2260Iohn. The heat is past, follow no farther now:

2261Call in the Powers, good Cousin Westmerland.

2262Now Falstaffe, where haue you beene all this while?

2263When euery thing is ended, then you come.

2264These tardie Tricks of yours will (on my life)

2265One time, or other, breake some Gallowes back.

2266Falst. I would bee sorry (my Lord) but it should bee

2267thus: I neuer knew yet, but rebuke and checke was the

2268reward of Valour. Doe you thinke me a Swallow, an Ar-

2269row, or a Bullet? Haue I, in my poore and olde Motion,

2270the expedition of Thought? I haue speeded hither with

2271the very extremest ynch of possibilitie. I haue fowndred

2272nine score and odde Postes: and heere (trauell-tainted

2273as I am) haue, in my pure and immaculate Valour, taken

2274Sir Iohn Colleuile of the Dale, a most furious Knight, and

2275valorous Enemie: But what of that? hee saw mee, and

2276yeelded: that I may iustly say with the hooke-nos'd

2277fellow of Rome, I came, saw, and ouer-came.

2278Iohn. It was more of his Courtesie, then your deser-

2279uing.

2280Falst. I know not: heere hee is, and heere I yeeld

2281him: and I beseech your Grace, let it be book'd, with

2282the rest of this dayes deedes; or I sweare, I will haue it

2283in a particular Ballad, with mine owne Picture on the top

2284of it (Colleuile kissing my foot:) To the which course, if

2285I be enforc'd, if you do not all shew like gilt two-pences

2286to me; and I, in the cleare Skie of Fame, o're-shine you

2287as much as the Full Moone doth the Cynders of the Ele-

2288ment (which shew like Pinnes-heads to her) beleeue not

2289the Word of the Noble: therefore let mee haue right,

2290and let desert mount.

2291Iohn. Thine's too heauie to mount.

2292Falst. Let it shine then.

2293Iohn. Thine's too thick to shine.

2294Falst. Let it doe something (my good Lord) that may

2295doe me good, and call it what you will.

2296Iohn. Is thy Name Colleuile?

2297Col. It is (my Lord.)

2298Iohn. A famous Rebell art thou, Colleuile.

2299Falst. And a famous true Subiect tooke him.

2300Col. I am (my Lord) but as my Betters are,

2301That led me hither: had they beene rul'd by me,

2302You should haue wonne them dearer then you haue.

2303Falst. I know not how they sold themselues, but thou

2304like a kinde fellow, gau'st thy selfe away; and I thanke

2305thee, for thee.

2307Iohn. Haue you left pursuit?

2308West. Retreat is made, and Execution stay'd.

2309Iohn. Send Colleuile, with his Confederates,

2310To Yorke, to present Execution.

2311Blunt, leade him hence, and see you guard him sure.

2313And now dispatch we toward the Court (my Lords)

2314I heare the King, my Father, is sore sicke.

2315Our Newes shall goe before vs, to his Maiestie,

2316Which (Cousin) you shall beare, to comfort him:

2317And wee with sober speede will follow you.

2318Falst. My Lord, I beseech you, giue me leaue to goe

2319through Gloucestershire: and when you come to Court,

2320stand my good Lord, 'pray, in your good report.

2321Iohn. Fare you well, Falstaffe: I, in my condition,

2322Shall better speake of you, then you deserue. Exit.

2323Falst. I would you had but the wit: 'twere better

2324then your Dukedome. Good faith, this same young so-

2325ber-blooded Boy doth not loue me, nor a man cannot

2326make him laugh: but that's no maruaile, hee drinkes no

2327Wine. There's neuer any of these demure Boyes come

2328to any proofe: for thinne Drinke doth so ouer-coole

2329their blood, and making many Fish-Meales, that they

2330fall into a kinde of Male Greene-sicknesse: and then,

2331when they marry, they get Wenches. They are generally

2332Fooles, and Cowards; which some of vs should be too,

2333but for inflamation. A good Sherris-Sack hath a two-

2334fold operation in it: it ascends me into the Braine, dryes

2335me there all the foolish, and dull, and cruddie Vapours,

2336which enuiron it: makes it apprehensiue, quicke, forge-

2337tiue, full of nimble, fierie, and delectable shapes; which

2338deliuer'd o're to the Voyce, the Tongue, which is the

2339Birth, becomes excellent Wit. The second propertie of

2340your excellent Sherris, is, the warming of the Blood:

2341which before (cold, and setled) left the Liuer white, and

2342pale; which is the Badge of Pusillanimitie, and Cowar-

2343dize: but the Sherris warmes it, and makes it course

2344from the inwards, to the parts extremes: it illuminateth

2345the Face, which (as a Beacon) giues warning to all the

2346rest of this little Kingdome (Man) to Arme: and then

2347the Vitall Commoners, and in-land pettie Spirits, muster

2348me all to their Captaine, the Heart; who great, and pufft

2349vp with his Retinue, doth any Deed of Courage: and this

2350Valour comes of Sherris. So, that skill in the Weapon

2351is nothing, without Sack (for that sets it a-worke:) and

2352Learning, a meere Hoord of Gold, kept by a Deuill, till

2353Sack commences it, and sets it in act, and vse. Hereof

2354comes it, that Prince Harry is valiant: for the cold blood

2355hee did naturally inherite of his Father, hee hath, like

2356leane, stirrill, and bare Land, manured, husbanded, and

2357tyll'd, with excellent endeauour of drinking good, and

2358good store of fertile Sherris, that hee is become very hot,

2359and valiant. If I had a thousand Sonnes, the first Principle

2360I would teach them, should be to forsweare thinne Pota-

2361tions, and to addict themselues to Sack. Enter Bardolph.

2362How now Bardolph?

2363Bard. The Armie is discharged all, and gone.

2364Falst. Let them goe: Ile through Gloucestershire,

2365and there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, Esquire: I

2366haue him alreadie tempering betweene my finger and my

2367thombe, and shortly will I seale with him. Come away.

2371King. Now Lords, if Heauen doth giue successefull end

2372To this Debate, that bleedeth at our doores,

2373Wee will our Youth lead on to higher Fields,

2374And draw no Swords, but what are sanctify'd.

2375Our Nauie is addressed, our Power collected,

2376Our Substitutes, in absence, well inuested,

2377And euery thing lyes leuell to our wish;

2378Onely wee want a little personall Strength:

2379And pawse vs, till these Rebels, now a-foot,

2380Come vnderneath the yoake of Gouernment.

2381War. Both which we doubt not, but your Maiestie

2382Shall soone enioy.