William Kenrick [1760], Falstaff's Wedding: a comedy. Being a Sequel to the Second Part of the Play of King Henry the Fourth. Written in Imitation of Shakespeare, By Mr. Kenrick (Printed for J. Wilkie... [and] F. Blyth [etc.], London) [word count] [S34600].
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SCENE III.
Sir John Falstaff, solus.
I would I were in East-cheap. Mine hostess hath a most
excellent cordial; and I never stood in more need of it
than now. The gross indignity Hal hath put on me, sticks
in my throat; and, in the end, may go near to choak me.
I shall never gulp it down: that's flat: unless, indeed,
a full cup of sherris help to clear the way. And then,
how I shall stomach it; how I shall digest it, heaven
knows. At present, both my person and knighthood are
in jeopardy; my Lord-chief-justice, to whose care I am
commended, holding me not altogether in good liking.
But no matter—if I am to be provided for, what avails it
who is my caterer? I could wish, nevertheless, old white
wine stood higher in his Lordship's favour; that I may not
be stinted at table, or in my by-drinkings. I like not such
splenetick temperaments; such phlegmatick constitutions;
grey-beards, that never sympathize with the wants of
young men, or make proper allowances for their continual
waste of radical moisture.—'Sblood, I am as sore and as
melancholy as a blind horse in a mill.—Bardolph! where
a plague art thou gotten to, caterwauling?
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William Kenrick [1760], Falstaff's Wedding: a comedy. Being a Sequel to the Second Part of the Play of King Henry the Fourth. Written in Imitation of Shakespeare, By Mr. Kenrick (Printed for J. Wilkie... [and] F. Blyth [etc.], London) [word count] [S34600].
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