Page 1031 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2
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PRINCE
Fare you well; go. [155]
[Exeunt Bardolph and Page.]
This Doll Tearsheet should be some road.
POINS
I warrant you, as common as the way between Saint Alban’s and London.
PRINCE
How might we see Falstaff bestow himself tonight in his true colours, and not
ourselves be seen? [160]
POINS
Put on two leathern jerkins and aprons, and wait upon him at his table as
drawers.
PRINCE
From a God to a bull? A heavy descension! It was Jove’s case. From a prince
to a prentice? A low transformation! That shall be mine, for in everything the
purpose [165] must weigh with the folly. Follow me, Ned.
Exeunt.
Scene III IT
Enter Northumberland, his Wife [Lady Northumberland], and the Wife to
Harry Percy [Lady Percy].
NORTHUMBERLAND
I pray thee, loving wife, and gentle daughter,
Give even way unto my rough affairs.
Put not you on the visage of the times
And be like them to Percy troublesome.
LADY NORTHUMBERLAND
I have given over, I will speak no more. [5]
Do what you will, your wisdom be your guide.
