Davy-let me see ;-yea, marry,* William cook,a bid him come hither. Sir John, you shall not be excused. DAVY. Marry, sir, thus ;-those precepts cannot be served: and, again, sir,—shall we sow the head-land with wheat? SHAL. With red wheat, Davy. there no young pigeons? But for William cook;- -are DAVY. Yes, sir.-Here is now the smith's note, for shoeing, and plough-irons. : SHAL. Let it be cast, and paid: sir John, you shall not be excused. DAVY. Now,† sir, a new link to the bucket must needs be had :And, sir, do you mean to stop any of William's wages, about the sack he lost the other day at Hinckley fair? SHAL. He shall answer it.- -Some pigeons, Davy; a couple of short-legged hens; a joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook. DAVY. Doth the man of war stay all night, sir? SHAL. Yes, Davy. I will use him well; A friend i'the court is better than a penny in purse. Use his men well, Davy; for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite. DAVY. No worse than they are back‡-bitten, sir; for they have marvellous foul linen. SHAL. Well conceited, Davy. About thy business, Davy. · DAVY. I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of Wincot § against Clement Perkes of the hill. SHAL. There are many complaints, Davy, against that Visor; that Visor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge. DAVY. I grant your worship, that he is a knave, sir: but yet, God forbid, sir, but a knave should have some countenance at his friend's request. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. I have served your worship truly, sir, this ¶ eight years; and if I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man, I have but a very little credit with your worship. The knave is mine honest friend, sir; therefore, I beseech your worship, let him be countenanced SHAL. Go to; I say, he shall have no wrong. Look about, Davy. [Exit DAVY.] Where are you, sir John? Come, come, come, off with your boots.-Give me your hand, master Bardolph. BARD. I am glad to see your worship. SHAL. I thank thee with all my heart, kind master Bardolph:and welcome, my tall fellow. [To the Page.] Come, sir John. [Exit SHALLOW. FAL. I'll follow you, good master Robert Shallow. Bardolph, look to our horses. [Exeunt BARDOLPH and Page.] If I were sawed into quantities, I should make four dozen of such bearded hermits'-staves as master Shallow. It is a wonderful thing, to see First folio omits, yea, marry. First folio omits, back. First folio, heaven. (†) First folio omits, now. Old text, Woncot. William cook,-] Servants, and the lower orders of people generally, were commonly distinguished of old by surnames derived from their respective callings." b Precepts-] Warrants. VOL. II. F the semblable coherence of his men's spirits and his: they, by observing him, do bear themselves like foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is turned into a justice-like serving-man: their spirits are so married in conjunction with the participation of society, that they flock together in consent, like so many wild geese. If Í had a suit to master Shallow, I would humour his men, with the imputation of being near their master; if to his men, I would curry with master Shallow, that no man could better command his servants. It is certain, that either wise bearing, or ignorant carriage, is caught, as men take diseases, one of another: and therefore, let men take heed of their company. I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow, to keep prince Harry in continual laughter, the wearing-out of six fashions, (which is four terms, or two actions,) and he shall laugh without* intervallums. O, it is much, that a lie, with a slight oath, and a jest with a sad brow, will do with a fellow that never had the ache in his shoulders! O, you shall see him laugh, till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up. SHAL. [Within.] Sir John! FAL. I come, master Shallow; I come, master Shallow. SCENE II.-Westminster. [Exit FALSTAFF, A Room in the Palace. Enter WARWICK, and the Lord Chief Justice. WAR. How now, my lord chief justice? whither away? WAR. Exceeding well; his cares are now all ended. WAR. He's walk'd the way of nature; And, to our purposes, he lives no more. CH. JUST. I would his majesty had call'd me with him: The service that I truly did his life, Hath left me open to all injuries. WAR. Indeed, I think, the young king loves you not. To welcome the condition of the time; Which cannot look more hideously upon me, Than I have drawn it in my fantasy. Enter PRINCE JOHN, PRINCE HUMPHREY, CLARENCE, WAR. Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry: O, that the living Harry had the temper Of him, the worst of these three gentlemen! (*) First folio, with. They flock together in consent,-] In agreement, in union. Being near their master;] This may mean either resembling their master, or being able to influence him. P. JOHN. Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow. P. JOHN. We meet like men that had forgot to speak. Is all too heavy to admit much talk. P. JOHN. Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy! P. HUMPH. O, good my lord, you have lost a friend, indeed: Of seeming sorrow; it is sure, your own. P. JOHN. Though no man be assur'd what grace to find, You stand in coldest expectation: I am the sorrier; would 't were otherwise. CLA. Well, you must now speak sir John Falstaff fair, CH. JUST. Sweet princes, what I did, I did in honour, Enter KING HENRY V. CH. JUST. Good morrow; and God† save your majesty! Sits not so easy on me as you think.— Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear; But Harry, Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers, That I will deeply put the fashion on, (*) First folio, imperial. (†) First folio, heaven. (+) First folio, But. A ragged and forestall'd remission.-] Ragged in this place means base, ignominious, as in Shakespeare's eighth sonnet: but of" forestall'd remission," we believe the import is yet to be sought. That it was a familiar expression is evident, for it occurs twice in Massinger, (in "The Duke of Milan," Act III. Sc. 1; and in "The Bondman," Act III. Sc. 3;) though in neither case does the context assist us to its meaning. But Harry lives, that shall convert those tears, By number, into hours of happiness. PRINCES. We hope no other from your majesty. KING. You all look strangely on me :-and you most; You are, I think, assur'd I love you not. [To the Lord Chief Justice. CH. JUST. I am assur'd, if I be measur'd rightly, Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me. KING. NO! How might a prince of my great hopes forget. What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison CH. JUST. I then did use the person of your father; KING. You are right, justice, and you weigh this well; Therefore still bear the balance, and the sword: And I do wish your honours may increase, Till you do live to see a son of mine Offend you, and obey you, as I did. So shall I live to speak my father's words; Princes.] The prefix to this speech in the quarto is Bro. for " Brothers;" and in the folio, "John, &c.:" it was intended to be spoken by all the Princes together. Happy am I, that have a man so bold, Into the hands of justice.-You did commit me: The unstain'd sword that you have us'd to bear; My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear; Our coronation done, we will accite, As I before remember'd, all our state: [To the Lord Chief Justice. And (God† consigning to my good intents,) No prince, nor peer, shall have just cause to say,- [Exeunt. SCENE III.-Gloucestershire. The Garden of Shallow's House. Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, SILENCE, BARDOLPH, the Page, and DAVY. SHAL. Nay, you shall see mine orchard; where, in an arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin of my own graffing, with a dish of carraways, and so forth;-come, cousin Silence;-and then to bed. (*) First folio, no. (†) First folio, heaven. My father is gone wild into his grave,-] He means, because he has exchanged his own wildness, burying it in that grave, for his father's serious spirit. |