PLATE LVIII.

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Henry

                             Act If. Scene IV

                  THE BOAR'S-HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP.


       PRINCE HENRY, FALSTAFF~ GADSHILL, BARD OLPH, PETO,
                          HOSTESS, POINS, &'c.


 Fcds/aff -Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but
also how
thou art accompanied: for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on
the faster
it grows, yet youth, the more it is xvasted the sooner it wears.  That thou
art my son,
I have partly thy mother's word, partly my own opinion, but chiefly a villanous
trick
of thine eye and a foolish hanging of thy nether lip, that doth warrant me.
  If then
thou be son to me, here lies the point; why, being son to me, art thou so
pointed at?
Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries? a question
not
to be asked.  Shall the son of England prove a thief and take purses? a question
to be
asked.  There is a thing, Harry, which thou hast often heard of and it is
known to
many in our land by the name of pitch: this pitch, as ancient writers do
report, doth
defile  so doth the company thou keepest: for, Harry, now I do not speak
to thee in
drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but
in woes also:
and yet there is a virtuous man whom I have often noted in thy company, but
I
know not his name.
  Prz)ice Hciiry.-XVhat manner of man, an it like your majesty?
  Falstaff-A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful
look, a
pleasing eye and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty,
or, by'r
lady, inclining to three score; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff
if that
man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry, I see virtue in
his looks.
 If then the tree may be known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then,
peremptorily
 I speak it, there is virtue in that Falstaff: him keep with, the rest banish.


                       Pain/ed by ROBERT SMIRKE, R. A.

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