Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind,
Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse:
I have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly
For the only she; and--pauca, there's enough. Go to.
[Enter the Boy]
Boy Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and
you, hostess: he is very sick, and would to bed.
Good Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and
do the office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill.
BARDOLPH Away, you rogue!
Hostess By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of
these days. The king has killed his heart. Good
husband, come home presently.
[Exeunt Hostess and Boy]
BARDOLPH Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to
France together: why the devil should we keep
knives to cut one another's throats?
PISTOL Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on!
NYM You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting?
PISTOL Base is the slave that pays.
NYM That now I will have: that's the humour of it.
PISTOL As manhood shall compound: push home.
[They draw]
BARDOLPH By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll
kill him; by this sword, I will.
PISTOL Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course.
BARDOLPH Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be friends:
an thou wilt not, why, then, be enemies with me too.
Prithee, put up.
NYM I shall have my eight shillings I won of you at betting?
PISTOL A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood:
I'll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me;
Is not this just? for I shall sutler be
Unto the camp, and profits will accrue.
Give me thy hand.
NYM I shall have my noble?
PISTOL In cash most justly paid.
NYM Well, then, that's the humour of't.
[Re-enter Hostess]
Hostess As ever you came of women, come in quickly to Sir
John. Ah, poor heart! he is so shaked of a burning
quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to
behold. Sweet men, come to him.
NYM The king hath run bad humours on the knight; that's
the even of it.
PISTOL Nym, thou hast spoke the right;
His heart is fracted and corroborate.
NYM The king is a good king: but it must be as it may;
he passes some humours and careers.
PISTOL Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins we will live.
KING HENRY V
ACT II
SCENE II Southampton. A council-chamber.
[Enter EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND]
BEDFORD 'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.
EXETER They shall be apprehended by and by.
WESTMORELAND How smooth and even they do bear themselves!
As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,
Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.
BEDFORD The king hath note of all that they intend,
By interception which they dream not of.
EXETER Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,
Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours,
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