Some guard thefe traitors to the block of death, Treafon's true bed and yielder up of breath. [Exeunt. [Alarm. Excurfions. SCENE VI. Enter Falstaff and Colevile. Fal. What's your name, Sir? of what condition are you? and of what place, I pray? Cole. I am a Knight, Sir; and my name is Colevile of the dale. Fal. Well then, Colevile is your name, a Knight is your degree, and your place, the dale. ftill be your name, a traitor your degree, geon your place, a place deep enough. ftill be Colevile of the dale. Cole. Are not you Sir John Falstaff? Colevile fhall and the dunSo fhall you Fal. As good a man as he, Sir, who e'er I am. Do ye yield, Sir, or fhall I fweat for you? if I do fweat, they are the drops of thy lovers, and they weep for thy death; therefore rowze up fear and trembling, and do obfervance to my mercy. Cole. I think, you are Sir John Falstaff, and in that thought yield me. Fal. I have a whole fchool of tongues in this belly of mine, and not a tongue of them all fpeaks any other word but my name. An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were fimply the most active fellow in Europe; my womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. Here comes our General. It cannot but raise fome indignation to find this horrible violation of faith paffed over thus flightly by the poet, without any note of cenfure or deteftation. Enter Enter Prince John of Lancaster, and Weftmorland. Lan. The heat is paft, follow no farther now, Call in the Pow'rs, good coufin Westmorland. [Exit West. Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while ? When every thing is ended, then you come. Thefe tardy tricks of yours will, on my life, One time or other break fome Gallows' back. Fal. I would be forry, my lord, but it should be thus. I never knew yet, but rebuke and check was the reward of valour. Do you think me a fwallow, an arrow, or a bullet? Have I, in my poor and old motion, the expedition of thought? I fpeeded hither with the very extreameft inch of poffibility; I have founder'd ninefcore and odd pofts; and here, travel-tainted as I am, have in my pure and immaculate valour taken Sir John Colevile of the dale, a moft furious Knight and valorous enemy. But what of that? he faw me and yielded; that I may juftly fay with the hook-nos'd fellow of Rome there, Cafar, I came, faw, and overcame. Lan. It was more of his courtesy than your deferving. Fal. I know not; here he is, and here I yield him; and I beseech your Grace, let it be book'd with the rest of this day's deeds; or, by the lord, I will have it in a particular ballad elfe, with mine own picture on the top of it, Colevile kiffing my foot; to the which course if I be enforc'd, if you do not all fhew like gilt two-pences to me; and I, in the clear fky of fame, o'erfhine you as much as the full Moon doth the cinders of the element, which fhew like pins' heads to her; believe not the word of the noble. Therefore let me have Right, and let defert mount. Lan. Thine's too heavy to mount. 7 The heat is past.] That is, the violence of refentment, the eagerness of revenge. Fal. Fal. Let it fhine then. Lan. Thine's too thick to shine. 319 Fal. Let it do fomething, my good lord, that may do me good, and call it what Lan. Is thy name Colevile ? Cole. It is, my lord. you will. Lan. A famous Rebel art thou, Colevile. Fal. And a famous true Subject took him. Cole. I am, my lord, but as my betters are, That led me hither; had they been rul'd by me, You should have won them dearer than you have. Fal. I know not how they fold themselves; but thou, like a kind fellow, gav'it thy felf away gratis; and I thank thee for thee. SCENE VII. Enter Weftmorland. Lan. Now, have you left pursuit? To York, to prefent execution. Blunt, lead him hence; and fee you guard him fure. . [Ex. with Colevile, And now dispatch we tow'rd the Court, my lords; I hear, the King, my father, is fore fick; Our news fhall go before us to his Majefty, Which, coufin, you fhall bear to comfort him, And we with fober fpeed will follow you. Fal. My lord, I beseech you, give me leave to go through Glo'stershire; and when you come to Court, 'pray, ftand my good Lord in your good report. Stand my good Lord in your good report.] We must either read, prav let me ftand, or by a conftruction somewhat harth, understand it thus: Give me leave to go-and-fland. To stand in a report, referred to the reporter, is to perfft, and Falftoff did not afk the prince to perfift in his prefent opinion. Lan. Lan. Fare you well, Falstaff; I, in my condition, Shall better speak of you than you deserve. [Exit. Fal. I would, you had but the wit; 'twere better than your dukedom. Good faith, this fame young fober-blooded Boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine. There's never any of these demure boys come to any proof; for thin drink doth fo over cool their blood, and making many fish-meals, that they fall into a kind of male green-fick nefs; and then, when they marry, they get wenches. They are generally fools and cowards; which fome of us fhould be too, but for inflammation. A good Sherris-Sack hath a too fold operation in it; it afcends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish, dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehenfive, quick, 'forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes; which deliver'd o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The fecond property of your excellent Sherris, is, the warming of the blood; which before cold and fettled, left the liver white and pale; which is the badge of pufillanimity and cowardife; but the Sherris warms it, and makes it courfe from the inwards, to the parts extreme; it illuminateth the face, which, as a beacon, gives warning to all the reft of this little Kingdom, Man, to arm; and then the vital commoners and inland petty fpirits mufter me all to their captain, the heart; who great, and puft up with this retinue, doth any deed of courage; and this valour comes of Sherris. So that fkill in the weapon is nothing without fack, for that fets it a-work; and learning a meer hoard of gold kept by a devil, 'till Sack commences it, and fets it in act and use. Hereof comes it, that Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father, he hath, like lean, fteril, and bare land, manured, husbanded, and till'd, with excellent endeavour of drinking good, and good ftore of fertil Sherris, that he is become very hot and valiant. If I had a thousand fons, the firft human principle I would teach them should be to forfwear thin potations, and to addict themselves to Sack. Enter Bardolph. How now, Bardolph ? 2 Bard. The army is difcharged all, and gone. Fal. Let them go; I'll through Gloucestershire, and there will I vifit mafter Robert Shallow, Efquire; I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and fhortly will I feal with him. Come away. [Exeunt. SCENE VIII. Changes to the Palace at Westminster. Enter King Henry, Warwick, Clarence, and Gloucefter. K. Henry. Nefsful end [OW, lords, if heav'n doth give fuc To this debate that bleedeth at our doors, I have him already tempering &c.] A very pleafant allufion VOL. IV. to the old ufe Y of fealing with WARBURTON. Only |