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Henry IV, Part 2 - Act 5, scene 5Act 5, scene 5
⟨Scene 5⟩
Synopsis:
The newly crowned King Henry V keeps his word to the Lord Chief Justice.
⟨Enter two Grooms.⟩⟨FIRST GROOM⟩ 3288 More rushes, more rushes.
⟨SECOND GROOM⟩ 3289 The trumpets have sounded twice.
⟨FIRST GROOM⟩ 3290 ’Twill be two o’clock ere they come
3291 from the coronation. Dispatch, dispatch.
⟨Grooms exit.⟩
Trumpets sound, and the King and his train pass over
the stage. After them enter Falstaff, Shallow, Pistol,
Bardolph, and the ⟨Page.⟩
FALSTAFF 3292 5Stand here by me, Master ⟨Robert⟩ Shallow. I
3293 will make the King do you grace. I will leer upon
3294 him as he comes by, and do but mark the countenance
3295 that he will give me.
PISTOL 3296 God bless thy lungs, good knight!
FALSTAFF 3297 10Come here, Pistol, stand behind me.—O, if I
3298 had had time to have made new liveries, I would
3299 have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of
3300 you. But ’tis no matter. This poor show doth better.
3301 This doth infer the zeal I had to see him.
⟨SHALLOW⟩ 3302 15It doth so.
FALSTAFF 3303 It shows my earnestness of affection—
⌜SHALLOW⌝ 3304 It doth so.
FALSTAFF 3305 My devotion—
⌜SHALLOW⌝ 3306 It doth, it doth, it doth.
FALSTAFF 3307 20As it were, to ride day and night, and not to
3308 deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience
3309 to shift me—
SHALLOW 3310 It is best, certain.
⟨FALSTAFF⟩ 3311 But to stand stained with travel and sweating
3312 25 with desire to see him, thinking of nothing else,
3313 putting all affairs else in oblivion, as if there were
3314 nothing else to be done but to see him.
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PISTOL
3315
’Tis semper idem, for obsque hoc nihil est; ’tis3316 ⟨all⟩ in every part.
SHALLOW 3317 30’Tis so indeed.
PISTOL 3318 My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver, and
3319 make thee rage. Thy Doll and Helen of thy noble
3320 thoughts is in base durance and contagious prison,
3321 haled thither by most mechanical and dirty hand.
3322 35 Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto’s
3323 snake, for Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.
FALSTAFF 3324 I will deliver her.
⌜Shouts within.⌝ ⟨The trumpets sound.⟩
PISTOL
3325 There roared the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.
Enter the King and his train.
FALSTAFF
3326 God save thy Grace, King Hal, my royal Hal.
PISTOL
3327 40 The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal
3328 imp of fame!
FALSTAFF 3329 God save thee, my sweet boy!
KING
3330 My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man.
CHIEF JUSTICE, ⌜to Falstaff⌝
3331 Have you your wits? Know you what ’tis you
3332 45 speak?
FALSTAFF, ⌜to the King⌝
3333 My king, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart!
KING
3334 I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
3335 How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester.
3336 I have long dreamt of such a kind of man,
3337 50 So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane;
3338 But being awaked, I do despise my dream.
3339 Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
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3340
Leave gormandizing. Know the grave doth gape3341 For thee thrice wider than for other men.
3342 55 Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.
3343 Presume not that I am the thing I was,
3344 For God doth know—so shall the world perceive—
3345 That I have turned away my former self.
3346 So will I those that kept me company.
3347 60 When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
3348 Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,
3349 The tutor and the feeder of my riots.
3350 Till then I banish thee, on pain of death,
3351 As I have done the rest of my misleaders,
3352 65 Not to come near our person by ten mile.
3353 For competence of life I will allow you,
3354 That lack of means enforce you not to evils.
3355 And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,
3356 We will, according to your strengths and qualities,
3357 70 Give you advancement. ⌜To the Lord Chief Justice.⌝
3358 Be it your charge, my lord,
3359 To see performed the tenor of my word.—
3360 Set on.
⟨King ⌜and his train⌝ exit.⟩
FALSTAFF 3361 Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.
SHALLOW 3362 75Yea, marry, Sir John, which I beseech you to
3363 let me have home with me.
FALSTAFF 3364 That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not
3365 you grieve at this. I shall be sent for in private to
3366 him. Look you, he must seem thus to the world.
3367 80 Fear not your advancements. I will be the man yet
3368 that shall make you great.
SHALLOW 3369 I cannot ⟨well⟩ perceive how, unless you
3370 ⟨should⟩ give me your doublet and stuff me out with
3371 straw. I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five
3372 85 hundred of my thousand.
FALSTAFF 3373 Sir, I will be as good as my word. This that
3374 you heard was but a color.
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SHALLOW
3375
A color that I fear you will die in, Sir John.FALSTAFF 3376 Fear no colors. Go with me to dinner.—
3377 90 Come, lieutenant Pistol.—Come, Bardolph.—I
3378 shall be sent for soon at night.
Enter ⌜the Lord Chief⌝ Justice and Prince John, ⌜with
Officers.⌝
CHIEF JUSTICE
3379 Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.
3380 Take all his company along with him.
FALSTAFF 3381 My lord, my lord —
CHIEF JUSTICE
3382 95 I cannot now speak. I will hear you soon.—
3383 Take them away.
PISTOL 3384 Si fortuna me tormenta, spero ⟨me⟩ contenta.
⌜All but John of⌝ ⟨Lancaster and
Chief Justice⟩ exit.
JOHN OF LANCASTER
3385 I like this fair proceeding of the King’s.
3386 He hath intent his wonted followers
3387 100 Shall all be very well provided for,
3388 But all are banished till their conversations
3389 Appear more wise and modest to the world.
CHIEF JUSTICE 3390 And so they are.
JOHN OF LANCASTER
3391 The King hath called his parliament, my lord.
CHIEF JUSTICE 3392 105He hath.
JOHN OF LANCASTER
3393 I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,
3394 We bear our civil swords and native fire
3395 As far as France. I heard a bird so sing,
3396 Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the King.
3397 110 Come, will you hence?
⟨They exit.⟩