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in faith, sir John, we have; our watch-word was, Hem, boys!' Come, let's to dinner; come, let 's to dinner. O, the days that we have seen!-Come, [Exeunt Falstaff, Shallow, and Silence. Bull. Good master corporate Bardolph, stand my friend; and here is four Harry ten shillings in French crowns for you. In very truth, sir, I had as lief be hanged, sir, as go; and yet, for mine own part, sir, I do not care; but, rather, because I am unwilling, and, for mine own part, have a desire to stay with my friends; else, sir, I did not care, for mine own part, so much.

Bar. Go to; stand aside.

Moul. And, good master corporal captain, for my old dame's sake, stand my friend: she has nobody to do any thing about her, when I am gone; and she is old, and cannot help herself: you shall have forty, sir.

Bur. Go to; stand aside. Fee. By my troth, I care not;- -a man can die but once we owe God a death; I'll ne'er bear a base mind an 't be my destiny, so; an 't be not, so. No man's too good to serve his prince; and, let it go which way it will, he that dies this year, is quit for

the next.

Bar. Well said; thou'rt a good fellow.
Fee. Faith, I'll bear no base mind.

Re-enter FALSTAFF and JUSTICES.

Fal. Come, sir, which men shall I have?
Shal. Four, of which you please.

Bar. Sir, a word with you. I have three pound to free Mouldy and Bullcalf.

Fal. Go to; well.

Shal. Come, sir John, which four will you Lave?

Fal. Do you choose for me.

Shal. Marry, then,-Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble, and Shadow.

Fal. Mouldy, and Bullcalf:-for you, Mouldy, stay at home till you are past service; and, for your part, Bullcalf, grow till you come unto it; I will none of you.

Shal. Sir John, sir John, do not yourself wrong; they are your likeliest men, and I would have you served with the best.

Fal. Will you tell me, master Shallow, how to choose a man? Care I for the limb, the thewes,1 the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man? Give me the spirit, master Shallow. Here's Wart; you see what a ragged appearance it is: he shall charge you and discharge you with the motion of a pewterer's hammer; come off and on swifter than he that gibbets on the brewer's bucket: and this same half-faced fellow, Shadow,- give me this man: he presents no mark to the enemy; the foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife: and, for a retreat, how swiftly will this Feeble, the woman's tailor, run off! O, give me

1 The muscular strength.

the spare men, and spare me the great ones. Put me a caliver1 into Wart's hand, Bardolph.

Bar. Hold, Wart, traverse; thus, thus, thus.

Fal. Come, manage me your caliver. So :-very well-go to:-very good; exceeding good. O. give me always a little, lean, old, chapped, bald shot. Well said, i'faith, Wart; thou 'rt a good scab. Hold, there's a tester for thee.

Shal. He is not his craft's master; he doth not

do it right. I remember at Mile-end green, (when I lay at Clement's inn ;-I was then sir Dagonet in Arthur's show) there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about, and about, and come you in, and come you in: 'rah, tah, tah,' would 'a say; 'bounce,' would 'a say; and away again would 'a go, and again would 'a come :-I shall never see such a fellow.

Fal. These fellows will do well, master Shallow. God keep you, master Silence; I will not use many words with you. Fare you well, gentlemen both: I thank you: I must a dozen mile to-night. Bardolph, give the soldiers coats.

Shal. Sir John, Heaven bless you, and prosper your affairs, and send us peace! As you return, visit my house; let our old acquaintance be renewed: peradventure, I will with you to the court. Fal. I would you would, master Shallow.

1 A hand gun.

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