320274shines through it: wheres Bardolf, & yet can not he see though

321275he haue his owne lanthorne to light him.

323276Boy Hees gone in Smithfield to buy your worship a horse.

325277sir Iohn I bought him in Paules, and heele buy me a horse

326278in Smithfield, and I could get me but a wife in the stewes, I

327279were man'd, horsde, and wiu'd.

329281Boy Sir, here comes the noble man that committed the prince

330282for striking him about Bardolfe.

331283sir Iohn Wait close, I will not see him.

332284Iustice Whats hee that goes there?

333285seru. Falstaffe, and't please your lordship.

334286Iust. He that was in question for the rob'ry?

335287seru. He my Lord, but he hath since done good seruice at

336288Shrewsbury, & (as I heare,) is now going with some charge to

337289the lord Iohn of Lancaster.

338290Iust. What to Yorke? call him backe againe.

339291seru. Sir Iohn Falstaffe.

340292Iohn Boy, tell him I am deafe.

341293Boy You must speake lowder, my master is deafe.

342294Iust. I am sure he is to the hearing of any thing good, goe

343295plucke him by the elbow, I must speake with him.

344296seru. Sir Iohn?

345297Falst. What? a yong knaue and begging? is there not wars?

346298is there not employment? doth not the King lacke subiects? do

347299not the rebels need souldiers, though it be a shame to be on any

348300side but one, it is worse shame to beg then to be on the worst

349301side, were it worse then the name of Rebellion can tell how to

350302make it.

351303seru. You mistake me sir.

352304Iohn Why sir, did I say you were an honest man, setting my

353305knighthood and my souldiership aside, I had lied in my throat

354306if I had said so.

355307seru. I pray you sir then set your knighthood, and your sol-

356308diership aside, and giue me leaue to tell you, you lie in your

357309throate, if you say I am any other then an honest man.

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