C Hostesse.

616523Hostesse Master Phang, haue you entred the action?

617524Phang It is entred.

618525Host. Wheres your yeoman? ist a lusty yeoman? wil a stand

619526too't?

620527Phang Sirra, wheres Snare?

621528Host. O Lord I, good master Snare.

622529Snare Here, here.

623530Phang Snare, we must arest sir Iohn Falstaffe.

624531Host. Yea good master Snare, I haue entred him and all.

625532Snare It may chaunce cost some of vs our liues, for he will

533stabbe.

626534Host. Alas the day, take heed of him, he stabd me in mine

627535owne house, most beastly in good faith, a cares not what mis-

628536chiefe he does, if his weapon be out, he will foyne like any di-

629537uell, he will spare neither man, woman, nor child.

631538Phang If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.

632539Host. No nor I neither, Ile be at your elbow.

633540Phang And I but fist him once, and a come but within my

634541view.

635542Host. I am vndone by his going, I warrant you, hees an in-

636543finitiue thing vppon my score, good maister Phang holde him

637544sure, good master Snare let him not scape, a comes continually

638545to Pie corner (sauing your manhoods) to buy a saddle, and he

639546is indited to dinner to the Lubbers head in Lumbert streete to

640547master Smooths the silk man, I pray you since my exion is en-

641548tred, and my case so openly knowne to the worlde, let him be

642549brought in to his answer, a hundred marke is a long one, for a

643550poore lone woman to beare, and I haue borne, and borne, and

644551borne, and haue bin fubd off, and fubd off, and fubd off, from

645552this day to that day, that it is a shame to be thought on, there is

646553no honesty in such dealing, vnlesse a woman should be made

647554an asse, and a beast, to beare euery knaues wrong: yonder he

649555comes, and that arrant malmsie-nose knaue Bardolfe with him,

650556do your offices do your offices master Phãg, & master Snare,

651557do me, do me, do me your offices.

652559Falst. How now, whose mare's dead? whats the matter?

653560Phang I arrest you at the sute of mistris Quickly.

654561Falst. Away varlets, draw Bardolfe, cut me off the villaines

655562head, throw the queane in the channell.

656563Host. Throw me in the channell? Ile throw thee in the chan-

657564nel, wilt thou, wilt thou, thou bastardly rogue, murder murder,

658565a thou honisuckle villaine, wilt thou kill Gods officers and the

659566Kings? a thou honiseed rogue, thou art a honiseed, a man quel-

660567ler, and a woman queller.

661568Falst. Keepe them off Bardolfe.

661.1569Offic. A reskew, a reskew.

662570Host. Good people bring a reskew or two, thou wot, wot

663571thou, thou wot, wot ta, do do thou rogue, do thou hempseed.

664572Boy Away you scullian, you rampallian, you fustilarian, ile

665573tickle your catastrophe.

666575Lord What is the matter? keepe the peace here, ho.

667576Hostesse Good my lord be good to me, I beseech you stand

668577to me.

669578Lord How now sir Iohn, what are you brawling here?

670579Doth this become your place, your time, and businesse?

671580You should haue bin well on your way to Yorke:

672581Stand from him fellow, wherefore hang'st thou vpon him.

673582Host. O my most worshipful Lord, and't please your grace

674583I am a poore widdow of Eastcheape, and he is arrested at my

675584sute.

585Lord For what summe?

676586Host. It is more then for some my Lord, it is for al I haue, he

677587hath eaten me out of house and home, he hath put all my sub-

678588stance into that fat belly of his, but I wil haue some of it out a-

679589gaine, or I wil ride thee a nights like the mare.

681590Falst. I think I am as like to ride the mare if I haue any van-

682591tage of ground to get vp.

683592Lord How comes this sir Iohn? what man of good temper

684593would endure this tempest of exclamation; are you not asha-

685594med to inforce a poore widdow, to so rough a course to come

C2 by

686595by her owne.

687596Falst. What is the grosse summe that I owe thee?

688597Host. Mary if thou wert an honest man, thy selfe and the

689598mony too: thou didst sweare to me vpon a parcell guilt goblet,

690599sitting in my dolphin chamber, at the round table by a sea cole

691600fire, vpon wednesday in Wheeson weeke, when the prince

692601broke thy head, for liking his father to a singing man of Win-

693602sor, thou didst sweare to me thẽ, as I was washing thy wound,

694603to marry me, and make me my lady thy wife, canst thou deny

695604it, did not goodwife Keech the butchers wife come in then and

696605cal me gossip Quickly, comming in to borow a messe of vine-

697606gar, telling vs she had a good dish of prawnes, whereby thou

698607didst desire to eate some, whereby I told thee they were ill

699608for a greene wound, and didst thou not, when she was gone

700609down stayers, desire me, to be no more so familiarity, with such

701610poore people, saying that ere long they should cal me madam,

703611and didst thou not kisse me, and bid me fetch thee thirtie shil-

704612lings, I put thee now to thy booke oath, denie it if thon canst.

705613Falst. My lord this is a poore made soule, and she saies vp

706614and downe the towne, that her eldest sonne is like you, she

707615hath bin in good case, and the trueth is pouerty hath distracted

708616her, but for these foolish officers, I beseech you I may haue re-

709617dresse against them.

710618Lo. Sir Iohn, sir Iohn, I am wel acquainted with your maner

711619of wrenching the true cause, the false way: it is not a confident

712620brow, nor the throng of words that come with such more then

713621impudent sawcines from you, can thrust me from a leuel con-

714622sideration: you haue as it appeares to me practisde vpon the

715623easie yeelding spirite of this woman, and made her serue your

715.1624vses both in purse and in person.

716625Host. Yea in truth my Lord.

717626Lo. Pray thee peace, pay her the debt you owe her, and vn-

718627pay the villany you haue done with her, the one you may doe

719628with sterling mony, and the other with currant repentance.

720629Falst. My Lord I will not vndergoe this snepe without re-

721630ply, you cal honorable boldnes impudent sawcinesse, if a man

722631wil make curtsie and say nothing, he is vertuous, no my Lord

723632my humble duty remembred, I will not bee your suter, I say

724633to you I do desire deliuerance from these officers, being vpon

725634hasty imployment in the Kings affayres.

726635Lord You speake as hauing power to do wrong, but an-

727636swer in th'effect of your reputation, and satisfie the poore wo-

728637man.

729638Falst. Come hither hostesse.

730639Lord Now master Gower, what newes. enter a messenger.

731640Gower The King my Lord, and Harry prince of Wales,

732641Are neare at hand, the rest the paper tells.

733642Falst. As I am a gentleman!

733.1643Host. Faith you said so before.

735Falst. As I am a gentleman, come, no more words of it.

736644Host. By this heaunly ground I tread on, I must be faine to

737645pawne both my plate, & the tapestry of my dining chambers-

739646Falst. Glasses glasses is the onely drinking, and for thy wals

740647a pretty sleight drollery, or the storie of the prodigal, or the

741648Iarman hunting in waterworke, is worth a thousand of these

742649bed-hangers, and these flie bitten tapestrie, let it be x. l if thou

743650canst: come, and twere not for thy humors, theres not a better

745651wench in England, goe wash thy face and draw the action,

746652come thou must not be in this humor with me, dost not know

747653me, come, come, I know thou wast set on to this.

748654Host. Pray thee sir Iohn let it be but twentie nobles, ifaith

749655I am loath to pawne my plate so God saue me law.

750656Falst. Let it alone, ile make other shift, youle be a foole stil.

752657Host. Well, you shall haue it, though I pawne my gowne,

753658I hope youle come to supper, youle pay me al together.

755659Falst. Wil I liue? goe with her, with her, hooke on, hooke

756660on. exit hostesse and sergeant.

757661Host. Will you haue Doll Tere-sheet meete you at supper.

759662Falst. No more words, lets haue her.

760663Lord I haue heard better newes.

761664Falst. Whats the newes my lord?

762665Lord Where lay the King to night?

C3 Mess.

763666Mess. At Billingsgate my Lord.

764667Falst. I hope my Lord al's wel, what is the newes my lord?

766668Lord Come all his forces backe?

767669Mess. No, fifteen hundred foot, fiue hundred horse

768670Are marcht vp to my lord of Lancaster,

769671Against Northumberland, and the Archbishop.

770672Falst. Comes the King back from Wales, my noble lord?

771673Lord You shall haue letters of me presently,

772674Come, go along with me, good master Gower.

773675Falst. My lord.

774676Lord Whats the matter?

775677Falstaffe Maister Gower, shall I intreate you with mee to

776678dinner?

777679Gower I must waite vpon my good lord here, I thank you

778680good sir Iohn.

779681Lord Sir Iohn, you loyter heere too long,

780682Being you are to take souldiers vp

683In Counties as you go.

781684Falstaffe Will you suppe with mee maister Gower?

782685Lord. What foolish maister taught you these manners, sir

783686Iohn?

784687Falstaffe Maister Gower, if they become me not, hee was a

785688foole that taught them mee: this is the right fencing grace, my

786689Lord, tap for tap, and so part faire.

787690Lord Now the Lord lighten thee, thou art a great foole.