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Lord, I take but two shirts out with me, and I mean not to sweat
extraordinarily. If it be a hot day, and I brandish anything but a bottle, I
would I might never spit white [205] again. There is not a dangerous action
can peep out his head but I am thrust upon it. Well, I cannot last ever. But it
was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to
make it too common. If ye will needs say I am an old man, you should give
me rest. I [210] would to God my name were not so terrible to the enemy as
it is. I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to
nothing with perpetual motion.
CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, be honest, be honest, and God bless your expedition! [215]
FALSTAFF
Will your lordship lend me a thousand pound to furnish me forth?
CHIEF JUSTICE
Not a penny, not a penny. You are too impatient to bear crosses. Fare you
well. Commend me to my cousin Westmoreland. [220]
[Exeunt Chief Justice and Servant.]
FALSTAFF
If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. A man can no more separate age
and covetousness than ’a can part young limbs and lechery. But the gout galls
the one and the pox pinches the other, and so both the degrees prevent my
curses. Boy! [225]
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Sir?
FALSTAFF
What money is in my purse?
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Seven groats and two pence.
FALSTAFF
