iPhang Sir John, I arreft you at the fuit of Mrs. Quickly. Fal Away, varlets. Draw, Bardolph, cut me off the villain's head; throw the quean in the kennel. JC Hoft. Throw me in the kennel? I'll throw thee in the kennel. Wilt thou wilt thou? thou bastardly rogue. Murder, murder! O thou hony-fuckle villain, wilt thou kill God's officers and the King's? O thou hony-feed rogue! thou art a hony-feed, a man queller, and a woman-queller. T Fal. Keep them off, Bardolph. Hoft. Good people, bring a rescue or two;3 thou wo't, wo't thou? thou wo't, wo't thou? do, do, thou rogue, do, thou hemp-feed! Fal. Away, you fcullion, you rampallian, you fuftilarian: I'll tickle your catastrophe. SCENE II. Enter Chief Justice attended. Ch. Juf. What's the matter? keep the peace here, hoa! Hoft, Good my lord, be good to me. I befeech you, ftand to me. Ch. Juf. How now, Sir John? what, are you brawling here? Doth this become your place, your time, and business? You fhould have been well on your way to York. 2 1 Hony-fuckle villain-bonyfeed rogue. The landlady's corruption of homicidal and homicide. THEOBALD. 3 Thou wo't, wa't thou? &c] The first folio reads, I think, lefs properly, thou wilt not? thou wilt not? S 2 -Stand —Stand from him, fellow; wherefore hang'ft thou on him? Hoft. O my moft worshipful lord, an't pleafe your Grace, I am a poor widow of Eaft-cheap, and he is arrested at my fuit. Ch. Juf. For what fum? Hoft. It is more than for fome, my lord, it is for all; all I have; he hath eaten me out of houfe and home; he hath put all my fubftance into that fat belly of his. -But I will have fome of it out again, or I'll ride thee o'nights, like the mare. Fal. I think, I am as like to ride the mare, if I have any 'vantage of ground to get up. Ch. Juf. How comes this, Sir John? fie, what man of good temper would endure this tempeft of exclamation? are you not afham'd to inforce a poor widow to fo rough a courfe to come by her own? Fal. What is the grofs fum that I owe thee? Hoft. Marry, if thou wert an honeft man, thyfelf, and the mony too. Thou didst fwear to me on a parcel-gilt goblet, fitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a fea-coal fire, on Wednesday in Whitfunweek, when the Prince broke thy head ' for likening his father to a finging-man of Windfor; thou didst fwear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady thy wife. Canft thou deny it? did not good-wife Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then, and call me goffip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mefs of vinegar; telling us, fhe had a good dith of prawns; whereby thou didst defire to eat fome; whereby I told thee, they were ill for a green wound; and didft not thou, when he was gone down ftairs, 5 For likening his father to a tion is right; the prince might finging man.] Such is the read-allow familiarities with himself, ing of the firft edition, all the and yet very properly break the relt have for likening him to a knight's head when he ridiculed Singing man. The original edi- his father. W defire me to be no more fo familiarity with fuch poor people, faying, that ere long they fhould call me Mar dam? and didft thou not kits me, and bid me fetch thee thirty fhillings? I put thee now to thy book-oath; deny it, if thou canft.. Fal. My lord, this is a poor mad foul; and fhe fays up and down the town, that her eldest fon is like you. She hath been in good cafe, and the truth is, poverty hath diftracted her. But for thefe foolish Officers, I befeech you, I may have redrefs against them. Ch. Juft. Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with your manner of wrenching the true caufe the falfe way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng of Words that come with fuch more than impudent fawcinefs from you, can thruft me from a level confideration. I know, you have practifed upon the eafyyielding fpirit of this woman. 6 Hoft. Yes, in troth, my lord. Ch. Just. Pry'thee, peace.-Pay her the debt you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have done her; the one you may do with fterling mony, and the other .with current repentance. 7 Fal. My lord, I will not undergo this fneap without reply. You call honourable boldnefs impudent fawcinefs; if a man will court'fie and fay nothing, he is virtuous. No, my lord, my humble duty remember'd, I will not be your fuitor; I fay to you, I defire deliverance from thefe officers, being upon hafty cmployment in the King's affairs. Ch. Juft. You fpeak, as having power to do wrong; I know you have practifed] and perfon. Without this the folIn the first quarto it is read thus.lowing exhortation of the Chief You have, as it appears to me, Juftice is lefs proper. practifed upon the cafy yielding ? This fheap A Yorkfire word fpirit of this woman, and made for rebuke. ber ferve your ufes both in purfe S 3 POPE. but 8 but anfwer in the effect of your reputation, and fatisfy the poor woman. Fal. Come hither, hoftefs. SCEN E III. I W [Afide Enter a Meffenger. Ch. Juft. Mafter Gower, what news? Gower. The King, my lord, and Henry Prince of Wales Are near at hand: the reft the paper tells. Fal. As I am a gentlemanHoft. Nay, you faid fo before. Fal. As I am a gentleman; words of it. come, no more Hoft. By this heav'nly ground I tread on, I muft be fain to pawn both my plate, and the tapestry of my dining chambers. I Fal. Glaffes, glaffes, is the only drinking; and for thy walls, a pretty flight drollery, or the ftory of the Prodigal, or the German Hunting in water-work, is worth a thousand of these bed-hangings, and thefe fly-bitten tapestries. Let it be ten pound, if thou canft. Come, if it were not for thy humours, there is not a better wench in England. Go, wash thy face, and draw thy action. Come, thou must not be in this humour with me; do'ft not know me? Come, come, I know, thou waft fet on to this. Hoft. Pr'ythee, Sir John, let it be but twenty nobles; I am loth to pawn my plate, in good carneft, la. 3 Anfwer in the effect of your reputation.] That is, answer in a manner fuitable to your character. 9 German Hunting in waterwork,] i. e. in water-colours. WARBURTON. Thefe BED-hangings,] We fhould read DEAD-hangings, i. c. Fal. Let it alone, I'll make other fhift; you'll be a fool ftill ung" Hoft. Well, you fhall have it, though I pawn my gown. I hope, you'll come to fupper. You'll pay me all together? Fal. Will I live?-Go with her, with her: hook on, hook on. [To the officers. Hoft. Will you have Doll Tear-fheet meet you at fupper? Fal. No more words. Let's have her. [Exeunt Hoftefs and Serjeant. Ch. Juft. I have heard better news. Fal. What's the news, my good lord? Ch. Just. Where lay the King laft night?" Fal. I hope, my lord, all's well. What is the news, my lord? Ch. Juft. Come all his forces back? Gower. No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horfe Fal. Comes the King back from Wales, my noble lord? Ch. Juft. You fhall have letters of me prefently. Ch. Juft. What's the matter? Fal. Mafter Gower, fhall I intreat you with me to dinner? Gower. I must wait upon my good lord here, I thank you, good Sir John. Ch. Juft. Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are to take foldiers up in the countries as you go, yo Fal. Will you fup with me, mafter Gower? Ch. Juft. What foolish mafter taught you these manners, Sir John? Fal. Mafter Gower, if they become me not, he was S 4 a foo! |