506Bar. Well met Corporall Nym.

507Nym. Good morrow Lieutenant Bardolfe.

508Bar. What, are Ancient Pistoll and you friends yet?

509Nym. For my part, I care not: I say little: but when

510time shall serue, there shall be smiles, but that shall be as

511it may. I dare not fight, but I will winke and holde out

512mine yron: it is a simple one, but what though? It will

513toste Cheese, and it will endure cold, as another mans

514sword will: and there's an end.

515Bar. I will bestow a breakfast to make you friendes,

516and wee'l bee all three sworne brothers to France: Let't

517be so good Corporall Nym.

518Nym. Faith, I will liue so long as I may, that's the cer-

519taine of it: and when I cannot liue any longer, I will doe

520as I may: That is my rest, that is the rendeuous of it.

521Bar. It is certaine Corporall, that he is marryed to

522Nell Quickly, and certainly she did you wrong, for you

523were troth-plight to her.

524Nym. I cannot tell, Things must be as they may: men

525may sleepe, and they may haue their throats about them

526at that time, and some say, kniues haue edges : It must

527be as it may, though patience be a tyred name, yet shee

528will plodde, there must be Conclusions, well, I cannot

529tell.

531Bar. Heere comes Ancient Pistoll and his wife: good

532Corporall be patient heere. How now mine Hoaste Pi-

533stoll?

534Pist. Base Tyke, cal'st thou mee Hoste, now by this

535hand I sweare I scorne the terme: nor shall my Nel keep

536Lodgers.

537Host. No by my troth, not long: For we cannot lodge

538and board a dozen or fourteene Gentlewomen that liue

539honestly by the pricke of their Needles, but it will bee

540thought we keepe a Bawdy-house straight. O welliday

541Lady, if he be not hewne now, we shall see wilful adulte-

542ry and murther committed.

543Bar. Good Lieutenant, good Corporal offer nothing

545Pist. Pish for thee, Island dogge: thou prickeard cur

546of Island.

547Host. Good Corporall Nym shew thy valor, and put

548vp your sword.

549Nym. Will you shogge off? I would haue you solus.

550Pist. Solus, egregious dog? O Viper vile; The solus

551in thy most meruailous face, the solus in thy teeth, and

552in thy throate, and in thy hatefull Lungs, yea in thy Maw

553perdy; and which is worse, within thy nastie mouth. I

554do retort the solus in thy bowels, for I can take, and Pi-

555stols cocke is vp, and flashing fire will follow.

556Nym. I am not Barbason, you cannot coniure mee: I

557haue an humor to knocke you indifferently well: If you

558grow fowle with me Pistoll, I will scoure you with my

559Rapier, as I may, in fayre tearmes. If you would walke

560off, I would pricke your guts a little in good tearmes, as

561I may, and that's the humor of it.

562Pist. O Braggard vile, and damned furious wight,

563The Graue doth gape, and doting death is neere,

564Therefore exhale.

565Bar. Heare me, heare me what I say: Hee that strikes

566the first stroake, Ile run him vp to the hilts, as I am a sol-

567dier.

568Pist. An oath of mickle might, and fury shall abate.

569Giue me thy fist, thy fore-foote to me giue: Thy spirites

570are most tall.

571Nym. I will cut thy throate one time or other in faire

572termes, that is the humor of it.

573Pistoll. Couple a gorge, that is the word. I defie thee a-

574gaine. O hound of Creet, think'st thou my spouse to get?

575No, to the spittle goe, and from the Poudring tub of in-

576famy, fetch forth the Lazar Kite of Cressids kinde, Doll

577Teare-sheete, she by name, and her espouse. I haue, and I

578will hold the Quondam Quickely for the onely shee: and

579Pauca, there's enough to go to.

581Boy. Mine Hoast Pistoll, you must come to my May-

582ster, and your Hostesse: He is very sicke, & would to bed.

583Good Bardolfe, put thy face betweene his sheets, and do

584the Office of a Warming-pan: Faith, he's very ill.

585Bard. Away you Rogue.

586Host. By my troth he'l yeeld the Crow a pudding one

587of these dayes: the King has kild his heart. Good Hus-

588band come home presently. Exit

589Bar. Come, shall I make you two friends. Wee must

590to France together: why the diuel should we keep kniues

591to cut one anothers throats?

592Pist. Let floods ore-swell, and fiends for food howle

593on.

594Nym. You'l pay me the eight shillings I won of you

595at Betting?

596Pist. Base is the Slaue that payes.

597Nym. That now I wil haue: that's the humor of it.

598Pist. As manhood shal compound: push home. Draw

599Bard. By this sword, hee that makes the first thrust,

600Ile kill him: By this sword, I wil.

601Pi. Sword is an Oath, & Oaths must haue their course

602Bar. Coporall Nym, & thou wilt be friends be frends,

603and thou wilt not, why then be enemies with me to: pre-

604thee put vp.

605Pist. A Noble shalt thou haue, and present pay, and

606Liquor likewise will I giue to thee, and friendshippe

607shall combyne, and brotherhood. Ile liue by Nymme, &

608Nymme shall liue by me, is not this iust? For I shal Sut-

609ler be vnto the Campe, and profits will accrue. Giue mee

610thy hand.

h 3 Nym.

611Nym. I shall haue my Noble?

612Pist. In cash, most iustly payd.

613Nym. Well, then that the humor of't.

615Host. As euer you come of women, come in quickly

616to sir Iohn: A poore heart, hee is so shak'd of a burning

617quotidian Tertian, that it is most lamentable to behold.

618Sweet men, come to him.

619Nym. The King hath run bad humors on the Knight,

620that's the euen of it.

621Pist. Nym, thou hast spoke the right, his heart is fra-

622cted and corroborate.

623Nym. The King is a good King, but it must bee as it

624may: he passes some humors, and carreeres.

625Pist. Let vs condole the Knight, for (Lambekins) we

626will liue.