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That I have turn'd away my former self;

So will I those that kept me company.

When thou dost hear I am as I have been,

Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,

The tutor and the feeder of my riots:

Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death,

As I have done the rest of my misleaders,

Not to come near our person by ten mile.

For competence of life I will allow you,

That lack of means enforce you not to evil:

And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,

We will, according to your strength and qualities,

Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,

To see perform'd the tenour of our word.

Set on.

Fal. Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.

Shal. Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech

you to let me have home with me.

Fal. That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do

not you grieve at this: I shall be sent for in

private to him. Look you, he must seem thus

to the world. Fear not your advancements; I

will be the man yet that shall make you great.

Shal. I cannot perceive how, unless you give

me your doublet and stuff me out with straw.

I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five

hundred of my thousand.

Fal. Sir, I will be as good as my word: this

that you heard was but a colour.

Shal. A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir

John.

Fal. Fear no colours: go with me to dinner.

 92 colour: pun on collar, halter

94 Fear no colours: have no fear; originally, fear no enemy 