Page 1124 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Set on.
[Exeunt the King and his Train.]

FALSTAFF
Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.

SHALLOW
Yea, marry, Sir John, which I beseech you to let me have home with me. [75]

FALSTAFF
That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you grieve at this. I shall be sent
for in private to him. Look you, he must seem thus to the world. Fear not your

advancements; I will be the man yet that shall make you great.

SHALLOW
I cannot [well] perceive how, unless you [80] [should] give me your doublet
and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five
hundred of my thousand.

FALSTAFF

Sir, I will be as good as my word. This that you heard was but a colour. [85]

SHALLOW

A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John.

FALSTAFF
Fear no colours. Go with me to dinner. Come, Lieutenant Pistol, come,
Bardolph. I shall be sent for soon at night.

Enter [the Lord Chief] Justice and Prince John [of Lancaster, with Officers].

CHIEF JUSTICE
Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet. [90]

Take all his company along with him.

FALSTAFF

My lord, my lord −