17651580her when I am gone, and she is old and cannot helpe her selfe,

17661581you shall haue forty sir.

17671582Bar. Go to, stand aside.

17681583Feeble By my troth I care not, a man can die but once, we

17691584owe God a death, ile nere beare a base mind, and't bee my

17701585destny: so, and't be not, so, no man's too good to serue's prince,

17711586and let it go which way it will, he that dies this yeere is quit for

17721587the next.

17731588Bar Well said, th'art a good fellow.

17741589Feeble Faith ile beare no base mind.

17751591Fal. Come sir, which men shall I haue?

17761592Shal. Foure of which you please.

17771593Bar Sir, a word with you, I haue three pound to free Moul-

17781594dy and Bulcalfe.

17791595Fal. Go to, well.

17801596Shal. Come sir Iohn, which foure wil you haue?

17811597Fal. Do you chuse for me.

17821598Shal. Mary then, Mouldy, Bulcalfe, Feeble, and Sadow.

17841599Fal. Mouldy and Bulcalfe, for you Mouldy stay at home, til

17851600you are past seruice: and for your part Bulcalfe, grow til you

17861601come vnto it, I will none of you.

17871602Shal. Sir Iohn, sir Iohn, doe not your selfe wrong, they are

17881603your likeliest men, and I would haue you serude with the

17891604best.

17901605Fal. Wil you tel me (master Shallow) how to chuse a man?

17911606care I for the limbe, the thewes, the stature, bulke and big as-

17921607semblance of a man: giue me the spirit M. Shalow: heres Wart,

17931608you see what a ragged apparance it is, a shall charge you, and

17951609discharge you with the motion of a pewterers hammer, come

17961610off and on swifter then he that gibbets on the brewers bucket:

17971611and this same halfe facde fellow Shadow, giue me this man, he

17981612presents no marke to the enemy, the fo-man may with as great

17991613aime leuel at the edge of a pen-knife, and for a retraite how

18001614swiftly wil this Feeble the womans Tailer runne off? O giue

18021615mee the spare men, and spare me the great ones, putte mee a