Enter the King and his train, the Lord Chief-Justice among them.[4473]
Fal. God save thy grace, King Hal! my royal Hal![4474][4475]
Pist. The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal
imp of fame!
Fal. God save thee, my sweet boy![4475]
King. My lord chief-justice, speak to that vain man.45
Ch. Just. Have you your wits? know you what 'tis you speak?[4476]
Fal. My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!
King. I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester![4477]
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,[4478]50
So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane;
But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.[4479]
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men.55
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest:
Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,[4480]
That I have turn'd away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.60
When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,
The tutor and the feeder of my riots:
Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death,
As I have done the rest of my misleaders,65
Not to come near our person by ten mile.[4481]
For competence of life I will allow you,
That lack of means enforce you not to evil:[4482]
And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,[4483]
We will, according to your strengths and qualities,[4484]70
Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,[4485]
To see perform'd the tenour of our word.[4486][4487]
Set on.[4486] [Exeunt King, &c.[4488]
Fal. Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.[4489]
Shal. Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to[4490]75
let me have home with me.