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If the cook help to make the gluttony, you help to make the diseases, Doll.
We catch of you, Doll, we catch of you. Grant that, my poor virtue, grant that.
[45]

DOLL
Yea, joy, our chains and our jewels.

FALSTAFF
‘Your brooches, pearls, and ouches.’ For to serve bravely is to come halting

off, you know. To come off the breach with his pike bent bravely, and to
surgery bravely; to venture upon the charged chambers bravely − [50]

DOLL
Hang yourself, you muddy conger, hang yourself!

HOSTESS
By my troth, this is the old fashion. You two never meet but you fall to some
discord. You are both, i’ good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts; you

cannot one bear with another’s confirmities. What the good-year! [55] One
must bear, and that must be you [ to Doll]. You are the weaker vessel, as
they say, the emptier vessel.

DOLL
Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full hogshead? There’s a whole
merchant’s venture of [60] Bordeaux stuff in him; you have not seen a hulk

better stuffed in the hold. Come, I’ll be friends with thee, Jack. Thou art going
to the wars, and whether I shall ever see thee again or no, there is nobody
cares.

Enter Drawer [Francis].

FRANCIS
Sir, Ancient Pistol ’s below and would speak [65] with you.

DOLL
Hang him, swaggering rascal! Let him not come hither. It is the foul-
mouthed’st rogue in England.