The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth (Quarto, 1598)

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 of Henry the fifth.
 476Iohn. But Dericke, though we be so poore,
 477yet wil we haue in store a crab in the fire,
 478With nut-browne ale, that is full stale,
 479Which wil a man quaile, and laie in the mire.
 480Der. A bots on you, and be but for your Ale,
 481Ile dwel with you, come lets away as fastas we can.
 482Exeunt.
 483Enter the yoong Prince, with Ned and Tom.
 484Hen.5. Come away sirs, Gogs wounds Ned,
 485Didstthou not see what a boxe on the eare
 486I tooke my Lord chiefe Iustice?
 487Tom. By gogs blood it did me good to see it,
 488It made his teeth iarre in his head.
 489Enter sir Iohn Old-Castle.
 490Hen.5. How now sir Iohn Old-Castle,
 491What newes with you?
 492Ioh. Old. I am glad to see your grace at libertie,
 493I was come I, to visit you in prison.
 494Hen.5. To visit me, didst thou not know that I am a 
 495Princes son, why tis inough for me to looke into a prison,
 496though I come not in my selfe, but heres such adoo now a=
 497dayes, heres prisoning, heres hanging, whipping, and the
 498diuel and all, but I tel you sirs, when I am King, we will
 499haue no such things, but my lads, if the old king my father
 500were dead, we would be all kings.
 501Ioh. Old. Hee is a good olde man, God take him to his mercy the sooner.
 502Hen.5. But Ned,so soone as I am King, the first thing
 503I wil do, shal be to put my Lord chiefe Justice out of office,
 504And thou shalt be my Lord chiefe Justice of England.
 505Ned. Shall I be Lord chiefe Justice?
 506By gogs wounds, ile be the brauest Lord chiefe Justice
 507That euer was in England.
 508Hen.5. Then Ned, ile turne all these prisons into fence
 509Schooles, and I will endue thee with them, with landes to 
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