27882472Shal. By cock and pie sir, you shal not away to night, what

27892473Dauy I say?

27902474Falst. You must excuse me master Robert Shallow.

27912475Shal. I will not excuse you, you shall not be excusde, ex-

27922476cuses shall not be admitted, there is no excuse shall serue, you

27932477shall not be excusde: why Dauy.

27952478Dauy Here sir.

27962479Shal. Dauy, Dauy, Dauy, Dauy, let me see Dauy, let me see

27972480Dauy, let me see, yea mary William Cooke, bid him come

27982481hither, sir Iohn, you shal not be excused.

27992482Dauy Mary sir thus, those precepts can not be serued, and

28002483againe sir, shal we sow the hade land with wheate?

28022484Shal. With red wheat Dauy, but for William Cooke

28032485are there no yong pigeons?

28042486Dauy Yes sir, here is now the Smiths note for shooing and

28062487plow-yrons.

28072488Shal. Let it be cast and payed: sir Iohn, you shal not be ex-

28082489cused.

28092490Dauy Now sir, a new lincke to the bucket must needes be

28102491had: and sir, do you meane to stop any of VWilliams wages, a-

28112492bout the sacke he lost at Hunkly Faire?

28132493Shal. A shall answer it: some pigeons Dauy, a couple of

28142494short legg'd hens, a ioynt of mutton, and any pretty little tinie

28152495Kick-shawes, tell william Cooke.

28172496Dauy Doth the man of warre stay all night sir?

28182497Shal. Yea Dauy, I will vse him well, a friend i'th court is

28192498better then a penie in purse: vse his men wel Dauy, for they are

28202499arrant knaues, and will backbite.

28222500Dauy No worse then they are back-bitten sir, for they haue

28232501maruailes foule linnen.

28242502Shal. Well conceited Dauy, about thy businesse Dauy.

28262503Dauy I beseech you sir to countenance William Visor

28272504of Woncote against Clement Perkes a'th hill.

28292505Sha. There is many complaints Dauy against that Visor,

28302506that Visor is an arrant knaue on my knowledge.

28322507Dauy I graunt your worship that he is a knaue sir: but yet

28332508God forbid sir, but a knaue should haue some countenance at

28342509his friends request, an honest man sir is able to speake for him-

28352510selfe, when a knaue is not: I haue seru'de your worship truly sir

28362511this eight yeares and I cannot once, or twice in a quarter beare

28372512out a knaue against an honest man, I haue litle credit with your

28392513worship: the knaue is mine honest friend sir, therfore I beseech

28402514you let him be countenaunst.

I3 Shal

28422515Shal. Go to I say, he shal haue no wrong, look about Dauy:

28442516where are you sir Iohn? come, come, come, off with your boots,

28452517giue me your hand master Bardolfe.

28462518Bard. I am glad to see your worship.

28472519Shal I thank thee with my heart kind master Bardolfe, and

28482520welcome my tall fellow, come sir Iohn.

28502521Falst. Ile follow you good maister Robert Shallow: Bar-

28512522dolfe, looke to our horses: if I were sawed into quantities, I

28522523should make foure dozen of such berded hermites staues as

28532524maister Shallow: it is a wonderfull thing to see the semblable

28542525coherence of his mens spirits, and his, they, by obseruing him,

28552526do beare themselues like foolish Iustices: hee, by conuersing

28562527with them, is turned into a Iustice-like seruingman, their spirits

28582528are so married in coniunction, with the participation of society,

28592529that they flocke together in consent, like so many wild-geese.

28602530If I had a suite to master Shallow, I would humour his men

28612531with the imputation, of beeing neere their maister: if to his

28622532men, I would curry with maister Shallow, that no man could

28632533better commaund his seruants. It is certaine, that eyther wise

28642534bearing, or ignorant cariage is caught, as men take diseases one

28662535of another: therefore let men take heede of their company. I

28672536will deuise matter enough out of this Shallow, to keepe prince

28682537Harry in continuall laughter, the wearing out of sixe fashions,

28692538which is foure termes, or two actions, and a shal laugh without

28702539interuallums. O it is much that a lie, with a slight oathe, and

28712540a iest, with a sad browe, will doe with a fellow that neuer had

28722541the ach in his shoulders: O you shall see him laugh til his face

28742542be like a wet cloake ill laide vp.

28752543Shal. Sir Iohn.

28762544Falst. I come maister Shallow, I come master Shallow.