Reading The Second Part of the Henry the Fourth, Contaning his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift

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Falst.

Fare you well, gentle Gentlemen. On Bar

dolph, leade the men away. As I returne, I will fetch off

these Iustices: I doe see the bottome of Iustice Shal

low. How subiect wee old men are to this vice of Ly

ing? This same staru'd Iustice hath done nothing but

prate to me of the wildenesse of his Youth, and the

Feates hee hath done about Turnball‑street, and euery

third word a Lye, duer pay'd to the hearer, then the

Turkes Tribute. I doe remember him at Clements Inne,

like a man made after Supper, of a Cheese‑paring. When

hee was naked, hee was, for all the world, like a forked

Radish, with a Head fantastically caru'd vpon it with a

Knife. Hee was so forlorne, that his Dimensions (to

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