30822835the life of a mã: but to coũterfet dying when a man therby liueth,

30832836is to be no counterfet, but the true & perfect image of life indeed.

30852837The better parte of valour is discretion, in the which better part

30862838I haue saued my life. Zounds I am afraid of this gunpowder Per-

30872839cy, though he be dead, how if he should counterfet too and rise?

30882840by my faith I am afraid hee woulde proue the better counterfet,

30892841therefore ile make him sure, yea, and ile sweare I kild him. Why

30902842may not he rise aswell as I? nothing confutes me but eies, and no

30912843body sees me: therefore sirrha, with a new wound in your thigh,

30932844come you along with me.

30952847Prin. Come brother Iohn, full brauely hast thou flesht

30962848Thy mayden sword.

30972849Iohn of Lan. But soft, whom haue we heere?

30982850Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?

30992851Prin. I did, I saw him dead,

31002852Breathlesse and bleeding on the ground. Art thou aliue?

31012853Or is it fantasie that playes vpon our eiesight?

31022854I preethe speake, we will not trust our eies

31032855Without our eares, thou art not what thou seemst.

31042856Fal. No thats certaine, I am not a double man: but if I bee

31052857not Iacke Falstalffe, then am I a Iacke: there is Percy, if your

31062858father will doe me anie honour, so: if not, let him kill the next

31072859Percie himselfe: I looke to bee either Earle or Duke, I can as-

31082860sure you.

31092861Prin. Why Percy, I kild my selfe, and saw thee dead.

31102862Falst. Didst thou? Lord, Lord, howe this world is giuen to

31112863lying, I graunt you I was downe, and out of breath, and so was

31122864he, but we rose both at an instant, and fought a long houre by

31132865Shrewesburie clocke, if I may be beleeude so: if not, let them

31142866that should rewarde valour, beare the sinne vppon their owne

31152867heads. Ile take it vpon my death, I gaue him this wound in the

31162868thigh, if the man were aliue, and would denie it, zounds I would

31172869make him eate a peece of my sword.

31192870Iohn. This is the strangest tale that euer I heard.

31202871Prin. This is the strangest fellow, brother Iohn,

31212872Come bring your luggage nobly on your backe.