FLU. I SAY, I WILL MAKE HIM EAT SOME PART OF MY LEEK, OR I WILL PEAT HIS PATE FOUR DAYS PITE I PRAY YOU; IT IS GOOT FOR YOUR GREEN WOUND AND YOUR FLOODY COXCOMB. Act V.Sc.1. London, Published by FC&J. Rivington, and Partners. Feb 1823. but I will make you to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you, fall to; if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek. Gow. Enough, captain; you have astonished him. 5 Flu. I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat his pate four days:-Pite, I pray you; it is goot for your green wound, and your ploody coxcomb. Pist. Must I bite? Flu. Yes, certainly; and out of doubt, and out of questions too, and ambiguities. Pist. By this leek, I will most horribly revenge; I eat, and eke I swear. Flu. Eat, I pray you: will you have some more sauce to your leek? there is not enough leek to swear by. Pist. Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see, I eat. Flu. Much goot do you, scald knave, heartily. Nay, pray you, throw none away; the skin is goot for your proken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks hereafter, I pray you, mock at them; that is all. Pist. Good. Flu. Ay, leeks is goot: Hold you there is a groat to heal your pate. Pist. Me a groat! Flu. Yes, verily, and in truth, you shall take it; or I have another leek. in my pocket, which you shall eat. Pist. I take thy groat, in earnest of revenge. Flu. If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels; you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but cudgels. God be wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate. [Exit. Pist. All hell shall stir for this. Gow. Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy 3 astonished him.] That is, you have stunned him with the blow. of pre-deceased valour,—and dare not avouch in your deeds any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel: you find it otherwise; and, henceforth, let a Welsh correction teach you a good English condition. 7 Fare well 8 ye [Exit. And there my rendezvous is quite cut off. my weary limbs SCENE II. [Exit.9 Troyes in Champagne. An Apartment in the French King's Palace. Enter at one door, King HENRy, Bedford, Gloster, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and other Lords; at another, the French King, Queen ISABEL, the Princess KATHARINE, Lords, Ladies, &c. the Duke of BURGUNDY, and his Train. K. Hen. Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met! Unto our brother France, and to our sister, 6 cards. 71 - glecking—] i. e. scoffing, sneering. Gleek was a game at English condition.] Condition is temper, disposition of mind. 8 Doth fortune play the huswife-] that is, the jilt. Huswife is here used in an ill sense. 9 The comick scenes of The History of Henry the Fourth and Fifth are now at an end, and all the comic personages are now dismissed. Health and fair time of day:-joy and good wishes Q. Isa. So happy be the issue, brother England, Great kings of France and England! That I have labour'd With all my wits, my pains, and strong endeavours, Unto this bar and royal interview, Your mightiness on both parts best can witness. That face to face, and royal eye to eye, You have congreeted; let it not disgrace me, Falstaff and Mrs. Quickly are dead; Nym and Bardolph are hanged; Gadshill was lost immediately after the robbery; Poins and Peto have vanished since, one knows not how; and Pistol is now beaten into obscurity. I believe every reader regrets their departure. JOHNSON Unto this bar-] To this barrier; to this place of congress, What rub, or what impediment, there is, Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart, And as our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges, 2 3 deracinate-] To deracinate is to force up by the roots. diffus'd attire,] Diffused for extravagant. The military habit of those times was extremely so. 4 -former favour,] Former appearance. |