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wilful abuse; and then I know how to handle

you.

Fal. No abuse, Hal, o' mine honour; no

abuse.

Prince. Not to dispraise me, and call me

pantler and bread-chipper and I know not what?

Fal. No abuse, Hal.

Poins. No abuse!

Fal. No abuse, Ned, in the world; honest

Ned, none. I dispraised him before the wicked,

that the wicked might not fall in love with him;

in which doing I have done the part of a careful

friend and a true subject, and thy father is to

give me thanks for it. No abuse, Hal; none,

Ned, none: no, faith, boys, none.

Prince. See now, whether pure fear and

entire cowardice doth not make thee wrong this

virtuous gentlewoman to close with us? Is she

of the wicked? Is thine hostess here of the

wicked? Or is thy boy of the wicked? Or

honest Bardolph, whose zeal burns in his nose, of

the wicked?

Poins. Answer, thou dead elm, answer.

Fal. The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph

irrecoverable; and his face is Lucifer's privy-

kitchen, where he doth nothing but roast malt-

worms. For the boy, there is a good angel about

him; but the devil outbids him too.

Prince. For the women?

Fal. For one of them, she is in hell already,

and burns poor souls. For the other, I owe her

money; and whether she be damned for that, I

know not.

 358 close: make peace

363 dead elm; cf. n.

364 pricked down: marked down

366, 367 malt-worms: ale-topers 