leer upon him, as a' comes by; and do but mark 8
the countenance that he will give me.
Pist. God bless thy lungs, good knight.
Fal. Come here, Pistol; stand behind me.
O! if I had had time to have made new liveries, 12
I would have bestowed the thousand pound I
borrowed of you. But 'tis no matter; this poor
show doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had
to see him. 16
Shal. It doth so.
Fal. It shows my earnestness of affection.
Shal. It doth so.
Fal. My devotion. 20
Shal. It doth, it doth, it doth.
Fal. As it were, to ride day and night; and
not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have
patience to shift me. 24
Shal. It is best, certain.
Fal. But to stand stained with travel, and
sweating with desire to see him; thinking of
nothing else; putting all affairs else in oblivion, 28
as if there were nothing else to be done but to
see him.
Pist. 'Tis semper idem, for absque hoc nihil est:
'Tis all in every part. 32
Shal. 'Tis so, indeed.
Pist. My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,
And make thee rage.
Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts, 36
Is in base durance and contagious prison;
Hal'd thither
By most mechanical and dirty hand:
31, 32 Cf. n.
39 mechanical: common, vulgar
