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Trumpets sound, and the King and his Train pass over the stage. After
them enter Falstaff, Shallow, Pistol, Bardolph, and the Boy [Page].

FALSTAFF
Stand here by me, Master Shallow, I will make [5] the king do you grace. I
will leer upon him as ’a comes by, and do but mark the countenance that he
will give me.

PISTOL
God bless thy lungs, good knight.

FALSTAFF
Come here, Pistol, stand behind me. O, if I had [10] had time to have made
new liveries, I would have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you.
But ’tis no matter; this poor show doth better. This doth infer the zeal I had

to see him.

SHALLOW

It doth so. [15]

FALSTAFF
It shows my earnestness of affection −

PISTOL
It doth so.

FALSTAFF
My devotion −

PISTOL
It doth, it doth, it doth.

FALSTAFF
As it were, to ride day and night, and not to [20] deliberate, not to
remember, not to have patience to shift me −

SHALLOW