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King Henry the Fourth, V. v

this, you blue-bottle rogue! you filthy famished

correctioner! if you be not swinged, I'll for-

swear half-kirtles.

First Bead. Come, come, you she knight-errant, come.

Host. O God, that right should thus overcome

might! Well, of sufferance comes ease.

Dol. Come, you rogue, come: bring me to

a justice.

Host. Ay; come, you starved blood-hound.

Dol. Goodman death! goodman bones!

Host. Thou atomy, thou!

Dol. Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal!

First Bead. Very well.

Scene Five

[A public Place near Westminster Abbey]

Enter two Grooms, strewers of rushes.

First Groom. More rushes, more rushes.

Sec. Groom. The trumpets have sounded

twice.

First Groom. 'Twill be two o'clock ere they

come from the coronation. Dispatch, dispatch. Exeunt Grooms.

Fal. Stand here by me, Master Robert Shal-

low; I will make the king do you grace. I will

 22 blue-bottle: the reference is to the beadle's blue livery

24 half-kirtles: waists or skirts

27 of sufferance: out of suffering

32 atomy: Dame Quickly's confusion of 'atom' with 'anatomy' = skeleton 