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Enter two GROOMS, strewing rushes
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GROOMSgroom = an officer in the royal household GROOMS enter, strewing rushes to cover the floors. |
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FIRST GROOM More rushes, more rushes.
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FIRST GROOM More rushes; more rushes.
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SECOND GROOM The trumpets have sounded twice.
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SECOND GROOM The trumpets have blown twice.
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FIRST GROOM 'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the coronation.
Dispatch, dispatch.
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FIRST GROOM It’ll be two o'clock before they arrive from the coronation. Hurry, hurry.
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Exeunt
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They exit.
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Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and PAGE
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FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and the PAGE enter.
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FALSTAFF
5Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow. I will make the
King do you grace. I will leer upon him as he comes by, and
do but mark the countenance that he will give me.
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FALSTAFF Stand here near me, Master Robert Shallow. I’ll make the King do good things for you: I’ll throw him a look as he passes by. Just watch the face he’ll make at me.
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PISTOL God bless thy lungs, good knight!
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PISTOL God bless your lungs, good knight.
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FALSTAFF Come here, Pistol, stand behind me.—(to SHALLOW) O, if I
10had had time to have made new liveries, I would have
bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But ’tis no
matter. This poor show doth better. This doth infer the zeal
I had to see him.
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FALSTAFF Come here, Pistol. Stand behind me. (to SHALLOW) Oh, if I’d had time to make new clothes I would have spent the thousand pounds I borrowed from you. But it doesn’t matter. These poor clothes are better; it shows how desperate I was to see him.
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SHALLOW It doth so.
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SHALLOW It does indeed.
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FALSTAFF
15It shows my earnestness of affection—
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FALSTAFF It shows how sincerely I love him—
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SHALLOW It doth so.
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SHALLOW It does indeed.
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FALSTAFF My devotion—
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FALSTAFF My devotion—
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