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 GADSHILL
  Stand.
GADSHILL
Freeze!
 FALSTAFF
  So I do, against my will.
FALSTAFF
I am, and I don't like it.
 POINS
  O, 'tis our setter. I know his voice, Bardolph. —What news?
POINS
Oh, that's the man who planned the whole thing; I recognize his voice, Bardolph.— What's going on?
 GADSHILL
45 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.
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.
 FALSTAFF
  You lie, you rogue. 'Tis going to the King's Tavern.
FALSTAFF
That's a lie, you clown. It's on its way to the king's bank.
 GADSHILL
  There's enough to make us all.
GADSHILL
There's enough to make us all rich.
 FALSTAFF
50 To be hanged.
FALSTAFF
Or to get us all hanged.
 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.
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.
 PETO
  How many be there of them?
PETO
How many of them are there?
 GADSHILL
55 Some eight or ten.
GADSHILL
About eight or ten.
 FALSTAFF
  Zounds, will they not rob us?
FALSTAFF
Damn! Won't they rob us?
 PRINCE HENRY
  What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?
PRINCE HENRY
What, are you a coward, Sir John Fatstuff?
 FALSTAFF
  Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your grandfather, but yet no
  coward, Hal.
FALSTAFF
Well, I'm certainly not John of Gaunt , your grandfather, but I'm no coward, Hal.
 PRINCE HENRY
60 Well, we leave that to the proof.
PRINCE HENRY
Well, we'll see about that.

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