13041204Falst. You haue hit it.

13051205Prin. So did he neuer the sparrow.

13061206Fal. Well, that rascall hath good mettall in him, hee will not

13071207runne.

13081208Prin. Why, what a rascall art thou then, to praise him so for

13091209running?

13101210Fal. A horsebacke (ye cuckoe) but a foote hee will not budge

13111211a foote.

13121212Prin. Yes Iacke, vpon instinct.

13131213Falst. I grant ye vpon instinct: well hee is there to, and one

13141214Mordacke, and a thousand blew caps more. Worcester is stolne

13151215away to night, thy fathers beard is turnd white with the newes,

13161216you may buy land now as cheape as stinking Mackrel.

13181217Prin. Why then, it is like if there come a hote Iune, and this

13191218ciuill buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads as they buy hob

13201219nailes, by the hundreds.

13211220Falst. By the masse lad thou saiest true, it is like wee shall haue

13221221good trading that way: but tell mee Hall, art not thou horrible

13231222afearde? thou being heire apparant, could the world picke thee

13241223out three such enemies againe? as that fiend Dowglas, that spi-

13251224rit Percy, and that diuel Glendower, art thou not horribly afraid?

13261225doth not thy bloud thril at it?

13281226Prin. Not a whit ifaith, I lacke some of thy instinct.

13291227Falst. Well thou wilt bee horriblie chidde to morrowe when

13301228thou commest to thy father, if thou loue mee practise an aun-

13311229swere.

13321230Prin. Do thou stand for my father and examine me vpon the

13331231particulars of my life.

13341232Falst. Shall I: content. This chaire shall be my state, this dag-

13351233ger my scepter, and this cushion my crowne.

13371234Prin. Thy state is taken for a ioynd stoole, thy golden scepter

13381235for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich crowne for a pittifull

13391236bald crowne.

13401237Falst. Well, and the fire of grace bee not quite out of thee

13411238nowe shalt thou be mooued. Giue me a cup of Sacke to make

13421239my eyes looke redde, that it maie bee thought I haue wept,

13431240for I must speake in passion, and I will doe it in king Cambises

13441241vaine.

E2 Prin.