PRINCE HENRY
Not to dispraise me, and call me pantier and bread-chipper and I know not what? FALSTAFF
No abuse, Hal. POINS
No abuse? FALSTAFF
No abuse, Ned, i' the world; honest Ned, none. I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might
not fall in love with him; in which doing, I have done the part of a careful friend and a true subject, and thy
father is to give me thanks for it. No abuse, Hal: none, Ned, none: no, faith, boys, none. PRINCE HENRY
See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee wrong this virtuous gentlewoman
to close with us? is she of the wicked? is thine hostess here of the wicked? or is thy boy of the A wicked?
or honest Bardolph, whose zeal burns in his nose, of the wicked? POINS
Answer, thou dead elm, answer. FALSTAFF
The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph irrecoverable; and his face is Lucifer's privy-kitchen, where he doth
nothing but roast malt-worms. For the boy, there is a good angel about him; but the devil outbids him too. PRINCE HENRY
For the women? FALSTAFF
For one of them, she is in hell already, and burns poor souls. For the other, I owe her money, and whether
she be damned for that, I know not. MISTRESS QUICKLY
No, I warrant you. FALSTAFF
No, I think thou art not; I think thou art quit for that. Marry, there is another indictment upon thee, for suffering
flesh to be eaten in thy house, contrary to the law; for the which I think thou wilt howl. MISTRESS QUICKLY
All victuallers do so; what's a joint of mutton or two in a whole Lent?
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