15341371Shallow Come on, come on, come on sir, giue me your

15351372hand sir, giue me your hand sir, an early stirrer, by the Roode:

15361373and how dooth my good cosin Silens?

15371374Silence Good morrow good cosin Shallow.

15381375Shallow And how dooth my coosin your bed-fellowe?

15391376and your fayrest daughter and mine, my god-daughter El-

15401377len?

15411378Silens Alas, a blacke woosel, cosin Shallow.

15421379Shallow By yea, and no sir: I dare saye my coosin Wil-

15431380liam is become a good scholler, he is at Oxford still, is hee

15441381not?

15451382Silens Indeede sir to my cost.

15461383Shallow A must then to the Innes a court shortly: I was

15471384once of Clements Inne, where I thinke they will talke of mad

15481385Shallow yet.

15491386Silens You were cald Lusty Shallow then, cosin.

15501387Shallow By the masse I was cald any thing, and I would

15511388haue done any thing indeed too, and roundly too: there was

15521389I, and little Iohn Doyt of Stafford-shire, and Blacke George

1390Barnes, and Francis Picke-bone, and Will Squele a Cotsole

15531391man, you had not foure such swinge-bucklers in al the Innes

15551392a court againe: and I may say to you, we knew where the bona

15561393robes were, and had the best of them all at commaundement:

15571394then was Iacke Falstaffe (now sir Iohn) a boy, and Page to

15581395Thomas Mowbray duke of Norffolke.

15601396Silens Coosin, this sir Iohn that comes hither anone about

15611397souldiers?

15621398Shall. The same (sir Iohn) the very same, I see him breake

15631399Skoggins head at the Court gate, when a was a Cracke, not

15641400thus high: and the very same day did I fight with one Samson

15651401Stockefish a Fruiterer behinde Greyes Inne: Iesu, Iesu, the

15661402mad dayes that I haue spent! and to see how many of my olde

15671403acquaintance are dead.

15681404Silens We shall all follow, coosin.

15691405Shal. Certaine, tis certaine, very sure, very sure, death (as the