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but thou, like a kind fellow, gavest thyself away

gratis, and I thank thee for thee.

Lanc. Now, have you left pursuit?

West. Retreat is made and execution stay'd.

Lanc. Send Colevile with his confederates

To York, to present execution.

Blunt, lead him hence, and see you guard him sure.

And now dispatch we toward the court, my lords:

I hear, the king my father is sore sick:

Our news shall go before us to his majesty,

Which, cousin [addressing Westmoreland], you shall bear, to comfort him;

And we with sober speed will follow you.

Fal. My lord, I beseech you, give me leave to go,

Through Gloucestershire, and when you come to court

Stand my good lord, pray, in your good report.

Lanc. Fare you well, Falstaff: I, in my condition,

Shall better speak of you than you deserve.

[Exeunt all but Falstaff.]

Fal. I would you had but the wit: 'twere

better than your dukedom. Good faith, this

same young sober-blooded boy doth not love

me; nor a man cannot make him laugh; but

that's no marvel, he drinks no wine. There's

never none of these demure boys come to any

proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their

blood, and making many fish-meals, that they

fall into a kind of male green-sickness; and then,

 80 present: immediate

82 dispatch we: let us hasten

89 Stand my good lord: be my kind patron

90 condition: official capacity

97, 98 come to any proof: turn out well 