Fal. My devotion;

Shal. It doth, it doth, it doth.

Fal. As it were, to ride day and night; and not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to shift me ;

Shal. It is most certain.

Fal. But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with desire to see him: thinking of nothing else; putting all affairs else in oblivion; as if there were nothing else to be done, but to see him.-'Tis all in all, and all in every part.

Shal. 'Tis so, indeed.

Flourish of Trumpets and Drums.

Enter the KING, the PRINCES, the EARL OF WESTMORELAND, the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, GOWER, and others of the KING'S Train.

Fal. Heaven save thy grace, King Hal! my royal Hal!

Pist. The Heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!

Fal. Heaven save thee, my sweet boy!

K. Hen. 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! K. Hen. I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers:

How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester!
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane;
But, being awake, I do despise my dream.-
Reply not to me with a full-born jest ;
Presume not, that I am the thing I was:
For Heaven doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn'd away my former self:

When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
Approach me; and thou shalt be as thou wast,
The tutor and the feeder of my riots:

Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death,—
As I have done the rest of my misleaders,
Not to come near our person by ten miles.
For competence of life I will allow you;
That lack of means enforce you not to evil :
And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,
We will, according to your strength, and qualities,
Give you advancement.-Be it your charge, my lord,
To see perform'd the tenor of our word.-

[The KING retires with his Train. Fal. Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound. 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, ancient Pistol;-come, Bardolph:-I shall be sent for soon at night.

[Exeunt FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and Page.

Ch. Just. I like this fair proceeding of the king's: Yet still I fear, 'twill bring no grace to me.

P. John. You have, indeed, my lord, great cause to doubt.

K. Hen. Still all look strangely on me ;-and you

most;

[To the CHIEF Justice.

You are, I think, assur'd I love you not.

Ch. Just. I am assur'd, if I be measur'd rightly, Your majesty has no just cause to hate me.

K. Hen. No?

How might a prince of my great hopes forget
So great indignities you laid upon me?
What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison,
The immediate heir of England! Was this easy!
May this be wash'd in Lethe, and forgotten?

Ch. Just. I then did use the person of your fa

ther;

The image of his power lay then in me:
And, in the administration of his law,
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
Your highness pleased to forget my place,
The majesty and power of law and justice,
The image of the king whom I presented,
And struck me in my very seat of judgment;
Whereon, as an offender to your father,
I gave bold way to my authority,

And did commit you.

Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours; Be now the father, and propose a son :

Hear your own dignity so much profan'd,

See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd;
And then imagine me taking your part,
And, in your power, so silencing your son;
After this cold considerance, sentence me;
And, as you are a king, speak in your state,—
What I have done, that misbecame my place,
My person, or my liege's sovereignty.

K. Hen. You are right, Justice, and you weigh
this well;

Therefore still bear the balance, and the sword;
And I do wish your honours may increase,

H

Till you
Offend you, and obey you, as I did.
You did commit me:

do live to see a son of mine

For which, I do commit into your

hand

The unstained sword that you have us'd to bear;
With this remembrance,-That you use the same
With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit,
As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand;
You shall be as a father to my youth:

My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear;
And I will stoop and humble my intents
To your well-practis'd wise directions.--
Now call we our high court of parliament:
And let us chuse such limbs of noble counsel,
That the great body of our state may go
In equal rank with the best-govern'd nation;
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us ;-
In which you, father, shall have foremost hand.
[To the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.

Our coronation done, we will accite,

As I before remember'd, all our state:

And (Heaven consigning to my good intents,)
No prince, nor peer, shall have just cause to say,-
Heaven shorten Harry's happy life one day.

Flourish of Trumpets and Drums.

THE END.

[Exeunt.

THE

MERCHANT OF VENICE;

A COMEDY,

IN FIVE ACTS;

BY WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

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