Chief Justice

Chief Justice
Well, the truth is, Sir John, you live in
great infamy.
Falstaff
He that buckles himself in my belt cannot
live in less.
Chief Justice
Your means are very slender, and your
waste is great.

But since all is well, keep it so.
Wake not a sleeping wolf.
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Chief Justice
Well, the King hath severed you and
Prince Harry. I hear you are going with Lord John
of Lancaster against the Archbishop and the Earl of
Northumberland.

But it was always yet the trick of our
English nation, if they have a good
thing, to make it too common.

Falstaff
Yea,
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Falstaff
What is the gross sum that I owe thee?
Hostess
Marry, if thou wert an honest man, thyself
and the money too. Thou didst swear to me upon a
parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber at
the round table by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday
in Wheeson week, when the Prince broke thy head
for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor,
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Chief Justice
I am assured, if I be measured rightly,
Your Majesty hath no just cause to hate me.
Prince
No? How might a prince of my great hopes forget
So great indignities you laid upon me?
What, rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison
Th’ immediate heir of England? Was this easy?
May this be washed in Lethe and forgotten?
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Falstaff
God save thy Grace, King Hal, my royal Hal.
Pistol
The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal
imp of fame!
Falstaff
God save thee, my sweet boy!

Presume not that I am the thing I was,
For God doth know—so shall the world perceive—
That I have turned away my former self

King
My Lord Chief Justice,
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