Henry IV - Part 2 by William Shakespeare
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Bar. Well, my good Lord: he heard of your Graces
comming to Towne. There's a Letter for you Poin. Deliuer'd with good respect: And how doth the Martlemas, your Master? Bard. In bodily health Sir Poin. Marry, the immortall part needes a Physitian: but that moues not him: though that bee sicke, it dyes not Prince. I do allow this Wen to bee as familiar with me, as my dogge: and he holds his place, for looke you he writes Poin. Letter. Iohn Falstaffe Knight: (Euery man must know that, as oft as hee hath occasion to name himselfe:) Euen like those that are kinne to the King, for they neuer pricke their finger, but they say, there is som of the kings blood spilt. How comes that (sayes he) that takes vpon him not to conceiue? the answer is as ready as a borrowed cap: I am the Kings poore Cosin, Sir Prince. Nay, they will be kin to vs, but they wil fetch it from Iaphet. But to the Letter: - Sir Iohn Falstaffe, Knight, to the Sonne of the King, neerest his Father, Harrie |
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