301Fal. Mine Host of the Garter?

302Ho. What saies my Bully Rooke? speake schollerly,

303and wisely.

304Fal. Truely mine Host; I must turne away some of my

305followers.

306Ho. Discard, (bully Hercules) casheere; let them wag;

307trot, trot.

308Fal. I sit at ten pounds a weeke.

309Ho. Thou'rt an Emperor (Cesar, Keiser and Pheazar)

310I will entertaine Bardolfe: he shall draw; he shall tap; said

311I well (bully Hector?)

312Fa. Doe so (good mine Host.

313Ho. I haue spoke; let him follow; let me see thee froth,

314and liue: I am at a word: follow.

315Fal. Bardolfe, follow him: a Tapster is a good trade:

316an old Cloake, makes a new Ierkin: a wither'd Seruing-

317man, a fresh Tapster: goe, adew.

318Ba. It is a life that I haue desir'd: I will thriue.

319Pist. O base hungarian wight: wilt y^u the spigot wield.

320Ni. He was gotten in drink: is not the humor cōceited?

321Fal. I am glad I am so acquit of this Tinderbox: his

322Thefts were too open: his filching was like an vnskilfull

323Singer, he kept not time.

324Ni. The good humor is to steale at a minutes rest.

325Pist. Conuay: the wise it call: Steale? foh: a fico for

326the phrase.

327Fal. Well sirs, I am almost out at heeles.

328Pist. Why then let Kibes ensue.

329Fal. There is no remedy: I must conicatch, I must shift.

330Pist. Yong Rauens must haue foode.

331Fal. Which of you know Ford of this Towne?

332Pist. I ken the wight: he is of substance good.

333Fal. My honest Lads, I will tell you what I am about.

334Pist. Two yards, and more.

335Fal. No quips now Pistoll: (Indeede I am in the waste

336two yards about: but I am now about no waste: I am a-

337bout thrift) briefely: I doe meane to make loue to Fords

338wife: I spie entertainment in her: shee discourses: shee

339carues: she giues the leere of inuitation: I can construe

340the action of her familier stile, & the hardest voice of her

341behauior (to be english'd rightly) is, I am Sir Iohn Falstafs.

342Pist. He hath studied her will; and translated her will:

343out of honesty, into English.

344Ni. The Anchor is deepe: will that humor passe?

345Fal. Now, the report goes, she has all the rule of her

346husbands Purse: he hath a legend of Angels.

347Pist. As many diuels entertaine: and to her Boy say I.

348Ni. The humor rises: it is good: humor me the angels.

349Fal. I haue writ me here a letter to her: & here ano-

350ther to Pages wife, who euen now gaue mee good eyes

351too; examind my parts with most iudicious illiads: some-

352times the beame of her view, guilded my foote: some-

353times my portly belly.

354Pist. Then did the Sun on dung-hill shine.

355Ni. I thanke thee for that humour.

356Fal. O she did so course o're my exteriors with such

357a greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye, did seeme

358to scorch me vp like a burning-glasse: here's another

359letter to her: She beares the Purse too: She is a Region

360in Guiana: all gold, and bountie: I will be Cheaters to

361them both, and they shall be Exchequers to mee: they

362shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to

363them both: Goe, beare thou this Letter to Mistris Page;

364and thou this to Mistris Ford: we will thriue (Lads) we

365will thriue.

366Pist. Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become,

367And by my side weare Steele? then Lucifer take all.

368Ni. I will run no base humor: here take the humor-Letter;

369I will keepe the hauior of reputation.

370Fal. Hold Sirha, beare you these Letters tightly,

371Saile like my Pinnasse to these golden shores.

372Rogues, hence, auaunt, vanish like haile-stones; goe,

373Trudge; plod away ith' hoofe: seeke shelter, packe:

374Falstaffe will learne the honor of the age,

375French-thrift, you Rogues, my selfe, and skirted Page.

376Pist. Let Vultures gripe thy guts: for gourd, and

377Fullam holds: & high and low beguiles the rich & poore,

378Tester ile haue in pouch when thou shalt lacke,

379Base Phrygian Turke.

380Ni. I haue opperations,

381Which be humors of reuenge.

382Pist. Wilt thou reuenge?

383Ni. By Welkin, and her Star.

384Pist. With wit, or Steele?

385Ni. With both the humors, I:

386I will discusse the humour of this Loue to Ford.

387Pist. And I to Page shall eke vnfold

388How Falstaffe (varlet vile)

389His Doue will proue; his gold will hold,

390And his soft couch defile.

391Ni. My humour shall not coole: I will incense Ford

392to deale with poyson: I will possesse him with yallow-

393nesse, for the reuolt of mine is dangerous: that is my

394true humour.

395Pist. Thou art the Mars of Malecontents: I second

396thee: troope on. Exeunt.