The Historie.
11261052my buckler cut through and through, my
sworde hackt like a
11271053hand
saw,
ecce signum. I neuer dealt better
since I was a man, al
11281054would not do. A plague of all cowards, let them
speake, if they
11291055speake more or le
sse then truth, they are villains, and the
sonnes
11331058Ross. We foure
set vpon
some douzen.
11341059Falst. Sixteene at lea
st my Lord.
11361061Peto. No, no, they were not bound.
11371062Falst. You rogue they were bounde euerie man of them, or
11391064Ross. As we were
sharing,
some
sixe or
seuen fre
sh men
set
11411066Falst. And vnbound the re
st, and then come in the other.
11431067Prin. What, fought you with them all?
11441068Falst. Al, I know not what you cal al, but if I fought not with
11451069fiftie of them I am a bunch of radi
sh: if there were not two or
11461070three and
fiftie vpon poore olde Iacke, then am I no two legd
11481072Prin. Pray God you haue not murdred
some of them.
11501073Falst. Nay, thats pa
st praying for, I haue pepperd two of them.
11511074Two
I am
sure I haue paied, two rogues in buckrom
sutes: I tel
11521075thee what Hall, if I tell thee a lie,
spit in my face; call me hor
se,
11531076thou knowe
st my olde warde: here I lay, and thus I bore my
11541077poynt, foure rogues in Buckrom let driue at me.
11561078Prin What foure? thou
said
st but two euen now.
11571079Falst. Foure Hal, I told thee foure.
11591081Fal. The
se foure came all a front, and mainely thru
st at me,
11601082I made me no more adoe, but tooke all their
seuen points in my
11621084Prin. Seuen, why there were but foure euen now.
11651087Falst. Seuen by the
se hilts, or I am a villaine el
se.
11661088Pr. Preethe let him alone, we
shall haue more anon.
Prin.