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show'd themselves humours since the old days

of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this

present twelve o'clock at midnight. [Drawer

crosses the stage, with bottles.] What's o'clock,

Francis?

Fran. Anon, anon, sir.

Prince. That ever this fellow should have

fewer words than a parrot, and yet the son of a

woman! His industry is up-stairs and down-

stairs; his eloquence the parcel of a reckoning.

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the

North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen

of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and

says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I

want work.' 'O my sweet Harry,' says she, 'how

many hast thou killed to-day ?' 'Give my roan

horse a drench,' says he, and answers, 'Some

fourteen,' an hour after, 'a trifle, a trifle.' I

prithee call in Falstaff: I'll play Percy, and that

damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his

wife. 'Rivo!' says the drunkard. Call in ribs,

call in tallow.

Poins. Welcome, Jack: where hast thou been?

Fal. A plague of all cowards, I say, and a

vengeance too! marry, and amen! Give me a

cup of sack, boy. Ere I lead this life long,

I'll sew nether-stocks and mend them and foot

them too. A plague of all cowards! Give me a

 107 pupil age: youthful time

115 parcel of a reckoning: an item on a bill

122 drench: bran and water

125 brawn; cf. n.

126 'Rivo': a Spanish (?) exclamation of drunkards

132 nether-stocks: short stockings 