320shines through it: wheres Bardolf, & yet can not he
see though
¶he haue his owne lanthorne to light him.
¶Boy Hees gone in Smithfield to buy your wor
ship a hor
se.
325sir Iohn I bought him in Paules, and heele buy me a hor
se
¶in Smithfield, and I could get me but a wife in the
stewes, I
¶were man'd, hor
sde, and wiu'd.
¶Enter Lord chiefe Iustice.
¶Boy Sir, here comes the noble man that committed the prince
330for
striking him about Bardolfe.
¶sir Iohn Wait clo
se, I will not
see him.
¶Iustice Whats hee that goes there?
¶seru. Fal
staffe, and't plea
se your lord
ship.
¶Iust. He that was in que
stion for the rob'ry?
335seru. He my Lord, but he hath
since done good
seruice at
¶Shrew
sbury, & (as I heare,) is now going with
some charge to
¶the lord Iohn of Lanca
ster.
¶Iust. What to Yorke? call him backe againe.
¶seru. Sir Iohn Fal
staffe.
340Iohn Boy, tell him I am deafe.
¶Boy You mu
st
speake lowder, my ma
ster is deafe.
¶Iust. I am
sure he is to the hearing of any thing good, goe
¶plucke him by the elbow, I mu
st
speake with him.
345Falst. What? a yong knaue and begging? is there not wars?
¶is there not employment? doth not the King lacke
subiects? do
¶not the rebels need
souldiers, though it be a
shame to be on any
¶side but one, it is wor
se
shame to beg then to be on the wor
st
¶side, were it wor
se then the name of Rebellion can tell how to
¶seru. You mi
stake me
sir.
¶Iohn Why
sir, did I
say you were an hone
st man,
setting my
¶knighthood and my
souldier
ship a
side, I had lied in my throat
355seru. I pray you
sir then
set your knighthood, and your
sol-
¶dier
ship a
side, and giue me leaue to tell you, you lie in your
¶throate, if you
say I am any other then an hone
st man.
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