The History
27642533Fal. I would twere bed time Hal, and all well.
27652534Prin. Why, thou owe
st God a death.
27662535Falst. Tis not due yet, I would be loath to pay him before his
27672536day, what need I be
so forwarde with him that cals not on mee?
27682537Well, tis no matter, honor prickes me on; yea, but how if honor
27692538pricke me o
ff when I come on? how then can honor
set to a leg?
27702539no, or an arme? no, or take away the griefe of a wound? no, ho-
27722540nor hath no
skil in
surgerie then? no, what is honor? a word, what
27732541is in that word honor? what is that honour? aire, a trim recko
- 27742542ning. Who hath it? he that died a Wedne
sday, doth he feele it?
27752543no, doth he heare it? no, tis in
sen
sible thẽ? yea, to the dead, but wil
27762544not liue with the liuing; no, why? detra
ction will not
su
ffer it,
27772545therefore ile none of it; honor is a meere
skutchion, and
so ends
27812547Enter Worcester, sir Richard Vernon. 27822548Wor. O no, my nephew mu
st not know
sir Richard,
27832549The liberal and kind o
ffer of the king.
27862552It is not po
ssible, it cannot be
27872553The king
should keepe his word in louing vs,
27882554He will
su
spe
ct vs
still, and
find a time
27892555To puni
sh this o
ffence in other faults,
27902556Suppo
sition, al our liues
shall be
stucke full of eyes,
27912557For trea
son is but tru
sted like the Foxe,
27922558Who neuer
so tame,
so cheri
sht and lockt vp,
27932559Will haue a wilde tricke of his ance
sters,
27942560Looke how we can, or
sad or merely,
27952561Interpretation will mi
squote our lookes,
27962562And we
shall feed like oxen at a
stall,
27972563The better cheri
sht
still the nearer death,
27982564My nephewes tre
spa
sse may be well forgot,
27992565It hath the excu
se of youth and heat of blood,
28002566And an adopted name of priueledge,
28012567A hair-braind Hot
spur gouernd by a
spleene,
28022568All his o
ffences liue vpon my head
28032569And on his fathers. We did traine him on,
28042570And his corruption being tane from vs,
We