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    Act 5. Scene V - Page 2

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    So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane;
    But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.
    Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
    Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape
    For thee thrice wider than for other men.
    Reply not to me with a fool-born jest:
    Presume not that I am the thing I was;
    For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
    That I have turn'd away my former self;
    So will I those that kept me company.
    When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
    Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,
    The tutor and the feeder of my riots:
    Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death,
    As I have done the rest of my misleaders,
    Not to come near our person by ten mile.
    For competence of life I will allow you,
    That lack of means enforce you not to evil:
    And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,
    We will, according to your strengths and qualities,
    Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,
    To see perform'd the tenor of our word. Set on.

    Exeunt KING HENRY V, & c

    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.

    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 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.

    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.

    Re-enter Prince John of LANCASTER, the Lord Chief-Justice; Officers with them

    Lord Chief-Justice Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet:
    Take all his company along with him.

    FALSTAFF
    My lord, my lord,--
    Lord Chief-Justice I cannot now speak: I will hear you soon.
    Take them away.

    PISTOL
    Si fortune me tormenta, spero contenta.

    Exeunt all but PRINCE JOHN and the Lord Chief-Justice


    LANCASTER
    I like this fair proceeding of the king's:
    He hath intent his wonted followers
    Shall all be very well provided for;
    But all are banish'd till their conversations
    Appear more wise and modest to the world.
    Lord Chief-Justice And so they are.

    LANCASTER
    The king hath call'd his parliament, my lord.
    Lord Chief-Justice He hath.

    LANCASTER
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