106105Coosen on wednesday next our councel we wil hold

107106At Windsore, 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.

111110West. I will my liege.

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 hast forgotten to demaunde that truelie

119116which thou wouldest trulie knowe. What a diuell hast 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 houses, and the blessed sunne

123120himselfe a faire hot wench in flame-couloured taffata; I see no

124121reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demaunde the

126122time of the day.

127123Falst. Indeede you come neere me nowe Hal, for wee that

128124take purses 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: maiestie I

131127should say, for grace thou wilt haue none.

133128Prince. What 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 forresters, 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 chast mistresse the moone, vnder whose countenaunce

143138we steale.

144139Prince. Thou saiest 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