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Famous Victories of Henry V
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10.0.2Enter a Captain, John Cobbler[,] and his Wife.
Come, come, there's no remedy. 989Thou must needs serve the king.
Good Master Captain, let me go. 991I am not able to go so far.
I pray you, good Master Captain, 993be good to my husband.
Why, I am sure he is not too good to serve the king?
Alas, no, but a great deal too bad. 996Therefore I pray you let me go.
No, no, thou shalt go.
Oh, sir, I have a great many shoes at home to 999cobble.
I pray you let him go home again.
Tush, I care not. Thou shalt go.
Oh, wife, an you had been a loving wife to me, 1003this had not been, for I have said many times 1004that I would go away, and now I must go 1005against my will.
How now! Ho, basillus manus, for an old codpiece! 1009Master Captain, shall we away? 1010Zounds, how now, John, what, a-crying? 1011What make you and my dame there? 1012[To Wife] I marvel whose head you will throw the stools at 1013now we are gone.
I'll tell you! Come, ye cloghead, 1015what do you with my pot lid? Hear you, 1016will you have it rapped about your pate?
Oh, good dame!Here he shakes her[.]1019An I had my dagger here, I would worry you all to pieces, 1020that I would.
Would you so? I'll try that.
Master Captain, will ye suffer her? 1024Go to, dame! I will go back as far as I can, 1025but, an you come again, 1026I'll clap the law on your back, that's flat. 1027I'll tell you, Master Captain, what you shall do. 1028Press her for a soldier. I warrant you, 1029she will do as much good as her husband and I too.
How now, good fellow. Dost thou want a master?
Ay, truly sir.
Hold thee, then. I press thee for a soldier 1035to serve the king in France.
How now, Gads! What, dost know 's, thinkest?
Ay, I knew thee long ago.
Hear you, Master Captain?
What say'st thou?
I pray you let me go home again.
Why, what wouldst thou do at home?
Marry, I have brought two shirts with me, 1043and I would carry one of them home again, 1044for I am sure he'll steal it from me, 1045he is such a filching fellow.
I warrant thee he will not steal it from thee. 1047Come, let's away.
Come, Master Captain, let's away. 1049Come, follow me.
Come, wife, let's part lovingly.
Farewell, good husband.
10.30.1[They embrace tearfully.]
Fie, what a kissing and crying is here! 1053[To Wife] Zounds, do ye think he will never come again? 1054[To John] Why, John, come away! Dost think that we are so base-1055minded to die among Frenchmen? 1056Zounds, we know not whether they will lay 1057us in their church or no. Come, Master Captain, let's away.
I cannot stay no longer, therefore come away.