PRINCE.
Well then, once in my days I’ll be a madcap.
FALSTAFF.
Why, that’s well said.
PRINCE.
Well, come what will, I’ll tarry at home.
FALSTAFF.
By the Lord, I’ll be a traitor then, when thou art king.
PRINCE.
I care not.
POINS.
Sir John, I prithee, leave the Prince and me alone. I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure, that he shall go.
FALSTAFF.
Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion, and him the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may move, and what he hears may be believed, that the true prince may, for recreation sake, prove a false thief, for the poor abuses of the time want countenance. Farewell, you shall find me in Eastcheap.
PRINCE.
Farewell, thou latter spring! Farewell, All-hallown summer!
[Exit Falstaff.]
POINS.
Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us tomorrow. I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid. Yourself and I will not be there. And when they have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut this head off from my shoulders.