord) and Henrie Prince of Wales
Are neere at hand: The rest the Paper telles.
Falst.
As I am a Gentleman.
As I am a Gentleman.
Host.
Nay, you said so before.
Nay, you said so before.
Fal.
As I am a Gentleman. Come, no more words of it
As I am a Gentleman. Come, no more words of it
Host.
By this Heauenly ground I tread on, I must be
faine to pawne both my Plate, and the Tapistry of my
dyning Chambers.
By this Heauenly ground I tread on, I must be
faine to pawne both my Plate, and the Tapistry of my
dyning Chambers.
Falst.
