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King Henry the Fourth, II. iv

Fal. You have hit it.

Prince. So did he never the sparrow.

Fal. Well, that rascal hath good mettle in

him; he will not run.

Prince. Why, what a rascal art thou then to

praise him so for running!

Fal. O' horseback, ye cuckoo! but, afoot he

will not budge a foot.

Prince. Yes, Jack, upon instinct.

Fal. I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is

there too, and one Mordake, and a thousand

blue-caps more. Worcester is stolen away to-

night; thy father's beard is turned white with

the news: you may buy land now as cheap as

stinking mackerel.

Prince. Why then, it is like, if there come a

hot June and this civil buffeting hold, we shall

buy maidenheads as they buy hob-nails, by the

hundreds,

Fal. By the mass, lad, thou sayest true; it is

like we shall have good trading that way. But

tell me, Hal, art thou not horribly 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 Glen-

dower? Art thou not horribly afraid? doth not

thy blood thrill at it?

Prince. Not a whit, i' faith; I lack some of

thy instinct.

Fal. Well, thou wilt be horribly chid to-

morrow when thou comest to thy father: if

thou love me, practise an answer.

 397 blue-caps: Scotchmen (so-called from their blue bonnets) 