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.

I would you had but the wit: 'twere better

then your Dukedome. Good faith, this same young so

ber‑blooded Boy doth nor loue me, nor a man cannot

make him laugh: but that's no maruaile, hee drinkes no

Wine. There's neuer any of these demure Boyes come

to any proofe: for thinne Drinke doth so ouer‑coole

their blood, and making many Fish‑Meales, that they

fall into a kinde of Male Greene‑sicknesse: and then,

when they marry, they get Wenches. They are generally

Fooles, and Cowards; which some of vs should be too,

but for inflamation. A good Sherris‑Sack hath a two

fold operation in it: it ascends me into the Braine, dryes

me there all the foolish, and dull, and cruddie Vapours,

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