HOSTESS QUICKLY O, that Sir John were come, he would make
this a bloody day to somebody, But I would the fruit of her
womb might miscarry!
FIRST BEADLE If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions again,
you have but eleven now. Come, I charge you both go with
me, for the man is dead that you and Pistol beat among you.
DOLL TEARSHEET I'll tell thee what, thou thin man in a censer, I
will have you as soundly swinged for this, you blue-bottled
rogue, you filthy famished correctioner. If you be not
swinged, I'll forswear half-kirtles.
FIRST BEADLE Come, come, you she knight-errant, come.
HOSTESS QUICKLY O, that right should thus o'ercome might!
Well, of sufferance comes ease.
DOLL TEARSHEET Come, you rogue, come. Bring me to a justice.
HOSTESS QUICKLY Yes, come, you starved bloodhound.
DOLL TEARSHEET Goodman death, goodman bones
HOSTESS QUICKLY Thou anatomy, thou!
DOLL TEARSHEET Come, you thin thing, come you rascal.
FIRST BEADLE Very well.
Exeunt
Act 5 Scene 5
running scene 16
Location: a public place in Westminster, near the Abbey
Enter two Grooms
FIRST GROOM More rushes, more rushes.
SECOND GROOM The trumpets have sounded twice.
FIRST GROOM It will be two of the clock ere they come from the
coronation.
Exeunt Grooms
Enter Falstaff, Shallow, Pistol, Bardolph and Page
FALSTAFF 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.
PISTOL Bless thy lungs, good knight.
FALSTAFF Come here, Pistol, stand behind me.-- O, if I had
had time to have made new liveries, I would have bestowed
the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But it is no matter,
this poor show doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had to
see him.
SHALLOW It doth so.
FALSTAFF It shows my earnestness in affection--
PISTOL It doth so.
FALSTAFF My devotion--
PISTOL It doth, it doth, it doth.
FALSTAFF As it were, to ride day and night, and not to
deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to shift
me--
SHALLOW It is most certain.
FALSTAFF But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with
desire to see him, thinking of nothing else, putting all affairs
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.
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
By most mechanical and dirty hand.
Rouse up revenge from ebon
Alecto 's snake,
For Doll is in. Pistol speaks naught but troth.
FALSTAFF I will deliver her.
PISTOL There roared the sea, and trumpet-clangour sounds.
The trumpets sound. Enter King Henry V, [with his]brothers [Prince
John, Clarence, Gloucester], Lord Chief Justice [and others]
FALSTAFF Save thy grace, King Hal, my royal Hal!
PISTOL The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of
fame!
FALSTAFF Save thee, my sweet boy!
KING HENRY V My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Have you your wits? Know you what 'tis you
speak?
FALSTAFF My king, my Jove heart dear old friend! I speak to thee, my heart!
KING HENRY V I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
I have long dreamed of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swelled , so old and so profane.
But being awake, 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 heaven doth know--so shall the world perceive--
That I have turned 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 ourperson 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 strength and qualities,
Give you advancement.-- Be it your charge, my lord,
To Chief Justice
To see performed the tenor of our word.-- Set on.
Exeunt King [and his train]
FALSTAFF Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.
SHALLOW Aye, marry, Sir John, which I beseech you to let me
have home with me.
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 advancement.
I will be the man yet that shall make you great.
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 heard
was but a colour.
SHALLOW A colour I fear that 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.
[Enter Prince John, the Lord Chief Justice and Officers]
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.
PISTOL Si fortuna me tormento, spero me contento.
Exeunt all but Lancaster [Prince John]and Chief Justice
PRINCE JOHN 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 banished till their conversations
Appear more wise and modest to the world.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE And so they are.
PRINCE JOHN The king hath called his parliament, my lord.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE He hath.
PRINCE JOHN I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,
We bear our civil swords and native fire
As far as France. I heard a bird so sing,
Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
Come, will you hence?
Exeunt
Epilogue
[Enter the Epilogue]
First my fear, then my curtsy, last my speech. My fear is your
displeasure: my curtsy, 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 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 did
mean indeed to pay you with this, which, if like an ill venture
it come unluckily home, I break, 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.
If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, 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 will I. All the
gentlewomen here have forgiven me: if the gentlemen will
not, then the gentlemen do not agree with the gentlewomen,
which was never seen before 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 merry with fair Katherine of
France, where, for anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a
sweat, unless already he be killed with your hard opinions.
For Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man. My
tongue is weary, when my legs are too, I will bid you
goodnight, and so kneel down before you; but, indeed, to
pray for the queen.
[Exit]
TEXTUAL NOTES
Q = First Quarto text of 1600
F = First Folio text of 1623
F2 = a correction introduced in the Second Folio text of 1632
Ed = a correction introduced by a later editor
SD = stage direction
SH = speech heading (i.e. speaker's name)
List of parts: adapted from THE ACTORS NAMES at end of F text
Induction SH RUMOUR = Ed. Not in F 000 hold = Ed. F = Hole 1.1.142 hard = Q. F = head 68 Spoke = Q. F = Speake a venture = Q. F = aduenture 188 brought = F2. F = bring 1.2.6 clay, man spelled Clay-man in F 91 for = Q. Not in F
2.1.1 SH HOSTESS QUICKLY = Ed. F = Hostesse 149, 152 SH GOWER = Ed. F = Mes. 164 counties = Q. F = Countries 2.2.14 videlicet spelled Viz. in F 100 borrower's = Ed. F = borrowed 2.3.5 SH LADY NORTHUMBERLAND = Ed. F = Wife. (throughout the scene)
2.4.132 With = Q. F = where 199 SD Musicians = Ed. F = Musique 227 avoirdupois spelled Haber-de-pois in F
3.2.138 SH FALSTAFF = Ed. F = Shal.
4.1.39 appeared = Ed. F = appeare 118 force = Ed. F = forc'd 252 th'imagined = Ed. F = th'imagine 435 My...report set as prose in F, but some eds set as verse because of rhyme on court/report 450 curdy spelled cruddie in F
4.2.262 will = Q. F = swill 277 moist = Q. F = most 372 swoon = Q. F = swoon'd 5.2.37 th'impartial = Q. F = th'Imperiall 45 SH KING HENRY V = Ed. F = Prince. 197 your = Q. F = you 5.3.22 Give = Q. F = Good 88 Cophetua = Q. F = Couitha 89 SH SILENCE = Ed. F = Shal.
5.4.4 SH FIRST BEADLE = Ed. F = Off.
5.5.16 SH PISTOL = F. Some eds reassign to SHALLOW 18 SH PISTOL = F. Some eds reassign to SHALLOW 107 Epilogue text follows F. Q divides into three paragraphs: (1) from First my feare to promise you infinitely: and so I kneele downe before you; but indeed, to pray for the Queene. (2) from If my tongue cannot to such as assemblie. (3) from One word more to wil bid you, good night. I.e. Fmoves prayer for the Queen to the end. The confusion may be caused by the conflation of two distinct epilogues, perhaps one for public and one for court performance
QUARTO PASSAGES THAT DO
NOT APPEAR IN THE FOLIO
Following 1.2.193:
but it was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common. If ye will needs say I am an old man, you should give me rest. I would to God my name were not so terrible to the enemy as it is: I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
Following 2.2.24:
and God knows, whether those that bawl out the ruins of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom: but the midwives say the children are not in the fault; whereupon the world increases, and kindreds are mightily strengthened.
Following 2.4.14:
Dispatch: the room where they supped is too hot; they'll come in straight.
Following 2.4.58:
DOLL TEARSHEET Hang yourself, you muddy conger, hang
yourself!
Following 2.4.135:
FALSTAFF No more, Pistol; I would not have you discharge
yourself of our company, Pistol.
After "divers liquors!" in 3.1.53:
O, if this were seen,
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
OATHS FROM THE QUARTO
The following oaths were altered in the Folio text as a result of the Parliamentary Act to Restrain the Abuses of Players (spelling has been modernized in this list):
QUARTO FOLIO
1.1.17 Good, and God will. Good, an heaven will!
1.1.117 I would to God I had I would to heaven I had
not seen not seen
1.2.20 a face-royal, God may a face-royal. Heaven
finish may finish
1.2.30 glutton, pray God his glutton! May his tongue
tongue
1.2.84 My good lord, God give My good lord! Give your
your lordship lordship
1.2.99 Well, God mend him. Well, heaven mend him!
1.2.179 Well, God send the Well, heaven send the
prince prince
1.2.181 God send the Heaven send the
companion companion
1.2.188 for, by the Lord, I take for if I take
1.2.194-5 and God bless your and heaven bless your
expedition expedition
1.3.19 Yea Mary, there's the Ay, marry,* there's the
point point
2.1.6 O Lord I, good Master Ay, ay, good Master
Snare Snare
2.1.104 Pray thee peace Prithee,* peace
2.1.122 Faith you said so Nay, you said so before
before
2.1.135 Pray thee, Sir John Prithee, Sir John
2.1.135-6 i'faith I am loath to I loath to pawn my
pawn my plate so plate, in good
God save me law earnest, la
2.2.1 Before God, I am Trust me, I am
2.2.4 Faith it does me It doth me,
2.2.26 Yes faith, and let it be Yes, and let it be
2.2.31 Mary I tell thee Why, I tell thee
2.2.52 By this light I am well Nay, I am well spoken
spoken on of.
2.2.55-6 help: by the mass here help. Look, look, here
comes ... comes ...
2.2.60 God save your grace Save your grace
2.2.119 God send the wench no May the wench have no
2.3.1 I pray thee I prithee
2.3.9 O yet for God's sake O, yet, for heaven's sake
2.3.17 For yours, the God of For yours, may
heaven brighten it heavenly glory ...
2.4.1 What the devil hast thou What hast thou
2.4.3 Mass thou say'st true Thou say'st true
2.4.15 By the mass here will Then here will be
2.4.18 I'faith sweetheart Sweetheart
2.4.21 rose, in good truth law: rose. But, you have
but i'faith you have
2.4.31 yea, good faith. yea, good sooth.
2.4.34 A pox damn you, you You muddy rascal
muddy rascal
2.4.84-5 a tame cheater i'
faith, a tame cheater he. You
2.4.95 God save you, Sir John. Save you, Sir John!
2.4.111 sir: God's light, with sir? What, with
2.4.112 God let me not live, I will murder
but I will murder
2.4.121-2 a captain? God's light A captain? These
these villains villains
2.4.136-7 'tis very late i'faith, I It is very late. I beseek
beseek
2.4.152-3 her? For God's sake be her? I pray be quiet
quiet
2.4.163 For God's sake thrust Thrust him
him
2.4.178 I pray thee, Jack, I I prithee, Jack, I prithee
pray thee
2.4.204 I'faith and thou And thou
2.4.242 By my troth I kiss thee Nay truly, I kiss thee
2.4.251 By my troth thou't Thou wilt set me
set me
2.4.264-6 by my troth welcome Welcome ... Now,
... now the Lord heaven bless ... thine!
bless ... thine, What, are you
O Jesu, are you
2.4.275 God's blessing of your Blessing on your
3.1.45 O God that one O, heaven! That one
3.1.68 Though then God Though then, heaven
knows, I knows, I
3.1.97 upon my soul, Upon my life,
3.2.15 By the mass I was I was called anything,
called anything:
3.2.29-30 Gray's Inn: Jesu, Jesu, Gray's Inn. O, the mad
the mad
3.2.33-4 death (as the Psalmist death is certain
saith) is certain
3.2.36 By my troth I was not Truly, cousin, I was not
there there
3.2.40 Jesu, Jesu, dead! A Dead? See, see, he drew
drew
3.2.56 tall gentleman, by tall gentleman, and
heaven, and
3.2.62 It is well said in faith It is well said, sir;
sir,
3.2.70 command, by heaven, command.
accommodated 'Accommodated'
3.2.75-6 hand, by my troth: hand. Trust me
Trust me
3.2.99 excellent i'faith, things excellent! Things
3.2.100 good, in faith well said good. Well said
3.2.113 Yea Mary Ay, marry
3.2.160 Fore God a likely Trust me, a likely
3.2.162 O lord, good my lord O, good my lord captain
captain
3.2.164 O Lord sir, I am O, sir! I am
3.2.175 you, by my troth you, in good troth
3.2.186 By the mass I could I could
3.2.199 dinner, Jesus the days dinner. O, the days
3.2.214 By my troth I ... owe God a death I ... we owe a death
3.2.219 Faith, I'll bear Nay, I will bear
3.2.249 Well said i'faith Wart, Well said, Wart.
3.2.259-60 Shallow, God keep you Shallow. Farewell,
Master Master
3.2.263-4 Sir John, the Lord bless Sir John, heaven bless
you, God prosper you and prosper your
your affairs, God affairs, and send us
send us peace at peace!
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