The tutor and the feeder of my riots.

Till then I banish thee, on pain of death,
As I have done the rest of my misleaders,

Not to come near our person by ten mile.
For competence of life I will allow you,

That lack of means enforce you not to evils;
And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,

We will, according to your strengths and qualities,
Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,

To see perform'd the tenour of our word.
Set on. Exeunt the KING and his train

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,

with officers
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

PRINCE JOHN. 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.

PRINCE JOHN. The King hath call'd his parliament, my lord.
CHIEF JUSTICE. He hath.

PRINCE JOHN. I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,
We bear our civil swords and native fire

As far as France. I heard a bird so sing,
Whose music, to my thinking, pleas'd the King.

Come, will you hence? Exeunt
EPILOGUE

EPILOGUE.
First my fear, then my curtsy, last my speech. My fear, is your

displeasure; my curtsy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons.
If you look for a good speech now, you undo me; for what I have to say

is of mine own making; and what, indeed, I should say will, I doubt,
prove mine own marring. But to the purpose, and so to the venture.

Be it known to you, as it is very well, I was lately here in the end
of a displeasing play, to pray your patience for it and to promise you

a better. I meant, indeed, to pay you with this; which if like an
ill venture it come unluckily home, I break, and you, my gentle

creditors, lose. Here I promis'd you I would be, and here I commit
my body to your mercies. Bate me some, and I will pay you some, and,

as most debtors do, promise you infinitely; and so I kneel down before
you- but, indeed, to pray for the Queen.

If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, will you command me to
use my legs? And yet that were but light payment-to dance out of

your debt. But a good conscience will make any possible
satisfaction, and so would I. All the gentlewomen here have forgiven

me. If the gentlemen will not, then the gentlemen do not agree with
the gentlewomen, which was never seen before in such an assembly.

One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too much cloy'd with fat
meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in

it, and make you merry with fair Katherine of France; where, for
anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already 'a be

killed with your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died a martyr and this
is not the man. My tongue is weary; when my legs are too, I will bid

you good night.
-THE END-

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• enforce [in´fɔ:s] vt.执行；强迫；加强 (初中英语单词)
• reform [ri´fɔ:m] v.&n.改革；改良；革除 (初中英语单词)
• charge [tʃɑ:dʒ] v.收费；冲锋 n.费用 (初中英语单词)
• shallow [´ʃæləu] a.肤浅的；表面的 (初中英语单词)
• grieve [gri:v] v.&n.(使)悲痛；哀悼 (初中英语单词)
• perceive [pə´si:v] vt.察觉；看出；领悟 (初中英语单词)
• prince [´prins] n.王子；亲王；君主 (初中英语单词)
• intent [in´tent] a.专心致志的 n.意图 (初中英语单词)
• modest [´mɔdist] a.谦虚的；朴素的 (初中英语单词)
• parliament [´pɑ:ləmənt] n.议(国)会 (初中英语单词)
• lately [´leitli] ad.近来，不久前 (初中英语单词)
• patience [´peiʃəns] n.忍耐(力)；耐心；坚韧 (初中英语单词)
• venture [´ventʃə] n.投机 v.冒险；敢于 (初中英语单词)
• conscience [´kɔnʃəns] n.良心；道德心 (初中英语单词)
• humble [´hʌmbəl] a.谦卑的 vt.贬抑 (初中英语单词)
• banish [´bæniʃ] vt.流放；消除(顾虑等) (高中英语单词)
• beseech [bi´si:tʃ] v.恳求，哀求 (高中英语单词)
• proceeding [prə´si:diŋ] n.程序；进程；行动 (高中英语单词)
• martyr [´mɑ:tə] n.烈士；殉难者 (高中英语单词)
• advancement [əd´vɑ:nsmənt] n.前进；促进；提升 (英语四级单词)
• infinitely [´infinitli] ad.无限地；无穷地 (英语四级单词)
• entreat [in´tri:t] vt.恳求，恳请 (英语四级单词)
• acquit [ə´kwit] vt.无罪开释 (英语四级单词)
• feeder [´fi:də] n.饲养员；食客 (英语六级单词)