Page 1122 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

It is best, certain.

FALSTAFF
But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with desire to see him,
thinking of nothing else, putting [25] all affairs else in oblivion, as if there
were nothing else to be done but to see him.

PISTOL
’Tis ‘semper idem’, for ‘obsque hoc nihil est’. ’Tis all in every part.

SHALLOW
’Tis so, indeed. [30]

PISTOL
My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,
And make thee rage.
Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,
Is in base durance and contagious prison,

Haled thither [35]
By most mechanical and dirty hand.
Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto’s snake,
For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.

FALSTAFF
I will deliver her.

PISTOL
There roared the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds. [40]

[The trumpets sound.] Enter the King and his Train [, the Lord Chief
Justice among them].

FALSTAFF
God save thy grace, King Hal, my royal Hal!

PISTOL
The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!