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Flu. There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things: I will tell you, as my friend, captain Gower; The rascally, scald, beggarly, lowsy, pragging knave, Pistol, which you and yourself, and all the 'orld, know to be no petter than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, he is come to me, and brings me pread and salt yesterday, look you, and bid me eat my leek: it was in a place where I could not breed no contentions with him; but I will be so pold as to wear it in my cap till I see him once again, and then I will tell him a little piece of my desires.

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Enter PISTOL.

Gow. Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock. Flu. 'Tis no matter for his swellings, nor his turkeycocks.-Got bless you, ancient Pistol! you scurvy, lowsy knave, Got bless you!

Pist. Ha! art thou Bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,

To have me fold up Parca's fatal web ?*

Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.

Flu. I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lowsy knave, at my desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat, look you, this leek; because, look you, you do not love it, nor your affections, and your appetites, and your digestions, does not agree with it, I would desire eat it.

you to

[Strikes him.

Pist. Not for Cadwallader, and all his goats.
Flu. There is one goat for
Will you be so goot, scald knave, as eat it?

you.

Pist. Base Trojan, thou shalt die.

Flu. You say very true, scald knave, when Got's will is: I will desire you to live in the mean time, and eat your victuals; come, there is sauce for it. [Striking him again.] You called me yesterday, mountain-squire;

• To have me fold up, &c.] Dost thou desire to have me put thee to death.

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FLU. I SAY. I WILL MAKE HIM EAT SOME PART OF MY LEEK, OR I WILL PEAT HIS PATE FOUR DAYS PITE I PRAY YOU, IT IS GOOT FOR YOUR GREEN WOUND AND YOUR PLOODY COXCOMB.

Act V.Sc. 1.

London. Published by FC&J. Rivington, and Partners. Feb 1823

but I will make you to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you, fall to; if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.

Gow. Enough, captain; you have astonished him."

Flu. I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat his pate four days:- Pite, I pray you; it is goot for your green wound, and your ploody cox

comb.

Pist. Must I bite?

Flu. Yes, certainly; and out of doubt, and out of questions too, and ambiguities.

Pist. By this leek, I will most horribly revenge; I eat, and eke I swear.

Flu. Eat, I pray you: Will you have some more sauce to your leek? there is not enough leek to swear by. Pist. Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see, I eat.

Flu. Much goot do you, scald knave, heartily. Nay, pray you, throw none away; the skin is goot for your proken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks hereafter, I pray you, mock at them; that is all.

Pist. Good.

Flu. Ay, leeks is goot:-Hold you, there is a groat to heal your pate.

Pist. Me a groat!

Flu. Yes, verily, and in truth, you shall take it; or I have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat. Pist. I take thy groat, in earnest of revenge.

Flu. If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels; you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but cudgels. God be wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate. [Exit.

Pist. All hell shall stir for this.

Gow. Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will you mock at an ancient tradition, - begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy

blow.

astonished him.] That is, you have stunned him with the

of pre-deceased valour, and dare not avouch in your deeds any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel: you find it otherwise; and, henceforth, let a Welsh correction teach you a good English condition." Fare Fare ye well.

8

[Exit. Pist. Doth fortune play the huswife with me now? News have I, that my Nell is dead i'the spital

Of malady of France;

And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.
Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs
Honour is cudgell'd. Well, bawd will I turn,
And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand.
To England will I steal, and there I'll steal:
And patches will I get unto these scars,
And swear, I got them in the Gallia wars.

SCENE II.

[Exit.9

Troyes in Champagne. An Apartment in the French King's Palace.

Enter at one door, King HENRy, Bedford, Gloster, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and other Lords; at another, the French King, Queen ISABEL, the Princess KATHARINE, Lords, Ladies, &c. the Duke of BURGUNDY, and his Train.

K. Hen. Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met! Unto our brother France, and to our sister,

6 - gleeking—] i. e. scoffing, sneering. Gleek was a game at cards.

Huswife is

7 English condition.] Condition is temper, disposition of mind. 8 Doth fortune play the huswife—] That is, the jilt. here used in an ill sense.

9 The comick scenes of The History of Henry the Fourth and Fifth are now at an end, and all the comic personages are now dismissed.

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