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Sir John, I sent for you before your expedition to Shrewsbury.

FALSTAFF
An’t please your lordship, I hear his majesty is returned with some discomfort
from Wales. [100]

CHIEF JUSTICE
I talk not of his majesty. You would not come when I sent for you.

FALSTAFF
And I hear, moreover, his highness is fallen into this same whoreson
apoplexy.

CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, God mend him! I pray you, let me [105] speak with you.

FALSTAFF
This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an’t please your lordship, a
kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.

CHIEF JUSTICE
What tell you me of it? Be it as it is. [110]

FALSTAFF
It hath it original from much grief, from study and perturbation of the brain. I

have read the cause of his effects in Galen. It is a kind of deafness.

CHIEF JUSTICE

I think you are fallen into the disease, for you hear not what I say to you.
[115]

FALSTAFF
Very well, my lord, very well. Rather, an’t please you, it is the disease of not
listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.

CHIEF JUSTICE
To punish you by the heels would amend the attention of your ears, and I