The Plays of Shakspeare Author:Samuel Johnson, William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity. K. Hen. But I have sent for him to answer this ; And, for this cause, ... more »awhile we must neglect Our holy purpose to Jerusalem. Cousin, on Wednesday next our council we Will hold at Windsor,—so inform the lords : But come yourself with speed to us again ; For more is to be said and to be done Than out of anger can be uttere'd. West. I will, my liege. [Exeunt. Scene IL—London. Before a Tavern. Enter Pkince Henky and Falstaff. FdL Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad ? P. Hen. Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know. What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day 1 unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping- houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta,—I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day. Fal. Indeed, you come near me now, Hal; for we, that take purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and not by Phoebus,—he, ' that wandering knight so fair.' And, I pr'ythee, sweet wag, when thou art king,—-as, God save thy grace —majesty, I should say, for grace thou wilt have none,— P. Hen. What, none? Fal. No, by my troth,—not so much as will serve to be prologue, to an egg and butter. P. Hen. Well, how then? come roundly, roundly. Fal. Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night's body be called thieves of the day's beaut)' : let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon ; and let men say we b...« less