15701406Psalmist saith) is certaine to all, all shall die. How a good yoke

15711407of bullockes at Samforth faire?

15721408Silens By my troth I was not there.

15731409Shal. Death is certaine: Is olde Dooble of your towne li-

15741410uing yet?

15751411Silens Dead sir.

15761412Shal. Iesu, Iesu, dead! a drew a good bow, and dead? a shot

15771413a fine shoote: Iohn a Gaunt loued him well, and betted much

15781414money on his head. Dead! a would haue clapt ith clowt at

15791415twelue score, and caried you a forehand shaft a foureteene and

15801416foureteene and a halfe, that it would haue doone a mans heart

15821417good to see. How a score of Ewes now?

15831418Silens Thereafter as they be, a score of good Ewes may be

15841419worth tenne pounds.

15851420Shal. And is olde Dooble dead?

15871421Silens Heere come twoo of sir Iohn Falstaffes men, as I

15881422thinke.

15891424Good morrow honest gentlemen.

15901425Bard. I beseech you, which is Iustice Shallow?

15911426Shall. I am Robert Shallow sir, a poore Esquire of this

15921427Countie, and one of the Kings Iustices of the Peace: what is

15931428your pleasure with me?

15941429Bard. My Captaine, sir, commends him to you, my Cap-

15951430taine sir Iohn Falstaffe, a tall gentleman, by heauen, and a most

15961431gallant Leader.

15971432Shall. He greets me wel, sir, I knew him a good backsword

15981433man: how doth the good knight? may I aske how my Ladie

15991434his wife doth?

16001435Bar. Sir, pardon, a souldiour is better accommodate than

16011436with a wife.

16021437Shallow It is well sayde in faith sir, and it is well sayde in-

1438deede too, better accommodated, it is good, yea in deede is