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.
Blunt, lead him hence; and see you guard him sure. [Ex. with Colevile.
And now dispatch me tow'rd 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 my good Lord in your good report.

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; nor 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 two-fold 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 Sherris. 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 fertil Sherris, that he is become very hot and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach

them should be to forswear thin potations, and to addict themselves to Sack.

Bard.

The army is discharged all, and gone.

Fal.

Let them go; I'll through Gloucestershire, and there will I visit master Robert Shallow, Esquire; ^{8 note}I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away.