The rugged'ft hour that time and spight dare bring, Keep the wild flood confin'd! let order die! Tra. This ftrained paffion doth you wrong, my lord: Sweet earl, divorce not wifdom from your honour. Mort. The lives of all your loving complices Lean on your health; the which, if you give o'er To stormy paffion, muft perforce decay. You caft the event of war, my noble lord, And fumm'd the account of chance, before you faid,- That, in the dole of blows your fon might drop: More likely to fall in, than to get o'er: с You were advis'd, his flesh was capable Of wounds, and scars; and that his forward fpirit Bard. We all, that are engaged to this lofs, . dole-diftribution. ffiff-borne]-refolutely carried. engaged ]-partakers, interested in. And yet we ventur'd, for the gain propos'd Mort. 'Tis more than time: And, my most noble lord, Suppos'd fincere and holy in his thoughts, h Choak'd the refpea]-Stifled the apprehenfion. And more, and lefs,]-Numbers great and fmall. The The apteft way for fafety, and revenge : Get pofts, and letters, and make friends with speed ; [Exeunt. Enter Sir John Falstaff, with his Page bearing his fword and buckler. Fal. Sirrah, you' giant! what fays the doctor to my water? Page. He faid, fir, the water itself was a good healthy water: but, for the party that owed it, he might have more diseases than he " knew for. n Fal. Men of all forts take a pride to gird at me: The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in my felf, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk before thee, like a fow, that hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. If the prince put thee into my service for any other reafon than to fet me off, why then I have no judgment. Thou whorfon mandrake, thou art fitter to be worn in my cap, than to wait at my heels. I was never mann'd with an agate 'till now but I will neither fet you in gold nor filver, but in vile apparel, and fend you back again to your mafter, for a jewel; the juvenal, the prince your master, whose chin is not yet fledg'd. I 1 giant !]-ironically. that owed it,]-from whom it proceeded. knew for.]-could either account for, or cure. to gird at me :]-to have a fling at me. ♪ I was never mann'd with an agate 'till now :]-mafter of one, with a man cut upon it, 'till I was prefented with thee, 9 the juvenal,]-the youngster. will fooner have a beard grow in the palm of my hand, than he fhall get one on his cheek; yet he will not stick to fay, his face is a face-royal. Heaven may finish it when he will, it is not a hair amifs yet: he may keep it still as a face-royal, for a barber fhall never earn fixpence out of it; and yet he will be crowing, as if he had writ man ever fince his father was a batchelor. He may keep his own grace, but he is almoft out of mine, I can affure him. What said mafter Dombledon about the fattin for my short cloak, and flops? Page. He faid, fir, you should procure him better affurance than Bardolph: he would not take his bond and yours; he lik'd not the fecurity. Fal. Let him be damn'd like the glutton! may his tongue be hotter !-A whorefon Achitophel! á rafcally yea-forfooth knave! to bear a gentleman in hand, and then stand upon fecurity !-The whorefon smooth-pates do now wear nothing but high fhoes, and bunches of keys at their girdles; and if a man is thorough with them in honest taking up, then they must stand upon-security. I had as lief they would put ratsbane in my mouth, as offer to stop it with fecurity. I look'd he should have fent me two and twenty yards of fattin, as I am a true knight, and he fends me fecurity. Well, he may fleep in fecurity; for he hath the horn of abundance, and the lightness of his wife fhines through it: and yet cannot he fee, though he have his own lanthorn to light him.Where's Bardolph ? W a face royal,]-requiring the razor as little, as that on the coin, called a royal, or real. • Dombledon] Double-done, Double-down-from charging doublyDumbleton, the name of a town in Gloucestershire. to bear a gentleman in band,]-to promife, to keep him in expec tation. "thorough with them in honeft taking up,]-deep in their books, by taking up goods on credit. bis own lantborn]-on his forehead. Page. Page. He's gone into Smithfield to buy your worship a horie. Fal. I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse in Smithfield: if I could get me but a wife in the stews, I were mann'd, hors'd, and wiv'd. Enter the Lord Chief Justice, and Servants. Page. Sir, here comes the nobleman that committed the prince for striking him about Bardolph. Fal. Wait clofe, I will not fee him. Ch. Juft. What's he that goes there? Ch, Juft. He that was in queftion for the robbery ? Serv. He, my lord: but he hath fince done good fervice at Shrewsbury; and, as I hear, is now going with fome charge to the lord John of Lancaster. Ch. Juft. What, to York? Call him back again. Fal. Boy, tell him, I am deaf. Page. You must speak louder, my mafter is deaf. Ch. Just. I am fure, he is, to the hearing of any thing good.-Go, pluck him by the elbow; I muft fpeak with him. Serv. Sir John, Fal. What! a young knave, and beg! Is there not wars? is there not employment? Doth not the king lack fubjects? do not the rebels want foldiers? Though it be a fhame to be on any fide but one, it is worse shame to beg than to be on the worst fide, were it worse than the name of rebellion can tell how to make it. Serv. You mistake me, fir. Fal. Why, fir, did I fay you were an honeft man? fetting my knighthood and my foldiership afide, I had lied my throat if I had faid fo. in "I bought him in Paul's]-I picked him up in St. Paul's churchyard, then the refort for all idle people." Who goes to Wefiminfter for a wife, to St. Paul's for a man, and to Smithfield for a horse, "may meet with a whore, a knave, and a jade." Frov. |