No Fear Shakespeare: Henry IV Part 2: Act 5, scene v

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Enter two GROOMS, strewing rushes

Two GROOMS enter, strewing rushes to cover the floors.

	FIRST GROOM
	More rushes, more rushes.

FIRST GROOM

More rushes; more rushes.

	SECOND GROOM
	The trumpets have sounded twice.

SECOND GROOM

The trumpets have blown twice.

	FIRST GROOM
	'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the coronation.
	Dispatch, dispatch.

FIRST GROOM

It'll be two o'clock before they arrive from the coronation. Hurry, hurry.

Exeunt

They exit.

Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and PAGE

FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and the PAGE enter.

	FALSTAFF
5	Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow. I will make the
	King do you grace. I will leer upon him as he comes by, and
	do but mark the countenance that he will give me.

FALSTAFF

Stand here near me, Master Robert Shallow. I'll make the King do good things for you: I'll throw him a look as he passes by. Just watch the face he'll make at me.

	PISTOL
	God bless thy lungs, good knight!

PISTOL

God bless your lungs, good knight.

	FALSTAFF
	Come here, Pistol, stand behind me.—(to SHALLOW) O, if I
10	had had time to have made new liveries, I would have
	bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But 'tis no
	matter. This poor show doth better. This doth infer the zeal
	I had to see him.

FALSTAFF

Come here, Pistol. Stand behind me. (to SHALLOW) Oh, if I'd had time to make new clothes I would have spent the thousand pounds I borrowed from you. But it doesn't matter. These poor clothes are better; it shows how desperate I was to see him.

	SHALLOW
	It doth so.

SHALLOW

It does indeed.

	FALSTAFF
15	It shows my earnestness of affection—

FALSTAFF

It shows how sincerely I love him—

	SHALLOW
	It doth so.

SHALLOW

It does indeed.

	FALSTAFF
	My devotion—

FALSTAFF

My devotion—


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