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- $Unique_ID{SSP00716}
- $Title{King Henry IV, Part II: Act V, Scene I}
- $Author{Shakespeare, William}
- $Subject{}
- $Log{Dramatis Personae*00700.TXT}
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- Portions copyright (c) CMC ReSearch, Inc., 1989
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- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
-
- KING HENRY IV, PART II
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- ACT V
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- SCENE I: Gloucestershire. SHALLOW'S house.
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- {Enter SHALLOW, FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, and Page.}
-
- SHALLOW: By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away to-night.
- What, Davy, I say!
-
- FALSTAFF: You must excuse me, Master Robert Shallow.
-
- SHALLOW: I 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!
-
- {Enter DAVY.}
-
- DAVY: Here, sir.
-
- SHALLOW: Davy, Davy, Davy, Davy, let me see, Davy; let me
- see, Davy; let me see: yea, marry, William cook,
- bid him come hither. Sir John, you shall not be 10
- excused.
-
- DAVY: Marry, sir, thus; those precepts cannot be served:
- and, again, sir, shall we sow the headland with
- wheat?
-
- SHALLOW: With red wheat, Davy. But for William cook: are
- there no young pigeons?
-
- DAVY: Yes, sir. Here is now the smith's note for shoeing
- and plough-irons.
-
- SHALLOW: Let it be cast and paid. Sir John, you shall not be
- excused. 20
-
- DAVY: Now, sir, a new link to the bucket must need be
- had: and, sir, do you mean to stop any of William's
- wages, about the sack he lost the other day at
- Hinckley fair?
-
- SHALLOW: A' 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.
-
- DAVY: Doth the man of war stay all night, sir?
-
- SHALLOW: Yea, Davy. I will use him well: a friend i' the
- court is better than a penny in purse. Use his men 30
- well, Davy; for they are arrant knaves, and will
- backbite.
-
- DAVY: No worse than they are backbitten, sir; for they
- have marvellous foul linen.
-
- SHALLOW: Well conceited, Davy: about thy business, Davy.
-
- DAVY: I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of
- Woncot against Clement Perkes of the hill.
-
- SHALLOW: There is many complaints, Davy, against that Visor:
- that Visor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge.
-
- DAVY: I grant your worship that he is a knave, sir; but 40
- yet, God forbid, sir, but a knave 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 if I cannot once or twice in
- 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 your worship, let him be countenanced.
-
- SHALLOW: Go to; I say he shall have no wrong. Look about, 50
- Davy.
-
- {Exit DAVY.}
-
- Where are you, Sir John? Come, come, come, off
- with your boots. Give me your hand, Master
- Bardolph.
-
- BARDOLPH: I am glad to see your worship.
-
- SHALLOW: I thank thee with all my heart, kind
- Master Bardolph: and welcome, my tall fellow.
-
- [To the Page.]
-
- Come, Sir John.
-
- FALSTAFF: I'll follow you, good Master Robert Shallow.
-
- [Exit SHALLOW.]
-
- Bardolph, look to our horses. 60
-
- [Exeunt BARDOLPH and Page.]
-
- 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
- semblable coherence of his men's spirits and his:
- they, by observing of him, do bear themselves like
- foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is
- turned into a justice-like serving-man: their
- spirits are so married in conjunction with the
- participation of society that they flock together in
- consent, like so many wild-geese. If I had a suit 70
- to Master Shallow, I would humor his men with the
- imputation of being near their master: 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 out of this Shallow to
- keep Prince Harry in continual laughter the wearing
- out of six fashions, which is four terms, or two 80
- actions, and a' shall laugh without intervallums. O,
- it is much that a lie with a slight oath and a jest
- with a sad brow will do with a fellow that never
- had the ache in his shoulders! O, you shall see him
- laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up!
-
- SHALLOW: [Within] Sir John!
-
- FALSTAFF: I come, Master Shallow; I come, Master Shallow.
-
- [Exit.]
-