As Florio's Second Fruites is not easily accessible to the general reader, a few extracts may serve to exhibit the characteristic resemblances to Shakespeare's delineation of Falstaff.
The twelve chapters of the work are headed as follows:
The first chapter, "Of rising in the morning and of things belonging to the chamber and to apparel."
The second, "For common speech in the morning between friends; wherein is described a set of tennis."
The third, "Of familiar morning communication; wherein many courtesies are handled, and the manner of visiting and saluting the sick, and of riding, with all that belongeth to a horse."
The fourth chapter, "Wherein is set down a dinner for six persons, between whom there fall many pleasant discourses concerning meat and repast."
The fifth, "Wherein discourse is held of play and many things thereto appertaining, a game of primero and of chess."
The sixth chapter, "Concerning many familiar and ceremonious compliments among six gentlemen who talk of many pleasant matters, but especially of divers necessary, profitable, civil, and proverbial receipts for a traveller."
The seventh, "Between two gentlemen who talk of arms, and of the art of fencing, and of buying and selling."
The eighth chapter, "Between James, and Lippa, his man, wherein they talk of many pleasant and delightsome jests, and in it is described an unpleasant lodging, an illformed old woman, also the beautiful parts that a woman ought to have to be accounted fair in all perfection, and pleasantly blazoned a counterfeit lazy and naught-worth servant."