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FALSTAFF

We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.

SHALLOW
That we have, that we have, that we have, in faith, Sir John, we have. Our
watchword was ‘Hem, [210] boys!’ Come, let’s to dinner, come, let’s to
dinner. Jesus, the days that we have seen! Come, come.

Exeunt [Falstaff and the Justices].

BULLCALF
Good Master Corporate Bardolph, stand my friend, and here’s four Harry ten
shillings in French crowns for you. In very truth, sir, I had as lief be hanged,
[215] sir, as go. And yet for mine own part, sir, I do not care, but rather,
because I am unwilling, and, for mine own part, have a desire to stay with

my friends. Else, sir, I did not care, for mine own part, so much.

BARDOLPH
Go to, stand aside. [220]

MOULDY
And, good Master Corporal Captain, for my old dame’s sake, stand my friend.
She has nobody to do anything about her when I am gone, and she is old,

and cannot help herself. You shall have forty, sir.

BARDOLPH

Go to, stand aside. [225]

FEEBLE
By my troth, I care not. A man can die but once. We owe God a death. I’ll
ne’er bear a base mind. An’t be my destiny, so. An’t be not, so. No man is too
good to serve’s prince. And let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is
quit for the next. [230]

BARDOLPH

Well said. Th’art a good fellow.

FEEBLE