William Shakespeare: King Henry IV Part II

ACT III. 2. SCENE II. Gloucestershire. Before Justice Shallow's house. (continued)

FALSTAFF.
Yea, marry, let 's see Bullcalf.

BULLCALF.
Here, sir.

FALSTAFF.
'Fore God, a likely fellow! Come, prick me Bullcalf till he roar
again.

BULLCALF.
O Lord! good my lord captain,--

FALSTAFF.
What, dost thou roar before thou art prick'd?

BULLCALF.
O Lord, sir! I am a diseased man.

FALSTAFF.
What disease hast thou?

BULLCALF.
A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir, which I caught with ringing
in the king's affairs upon his coronation-day, sir.

FALSTAFF.
Come, thou shalt go to the wars in a gown; we will have away thy cold;
and I will take such order that thy friends shall ring for thee.
Is here all?

SHALLOW.
Here is two more called than your number; you must have but four here,
sir; and so, I pray you, go in with me to dinner.

FALSTAFF.
Come, I will go drink with you, but I cannot tarry dinner. I am
glad to see you, by my troth, Master Shallow.

SHALLOW.
O, Sir John, do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill
in Saint George's field?

FALSTAFF.
No more of that, Master Shallow, no more of that.

SHALLOW.
Ha, 'twas a merry night. And is Jane Nightwork alive?

FALSTAFF.
She lives, Master Shallow.

SHALLOW.
She never could away with me.

FALSTAFF.
Never, never; she would always say she could not abide Master
Shallow.

SHALLOW.
By the mass, I could anger her to the heart. She was then a bona-roba.
Doth she hold her own well?