¶tion of your eares, and I care not if I doe become your
phisitian.
¶Falst. I am as poore as Iob my lord, but not
so pacient,
395your Lord
ship may mini
ster the potion of impri
sonment to
¶me, in re
spect of pouerty, but how I
should be your pacient to
¶follow your pre
scriptions, the wi
se may make
som dramme of
¶a
scruple or indeede a
scruple it
selfe.
¶Iust. I
sent for you when there were matters again
st you for
400your life to come
speake with me.
¶Falst. As I was then adui
sde by my learned coun
sail in the
¶lawes of this land
seruice, I did not come.
¶Iust. Wel, the truth is
sir Iohn, you liue in great infamy.
¶Falst. He that buckles him
selfe in my belt cannot liue in
lesse.
405Iust. Your meanes are very
slender, and your wa
ste is great.
¶Falst. I would it were otherwi
se, I would my meanes were
¶greater and my wa
ste
slender.
¶Iust. You haue mi
sled the youthfull prince.
¶Falst. The yong prince hath mi
sled me, I am the felow with
410the great belly, and he my dogge.
¶Iust. Wel, I am loth to gall a new heald wound, your daies
¶seruice at Shrew
sbury, hath a little guilded ouer your nights
¶exploit on Gad
shill, you may thanke th'vnquiet time, for your
¶quiet orepo
sting that action.
¶Iust. But
since all is well, keepe it
so, wake not a
sleeping
wolfe.
¶Falst. To wake a wolfe, is as bad as
smell a fox.
¶Iust. VVhat you are as a candle, the better part, burnt out.
¶Falst. A wa
ssel candle my lord, al tallow, if I did
say of wax,
420my growth would approue the truth.
¶Iust. There is not a white haire in your face, but
should
¶haue his effect of grauity.
¶Falst. His effect of grauy, grauie, grauie.
¶Iust. You follow the yong prince vp and downe, like his
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