Page 716 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Yes, Jack, upon instinct. [340]

FALSTAFF
I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too, and one Mordake, and a
thousand bluecaps more. Worcester is stol’n away to-night; thy father’s beard
is turned white with the news; you may buy land now as cheap as stinking
mack’rel. [345]

PRINCE
Why then, it is like, if there come a hot June, and this civil buffeting hold, we
shall buy maidenheads as they buy hobnails, by the hundreds.

FALSTAFF
By the mass, lad, thou sayest true; it is like we shall have good trading that
way. But tell me, Hal, art [350] not thou horrible afeard? Thou being heir

apparent, could the world pick thee out three such enemies again as that
fiend Douglas, that spirit Percy, and that devil Glendower? Art thou not
horribly afraid? Doth not thy blood thrill at it? [355]

PRINCE
Not a whit, i’faith. I lack some of thy instinct.

FALSTAFF
Well, thou wilt be horribly chid to-morrow when thou comest to thy father. If
thou love me, practise an answer.

PRINCE
Do thou stand for my father and examine me upon [360] the particulars of
my life.

FALSTAFF
Shall I? Content. This chair shall be my state, this dagger my sceptre, and
this cushion my crown.

PRINCE
Thy state is taken for a joined-stool, thy golden sceptre for a leaden dagger,

and thy precious rich crown [365] for a pitiful bald crown.