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Dol. I make them! gluttony and diseases

make them; I make them not.

Fal. If the cook help to make the glut-

tony, you help to make the diseases, Doll: we

catch of you, Doll, we catch of you; grant that,

my poor virtue, grant that.

Dol. Yea, joy, our chains and our jewels.

Fal. 'Your brooches, pearls, and owches':—

for to serve bravely is to come halting off, you

know: to come off the breach with his pike bent

bravely, and to surgery bravely; to venture upon

the charged chambers bravely,—

Dol. Hang yourself, you muddy conger, hang

yourself!

Host. By my troth, this is the old fashion;

you two never meet but you fall to some discord:

you are both, i' good truth, as rheumatic as two

dry toasts; you cannot one bear with another's

confirmities. What the good-year! one must

bear, and that must be you: you are the weaker

vessel, as they say, the emptier vessel.

Dol. Can a weak empty vessel bear such a

huge full hogshead? there's a whole merchant's

venture of Bordeaux stuff in him: you have not

seen a hulk better stuffed in the hold. Come,

I'll be friends with thee, Jack: thou art going

to the wars; and whether I shall ever see thee

again or no, there is nobody cares.

Fran. Sir, Ancient Pistol's below, and would

speak with you.  52 Cf. n.

owches: jewels

56 chambers: small cannon

57 conger: eel

61 rheumatic: error for 'splenetic' (?)

63 good-year: corruption of French 'goujere,' 'the pox'

73 Ancient: ensign or second lieutenant, Peto being Captain Falstaff's first lieutenant 