And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth! For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up, And flashing fire will follow. NYM. I am not Barbason, you cannot conjure me. I have an humour to knock you indifferently well: If you grow foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my rapier, as I may say, in fair terms: if you would walk off, I would prick your guts a little, in good terms, as I may say; and that's the humour of it. PIST. O braggard vile, and damned furious wight! The grave doth gape, and doting death is near; Therefore exhale. [PISTOL and NYм draw. BARD. Hear me, hear me what I say:—he that strikes the first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, as I am a soldier. [Draws. PIST. An oath of mickle might; and fury shall abate. Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give; Thy spirits are most tall. NYм. I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair terms; that is the humour of it. PIST. Coupe le gorge, that's the word!-I defy thee again. O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get? No; to the spital go, And from the powdering tub of infamy Enter the Boy. Go to. Boy. Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master,—and you, hostess; he is very sick, and would to bed.-Good Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and do the office of a warming-pan; 'faith, he's very ill. BARD. Away, you rogue. QUICK. By my troth, he 'll yield the crow a pudding one of these days; the king has killed his heart.-Good husband, come home presently. [Exeunt Mrs. QUICKLY and Boy. BARD. Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to France together. Why the devil should we keep knives to cut one another's throats? PIST. Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on! NYм. You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting? PIST. Base is the slave that pays. NYM. That now I will have; that's the humour of it. BARD. By this sword, he that makes the first thrust I'll kill him; by this sword, I will. PIST. Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course. BARD. Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be friends: an thou wilt not, why, then be enemies with me too. Prithee, put up. PIST. A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood: Unto the camp, and profits will accrue. Give me thy hand. NYм. I shall have my noble? PIST. In cash most justly paid. NYM. Well, then, that 's the humour of it. Re-enter Mrs. QUICKLY. QUICK. As ever you come of women, come in quickly to sir John: Ah, poor heart! he is so shaken of a burning quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to behold. Sweet men, come to him. NYM. The king hath run bad humours on the knight, that's the even of it. PIST. Nym, thou hast spoke the right; His heart is fracted, and corroborate. NYM. The king is a good king: but it must be as it may; he passes some humours, and careers. PIST. Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins, we will live. [Exeunt. SCENE II-Southampton. A Council Chamber. Enter EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND. BED. 'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors. EXE. They shall be apprehended by and by. WEST. How smooth and even they do bear themselves! As if allegiance in their bosoms sat, Crowned with faith and constant loyalty. BED. The king hath note of all that they intend, By interception which they dream not of. EXE. Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow, Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours,That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell His sovereign's life to death and treachery! Trumpet sounds. Enter KING HENRY, SCROOP, CAMBRIDGE, K. HEN. Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard. For which we have in head assembled them? SCROOP. No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best. We carry not a heart with us from hence That grows not in a fair concent with ours; Nor leave not one behind, that doth not wish Success and conquest to attend on us. CAM. Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd Than is your majesty; there's not, I think, a subject That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness Under the sweet shade of your government. GREY. True: those that were your father's enemies Have steep'd their galls in honey; and do serve you With hearts create of duty and of zeal. K. HEN. We therefore have great cause of thankfulness; And shall forget the office of our hand Sooner than quittance of desert and merit, According to the weight and worthiness. SCROOP. So service shall with steeled sinews toil, And labour shall refresh itself with hope, To do your grace incessant services. K. HEN. We judge no less.-Uncle of Exeter, That rail'd against our person: we consider SCROOP. That's mercy, but too much security: CAM. So may your highness, and yet punish too. K. HEN. Alas, your too much love and care of me Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch. If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye Would have him punish'd. And now to our French causes; CAM. I one, my lord; Your highness bade me ask for it to-day. SCROOP. So did you me, my liege. GREY. And I, my royal sovereign. K. HEN. Then, Richard, earl of Cambridge, there is yours; Read them; and know, I know your worthiness. We will aboard to-night.-Why, how now, gentlemen? So much complexion?-look ye, how they change! Out of appearance? САМ. K. HEN. The mercy, that was quick in us but late, These English monsters! My lord of Cambridge here,— Thou, that didst bear the key of all my counsels, Could out of thee extract one spark of evil, |