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King Henry the Fourth, III. iii

I was never called so in my own house before.

Fal. Go to, I know you well enough.

Host. No, Sir John; you do not know me,

Sir John: I know you, Sir John: you owe me

money, Sir John, and now you pick a quarrel to

beguile me of it: I bought you a dozen of shirts

to your back.

Fal. Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given

them away to bakers' wives, and they have

made bolters of them.

Host. Now, as I am true woman, holland of

eight shillings an ell. You owe money here be-

sides, Sir John, for your diet and by-drinkings,

and money lent you, four-and-twenty pound.

Fal. He had his part of it; let him pay.

Host. He! alas! he is poor; he hath nothing.

Fal. How! poor? look upon his face; what

call you rich? let them coin his nose, let them

coin his cheeks. I'll not pay a denier. What!

will you make a younker of me? shall I not take

mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my

pocket picked? I have lost a seal-ring of my

grandfather's worth forty mark.

Host. O Jesu! I have heard the prince tell

him, I know not how oft, that that ring was copper.

Fal. How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup;

sblood! an he were here, I would cudgel him

like a dog, if he would say so.

 79 dowlas: coarse linen

81 bolters: sieves

82 holland: fine linen

83 ell: yard and a quarter

90 denier: the tenth part of a penny

91 younker: young greenhorn

98 sneak-cup: one who shirks his liquor (?) 