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King Henry the Fourth, IV. ii

Hot.Forty let it be:

My father and Glendower being both away,

The powers of us may serve so great a day.

Come, let us take a muster speedily:

Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily.

Doug. Talk not of dying: I am out of fear

Of death or death's hand for this one half year.

Exeunt Omnes.

Scene Two

[A Road near Coventry]

Enter Falstaff and Bardolph.

Fal. Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry;

fill me a bottle of sack: our soldiers shall march

through: we'll to Sutton-Co'fil' to-night.

Bard. Will you give me money, captain?

Fal. Lay out, lay out.

Bard. This bottle makes an angel.

Fal. An if it do, take it for thy labour; and

if it make twenty, take them all, I'll answer the

coinage. Bid my Lieutenant Peto meet me at

the town's end.

Bard. I will, captain: farewell.

Fal. If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am

a soused gurnet. I have misused the king's press

damnably. I have got, in exchange of a hundred

and fifty soldiers, three hundred and odd pounds.

I press me none but good householders, yeomen's

sons; inquire me out contracted bachelors, such

as had been asked twice on the banns; such a

 3 Sutton-Co'fil'; cf. n.

6 makes an angel; cf. n.

13 soused gurnet: pickled fish

king's press: royal warrant for conscripting troops

16 yeomen's: small freeholders' 

17 contracted: i.e., to be married

18-19 Cf. n. 