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King Henry the Fourth, III. ii

her drudgery: you need not to have pricked me;

there are other men fitter to go out than I.

Fal. Go to: peace, Mouldy! you shall go.

Mouldy, it is time you were spent.

Moul. Spent!

Shal. Peace, fellow, peace! stand aside: know

you where you are? For the other, Sir John:

let me see. Simon Shadow!

Fal. Yea, marry, let me have him to sit

under: he's like to be a cold soldier.

Shal. Where's Shadow?

Shad. Here, sir.

Fal. Shadow, whose son art thou?

Shad. My mother's son, sir.

Fal. Thy mother's son! like enough, and thy

father's shadow: so the son of the female is the

shadow of the male: it is often so, indeed; but

not of the father's substance.

Shal. Do you like him, Sir John?

Fal. Shadow will serve for summer; prick

him, for we have a number of shadows to fill up

the muster-book.

Shal. Thomas Wart?

Fal. Where's he?

Wart. Here, sir.

Fal. Is thy name Wart?

Wart. Yea, sir.

Fal. Thou art a very ragged wart.

Shal. Shall I prick him, Sir John?

Fal. It were superfluous; for his apparel is

built upon his back, and the whole frame stands

upon pins: prick him no more.

 147 shadows: names, for which we receive pay, though we have not the men 