Page 527 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

FIRST PRENTICE

Here, Peter, I drink to thee, and be not afraid.

SECOND PRENTICE

Be merry, Peter, and fear not thy [70] master. Fight for credit of the
prentices.

[Peter rejects what they offer him.]

PET ER

I thank you all. Drink and pray for me, I pray you, for I think I have taken
my last draught in this world. - Here, Robin, and if I die, I give thee my
apron; and, Will, thou shalt have my hammer; and here, Tom, take [75] all
the money that I have. - O Lord bless me, I pray God, for I am never able
to deal with my master: he hath learnt so much fence already.

SALISBURY

[to Horner]
Come, leave your drinking, and fall to blows. - Sirrah, what’s thy name?
[80]

PET ER

Peter, forsooth.

SALISBURY

Peter! What more?

PET ER

Thump.

SALISBURY

Thump? Then see thou thump thy master well. [85]

HORNER

Masters, I am come hither, as it were upon my man’s instigation, to prove
him a knave, and myself an honest man; and touching the Duke of York, I
will take my death I never meant him any ill, nor the king, nor the queen;
and therefore, Peter, have at thee with a [90] downright blow!

Y ORK

Dispatch! This knave’s tongue begins to double. - Sound, trumpets,