12591166Prin. Faith tell me now in earnest, how came Falstalffs sword

12601167so hackt?

12611168Peto. Why, he hackt it with his dagger, and said hee woulde

12621169sweare truth out of England, but hee would make you beleeue

12631170it was done in fight, and perswaded vs to do the like.

12651171Bar. Yea, and to tickle our noses with spearegrasse, to make

12661172them bleed, and then to beslubber our garments with it, and

12671173sweare it was the blood of true men. I did that I did not this se-

12681174uen yeare before, I blusht to heare his monstrous deuices.

12701175Prin. O villaine, thou stolest a cup of Sacke eighteene yeares

12711176ago, and wert taken with the maner, and euer since thou hast

12721177blusht extempore, thou hadst fire and sword on thy side, and yet

12731178thou ranst away, what instinct hadst thou for it?

12751179Bar. My Lord do you see these meteors? do you behold these

12781181Bar. What thinke you they portend?

12791182Prin. Hot liuers, and cold purses.

12801183Bar. Choler, my Lord, if rightly taken.

12811185Prin. No if rightly taken halter. Here commes leane iacke, here

12831186commes bare bone: how now my sweete creature of bumbast,

12841187how long ist ago iacke since thou sawest thine owne knee?

12861188Fal. My owne knee, when I was about thy yeares (Hall) I was

12871189not an Eagles talent in the waste, I could haue crept into anie

12881190Aldermans thumbe ring: a plague of sighing and grief, it blowes

12891191a man vp like a bladder. Thers villainous newes abroade, heere

12901192was sir Iohn Bracy, from your father: you must to the court in

12921193the morning. That same mad fellow of the North Percie, and

12931194he of Wales that gaue Amamon the bastinado, and made Luci-

12941195fer cuckold, and swore the diuel his true liegeman vpõ the crosse

12951196of a Welsh hooke: what a plague call you him?

12971197Poynes. O Glendower.

12981198Falst. Owen, Owen, the same, and his sonne in lawe Morti-

12991199mer, and olde Northumberland, and that sprightly Scot of

13001200Scottes, Dowglas, that runnes a horsebacke vp a hill perpendi-

13011201cular.

13021202Prin. He that rides at high speede, and with his pistoll killes a

13031203sparrow flying.