N. Shall I teach you a good medicine?
H. My mother, of happy memorie, was wont to tell me that a pill of wheat, of a hen the days work sweat, and some vine juice that were neat was best physick I could eat.
M. Your mother was a woman worthy to govern a kingdom.
S. My masters, you see here the period of this poor dinner; the best dish you have had hath been your welcome.
H. As that hath fed our minds so have the others fed our bodies well.
S. It grieves me that you have been put to such penance, but yet I hope you will excuse me.
C. If doing such penance a man might win heaven, O sweet penance for a man to do every day."
Portions of the sixth chapter, with its talk of divers necessary prophetic and proverbial precepts for a traveller, evidently supplied Shakespeare with the hint for Scene iv. Act II. of the First Part of Henry IV., between Falstaff and Prince Hal, wherein Falstaff personates the prince's father.