Lan.
Now have you left pursuit?

West.
Retreat is made, and execution stay'd.

Lan.
Send Colevile then, with his confederates,
To York, to present execution. [Exit Colevile, guarded.
And now dispatch we toward the court, my Lords;
I hear the King, my father, is sore sick:
Our news shall go before us to his Majesty,
Which, cousin, you shall bear, to comfort him:
And we with sober speed will follow you.

Fal.

My Lord, I beseech you, give me leave to go through Glo'stershire; and when you come to court, pray, stand in your good report, my Lord.

Lan.
Fare you well, Falstaff; I, in my condition,
Shall better speak of you than you deserve. [Exit.

Fal.

I would you had but the wit; 'twere better than your dukedom. Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me; a man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine. There's never any of these demure boys come to any proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood, and making many fish-meals, that they fall into a kind of male green-sickness; and then when they marry, they get wenches. They are generally fools and cowards; which some of us should be, too, but for inflammation. A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it; it ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish, dull, and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes; which, deliver'd o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The second property of your excellent sherris, is the warming of the blood, which before, cold and settled, left the liver white and pale; which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardise; but the sherris warms it, and makes it course from the inwards, to the parts extreme; it illuminateth the face, which, as a beacon, gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm; and then the vital commoners and inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain, the heart; who great, and puft up with this retinue, doth any deed of

courage: and this valour comes of sack. So that skill in the weapon is nothing, without sack, for that sets it a work; and learning a meer hoard of gold, kept by a devil, till sack commences it, and sets it in act and use. Hereof comes it, that Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father, he hath, like lean, steril, and bare land, manured, husbanded, and till'd, with excellent endeavour of drinking good, and good store of fertile sack, that he is become very hot and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them, should be, to forswear thin potations, and to addict themselves to sack.