he noble change that I have purposed! ming to look on you, thinking you dead, (And dead almost, my liege, to think you were,) 1 spake unto the crown as having sense, Accusing it, I put it on my head; To try with it,-as with an enemy, But if it did infect my blood with joy, Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride; Heaven put it in thy mind, to take it hence, That thou might'st win the more thy father's love, Pleading so wisely in excuse of it. Come hither, Harry, sit thou by my bed; By what by-paths, and indirect crook'd ways, [hand; | Thou see'st with peril I have answered: Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort; est rest, and lying still, might make them look That strength of speech is utterly denied me. You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me: Enter Prince Jown of Lancaster, WARWICK, K. Hen. Look, look, here comes my John of Lancaster. P. John. Health, peace, and happiness, to my royal father! K. Hen. Thou bring'st me happiness and peace, son Jolin; [flown But health, alack, with youthful wings is From this bare, wither'd trunk: upon thy sight, My worldly business makes a period.- P. Hen. My lord of Warwick! K. Hen. Doth any name particular belong Unto the lodging where I first did swoon? War. "Tis called Jerusalem, my noble lord. K. Hen. Laud be to God!-even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, ACT V. SCENEI.-Glostershire.-A Hallin SHALLOW'S House. Enter SHALLOW, FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, and PAGE. Shal. By cock and pye, Sir, you shall not away to night.—What, Davy, I say! Ful. You must excuse me, master Robert Shallow. Shal. I will not excuse you; you shall not be excused; excuses shall not be admitted; there is no excuse shall serve; you shall not be excused. Why, Davy! Enter DAVY. Dary. Here, Sir. Shal. Davy, Davy, Davy,-let me see, Davy; let me see-yea, marry, William cook, bid him come hither.-Sir John, you shall not be excused. Dary. Marry, Sir, thus;-those precepts cannot be served: and, again, Sir,-Shall we sow the headland with wheat? Shal. With red wheat, Davy. But for William cook-Are there no young pigeons? Dary. Yes, Sir.-Here is now the smith's note, for shoeing, and plough-irons. Shal. Let it be cast, and paid:-Sir John, you shall not be excused. Dary. Now, Sir, a new link to the bucket must needs be had:-And, Sir, do you mean to stop any of William's wages, about the sack he lost the other day at Hinckley fair? Shal. He shall answer it:- -Some pigeons, Davy; a couple of short-legged hens; a joint of mutton; and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, teH William cook. Dary. Doth the man of war stay all night, Sir? Shal. Yes, Davy. I will use him well; A friend i'the court is better than a penny in purse. Use his men well, Davy; for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Dury. No worse than they are back-bitten, Sir; for they have marvellous foul linen. Shal. Well conceited, Davy. About thy business, Davy. Dary. I beseech you, Sir, to countenance William Visor of Wincot against Clement Perkes of the hill. Shal. There are many complaints, Davy, against that Visor; that Visor is an arrant knave on my knowledge. Dury. I grant your worship, that he is a knave, Sir: but yet, God forbid, Sir, but a knave should have some countenance at his friend's request. An honest man, Sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. I have served your worship truly, Sir, this eight years; and if I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man, I have but a very little credit with your worship. The knave is mine honest friend, Sir; therefore, I beseech your worship, let him be countenanced. Shal. Go to; I say, he shall have no wrong. Look about, Davy. [Exit DAVY.] Where are you, Sir John? Come, off with your boots.Give me your hand, master Bardolph. Bard. I am glad to see your worship. Shal. I thank thee with all my heart, kind master Bardolph:-and welcome, my tall fellow. [To the PAGE.] Come, Sir John. [Exit SHALLOW. Ful. I'll follow you, good master Robert Shallow. Bardolph, look to our horses. [Exeunt BARDOLPH and PAGE.] If I were sawed into quantities, I should make four dozen of such bearded hermit's-staves as master Shallow. It is a wonderful thing, to see the semblable coherence of his men's spirits and his: They, by observing him, do bear themselves like foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is turned into a justice-like serving-man; their spirits are so married in conjunction with the participation of society, that they flock together in consent, like so many wild-geese. If I had a suit to master Shallow, I would humour his men, with the imputation of being near their master: if to his men, I would curry with master Shallow, that no man could better command his servants. It is certain, that either wise bearing, or ignorant carriage, is caught, as men take diseases, one of another: therefore, let men take heed of their company. I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow, to keep prince Harry in continual laughter, the wearing-out of six fashions, (which is four terns, or two actions,) and he shall laugh without intervallums. Ö, it is much, that a lie, with a slight oath, and a jest, with a sad brow, will do with a fellow that never had the ache m his shoulders! O, you shall see him laugh, till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up.t Shal. [Within.] Sir John! Fal. I come, master Shallow; I come, master Shallow. [Exit FALSTAFF. SCENE II.-Westminster.--A Room in the Palace. Enter WARWICK, and the Lord CHIEF JUSTICE. War. How now, my lord chief justice? whi ther away? War. Exceeding well; his cares are now all ended. Ch. Just. I hope, not dead. War. He's walk'd the way of nature; The service that I truly did his life, you not. Ch. Just. I know, he doth not; and do arm To welcome the condition of the time; O, that the living Harry had the temper War. We do remember; but our argument Is all too heavy to admit much talk. P. John. Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy! Ch. Just. Peace be with us, lest we be heavier! P. Humph. O, good my lord, you have lost a friend, indeed: And I dare swear, you borrow not that face You stand in coldest expectation: Falstaff fair; Which swims against your stream of quality. Ch. Just. Sweet princes, what I did, I did in honour, Led by the impartial conduct of my sou!; Enter King HENRY V. Ch. Just. Good morrow; and heaven save your majesty! King. This new and gorgeous garment, maSits not so easy on me as you think. [jesty, Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear This is the English, not the Turkish court; Not Amurath an Amurath* succeeds, But Harry Harry: Yet be sad, good brothers, For, to speak truth, it very well becomes you Sorrow so royally in you appears, That I will deeply put the fashion on, And wear it in my heart. Why then, be sad: But entertain no more of it, good brothers, Than a joint burden laid upon us all. I'll be your father and your brother too; For me, by heaven, I bid you be assur'd, Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares, Emperor of the Turks, died in 1596; his son, which succeeded him, had all his brothers strangled. Yet weep, that Harry's dead; and so will I: P. John, &c. We hope no other from your ma- King. You all look strangely on me :-and Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me. How might a prince of my great hopes forget The image of his power lay then in me: For in his tomb lie my affections; say, Heaven shorten Harry's happy life one day. SCENE III-Glostershire.--The Garden of Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, SILENCE, BAR- And did commit you. If the deed were ill, son: and then to bed. Fal. 'Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling, and a rich. Shal. Barren, barren, barren; beggars all. beggars all, Sir John-marry, good air. is your serving-man, and your husbandman. Fal. This Davy serves you for good uses; he Nay, more; to spurn at your most royal image, King. You are right, justice, and you weigh Therefore still bear the balance and the sword: So shall I live to speak my father's words;- same With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit, You shall be as a father to my youth: [ear; * Crown. + Treat with contempt your acts executed by a representative. la your regal character and office. Shal. A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet, Sir John.-By the mass, I have drunk too much sack at supper:-a good varlet. Now sit down, now sit down:-come, cousin. Sul. Ah, sirrah! quoth-a,-we shall And ever among so merrily. Davy. and the PAGE at another table.] I'll be with you Shal. Be merry, master Bardolph;-and my little soldier there, be merry. Sil. Be merry, be merry, my wife's as all Fal. I did not think, master Silence had p been a man of this mettle. Sil. Who I? I have been merry twice and once, ere now. Re-enter DAVY. Davy. There is a dish of leather-coats* for you. Shal. Davy,- [Singing. And a merry heart lives long-u. Fal. Health and long life to you, master Sil. Fill the cup, and let it come; I'll pledge you a mile to the bottom. Shal. Honest Bardolph, welcome: if thou wantest any thing, and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart.-Welcome, my little tiny thief'; [To the PAGE.] and welcome, indeed, too.I'll drink to master Bardolph, and to all the cavaleroes about London. Davy. I hope to see London once ere I die. Bard. An I might see you there Davy,Shal. By the mass, you'll crack a quart together. Ha! will you not, master Bardolph? Bard. Yes, Sir, in a pottle pot. Shal. I thank thee:-The knave will stick by thee, I can assure thee that: he will not out; he is true bred. Bard. And I'll stick by him, Sir. Shal. Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing: be merry. [Knocking heard.] Look who's at door there: Ho! who knocks? Exit DAVY. Fal. Why, now you have done me right. [To SILENCE, who drinks a bumper. [Singing. Sil. Do me right, Samingo. Is't not so? Fal. "Tis so. [ACT V Pist. A foutra for the world, and worldlings base! I speak of Africa, and golden joys. Ful. O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news? Let king Cophetua know the truth thereof. And shall good news be bafiled? Pist. Why then, lament therefore. come with news from the court, I take it, there Shal. Give me pardon, Sir;-If, Sir, you conceal them. I am, Sir, under the king, in is but two ways; either to utter them, or to some authority. Pist. Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die. Shal. Under king Harry. Pist. Harry the fourth? or fifth? Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king; Fal. What is the old king dead? Pist. As nail in door: The things I speak, are just. Master Robert Shallow, choose what office knighthood for my fortune. Pist. What? I do bring good news? Shallow, my lord Shallow, be what thou wilt, Fal. Carry master Silence to bed.-Master I am fortune's steward. Get on thy boots; we'll ride all night:-0, sweet Pistol;Away, Bardolph. [Exit BARD.]-Come, Pistol, utter more to me; and, withal, devise something, to do thyself good.-Boot, boot, Sil. Is't so? Why, then say, an old man can master Shallow; I know, the young king is do somewhat. Re-enter DAVY. Davy. An it please your worship, there's one Pistol come from the court with news. Fal. From the court, let him come in. Enter PISTOL. Ful. How now, Pistol? Fal. What wind blew you hither, Pistol? Pist. Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.-Sweet knight, thou art now one of the greatest men in the realm. Si. By'r lady, I think 'a be; but goodman Puff of Barson. Pist. Puff? Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base!- * Apples commonly called russetines. Gay fellows. sick for me. Let us take any man's horses; Pist. Let vultures vile seize on his lungs Where is the life that late I led, say they : SCENE IV.-London.-A street. Enter BEADLES, dragging in Hostess QUICKLY, and DOLL TEAR-SHEET. Host. No, thou arrant knave: I would I might die, that I might have thee hanged: thou hast drawn my shoulder out of joint. 1 Bead. The constables have delivered her over to me; and she shall have whipping-cheer enough, I warrant her: There hath been a man or two lately killed about her. Dol. Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie. Come on; I'll tell thee what, thou damned tripevisaged rascal; an the child I now go with, dc miscarry, thou hadst better thou hadst struck He who drank a bumper on his knees to the health of thy mother, thou paper-faced villain. his mistress, was dubbed a knight for the evening. It should be Domingo; it is part of a song in one of Nashe's plays. Host. O the Lord, that Sir John were come * A term of reproach for a catchpoll. he would make this a bloody day to somebody. But I pray God the fruit of her womb miscarry! Pist. There roar'd the sea, and trumpetclangor sounds. 1 Bead. If it do, you shall have a dozen of Enter the KING and his Train, the CHIEF JUScushions again; you have but eleven now. Come, I charge you both go with me; for the man is dead, that you and Pistol beat among jou. Dol. I'll tell thee what, thou thin man in a renser! I will have you as soundly swinged for this, you blue-bottle rogue!t you filthy famished correctioner! if you be not swinged, I'll forswear half-kirtles. 1 Bead. Come, come, you she knight-errant, Lome. Host. O, that right should thus overcome might! Well; of sufferance comes ease. Dol. Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a justice. Host. Ay; come, you starved blood-hound. Dol: Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal! 1 Bead. Very well. [Exeunt. SCENE V.-A public Place near Westminster Abbey. Enter two GROOMS, strewing Rushes. 1 Groom. More rushes, more rushes. 2 Groom. The trumpets have sounded twice. 1 Groom. It will be two o'clock ere they come from the coronation: Despatch, despatch. [Exeunt GROOMS. Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and the PAGE. Fal. Stand here by me, master Robert Shallow; I will make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him, as 'a comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he will give me. Pist. God bless thy lungs, good knight. Fal. Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. O, if I had had time to have made new liveries, I would have bestowed the thousand pound Í borrowed of you. [To SHALLOW.] But 'tis no matter; this poor show doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had to see him. Shal. It doth so. TICE among them. Ful. God save thy grace, king Hal! my roya. Hal! Pist. The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame! Fal. God save thee, my sweet boy! King. My lord chief justice, speak to that vain man. Ch. Just. Have you your wits? know you what 'tis you speak? Fal. My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart! King. I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester For thee thrice wider than for other men:- Shal. Ay, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me have home with me. Fal. That can hardly be, master Shallow. Do not you grieve at this; I shall be sent for in private to him: look you, he must seem thus to the world. Fear not your advancement; I will be the man yet, that shall make you great. Shal. I cannot perceive how; unless you give me your doublet, and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred of my thousand. Fal. Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you heard, was but a colour. Shal. A colour, I fear, that you will die in, Sir John. Fal. Fear no colours; go with me to dinner. Come, lieutenant Pistol;-come, Bardolph:-I shall be sent for soon at night. Re-enter Prince JOHN, the CHIEF JUSTICE, Officers, &c. |