1    Come, shelter, shelter: I have removed Falstaff's
2    horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet.

3    Stand close.

4    Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!

5    Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! what a brawling dost
6    thou keep!

7    Where's Poins, Hal?

8    He is walked up to the top of the hill: I'll go seek him.

9    I am accursed to rob in that thief's company: the
10   rascal hath removed my horse, and tied him I know
11   not where. If I travel but four foot by the squier
12   further afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt
13   not but to die a fair death for all this, if I
14   'scape hanging for killing that rogue. I have
15   forsworn his company hourly any time this two and
16   twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the
17   rogue's company. If the rascal hath not given me
18   medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged; it
19   could not be else: I have drunk medicines. Poins!
20   Hal! a plague upon you both! Bardolph! Peto!
21   I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. An 'twere
22   not as good a deed as drink, to turn true man and to
23   leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that
24   ever chewed with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven
25   ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me;
26   and the stony-hearted villains know it well enough:
27   a plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
They whistle
28   Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you
29   rogues; give me my horse, and be hanged!

30   Peace, ye fat-guts! lie down; lay thine ear close
31   to the ground and list if thou canst hear the tread
32   of travellers.

33   Have you any levers to lift me up again, being down?
34   'Sblood, I'll not bear mine own flesh so far afoot
35   again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer.
36   What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?

37   Thou liest; thou art not colted, thou art uncolted.

38   I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse,
39   good king's son.

40   Out, ye rogue! shall I be your ostler?

41   Go, hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent
42   garters! If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I
43   have not ballads made on you all and sung to filthy
44   tunes, let a cup of sack be my poison: when a jest
45   is so forward, and afoot too! I hate it.

46   Stand.

47   So I do, against my will.

48   O, 'tis our setter: I know his voice. Bardolph,
49   what news?

50   Case ye, case ye; on with your vizards: there 's
51   money of the king's coming down the hill; 'tis going
52   to the king's exchequer.

53   You lie, ye rogue; 'tis going to the king's tavern.

54   There's enough to make us all.

55   To be hanged.

56   Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow lane;
57   Ned Poins and I will walk lower: if they 'scape
58   from your encounter, then they light on us.

59   How many be there of them?

60   Some eight or ten.

61   'Zounds, will they not rob us?

62   What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?

63   Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your grandfather;
64   but yet no coward, Hal.

65   Well, we leave that to the proof.

66   Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge:
67   when thou needest him, there thou shalt find him.
68   Farewell, and stand fast.

69   Now cannot I strike him, if I should be hanged.

70   Ned, where are our disguises?

71   Here, hard by: stand close.

72   Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I:
73   every man to his business.

74   Come, neighbour: the boy shall lead our horses down
75   the hill; we'll walk afoot awhile, and ease our legs.

76   Stand!

77   Jesus bless us!

78   Strike; down with them; cut the villains' throats:
79   ah! whoreson caterpillars! bacon-fed knaves! they
80   hate us youth: down with them: fleece them.

81   O, we are undone, both we and ours for ever!

82   Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No, ye
83   fat chuffs: I would your store were here! On,
84   bacons, on! What, ye knaves! young men must live.
85   You are Grand-jurors, are ye? we'll jure ye, 'faith.

86   The thieves have bound the true men. Now could thou
87   and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it
88   would be argument for a week, laughter for a month
89   and a good jest for ever.

90   Stand close; I hear them coming.

91   Come, my masters, let us share, and then to horse
92   before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two
93   arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring: there's
94   no more valour in that Poins than in a wild-duck.

95   Your money!

96   Villains!

97   Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse:
98   The thieves are all scatter'd and possess'd with fear
99   So strongly that they dare not meet each other;
100  Each takes his fellow for an officer.
101  Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death,
102  And lards the lean earth as he walks along:
103  Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him.

104  How the rogue roar'd!