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care not if I do become [120] your physician.
FALSTAFF
I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. Your lordship may minister
the potion of imprisonment to me in respect of poverty; but how I should be
your patient to follow your prescriptions, the wise may make [125] some
dram of a scruple, or indeed a scruple itself.
CHIEF JUSTICE
I sent for you, when there were matters against you for your life, to come
speak with me.
FALSTAFF
As I was then advised by my learned counsel in the laws of this land-service,
I did not come. [130]
CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, the truth is, Sir John, you live in great infamy.
FALSTAFF
He that buckles himself in my belt cannot live in less.
CHIEF JUSTICE
Your means are very slender and your [135] waste is great.
FALSTAFF
I would it were otherwise. I would my means were greater and my waist
slender[er].
CHIEF JUSTICE
You have misled the youthful prince.
FALSTAFF
The young prince hath misled me. I am the fellow [140] with the great belly,
and he my dog.
CHIEF JUSTICE
