807761[Pr]. Ned, where are our disguises?

808762Po. Here, hard by, stand close.

809763Falst. Now my maisters, happieman be his dole, say I, euerie

810764man to his businesse. Enter the trauailers.

812765Trauel. Come neighbour, the boy shal lead our horses down

813766the hill, weele walke a foote a while and ease our legs.

815767Theeues. Stand. Trauel. Iesus blesse vs.

817768Falst. Strike, downe with them, cut the villaines throates, a

818769horesone Caterpillers, bacon-fed knaues, they hate vs youth,

819770downe with them, fleece them.

820771Tra. O we are vndone, both we and ours for euer.

821772Fal. Hang ye gorbellied knaues, are yee vndone, no ye fatte

822773chuffes I woulde your store were here: on bacons on, what yee

823774knaues yong men must liue, you are grand iurers, are ye, weele

824775iure ye faith.

827778Pr. The theeues haue bounde the true men, nowe coulde

828779thou and I rob the theeues, and go merrily to London, it woulde

829780be argument for a weeke, laughter for a month, and a good ieast

830781for euer.

831782Po. Stand close, I heare them comming.

833784Fal. Come my maisters, let vs share and then to horse before

834785day, and the prince and Poynes bee not two arrant cowardes

835786theres no equitie stirring, theres no more valour in that Poynes,

836787then in a wilde ducke.

837789Pr. Your money.

838790Po. Villaines. Falstalffe after a blow or two runs away

841792Prin. Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse: the theeues

842793are al scattered, and possest with feare so strongly, that they dare

843794not meete each other, each takes his fellowe for an officer, away

844795good Ned, Falstalffe sweates to death, and lards the leane earth

845796as he walkes along, wert not for laughing I should pittie him.

847797Po. How the fat rogue roard.