The Historie
106105Coo
sen on wedne
sday next our councel we wil hold
107106At Wind
sore,
so informe the Lords:
108107But come your
selfe with
speed to vs againe,
109108For more is to be
said and to be done,
110109Then out of anger can be vttered.
Exeunt.
113111Enter prince of Wales, and Sir Iohn Falstaffe. 115112Falst. Now
Hal, what time of day is it lad?
116113Prince. Thou art
so fat-witted with drinking of olde
sacke,
117114and vnbuttoning thee after
supper, and
sleeping vpon benches
118115after noone; that thou ha
st forgotten to demaunde that truelie
119116which thou woulde
st trulie knowe. What a diuell ha
st thou to
120117do with the time of the daie? vnles houres were cups of
sacke,
121118and minutes capons, and clockes the tongues of Baudes, and
122119Dialles the
signes of leaping hou
ses, and the ble
ssed
sunne
123120him
selfe a faire hot wench in
flame-couloured ta
ffata; I
see no
124121rea
son why thou
should
st be
so
super
fluous to demaunde the
127123Falst. Indeede you come neere me nowe
Hal, for wee that
128124take pur
ses go by the moone and the
seuen
stars, and not by
129125Phoebus, he, that wandring knight
so faire: and I prethe
sweet
130126wag when thou art a king, as God
saue thy grace: maie
stie I
131127should
say, for grace thou wilt haue none.
134129Falst. No by my troth, not
so much as will
serue to bee pro
- 135130logue to an egge and butter.
136131Prin. Wel, how then? come roundly, roundly.
137132Falst. Marry then
sweet wag, when thou art king let not vs
138133that are
squiers of the nights bodie, bee called theeues of the
139134daies beauty: let vs be
Dianaes forre
sters, gentlemen of the
140135shade, minions of the moone, and let men
say wee be men of
141136good gouernement, being gouerned as the
sea is, by our noble
142137and cha
st mi
stre
sse the moone, vnder who
se countenaunce
144139Prince. Thou
saie
st well, and it holds wel to, for the fortune
145140of vs that are the moones men, doth ebbe and
flow like the
sea,
146141being gouerned as the
sea is by the moone, as for proofe. Now
a purse