393346tion of your eares, and I care not if I doe become your

347phisitian.

394348Falst. I am as poore as Iob my lord, but not so pacient,

395349your Lordship may minister the potion of imprisonment to

396350me, in respect of pouerty, but how I should be your pacient to

397351follow your prescriptions, the wise may make som dramme of

398352a scruple, or indeede a scruple it selfe.

399353Iust. I sent for you when there were matters against you for

400354your life to come speake with me.

401355Falst. As I was then aduisde by my learned counsail in the

402356lawes of this land seruice, I did not come.

403357Iust. Wel, the truth is sir Iohn, you liue in great infamy.

404358Falst. He that buckles himselfe in my belt cannot liue in

359lesse.

405360Iust. Your meanes are very slender, and your waste is great.

406361Falst. I would it were otherwise, I would my meanes were

407362greater and my waste slender.

408363Iust. You haue misled the youthfull prince.

409364Falst. The yong prince hath misled me, I am the felow with

410365the great belly, and he my dogge.

411366Iust. Wel, I am loth to gall a new heald wound, your daies

412367seruice at Shrewsbury, hath a little guilded ouer your nights

413368exploit on Gadshill, you may thanke th'vnquiet time, for your

414369quiet oreposting that action.

415370Falst. My lord.

416371Iust. But since all is well, keepe it so, wake not a sleeping

372wolfe.

417373Falst. To wake a wolfe, is as bad as smell a fox.

418374Iust. What you are as a candle, the better part, burnt out.

419375Falst. A wassel candle my lord, al tallow, if I did say of wax,

420376my growth would approue the truth.

421377Iust. There is not a white haire in your face, but should

422378haue his effect of grauity.

423379Falst. His effect of grauy, grauie, grauie.

424380Iust. You follow the yong prince vp and downe, like his

425381ill angell.

B3 Falst.