of Henrie the fourth
147142a pur
se of gold mo
st re
solutely
snatcht on Munday night and
148143mo
st di
ssolutely
spent on tue
sday morning, got with
swearing,
149144lay by, and
spent with crying, bring in, now in as low an ebbe
151145as the foot of the ladder, and by and by in as high a
flow as the
153147Falst. By the Lord thou
sai
st true lad, and is not my ho
ste
sse
154148of the tauerne a mo
st sweet wench?
155149Prin. As the hony of
Hibla my old lad of the ca
stle, and is
156150not a bu
ffe Ierkin a mo
st sweet robe of durance?
157151Falst. How now, how nowe mad wag, what in thy quips
158152and thy quiddities? what a plague haue I to doe with a bu
ffe
160154Prince. Why what a poxe haue I to do with my ho
ste
sse of
162156Falst. Well, thou ha
st cald her to a reckoning many a time
164158Prince. Did I euer call for thee to pay thy part?
165159Falst. No, ile giue thee thy due, thou ha
st paid all there.
166160Prin. Yea and el
se where,
so far as my coine would
stretch,
167161and where it would not, I haue v
sed my credit.
168162Falst. Yea, and
so vs'd it that were it not here apparant that
169163thou art heire apparant. But I prethe
sweet wag,
shall there be
170164gallowes
standing in England when thou art king? and re
so
- 171165lution thus fubd as it is with the ru
sty curbe of olde father An
- 172166ticke the law, do not thou when thou art king hang a theefe.
175168Falst. Shall I? O rare! by the Lord ile be a braue iudge.
176169Prin. Thou iudge
st fal
se already, I meane thou
shalt haue
177170the hanging of the theeues, and
so become a rare hangman.
179171Falst. Well
Hall well, and in
some
sort it iumpes with my
180172humour, as well as waighting in the Court I can tell you.
182173Prince. For obtaining of
suites?
183174Falst. Yea, for obtaining of
suites, whereof the hangman
184175hath no leane wardrob. Zbloud I am as melancholy as a gyb
186177Prin. Or an old lyon, or a louers Lute.
187178Falst. Yea, or the drone of a Lincoln
shire bagpipe.
188179Prince. What
saie
st thou to a Hare, or the malancholy of
Mooreditch?