2 KING HENRY IV 5.5

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2 KING HENRY IV 5.5

A public place near Westminster Abbey.

[Enter two Grooms, strewing rushes]

First Groom More rushes, more rushes.

Second Groom The trumpets have sounded twice.

First Groom 'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the

coronation: dispatch, dispatch.

[Exeunt]

[Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL,

BARDOLPH, and Page]

FALSTAFF Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow; I will 5

make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him as

a' comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he

will give me.

PISTOL God bless thy lungs, good knight.

FALSTAFF Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. O, if I had had 10

time to have made new liveries, I would have

bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But

'tis no matter; this poor show doth better: this

doth infer the zeal I had to see him.

SHALLOW It doth so. 15

FALSTAFF It shows my earnestness of affection,--

SHALLOW It doth so.

FALSTAFF My devotion,--

SHALLOW It doth, it doth, it doth.

FALSTAFF As it were, to ride day and night; and not to 20

deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience

to shift me,--

SHALLOW It is best, certain.

FALSTAFF But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with

desire to see him; thinking of nothing else, 25

putting all affairs else in oblivion, as if there

were nothing else to be done but to see him.

PISTOL 'Tis 'semper idem,' for 'obsque hoc nihil est:'

'tis all in every part.

SHALLOW 'Tis so, indeed. 30

PISTOL My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,

And make thee rage.

Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,

Is in base durance and contagious prison;

Haled thither 35

By most mechanical and dirty hand:

Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell

Alecto's snake,

For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.

FALSTAFF I will deliver her. 40

[Shouts within, and the trumpets sound]

PISTOL There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.

[Enter KING HENRY V and his train, the Lord Chief-

Justice among them]

FALSTAFF God save thy grace, King Hal! my royal Hal!

PISTOL The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!

FALSTAFF God save thee, my sweet boy!

KING HENRY IV My lord chief-justice, speak to that vain man. 45

Lord Chief-Justice Have you your wits? know you what 'tis to speak?

FALSTAFF My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!

KING HENRY IV I 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, 50

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. 55

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. 60

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, 65

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, 70

Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,

To see perform'd the tenor of our word. Set on.

[Exeunt KING HENRY V, &c]

FALSTAFF Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.

SHALLOW Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me

have home with me. 75

FALSTAFF That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you

grieve at this; I shall be sent 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. 80

SHALLOW I 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.

FALSTAFF Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you 85

heard was but a colour.

SHALLOW A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John.

FALSTAFF Fear no colours: go with me to dinner: come,

Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph: I shall be sent

for soon at night. 90

[Re-enter Prince John of LANCASTER, the Lord

Chief-Justice; Officers with them]

Lord Chief-Justice Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet:

Take all his company along with him.

FALSTAFF My lord, my lord,--

Lord Chief-Justice I cannot now speak: I will hear you soon.

Take them away. 95

PISTOL Si fortune me tormenta, spero contenta.

[Exeunt all but PRINCE JOHN and the Lord

Chief-Justice]

LANCASTER I like this fair proceeding of the king's:

He hath intent his wonted followers

Shall all be very well provided for;

But all are banish'd till their conversations 100

Appear more wise and modest to the world.

Lord Chief-Justice And so they are.

LANCASTER The king hath call'd his parliament, my lord.

Lord Chief-Justice He hath.

LANCASTER I will lay odds that, ere this year expire, 105

We bear our civil swords and native fire

As far as France: I beard a bird so sing,

Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

Come, will you hence?

[Exeunt]

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First Groom		'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the
		coronation: dispatch, dispatch.
		[Exeunt]
		[Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL,
		BARDOLPH, and Page]

FALSTAFF	Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow; I will	5
	make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him as
	a' comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he
	will give me.

FALSTAFF	Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. O, if I had had	10
	time to have made new liveries, I would have
	bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But
	'tis no matter; this poor show doth better: this
	doth infer the zeal I had to see him.

FALSTAFF	As it were, to ride day and night; and not to	20
	deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience
	to shift me,--

FALSTAFF	But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with
	desire to see him; thinking of nothing else,	25
	putting all affairs else in oblivion, as if there
	were nothing else to be done but to see him.

PISTOL		'Tis 'semper idem,' for 'obsque hoc nihil est:'
		'tis all in every part.

PISTOL	My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,
	And make thee rage.
	Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,
	Is in base durance and contagious prison;
	Haled thither	35
	By most mechanical and dirty hand:
	Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell
	Alecto's snake,
	For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.

FALSTAFF		I will deliver her.	40
		[Shouts within, and the trumpets sound]

PISTOL		There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.
		[Enter KING HENRY V and his train, the Lord Chief-
		Justice among them]

KING HENRY IV	I 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,	50
	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.	55
	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.	60
	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,	65
	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,	70
	Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,
	To see perform'd the tenor of our word. Set on.
	[Exeunt KING HENRY V, &c]

SHALLOW		Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me
		have home with me.	75

FALSTAFF	That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you
	grieve at this; I shall be sent 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.	80

SHALLOW		I 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.

FALSTAFF		Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you	85
		heard was but a colour.

FALSTAFF	Fear no colours: go with me to dinner: come,
	Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph: I shall be sent
	for soon at night.	90
	[Re-enter Prince John of LANCASTER, the Lord
	Chief-Justice; Officers with them]

Lord Chief-Justice		Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet:
		Take all his company along with him.

Lord Chief-Justice		I cannot now speak: I will hear you soon.
		Take them away.	95

PISTOL		Si fortune me tormenta, spero contenta.
		[Exeunt all but PRINCE JOHN and the Lord
		Chief-Justice]

LANCASTER	I like this fair proceeding of the king's:
	He hath intent his wonted followers
	Shall all be very well provided for;
	But all are banish'd till their conversations	100
	Appear more wise and modest to the world.

LANCASTER	I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,	105
	We bear our civil swords and native fire
	As far as France: I beard a bird so sing,
	Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
	Come, will you hence?
	[Exeunt]

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