13911280Prin. Dost thou speake like a king, do thou stand for me, and

13921281ile play my father.

13931282Fal. Depose me, if thou dost it halfe so grauely, so maiestical-

13941283ly, both in word and matter, hang me vp by the heeles for a rab-

13951284bet sucker, or a poulters Hare

13961285Prin. Well, here I am set.

13971286Fal. And here I stand, iudge my maisters.

13981287Prin. Now Harry, whence come you?

13991288Fal. My noble Lord from Eastcheape.

14001289Prin. The complaints I heare of thee are greeuous.

14011290Fal. Zbloud my Lord they are false: nay ile tickle ye for a yong

14021291prince I faith.

14031292Prin. Swearest thou vngratious boy, hence forth nere looke

14041293on me, thou art violently carried awaie from grace, there is a di-

14051294uell haunts thee in the likenesse of an olde fat man, a tun of man

14061295is thy companion: why doest thou conuerse with that trunke of

14071296humours, that boultinghutch of beastlinesse, that swolne parcell

14091297of dropsies that huge bombard of sacke, that stuft cloakebag of

14101298guts, that rosted Manningtre Oxe with the pudding in his belly,

14111299that reuerent vice, that gray iniquity, that father ruffian, that va-

14121300nity in yeares, wherein is he good, but to tast sacke and drinke it?

14131301wherein neat and clenly, but to carue a capon and eat it? wherein

14151302cunning, but in craft? wherein crafty, but in villany? wherein villa-

14161303nous, but in al things? where in worthy, but in nothing?

14181304Fal. I would your grace would take me with you, whome

14191305meanes your grace?

14201306Prin. That villanous abhominable misleader of youth, Fal-

14211307stalffe, that olde white bearded Sathan.

14221308Fal. My Lord, the man I know.

14231309Prin. I know thou doest.

14241310Fal. But to say I knowe more harme in him then in my selfe,

14251311were to say more then I know: that he is olde the more the pit-

14261312tie, his white haires doe witnesse it, but that he is sauing your re-

14271313uerence, a whoremaster, that I vtterlie denie: if sacke and sugar

14281314be a fault, God helpe the wicked; if to be olde and merry be a sin,

14301315then many an old host that I know is damnd: if to be fat be to be

14311316hated, then Pharaos lane kine are to be loued. No my good lord

14321317banish Peto, banish Bardoll, banish Poines, but for sweet Iacke

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