Henry IV, Part 2 (Modern)

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 5.5.0.13206Enter [grooms,] strewers of rushes.
 5.5.13207Groom 1
 More rushes, more rushes!
 5.5.23208Groom 2
 The trumpets have sounded twice.
 5.5.33209Groom 3
 'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the 3209.1coronation. Dispatch, dispatch.
 5.5.3.1Exeunt.
 5.5.3.23209.2Trumpets sound, and the king and his train pass over the 3209.3stage. After them enter Falstaff, Shallow, Pistol, 3209.4Bardolph, and the [Page].
 5.5.43212Falstaff
 Stand here by me, Master Shallow, I will make the 3213king do you grace. I will leer upon him as 'a comes by, and 3214do but mark the countenance that he will give me.
 5.5.53216Pistol
 God bless thy lungs, good knight.
 5.5.63217Falstaff
 Come here, Pistol, stand behind me. [To Shallow] Oh, if I had 3218had time to have made new liveries, I would have bestowed 3219the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But 'tis no matter, this 3220poor show doth better; this doth infer the zeal I had to see 3221him.
 5.5.73222Pistol
 It doth so.
 5.5.83223Falstaff
 It shows my earnestness of affection --
 5.5.93224Pistol
 It doth so.
 5.5.103225Falstaff
 My devotion --
 5.5.113226Pistol
 It doth, it doth, it doth.
 5.5.123227Falstaff
 As it were, to ride day and night, and not to deliberate, 3228not to remember, not to have patience to shift me --
 5.5.133230Shallow
 It is best, certain.
 5.5.143231[Falstaff]
 But to stand, stained with travel and sweating 3232with desire to see him, thinking of nothing else, putting 3233all affairs else in oblivion, as if there were nothing else to be 3234done but to see him.
 5.5.153235Pistol
 'Tis semper idem, for obsque hoc nihil est: 'tis all in every 3236part.
 5.5.163237Shallow
 'Tis so indeed.
 5.5.173238Pistol
 My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,
 5.5.183239And make thee rage.
 5.5.19Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,
 5.5.203240Is in base durance and contagious prison,
 5.5.21Haled thither
 5.5.22By most 3241mechanical and dirty hand.
 5.5.23Rouse up revenge from ebon den with 3242fell Alecto's snake,
 5.5.24For Doll is in. Pistol speaks naught but 3243truth.
 5.5.253244Falstaff
 I will deliver her.
 [Cheering within. Trumpets sound.]
 5.5.263245Pistol
 There roared the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.
 5.5.26.13247Enter the king and his train.
 5.5.273250Falstaff
 God save thy grace, King Hal, my royal Hal!
 5.5.283251Pistol
 The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of 3252fame!
 5.5.293253Falstaff
 God save thee, my sweet boy!
 5.5.303254King Henry
 My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man.
 5.5.313256Justice
 Have you your wits? Know you what 'tis you speak?
 5.5.323258Falstaff
 My king, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart!
 5.5.333259King Henry
 I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
 5.5.343260How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester.
 5.5.353261I have long dreamt of such a kind of man,
 5.5.363262So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so prophane;
 5.5.373263But being awaked, I do despise my dream.
 5.5.383264Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace,
 5.5.393265Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape
 5.5.403266For thee thrice wider than for other men.
 5.5.413267Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.
 5.5.423268Presume not that I am the thing I was,
 5.5.433269For god doth know, so shall the world perceive,
 5.5.443270That I have turned away my former self;
 5.5.453271So will I those that kept me company.
 5.5.463272When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
 5.5.473273Approach me and thou shalt be as thou wast,
 5.5.483274The tutor and the feeder of my riots.
 5.5.493275Till then I banish thee, on pain of death,
 5.5.503276As I have done the rest of my misleaders,
 5.5.513277Not to come near our person by ten mile.
 5.5.523278For competence of life, I will allow you,
 5.5.533279That lack of means enforce you not to evils;
 5.5.543280And as we hear you do reform yourselves,
 5.5.553281We will, according to your strengths and qualities,
 5.5.563282Give you advancement. [To the Lord Chief Justice] Be it your charge, my lord,
 5.5.573283To see performed the tenor of my word. Set on.
 5.5.57.1[Exeunt the king and his train.]
 5.5.583285Falstaff
 Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.
 5.5.593286Shallow
 Yea, marry, Sir John, which I beseech you to let me have 3287home with me.
 5.5.603288Falstaff
 That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you grieve 3289at this. I shall be sent for in private to him. Look you, he must 3290seem thus to the world. Fear not your advancements, I will 3291be the man yet that shall make you great.
 5.5.613292Shallow
 I cannot perceive how, unless you give me your 3293doublet and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you, good Sir 3294John, let me have five hundred of my thousand.
 5.5.623296Falstaff
 Sir, I will be as good as my word. This that you heard 3297was but a color.
 5.5.633298Shallow
 A color that I fear you will die in, Sir John.
 5.5.643299Falstaff
 Fear no colors. Go with me to dinner. 3300Come lieutenant Pistol; come Bardolph. 3301I shall be sent for soon at night.
 5.5.64.1Enter Justice and Prince John [of Lancaster, with officers.]
 5.5.653302Justice
 [To officers] Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.
 5.5.663303Take all his company along with him.
 5.5.673304Falstaff
 My lord, my lord --
 5.5.683305Justice
 I cannot now speak. I will hear you soon.
 5.5.693306Take them away.
 5.5.703307Pistol
 Si fortuna me tormenta spero contenta.
 5.5.70.1Exeunt [all but Lancaster and Justice].
 5.5.713309Lancaster
 I like this fair proceeding of the king's,
 5.5.723310He hath intent his wonted followers
 5.5.733311Shall all be very well provided for,
 5.5.743312But all are banished till their conversations
 5.5.753313Appear more wise and modest to the world.
 5.5.763314Justice
 And so they are.
 5.5.773315Lancaster
 The king hath called his parliament, my lord.
 5.5.783317Justice
 He hath.
 5.5.793318Lancaster
 I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,
 5.5.803319We bear our civil swords and native fire
 5.5.813320As far as France. I heard a bird so sing,
 5.5.823321Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
 5.5.833322Come, will you hence?
 5.5.83.1[Exeunt.]
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Henry IV, Part 2 (Modern)
