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Great Stafford, thy high Constable, lyes dead. With Shorly, Clifton, Gawsell, Calverly, And many more; whose brave deaths witnessed Their noble valour and fidelitie: And many more had left their dearest bloud Behind, that day, had Hotspur longer stood.

But he, as Dowglas, with a furie ledde, Rushing into the thickest woods of speares, And brakes of swordes, still laying at the Head (The life of th' army) whiles he nothing feares Or spares his owne, comes all invironed With multitude of power, that overbeares His manly worth: who yeeldes not in his fall; But fighting dyes, and dying kils withal.

The following is the first conversation between Prince Hal and Falstaff (Sir John Oldcastle):

Hen. 6. How now sir Iohn Old-Castle, What newes with you?

Ioh. Old. I am glad to see your grace at libertie, I was come, I, to visit you in prison.

Hen. 5. To visit me? Didst thou not know that I am a Princes son But I tell you, sirs, when I am king we will have no such things. But, my lads, if the old king, my father, were dead, we should all be kings.

Ioh. Old. Hee is a goode olde man, God take him to his mercy the sooner.

Hen. 5. But, Ned, so soone as I am King, the first thing I will do, shal be to put my lord chief