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FALSTAFF
Why, that’s well said.
PRINCE
Well, come what will, I’ll tarry at home.
FALSTAFF
By the Lord, I’ll be a traitor then, when thou art king.
PRINCE
I care not. [140]
POINS
Sir John, I prithee, leave the prince and me alone. I will lay him down such
reasons for this adventure that he shall go.
FALSTAFF
Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and him the ears of profiting, that
what thou speakest may [145] move and what he hears may be believed,
that the true prince may (for recreation sake) prove a false thief; for the poor
abuses of the time want countenance. Farewell; you shall find me in
Eastcheap.
PRINCE
Farewell, thou latter spring! farewell, All-hallown [150] summer!
[Exit Falstaff.]
POINS
Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us to-morrow. I have a jest to
execute that I cannot manage alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill
shall rob those men that we have already waylaid; yourself and I [155] will
not be there; and when they have the booty, if you and I do not rob them,
cut this head off from my shoulders.
PRINCE
How shall we part with them in setting forth?
