George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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SCENE XV.
The Garter-Inn.
Enter Falstaff and Bardolph.
Fal.
Bardolph, I say.
Bard.
Here, Sir.
Fal.
Go fetch me a quart of sack, put a toast in't. Have I
liv'd to be carry'd in a basket, like a barrow of butchers offal,
and to be thrown into the Thames? well, if I be serv'd such another
trick, I'll have my brains ta'en out and butter'd,
and give them to a dog for a new-year's gift. The rogues
slighted me into the river, with as little remorse as they
would have drown'd a blind bitch's puppies, fifteen i' th' litter;
and you may know, by my size, that I have a kind of alacrity
in sinking: if the bottom were as deep as hell I should down. I
had been drown'd, but that the shore was shelvy and shallow;
a death that I abhor; for the water swells a man: and what a
thing should I have been when I had been swell'd? I should
have been a mountain of mummy.
Bard.
Here's Mrs. Quickly, Sir, to speak with you.
Fal.
Come, let me pour in some sack to the Thames-water;
for my belly's as cold as if I had swallow'd snow-balls, for pills
to cool the reins. Call her in.
Bard.
Come in, woman.
George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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