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Henry the Fifth, III. vi

and inconstant, and mutability, and variation:

and her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical

stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls: in good

truth, the poet makes a most excellent descrip-

tion of it: Fortune is an excellent moral.

Pist. Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;

For he hath stol'n a pax, and hanged must a' be,

A damned death!

Let gallows gape for dog, let man go free

And let not hemp his wind-pipe suffocate.

But Exeter hath given the doom of death

For pax of little price.

Therefore, go speak; the duke will hear thy voice;

And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut

With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:

Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.

Flu. Aunchient Pistol, I do partly under-

stand your meaning.

Pist. Why then, rejoice therefore.

Flu. Certainly, aunchient, it is not a thing to

rejoice at; for, if, look you, he were my brother,

I would desire the duke to use his good pleasure

and put him to execution; for discipline ought

to be used.

Pist. Die and be damn'd; and figo for thy friendship!

Flu. It is well.

Pist. The fig of Spain!

Flu. Very good.

Gow. Why, this is an arrant counterfeit

rascal: I remember him now; a bawd, a cut-

purse.

 42 pax; cf. n.

60 figo: a fig

62 The fig of Spain; cf. n. 