Henry IV, Part II 20

⁶Enter Falstaff, Shallow, Pistol, Bardolph, and Page.

¹⁰ShallowIt doth so.

¹⁴ShallowIt doth, it doth, it doth.

¹⁸Pistol’Tis “semper idem,” for “obsque hoc nihil est:” ’tis all in every part.

²²PistolThere roar’d the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.

²⁶FalstaffGod save thee, my sweet boy!

³⁰KingI know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
I have long dream’d of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swell’d, so old and so profane;
But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men.
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest:
Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn’d away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.
When thou dost hear 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 banish thee, on pain of death,
As I have done the rest of my misleaders,
Not to come near our person by ten mile.
For competence of life I will allow you,
That lack of means enforce you not to evil:
And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,
We will, according to your strengths and qualities,
Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,
To see perform’d the tenour of our word. Set on. Exeunt King, etc.

³⁴ShallowI cannot well perceive how, unless you should give me your doublet and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred of my thousand.

³⁸Reenter Prince John, the Lord Chief-Justice; Officers with them.