What's your name sir? Of what condition are you, and 2237of what place?

I am a knight sir, and my name is Coleville of the 2239Dale.

Well then, Coleville is your name, a knight is your 2241degree, and your place the Dale. Coleville shall be still your name, 2242a traitor your degree, and the dungeon your place -- a place deep 2243enough, so shall you be still Coleville of the Dale.

Are not you Sir John Falstaff?

As good a man as he sir, who ere I am. Do ye yield, 2247sir, or shall I sweat for you? If I do sweat, they are the drops 2248of thy lovers, and they weep for thy death; therefore rouse 2249up fear and trembling, and do observance2250 to my mercy.

I think you are Sir John Falstaff, and in that thought 2252yield me.

I have a whole school of tongues in this belly of 2254mine, and not a tongue of them all speaks any other 2255word but my name. An I had but a belly of any indifferency, 2256I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. 2257My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. Here 2258comes our general.

The heat is past; follow no further now.

4.2.92261Call in the powers, good cousin Westmorland.

4.2.102262Now Falstaff, where have you been all this while?

4.2.112263When everything is ended, then you come.

4.2.122264These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life,

4.2.132265One time or other break some gallow's back.

I would be sorry my lord, but it should be thus. I 2267never knew yet but rebuke and check was the reward of 2268valor. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a bullet? Have 2269I in my poor and old motion the expedition of thought? I 2270have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of 2271possibility; I have foundered ninescore and odd posts, and here, travel-2272tainted as I am, have in my pure and immaculate valor 2273taken Sir John Coleville of the Dale, a most furious knight and 2275valorous enemy. But what of that? He saw me, and yielded, 2276that I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, 2277"there cousin, I came, saw, and overcame."

It was more of his courtesy than your deserving.

I know not. Here he is, and here I yield him; and I 2281beseech your grace let it be booked with the rest of this day's 2282deeds, or, by the lord, I will have it in a particular ballad else, 2283with mine own picture on the top on't -- Coleville kissing my 2284foot. To the which course, if I be enforced, if you do not all 2285show like gilt twopences to me, and I in the clear sky of 2286fame o'ershine you as much as the full moon doth the 2287cinders of the element, which show like pin's heads to her, 2288believe not the word of the noble. Therefore let me have right, 2290and let desert mount.

Thine's too heavy to mount.

Let it shine then.

Thine's too thick to shine.

Let it do something, my good lord, that may do me 2295good, and call it what you will.

Is thy name Coleville?

It is my lord.

A famous rebel art thou, Coleville.

And a famous true subject took him.

I am, my lord, but as my betters are

4.2.262301That led me hither, had they been ruled by me,

4.2.272302You should have won them dearer than you have.

I know not how they sold themselves, but thou, like a 2304kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis, and I thank thee for 2305thee.

Now, have you left pursuit?

Retreat is made, and execution stayed.

Send Coleville with his confederates

4.2.322310To York, to present execution.

4.2.332311Blunt, lead him hence, and see you guard him sure.

4.2.342313And now dispatch we toward the court my lords.

4.2.352314I hear the king my father is sore sick.

4.2.362315Our news shall go before us to his majesty,

4.2.372316Which, cousin, you shall bear to comfort him,

4.2.382317And we with sober speed will follow you.

My lord, I beseech you give me leave to go through 2319Gloucestershire, and when you come to court, 2320stand my good lord in your good report.

Fare you well, Falstaff. I in my condition

4.2.41Shall better 2322speak of you than you deserve.

I would you had the wit; 'twere better than your 2324dukedom. Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not 2325love me, nor a man cannot make him laugh. But that's no marvel: 2326he drinks no wine. There's never none of these demure boys 2328come to any proof, for thin drink doth so over-cool their 2329blood, and making many fish meals, that they fall into a kind 2330of male green-sickness; and then when they marry, they get 2331wenches. They are generally fools and cowards, which some 2332of us should be too, but for inflammation. A good sherris-sack 2333hath a twofold operation in it: it ascends me into the brain, 2334dries me there all the foolish and dull and cruddy vapors which 2336environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of 2337nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to 2338the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent 2339wit. The second property of your excellent sherris is the 2340warming of the blood, which before, cold and settled, left the liver 2341white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and 2343cowardice; but the sherris warms it, and makes it course from the 2344inwards to the parts' extremes. It illumineth the face, which, 2345as a beacon, gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, 2346man, to arm; and then the vital commoners and inland petty 2347spirits muster me all to their captain, the heart; who, great and 2348puffed up with this retinue, doth any deed of courage. And this 2350valor comes of sherris. So that skill in the weapon 2351is nothing without sack, for that sets it awork; and 2352learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil, 2353till sack commences it, and sets it in act and use. 2354Hereof comes it, that Prince Harry is valiant, for the cold blood 2355he did naturally inherit of his father he hath, like 2356lean, sterile and bare land, manured, husbanded and 2357tilled with excellent endeavor of drinking good 2358and good store of fertile sherris, that he is become very hot 2359and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle 2360I would teach them should be to forswear thin 2361potations, and to addict themselves to sack.

2362How now Bardolph?

The army is dischargèd all and gone.

Let them go. I'll through Gloucestershire and there will 2365I visit Master Robert Shallow Esquire. I have him already 2366tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I 2367seal with him. Come away.