the reward of valour. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a bullet? have I, in my poor and old motion, the expedition of thought? Ispeeded hither with the very extremeft inch of poffibility. I have -founder'd ninescore and odd pofts: and here, traveltainted as I am, have in my pure and immaculate valour taken Sir John Colevile of the dale, a most 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, Cæfar,

faw, and overcame.

-I came,

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 reft of this day's deeds; or, by the lord, I will have it in a particular ballad elle, 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.

Fal. Let it fhine then.

Lan. Thine's too thick to fhine.

Fal. Let it do fomething, my good lord, that may do me good, and call it what you will.

Lan. Is thy name Colevile?

Cole. It is, my

lord.

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,

thou, like a kind fellow, gav'ft thyfelf away gratis i and I thank thee for thee.

Lan. NOW

Weft. Retreat is made. and execution stay'd.

Lan. Send Colevile then with his Confederates To York, to prefent execution.

Blunt, lead him hence; and see you guard him fure.

[Ex. with Colevile. And now dispatch dispatch me tow'rd the Court, my lords; I hear, the King, my father, is fore sick: Our news fhall go before us to his Majesty, Which, coufin, you shall bear to comfort him: And we with fober speed will follow you.

Fal. My lord, I befeech you, give me leave to ga through Glosterfire; and when you come to Court, 'pray, ftand, my good Lord in your good report. 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 thefe demure boys come to any proof; for thin drink doth fo overcool their blood, and making many fifh-meals, that they fall into a kind of male green-fickness; 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 two-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

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shapes ;

fhapes; 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 skill in the weapon is nothing without fack, for that fets it a-work; and learning a mere 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 fertile Sherris, that he is become very hot and valiant. If I had a thousand fons, the firft human principle I would teach them fhould be to forfwear thin potations, and to addict themselves to Sack. Enter Bardolph.

How now, Bardolph?

Bard. The army is discharged 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 · [Exeunt.

away.

SCENE

Changes to the Palace at Weftminster.

Enter King Henry, Warwick, Clarence, and Gloucefter. OW, lords, if heav'n doth give fuccessful end

K. Henry. Now,

To this Debate that bleedeth at our doors,
We will our youth lead on to higher fields,
And draw no fwords but what are fanctify'd.
Our Navy is address'd, our Pow'r collected,
Our Subftitutes in abfence well invefted,
And every thing lies level to our wish :
'Only we want a little personal strength':
And paufe us, till thefe Rebels, now a-foot,
Come underneath the yoke of Government.
War. Both which, we doubt not, but your Majefty
Shall foon enjoy.

K. Henry, Humphry, my son of Gloucester,

Where is the Prince your brother?

Glou. I think, he's gone to hunt, my lord, at Windfor.

K. Henry. And how accompanied?

Glou. I do not know, my lord.

K. Henry. Is not his brother, Thomas of Clarence, with him?

Glou. No, my good lord, he is in prefence here. Cla. What would my lord and father?

K. Henry. Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of

Clarence.

How chance thou art not with the Prince thy brother?
He loves thee, and thou doft neglect him, Thomas;
Thou haft a better place in his affection,

Than all thy brothers: cherish it, my boy;
And noble offices thou may'ft affect

Of mediation, after I am dead,

Between his greatness and thy other brethren.

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Therefore

Therefore omit him not; blunt not his love;
Nor lofe the good advantage of his grace,
By feeming cold, or carelefs of his will.
For he is gracious, if he be observ'd:
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
Open as day, for melting charity:

Yet notwithstanding, being incens'd, he's flint;
As humorous as winter, and as fudden
As flaws congealed in the spring of day.
His temper therefore must be well obferv'd:
Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
When you perceive his blood inclin'd to mirth:
But being moody, give him line and scope,
'Till that his paffions, like a Whale on ground,
Confound themselves with working. Learn this, Tho
And thou fhalt prove a fhelter to thy friends: [mas,
A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in,
That the united veffel of their blood,
(Mingled with venom of fuggeftion,

As, force-per-force, the age will pour it in :)
Shall never leak, though it' do work as ftrong
As Aconitum, or rafh gun-powder.

Cla. I fhall obferve him with all care and love.
K. Henry. Why art thou not at Windfor with him,
Thomas?

Cla. He is not there to day; he dines in London.
K. Henry. And how accompanied ? canft thou tell
That?

Cla. With Poins, and other his continual followers, K. Henry. Moft subject is the fatteft foil to weeds: And he, the noble image of my youth,

Is over-fpread with them; therefore my grief
Stretches itself beyond the hour of death.

The blood weeps from my heart, when I do fhape,
In forms imaginary, th' unguided days
And rotten times that you fhall look upon,
When I am fleeping with my ancestors.
For when his headftrong riot hath no curb,

When