The King Henry 4 - Act 5

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Act five of the second part of Henry the Fourth.
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Fourth by William Shakespeare, Act five, Scene one, Gloucestershire, Shallow's house.

(00:27):
Enter Shallow, Falstaff, Bardoff and.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Page by Cock and pye, Sir, you shall not away
tonight what Davy I say.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
You must excuse me, Master Robert Shallow, I.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Will not excuse you. You shall not be excused. Excuses shall
not be admitted. There is no excuse shall serve. You
shall not be excused. Why Davy?

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Enter Davy here, Sir.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
Davy, Davy, Davy, Davy. Let me see Davy, Let me
see Davy, Let me see yeay, Mary, William Cook bid
him come hither, Sir John, You shall not be excused.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
Mary, sir. Thus those precepts cannot be served. And again, sir,
shall we sow the headland with wheat.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
With red wheat? Davy? But for William Cook I don't
know young pigeons.

Speaker 6 (01:26):
Yes, sir, here is now the smith's note for shoeing
and plow irons.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Let it be cast and paid, Sir John, you shall
not be excused.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
Now, Sir. An new link to the bucket must needs
be had. Sir, do you mean to stop any of
William's wages about the sack he lost the other day
at Hinckley Fair.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
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.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Does the man of war stay all night?

Speaker 7 (01:59):
Sir?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeay, Davy, I will use him well. A friend in
the court is better than a penny in purse. Use
his men well, Davy, for they are arrant knaves and
will backbite.

Speaker 6 (02:15):
No worse than that they are backbitten, Sir, for they
have marvelous foul linen.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Well conceited Davy about thy business, Davy.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
I beseech you, Sir, to countenance William Weser of one
cut against Clement Perks of the hill.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
There is many complaints, Davy against that visa. That visa
is an arrant knave.

Speaker 6 (02:39):
On my knowledge, I grant your worship that he is
a knave, Sir. But yet God forbids Sir, but a
knife 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 I cannot once or twice in

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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
you let him be countenanced.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Go to I say, he shall have no wrong. Look
about Davy, Exit Davy. Where are you said? John?

Speaker 8 (03:20):
Come?

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Come, come off with your boots. Give me your hand,
Master Bodle.

Speaker 9 (03:28):
I am glad to see your worship.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I thank you all my heart, kind Master Badele to
the page, and welcome my tall fellow.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Come, sir John, I'll follow you, Good Master Robert.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Shallow, Exit Shallow.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Bard Off.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Look to our horses, Exit Bardolf and Page.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
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 the samblable coherence of
his men's spirits. Is they, by observing of him to
bear themselves like foolish justices? He by conversing with them,

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is turned into a justicelike serving man. Their spirits are
so married in conjunction with the participation of society, that
they flock together and consent like so many wild geese.
If I had a suit to Master Shallow, I would
humor his men with the imputation of being near their master.

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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. Therefore, let men
take heed of their company. I will devise matter enough

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out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual
laughter the wearing out of six fashion, which is four
terms or two actions, and I shall laugh without intervalums. Oh,
it is much that a lie with a slight oath
and a just with a sad brow will do with
a fellow that never had the ache in his shoulders. Oh,

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you shall see him laugh. She'll his face be like
a wet cloak, ill laid up within. Sir John, I
come Master Shallow, I come Master Shallow.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Exit scene to Westminster, the Palace, enter severally Warwick and
the Lord Chief Justice.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
How now, my Lord Chief Justice, whither away?

Speaker 9 (05:45):
How doth the King exceeding?

Speaker 10 (05:48):
Well?

Speaker 4 (05:49):
His cares are now all ended?

Speaker 9 (05:52):
I hope not dead.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
He's walked the way of nature, and to our purposes
he lives no more.

Speaker 9 (05:59):
What is my They had called me with him. The
service that I truly did his life has left me
open to all injuries.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Indeed, I think the young King loves you not.

Speaker 9 (06:10):
I know he doth not. And do arm myself to
welcome the condition of the time, which cannot look more
hideously upon me than I have drawn in my fantasy.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
And heer Lancaster, Clarence, Gloucester, Westmoreland and others.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Here comes the heavy issue of dead Harry. Oh that
the living Harry had the temper of he the worst
of these three gentlemen.

Speaker 9 (06:35):
Oh God, I fear all will be overturned.

Speaker 10 (06:39):
Good morrow, Cousin, Mork, Good morrow, Good morrow, Cousin. We
meet like men that had forgot to speak.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
We do remember, but our argument is all too heavy
to admit much talk.

Speaker 10 (06:52):
Well, peace be with him that have made us heavy.

Speaker 9 (06:55):
Peace be with us lest we be heavier.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Oh goodnight, my lord, you have lost a friend indeed,
and I dare swear you borrow not that face of
seeming sorrow.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
It is sure your own.

Speaker 10 (07:08):
Though no man be assured what grace to find you
stand in coldest expectation. I am the sawyer would twere otherwise.

Speaker 11 (07:16):
Well, you must now speak, Sir John Falstaff fair, which
swims against your stream of quality.

Speaker 9 (07:22):
Sweet Prince, what I did I did in honor, led
by the impartial conduct of my soul. And never shall
you see that I will beg a ragged and forced
old remission. If truth and upright innocensy fail me, I'll
to the King, my master, that is Stead, and tell

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him who hath sent me. After him, here.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Comes the Prince.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Enter, King Henry the fifth attended.

Speaker 9 (07:51):
Good Morrow, and God save your majesty.

Speaker 8 (07:55):
This new and gorgeous garment. Majesty sits not so easy
on me as you think. Brothers, you mix your sadness.

Speaker 10 (08:05):
With some fear.

Speaker 8 (08:07):
This is the English, not the Turkish court, not Amorath,
and Amorath succeeds. But Harry, Harry, yet be sad, good brothers,
For by my faith it very well becomes you sorrow

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so royally in you appears that I will deeply put
the fashion on and wear it in my heart. Why then,
be sad, but entertain no more of it, good brothers,
than a joint burden laid upon us all for me

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by heaven. I bid you be assured. I'll be your
father and your brother too. Let me but bear your love.
I'll bear your cares. It weep that Harry is dead,
and so will I. But Harry lives. That shall convert
those tears by number into hours of happiness.

Speaker 11 (09:12):
We hope no otherwise from your majesty.

Speaker 8 (09:15):
You all looked strangely on me, and you most you
are I think assured I love you not.

Speaker 9 (09:23):
I am sure if I be measured rightly. Your majesty
hath no just cause to hate me.

Speaker 8 (09:30):
No, how might a prince of my great hopes forget
so great indignities you laid upon me what rate rebuke
and roughly sent to prison? The immediate air of England
was this easy? May this be washed and leathy and forgotten?

Speaker 9 (09:47):
I then deduce the person of your father. The image
of his power lay then in me, and in the
administration of his slow whilst I was busy for the commonwealth,
your is pleased to forget my place. The majesty in
power of law and justice, the image of the king
whom I presented and struck me in my very seat

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of judgment, whereon, as an offender to your father, I
gave bold way to my authority, and I did commit you.
If the deed were ill, be you contented, wearing now
the garland to have a son set you decrease at
knot to pluck down justice from your awful bench, to

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trip the course a law and blunt the sword that
guards the peace and safety of your person. Nay more,
to spurn at your most royal image and mock your
workings in a second body, question your royal thoughts, make
the case yours. Be now the father, and propose a son.

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Hear your own dignities so much profound, see your most
dreadful law so loosely lighted, behold yourself by a son disdained,
And then imagine me taking your part and in your
power soft silencing your son. After this cold considerance sentence me,

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and as you are a king, speak in your state
what I have done that misbecame my place, my person,
or my leech is sobeignty, You.

Speaker 8 (11:27):
Are right, justice, and you weigh this well. Therefore still
bear the balance and the sword, and I do wish
your honors 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.

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Happy am I that have a man so bold that
dares do justice on my proper son, and not less
happy having such a son that would deliver up his greatness.
So into the hands of justice you did commit me,
for which I do commit into your hand the unstained
sword that you have used to bear with this remembrance,

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that you use the same with the like, bold, just
and impartial spirit as you have done against me. There
is my hand. You shall be as a father to
my youth. My voice shall sound as you do prompt
my ear, and I will stoop and humble my intense

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to your well practiced, wise directions. And princess all believe me.
I beseech you. My father is gone wild into his grave,
For in his tomb lie my affections and with his spirits.
Sadly I survive to mock the expectation of the world,

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to frustrate prophecy, and to raise out rotten opinion. Who
hath writ me down? After my seeming, the tide of
blood in me hath proudly flowed in vanity till now
now doth it turn an ebb back into the sea,
where it shall mingle with the state of floods and flow.

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Henceforth in formal majesty, now call we are high court
of Parliament, and let us choose such limbs of noble counsel,
that the great body of our state may go in
equal rank with the best governed nation, that war or peace,
or both at once may be as things acquainted and

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familiar to us, in which you father shall have foremost hand.
Our coronation done, we will excite as I before remembered,
all our state, and God consigning to my good. And
hence no prince nor peer shall have just cause to

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say God shortened Harry's happy life one.

Speaker 11 (14:07):
Day Exit.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Scene three, Gloucestershire, Shallows orchard, enter Falstaff, shallow silence, Bardolph
the page and davy.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Nay, you shall see my orchard, where in an arb
we will eat a last year's pipin of my own
graphing with a dish of carraways. And so forth come
cousin silence, and then to bed for.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
God you have been here, a goodly dwelling.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
And rich baron barn barn beggars all beggars, all, Sir John,
marry good air, spread, davy, spread, davy, Well, said Davy.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
This day serves you for good uses. He is your
serving man and your husband.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet,
Sir John, by the mass, I've drunk too much, sack
at supper, a good varlet. Now sit down. Now, sit down, come.

Speaker 7 (15:15):
Cousin, as Sarah quotha, we shall do nothing but eat
and make good cheer and praise God for them. Marry
when flesh is cheap, and females dear and lusty lads

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roam here and there so merrily and ever among so merrily.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
There's a merry heart, Good master, silence. I'll give you
a health for that.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Anon, Give Master Bardolf some wine, davy.

Speaker 6 (15:56):
Sweet, sir, sip, I'll be with you, anon most sweet, sir.
Sit master, page, good master page, sit proface. What you
want in meat, We'll have him drink, but you must
bear the heart's all exit.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Be merry, Master Bardolf, and my littles older there be merry.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
Be merry, be merry my wife has all for women shrews,
both short and tall. Tis merry in hall when beards
wagon and welcome merry shrove tied, be merry, be merry.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
I did not think Master Silence had been a man
of this metal.

Speaker 7 (16:44):
Who I I have been married twice and once yea.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Now re enter, Davy Tubardo.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
There's a dish of leather coats for you, dv your worship.
I'll be with you straight tu part of a cup
of wine, sir, a.

Speaker 7 (17:02):
Cup of wine that's brisk and fine, and drink unto
the leman mine and the merry heart lives longer.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Well said Master Silence.

Speaker 7 (17:16):
And we shall be merry. Now comes in the suite
of the night.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Half and long life to you, Master Silence.

Speaker 7 (17:24):
Fill the cup and let it come. I'll pledge you
a mile to the bottom.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Honest Bardolph, welcome if thou want'st anything and wilt not
call beshrew thy heart. Welcome, my little tiny thief, and
welcome indeed too. I'll drink to Master Bardolf and to
all the caballeros about London.

Speaker 6 (17:51):
I hope to see London once ere I die.

Speaker 12 (17:53):
And I might see you there.

Speaker 8 (17:55):
Davy.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Buy the mass your cracker quartz together, will you not, master.

Speaker 9 (18:01):
Bottles Hey, Yes, sir, and a pod kennel.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
By God's liggins. I thank thee. The nave will stick thee.
I can assure thee that he will not out eat
tis true bread.

Speaker 6 (18:13):
And I'll stick by him, Sir.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Why there spoke a king lack nothing? Be merry?

Speaker 1 (18:20):
One knocks at door?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Look who's a door there?

Speaker 8 (18:23):
Ho?

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Who knocks?

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Exit davy to silence? Who has drunk a bumper?

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Why now you have done me right?

Speaker 7 (18:32):
Do me right? And up midnight? Some mingo is not so?

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Tis so is so?

Speaker 7 (18:41):
Why then, say an old man can do somewhat re
Enter davy and it.

Speaker 6 (18:46):
Please your worship. There's one pistol come from court with news.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
From the court. Let him come in enter pistol.

Speaker 13 (18:54):
How now pistol, Sir John, God save you?

Speaker 3 (18:59):
What wind blew you hither? Pistol?

Speaker 13 (19:02):
Not the ill wind which blows no man to good
sweet knight, Thou art now one of the greatest men
in his realm.

Speaker 7 (19:10):
Our lady, I think a bee but good man, puff
of barson.

Speaker 13 (19:14):
Puff puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base, Sir John,
I am thy pistol and thy friend and helps to
skelter have our road to thee and tidings do I bring,
and lucky joys and golden times and happy.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
News of price.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
I pray thee now deliver them like a man of
this world.

Speaker 13 (19:37):
Hauff voutra for the world and worldlings, bass I speak
of Africa and golden joys.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Oh be Acerian knight, what is thy news? Let King
Coffetua know the truth thereof?

Speaker 7 (19:52):
And ruminghood scarlet and John.

Speaker 13 (19:55):
Shall dung hellkers confront the helicons, and shall good news
be baffled? Then pistol lay thy head in Fury's lap.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Honest, gentlemen, I know not your breathing.

Speaker 13 (20:07):
Why then lament therefore.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Give me pardon, sir. If sir you come with news
from the court, I take it There's but two ways,
either to utter them or conceal them. I am, sir,
under the King, in some authority.

Speaker 13 (20:24):
Under which king Bezonian speak, or die under King Harry
Harry the fourth or fifth.

Speaker 14 (20:33):
Harry the fourth ha foutra for thine office, sir, John
thy tender lampkin.

Speaker 13 (20:40):
Now is King Harry the fifth the man? I speak
the truth? When pistol lies do this and fig me
like the bragging spaniard.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
What is the old king?

Speaker 13 (20:50):
Deb hasn't helen? Or the things I speak are just.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Away bardoff, saddle my horse, Master, Robert Shaller, choose what
office thou wilt in the land tis thine pistol. I
will double charge thee with dignities.

Speaker 14 (21:07):
Oh joyful day.

Speaker 9 (21:08):
I would not take a knighthood for my fortune?

Speaker 13 (21:11):
What do I bring? Good news?

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Carry master silence to bed master Shallow, My lord shallow,
be what thou wilt? I am fortune steward, if all
thy boots will ride all night, Oh sweet pistol, Away.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Bardoff, exit bardof.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Become pistol are more to me? And with all device
is something to do thyself, good boot, boot Master Shallow,
I know the young king is sick for me. Let
us take any man's horses. The laws of England are
at my commandment. Blessed are they that have been my friends.
And woe to my lord Chief Justice.

Speaker 13 (21:54):
Let vultures voyal sees on his lungs. Also where is
the life that lt I learn? They said? Why here
it is welcome these pleasant days.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Exent Scene four London, A street and her beetles dragging
in hostess quickly and dull tear sheet.

Speaker 12 (22:15):
No thou errant knave. I would to God that I
might die, that I might have thee hanged. Thou hast
drawn my shoulder out of joint.

Speaker 15 (22:21):
The Constippus have delivered her over to me, and she
shall have flipping cheer enough and warrant her. There has
been a manner too lately killed about her.

Speaker 16 (22:30):
No oak, no oak, you lie. Come on, I'll tell
thee what thou damned trot visage Rascal and the child.

Speaker 10 (22:38):
I now go with you.

Speaker 16 (22:39):
Miscarry, thou wert better thou would struck thy mother, Thou
paper faced villain.

Speaker 12 (22:44):
Oh the Lord that Sir John were come, he would
make this a bloody day to somebody. But I pray
God the fruit of her womb miscarry.

Speaker 15 (22:51):
If it do, you shall have a dozen cushions again.
But you have a living. Now come and charge your
boast to go with me, for the man is dead
that you and pistol beat them.

Speaker 16 (23:00):
I'll tell you what, you thin man in a censor.
I will have you as soundly swinged for this hugh
blue or rogue, you filthy famished correction. If you be
not swinged, awful swear half kurtles.

Speaker 15 (23:13):
Come, come, hush, knight errant come.

Speaker 12 (23:16):
Oh God, the right should thus overcome might, while if
sufferance comes ease.

Speaker 16 (23:20):
Come you rogue, Come bring me to a justice.

Speaker 12 (23:24):
Hi, come you starved bloodhound.

Speaker 16 (23:26):
Goodman death, goodman bones. Thou uttam me, thou come you
a thin thing, Come you rascal, very well.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Excellent scene five Westminster, near the abbey. Enter grooms, strewing rushes.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
More rushish, more rushish. The trumpets have sounded twice.

Speaker 6 (23:48):
Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the coronation
dispatch despatch.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Excellent trumpets sound, and the King and his train pass
over the stage. After them, Enter Falstaff, Shallow, Pistol, Bardof
and Page.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow. I will make
the king, do you grace. I will leer upon him
as he comes by, and do but mark the countenance
that he will give me.

Speaker 13 (24:14):
God, bless thy lungs. Good night.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Come here pistol stand behind me to Shallow. Oh, if
I had had to have made new liveries, I would
have bestowed the thousand pounds I borrowed of you. But
tis no matter. This poor show doth better, this doth
in further zeal I had to see him.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
It does so.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
It shows my earnestness of affection.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
It does so my devotion. It does, it does.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
It does as it were to ride day and night,
and not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have
patience to shift me.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
It is best certain, but to.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Stand stained with travel in sweating, with a desire to
see him, the thinking of nothing else, putting all affairs
else in oblivion, as if there were nothing else to
be done. But to see.

Speaker 14 (25:15):
Him tis eemperoidom for ob square hawkney a leste tis
all in every part tis so indeed, my Knight, I
will inflame thy noble lover and make thee rage. Thy
doll in Helen of thy noble thoughts, is in base,
durance and contagious prison, held thither by most mechanical and

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dirty hand, rose up revenge from Ebenden with fel Alecto's snake.
For doll is in pistol, speaks not the truth.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
I will deliver her shouts within, and the trumpets sound.

Speaker 13 (25:52):
They're roared, the sea and trumpet clangor sounds entered.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
The king and his train, the lord chief justice among.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Them, God save thy grace. King, How my royal.

Speaker 13 (26:05):
How heavens THEE God and keep most royal imp of fame.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Godhave THEE, my sweet boy, my Lord Chief Justice, speak
to that vain man?

Speaker 9 (26:20):
Have you your witch? Know you what dis you speak?

Speaker 3 (26:24):
My King, my Jove, I speak to THEE, my heart.

Speaker 8 (26:30):
I know THEE, not old man, fault to thy prayers.
How ill white hairs become a fool in Chester? I
have long dreamt of such a kind of man, so
surface swelled, so old, and so profane. But being awaked,
I do despise my dream. Make less thy body, hence

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and more thy grace, Eve gormandizing know the grave doth
gape for THEE thrice wider than for other men. Reply
not to me with a fool bomb jest presume not
that I am the thing I was for God doth know.

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So shall the world perceive that I have turned away
my former self. So will I those that kept me company.
When thou dost here I am as I have been,
approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast, the
tutor and the feeder of my riots. Till then I

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banish THEE on pain of death, as I have done
the rest of my misleaders not to come near our
person thy ten miles for competence of life. I will
allow you that lack of beings enforce you not to evils.
And as we hear you do reform yourselves, we will,

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according to your strength and qualities, give you advancement. Be
it your charge, my Lord, to see performed the tenor
of our word.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Exit the king and his train Master Shallow. I owe
you a thousand pounds.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yea marry, Sir John, which I beseech you to let
me have home with me.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
That can hardly be Master Shallow. Do not you grieve
at this? I shall be set for in private to him,
look you, he must seem thus to the world. Fear
not your advancements. I will be the man yet that
shall make you great.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
I cannot perceive how unless you give me your doublet
and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you, good,
Sir John, Let me have five hundred of my thousand, Sir, I.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
Will as good as my word. This that you heard
was but a.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Color, A color that I fear you will die in,
Sir John.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Fear no colors. Go with me to dinner. Come, Lieutenant Pistol, Come, Barda,
I shall be sent for soon at night.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Re Enter Prince John, the Lord Chief Justice with officers.

Speaker 9 (29:24):
Go carry Sir John Falstoffs to the fleet, take all
his company along with him. My Lord, my lord, I
cannot now speak. I will hear you soon take them away.

Speaker 13 (29:38):
See Fortuna may tormentor sparrow me contenter.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Exit all but Prince John and the Lord Chief Justice.

Speaker 10 (29:47):
I like this fair proceeding of the kings. He hath
intent his wonted followers shall all be very well provided for.
But all are banished till their conversations appear more wise
and modest to the world.

Speaker 9 (30:00):
And so they are.

Speaker 10 (30:01):
The king hath called his parliament. My lord he hath,
I will lay odds that ere this year expire. We
will bear as if swords a native fire. As far
as France, I heard a bird so sing, whose music,
to my thinking pleased the king. Come. Will you hence.

Speaker 11 (30:20):
Axent epilog First my fear, then my courtesy, last my speech.
My fear is your displeasure, my curtesy, my duty, and
my speech to beg your pardons. If you look for
a good speech, now you undo me, for what I
have to say is of mine own making. And what

(30:42):
indeed I should say, will I doubt prove mine own marring.
But to the purpose, and so to the venture. Be
it known to you, as it is very well. I
was lately here in the end of a displeasing play,
to pray your patience for it, and to promise you
a better I meant indeed to you with this, which,
if like an ill venture it come unluckily home I break,

(31:05):
and you, my gentle creditors, lose. Here I promised you
I would be, and here I commit my body to
your mercies. Bate me some, and I will pay you some,
and as most debtors do, promise you infinitely. And so
I kneel down before you, but indeed to pray for
the Queen. If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me,

(31:27):
will you command me to use my legs? And yet
that were but light payment to dance out of your debt.
But a good conscience will make any possible satisfaction, And
so would I. All the gentlewomen here have forgiven me.
If the gentleman will not, then the gentleman do not
agree with the gentle women, which was never seen before

(31:48):
in such an assembly. One word more. I beseech you,
if you be not too much cloyed with fat meat,
our humble author will continue the story with Sir John
in it, and make you Mary with fair Catharine of France.
Where for anything I know Falstaff shall die of a sweat,
unless already I be killed with your hard opinions. For

(32:09):
Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man.
My tongue is weary, when my legs are too, I
will bid you good night.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
End of Act five, end of the second part of
Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare.