Get this No Fear to go!
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GOWER
No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse
Are marched up to my Lord of Lancaster
Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.
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GOWER
No. Fifteen hundred infantrymen and five hundred horsemen are marching to meet Lord Lancaster, to fight against Northumberland and the Archbishop.
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FALSTAFF
Comes the King back from Wales, my noble lord?
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FALSTAFF
Is the King back from Wales, my noble lord?
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CHIEF JUSTICE
You shall have letters of me presently.
Come. Go along with me, good Master Gower.
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CHIEF JUSTICE
I’ll give you some letters shortly. Come with me, Master Gower.
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FALSTAFF
My lord!
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FALSTAFF
Sir!
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CHIEF JUSTICE
What’s the matter?
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CHIEF JUSTICE
What’s the matter?
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FALSTAFF
Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to dinner?
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FALSTAFF
Master Gower, would you like to join me for lunch?
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GOWER
I must wait upon my good lord here. I thank you, good Sir
John.
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GOWER
I have to attend to this noble man right here. But thank you, Sir John.
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CHIEF JUSTICE
Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are to take
soldiers up in counties as you go.
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CHIEF JUSTICE
Sir John, you’ve been loitering here too long. You have to recruit soldiers in the counties you pass through on your way north.
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FALSTAFF
Will you sup with me, Master Gower?
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FALSTAFF
Will you join me for supper, then, Master Gower?
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CHIEF JUSTICE
What foolish master taught you these manners, Sir John?
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CHIEF JUSTICE
What foolish teacher taught you these manners, Sir John?
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FALSTAFF
Master Gower, if they become me not, he was a fool that
taught them me.—This is the right fencing grace, my lord:
tap for tap, and so part fair.
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FALSTAFF
Master Gower, if my manners are inappropriate, I must have indeed been taught by a fool. That’s how the game is played—tit for tat, and game over.
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CHIEF JUSTICE
Now the Lord lighten thee. Thou art a great fool.
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CHIEF JUSTICE
God help you! You are a great fool.
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Exeunt |
They exit. |
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