13291170Host. Gods blessing of your good heart, and so she is by my

13301171troth.

13311172Falst. Didst thou heare me?

13321173Prince Yea and you knew me as you did, when you ranne

13331174away by Gadshil, you knew I was at your backe, and spoke it,

13341175on purpose to trie my patience.

13351176Falst. No, no, no, not so, I did not thinke thou wast within

13361177hearing.

13371178Prince I shall driue you then to confesse the wilfull abuse,

13381179and then I know how to handle you.

13391180Falst. No abuse Hall a mine honour, no abuse.

13401181Prince Not to dispraise me, and cal me pantler and bread-

13411182chipper, and I know not what?

13421183Fal. No abuse Hall.

13431184Poynes No abuse?

13441185Falst No abuse Ned i'th worlde, honest Ned, none, I dis-

13451186praisde him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall

13461187in loue with thee: in which doing, I haue done the part of a

13471188carefull friend and a true subiect, and thy father is to giue me

13481189thankes for it, no abuse Hall, none Ned, none, no faith boyes

13491190none.

13501191Prince See now whether pure feare and intire cowardize,

13511192doth not make thee wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close

13521193with vs: is she of the wicked, is thine hostesse here of the wic-

13531194ked, or is thy boy of the wicked, or honest Bardolfe whose zeal

13541195burnes in his nose of the wicked?

13561196Poynes Answer thou dead elme, answer.

13571197Falst. The fiend hath prickt down Bardolfe irrecouerable,

13581198and his face is Lucifers priuy kitchin, where he doth nothing

13591199but rost mault-worms, for the boy there is a good angel about

13601200him, but the diuel blinds him too.

13621201Prince For the weomen.

13631202Falst. For one of them shees in hell already, and burnes

13641203poore soules: for th'other I owe her mony, and whether she be

13651204damnd for that I know not.