PRINCE HENRY
Well, come what will, I'll tarry at home. FALSTAFF
By the Lord, I'll be a traitor then, when thou art king. PRINCE HENRY
I care not. POINS
Sir John, I prithee, leave the prince and me alone: I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure that
he shall go. FALSTAFF
Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and him the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may move
and what he hears may be believed, that the true prince may, for recreation sake, prove a false thief; for
the poor abuses of the time want countenance. Farewell: you shall find me in Eastcheap. PRINCE HENRY
Farewell, thou latter spring! farewell, All-hallown summer!
Exit Falstaff POINS
Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us to-morrow: I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage
alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid: yourself
and I will not be there; and when they have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut this head off from
my shoulders. PRINCE HENRY
How shall we part with them in setting forth? POINS
Why, we will set forth before or after them, and appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at our pleasure
to fail, and then will they adventure upon the exploit themselves; which they shall have no sooner achieved,
but we'll set upon them. PRINCE HENRY
Yea, but 'tis like that they will know us by our horses, by our habits and by every other appointment, to be
ourselves. POINS
Tut! our horses they shall not see: I'll tie them in the wood; our vizards we will change after we leave them: and,
sirrah, I have cases of buckram for the nonce, to immask our noted outward garments.
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