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checked him for it, and the young lion repents;

marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new

silk and old sack.

''Ch. Just.'' Well, God send the prince a better

companion!

Fal. God send the companion a better prince!

I cannot rid my hands of him.

''Ch. Just.'' Well, the king hath severed you

and Prince Harry. I hear you are going with

Lord John of Lancaster against the archbishop

and the Earl of Northumberland.

Fal. Yea; I thank your pretty sweet wit for

it. But look you pray, all you that kiss my lady

Peace at home, that our armies join not in a hot

day; for, by the Lord, I take but two shirts out

with me, and I mean not to sweat extraordinarily:

if it be a hot day, and I brandish anything but

my bottle, I would I might never spit white again.

There is not a dangerous action can peep out

his head but I am thrust upon it. Well, I can-

not last ever. But it was always yet the trick of

our English nation, if they have a good thing, to

make it too common. If you will needs say I am

an old man, you should give me rest. I would

to God my name were not so terrible to the

enemy as it is: I were better to be eaten to death

with rust than to be scoured to nothing with

perpetual motion.

''Ch. Just.'' Well, be honest, be honest; and

God bless your expedition.

Fal. Will your lordship lend me a thousand

pound to furnish me forth?

''Ch. Just.'' Not a penny; not a penny; you are

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