KING HENRY.
A friend.
PISTOL.
Discuss unto me; art thou officer?
Or art thou base, common, and popular?
KING HENRY.
I am a gentleman of a company.
PISTOL.
Trail’st thou the puissant pike?
KING HENRY.
Even so. What are you?
PISTOL.
As good a gentleman as the Emperor.
KING HENRY.
Then you are a better than the King.
PISTOL.
The King’s a bawcock, and a heart of gold,
A lad of life, an imp of fame;
Of parents good, of fist most valiant.
I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string
I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?
KING HENRY.
Harry le Roy.
PISTOL.
Le Roy! a Cornish name. Art thou of Cornish crew?