William Shakespeare: King Henry IV Part II

ACT V. 5. SCENE V. A public place near Westminster Abbey. (continued)

[Exeunt King, &c.]

FALSTAFF.
Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pounds.

SHALLOW.
Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me have
home with me.

FALSTAFF.
That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you grieve at this;
I shall be sent for in private to him: look you, he must seem
thus to the world: fear not your advancements; I will be the man yet
that shall make you great.

SHALLOW.
I cannot perceive how, unless you give me your doublet
and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you, good Sir John, let me
have five hundred of my thousand.

FALSTAFF.
Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you heard was
but a colour.

SHALLOW.
A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John.

FALSTAFF.
Fear no colours: go with me to dinner: come, Lieutenant
Pistol; come, Bardolph: I shall be sent for soon at night.

[Re-enter Prince John, the Lord Chief-Justice; Officers with
them.]

CHIEF JUSTICE.
Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet:
Take all his company along with him.

FALSTAFF.
My lord, my lord,--

CHIEF JUSTICE.
I cannot now speak: I will hear you soon.
Take them away.

PISTOL.
Si fortuna me tormenta, spero me contenta.

[Exeunt all but Prince John and the Lord Chief-Justice.]

LANCASTER.
I like this fair proceeding of the king's:
He hath intent his wonted followers
Shall all be very well provided for;
But all are banish'd till their conversations
Appear more wise and modest to the world.

CHIEF JUSTICE.
And so they are.