Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare
Act 2 - Scene 1
London. A street
Fang : It is ent'red.
Fang : Sirrah, where's Snare?
Snare : Here, here.
Fang : Snare, we must arrest Sir John Falstaff.
Snare : It may chance cost some of our lives, for he will stab.
Fang : If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.
Fang : An I but fist him once; an 'a come but within my vice!
Fang : Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.
Fang : A rescue! a rescue!
Page : Away, you scullion! you rampallian! you fustilarian!
[p]I'll tickle
your catastrophe.
Lord Chief Justice : What is the matter? Keep the peace here, ho!
Lord Chief Justice : How now, Sir John! what, are you brawling here?
[p]Doth this become
your place, your time, and business?
[p]You should have been well on
your way to York.
[p]Stand from him, fellow; wherefore hang'st thou
upon him?
Lord Chief Justice : For what sum?
Lord Chief Justice : How comes this, Sir John? Fie! What man of good
[p]temper would endure
this tempest of exclamation? Are you not
[p]ashamed to enforce a poor
widow to so rough a course to come
[p]her own?
Lord Chief Justice : Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with
[p]manner of wrenching
the true cause the false way. It is not a
[p]confident brow, nor the
throng of words that come with such
[p]than impudent sauciness from
you, can thrust me from a level
[p]consideration. You have, as it
appears to me, practis'd upon
[p]easy yielding spirit of this woman,
and made her serve your
[p]both in purse and in person.
Lord Chief Justice : Pray thee, peace. Pay her the debt you owe her,
[p]unpay the villainy
you have done with her; the one you may do
[p]with sterling money, and
the other with current repentance.
Lord Chief Justice : You speak as having power to do wrong; but
[p]th' effect of your
reputation, and satisfy the poor woman.
Lord Chief Justice : Now, Master Gower, what news?
Lord Chief Justice : I have heard better news.
Lord Chief Justice : Where lay the King to-night?
Lord Chief Justice : Come all his forces back?
Lord Chief Justice : You shall have letters of me presently.
[p]Come, go along with me,
good Master Gower.
Lord Chief Justice : What's the matter?
Lord Chief Justice : Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you
[p]take soldiers up in
counties as you go.
Lord Chief Justice : What foolish master taught you these manners,
[p]John?
Lord Chief Justice : Now, the Lord lighten thee! Thou art a great
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