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As all things shall redound unto your good.

King. Come, wife, let's in, and learn to govern better;

For yet may England curse my wretched reign.

Flourish. Exeunt.

Cade. Fie on ambitions! fie on myself, that

have a sword, and yet am ready to famish!

These five days have I hid me in these woods and

durst not peep out, for all the country is laid

for me; but now I am so hungry, that if I might

have a lease of my life for a thousand years I

could stay no longer. Wherefore, on a brick

wall have I climbed into this garden, to see if I

can eat grass, or pick a sallet another while,

which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach this

hot weather. And I think this word 'sallet'

was born to do me good: for many a time, but

for a sallet, my brain-pan had been cleft with a

brown bill; and many a time, when I have been

dry, and bravely marching, it hath served me

instead of a quart-pot to drink in; and now the

word 'sallet' must serve me to feed on.

Iden. Lord! who would live turmoiled in the court,

And may enjoy such quiet walks as these?

This small inheritance my father left me

 4 laid: beset

9 sallet: salad of green herbs

13 sallet: light headpiece or helmet 