21411964ought him a thousand pound.

21421965Prin. Sirrha, do I owe you a thousand pound?

21431966Falst. A thousand pound Hall? a million, thy loue is worth a

21441967million, thou owest me thy loue.

21451968Host. Nay my Lord, he cald you iacke, and saide hee woulde

21461969cudgel you.

21471970Falst. Did I Bardol?

21481971Bar. Indeed sir Iohn you said so.

21491972Fal. Yea, if he said my ring was copper.

21501973Prin. I say tis copper, darest thou be as good as thy word now?

21521974Falst. Why Hall? Thou knowest as thou art but man I dare,

21531975but as thou art prince, I feare thee as I feare the roaring of the

21541976Lyons whelpe.

21551977Prin. And why not as the Lyon?

21561978Fal. The king himselfe is to be feared as the Lion, doest thou

21571979thinke ile feare thee as I feare thy father? nay and I doo, I pray

21581980God my girdle breake.

21591981Prin. O, if it should, howe woulde thy guts fall about thy

21601982knees? but sirrha, theres no roome for faith, trueth, nor hone-

21611983stie, in this bosome of thine. It is all fild vp with guttes, and mid-

21621984riffe. Charge an honest woman with picking thy pocket, why

21631985thou horeson impudent imbost rascall, if there were anie thing

21641986in thy pocket but tauerne reckonings, memorandums of baudie

21651987houses, and one poore peniworth of sugar-candie to make thee

21671988long winded, if thy pocket were inricht with any other iniuries

21681989but these; I am a villain, and yet you will stand to it, you will not

21691990pocket vp wrong, art thou not ashamed?

21711991Fal. Doest thou heare Hall, thou knowest in the state of inno-

21721992cencie Adam fell, & what should poore iacke Falstalfe do in the

21731993daies of villanie? thou seest I haue more flesh then another man,

21741994& therfore more frailty. You confesse then you pickt my pocket.

21761995Prin. It appeares so by the storie.

21771996Fal. Hostesse, I forgiue thee, go make ready breakfast, loue thy

21781997husband, looke to thy seruaunts, cherish thy ghesse, thou shalt

21801998find me tractable to any honest reason, thou seest I am pacified

21811999still, nay preethe be gone. Exit Hostesse

21842000Now Hal, to the newes at court for the robbery lad, how is that

21852001answered?