No Fear Shakespeare
Henry IV Part 1
Act 2, Scene 2, Page 3
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GADSHILL
Stand.
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GADSHILL
Freeze!
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FALSTAFF
So I do, against my will.
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FALSTAFF
I am, and I don’t like it.
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POINS
O, ’tis our setter. I know his voice, Bardolph. —What news?
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POINS
Oh, that’s the man who planned the whole thing; I recognize his voice, Bardolph.— What’s going on?
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GADSHILL
Case you, case you. On with your vizards. There’s money of
the King’s coming down the hill. 'Tis going to the King’s
Exchequer.
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GADSHILL
Cover your faces, cover your faces. Get your masks on. There’s tax money coming down the hill, on its way to the King’s treasury.
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FALSTAFF
You lie, you rogue. 'Tis going to the King’s Tavern.
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FALSTAFF
That’s a lie, you clown. It’s on its way to the king’s bank.
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GADSHILL
There’s enough to make us all.
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GADSHILL
There’s enough to make us all rich.
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FALSTAFF
To be hanged.
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FALSTAFF
Or to get us all hanged.
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PRINCE HENRY
Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow lane. Ned Poins
and I will walk lower. If they ’scape from your encounter,
then they light on us.
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PRINCE HENRY
Listen, you four confront them in the narrow lane. Ned Poins and I will wait further down. If they get away from you, they’ll run right into us.
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PETO
How many be there of them?
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PETO
How many of them are there?
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GADSHILL
Some eight or ten.
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GADSHILL
About eight or ten.
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FALSTAFF
Zounds, will they not rob us?
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FALSTAFF
Damn! Won’t they rob us?
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PRINCE HENRY
What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?
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PRINCE HENRY
What, are you a coward, Sir John Fatstuff?
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FALSTAFF
Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your grandfather, but yet no
coward, Hal.
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FALSTAFF
Well, I’m certainly not John of Gaunt, your grandfather, but I’m no coward, Hal.
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PRINCE HENRY
Well, we leave that to the proof.
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PRINCE HENRY
Well, we’ll see about that.
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