22371976of what place?

22381977Cole. I am a Knight sir, and my name is Coleuile of the

22391978Dale.

22401979Fal. well then, Colleuile is your name, a Knight is your de-

22411980gree, and your place the dale: Coleuile shalbe still your name,

22421981a traitor your degree, & the dungeon your place, a place deep

22431982enough, so shall you be stil Colleuile of the Dale.

22451983Colle. Are not you sir Iohn Falstaffe?

22461984Fal. As good a man as he sir, who ere I am: doe ye yeelde

22471985sir, or shall I sweat for you? if I doe sweate, they are the drops

22481986of thy louers, and they weepe for thy death, therefore rowze

22491987vp feare and trembling, and do obseruance to my mercie.

22511988Colle. I think you are sir Iohn Falstaffe, and in that thought

22521989yeelde me.

22531990Fal. I haue a whole school of tongues in this belly of mine,

22541991and not a tongue of them all speakes any other word but my

22551992name, and I had but a belly of any indifferencie, I were simply

22561993the most actiue fellow in Europe: my womb, my wombe, my

22571994womb vndoes me, heere comes our Generall.

22601996Iohn The heate is past, follow no further now,

22611997Call in the powers good coosin Westmerland.

22621998Now Falstaffe, where haue you beene all this while?

22631999When euery thing is ended, then you come:

22642000These tardy trickes of yours wil on my life

22652001One time or other breake some gallowes backe.

22662002Fal. I would bee sory my lord, but it shoulde bee thus: I

22672003neuer knew yet but Rebuke and Checke, was the rewarde of

22682004Valor: do you thinke me a swallow, an arrow, or a bullet? haue

22692005I in my poore and old motion the expedition of thought? I

22702006haue speeded hither with the very extreamest inch of possibi-

22712007lity, I haue foundred ninescore and od postes, and here trauell

22722008tainted as I am, haue in my pure and immaculate valour, ta-

22732009ken sir Iohn Colleuile of the Dale, a most furious Knight and

22752010valorous enemy,: but what of that? he sawe me, and yeelded,

22762011that I may iustly say with the hooke-nosde fellow of Rome,