Page 710 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

[aside to Poins]
Prithee let him alone. We shall have more anon.

FALSTAFF
Dost thou hear me, Hal?

PRINCE
Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.

FALSTAFF
Do so, for it is worth the list’ning to. These nine [200] in buckram that I told
thee of −

PRINCE
So, two more already.

FALSTAFF
Their points being broken −

POINS
Down fell their hose.

FALSTAFF
Began to give me ground; but I followed me [205] close, came in, foot and
hand, and with a thought seven of the eleven I paid.

PRINCE
O monstrous! Eleven buckram men grown out of two!

FALSTAFF

But, as the devil would have it, three misbegotten [210] knaves in Kendal
green came at my back and let drive at me; for it was so dark, Hal, that thou
couldst not see thy hand.

PRINCE
These lies are like their father that begets them − gross as a mountain,
open, palpable. Why, thou clay-brained [215] guts, thou knotty-pated fool,