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Scene VA public place near Westminster AbbeyEnter two Grooms, strewing rushesFirst GroomMore rushes, more rushes.Second GroomThe trumpets have sounded twice.First Groom’Twill be two o’clock ere they come from the coronation: dispatch, dispatch. [Exeunt] Enter Falstaff, Shallow, Pistol, Bardolph, and PageFalstaffStand 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.PistolGod bless thy lungs, good knight.FalstaffCome here, Pistol; stand behind me. O, if I had had time to have made new liveries, I would have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But ’tis no matter; this poor show doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had to see him.ShallowIt doth so.FalstaffIt shows my earnestness of affection,—ShallowIt doth so.FalstaffMy devotion,—ShallowIt doth, it doth, it doth.FalstaffAs it were, to ride day and night; and not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to shift me,—ShallowIt is best, certain.FalstaffBut 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.Pistol’Tis ‘semper idem,’ for ‘obsque hoc nihil est:’ ’tis all in every part.Shallow’Tis so, indeed.PistolMy knight, I will inflame thy noble liver, And make thee rage. Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts, Is in base durance and contagious prison; Haled thither By most mechanical and dirty hand: Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto’s snake, For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.FalstaffI will deliver her.Shouts within, and the trumpets soundPistolThere roar’d the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.Enter King Henry V and his train, the Lord Chief-Justice among themFalstaffGod save thy grace, King Hal! my royal Hal!PistolThe heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!FalstaffGod save thee, my sweet boy!King Henry IVMy lord chief-justice, speak to that vain man.Lord Chief-justiceHave you your wits? know you what ’tis to speak?FalstaffMy king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!King Henry IVI 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 awaked, I do despise my dream. Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape For thee thrice wider than for other men. Reply not to me with a fool-born jest: Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn’d away my former self; So will I those that kept me company. 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 mile. 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 strengths and qualities, Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord, To see perform’d the tenor of our word. Set on.Exeunt King Henry V, &cFalstaffMaster Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.ShallowYea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me have home with me.FalstaffThat 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 advancements; I will be the man yet that shall make you great.ShallowI cannot well perceive how, unless you should give me your doublet and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred of my thousand.FalstaffSir, I will be as good as my word: this that you heard was but a colour.ShallowA colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John.FalstaffFear no colours: go with me to dinner: come, Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph: I shall be sent for soon at night.Re-enter Prince John of Lancaster, the Lord Chief-Justice; Officers with themLord Chief-justiceGo, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet: Take all his company along with him.FalstaffMy lord, my lord,—Lord Chief-justiceI cannot now speak: I will hear you soon. Take them away.PistolSi fortune me tormenta, spero contenta.Exeunt all but Prince John and the Lord Chief-JusticeLancasterI like this fair proceeding of the king’s: He hath intent his wonted followers Shall all be very well provided for; But all are banish’d till their conversations Appear more wise and modest to the world.Lord Chief-justiceAnd so they are.LancasterThe king hath call’d his parliament, my lord.Lord Chief-justiceHe hath.LancasterI will lay odds that, ere this year expire, We bear our civil swords and native fire As far as France: I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. Come, will you hence?Exeunt

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