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Act 5, Scene 4
Henry IV, Part 2 Translation Act 5, Scene 5
Enter two GROOMS, strewing rushes
FIRST GROOM
More rushes, more rushes.
FIRST GROOM
More rushes, more rushes.
SECOND GROOM
The trumpets have sounded twice.
SECOND GROOM
The trumpets have already been blown twice.
FIRST GROOM
'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the coronation. Dispatch, dispatch.
FIRST GROOM
It will be two o'clock before they get here from the coronation. Hurry up and finish. Hurry.
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Exeunt
Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and PAGE
FALSTAFF
Stand 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.
FALSTAFF
Stand here next to me, Master Robert Shallow. I will make the King give you his approval. I will look at him charmingly as he walks past us, and just wait for the face he will make back at me.
PISTOL
God bless thy lungs, good knight!
PISTOL
God bless your words, good knight!
FALSTAFF
Come here, Pistol, stand behind me. — [to SHALLOW ] O, if I had 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.
FALSTAFF
Come here, Pistol, stand behind me.
[To SHALLOW] Oh, if I had had the time to make us new uniforms, I would have used that thousand pounds I borrowed from you. But, it doesn't matter. It's better that we look poor—it shows how eager I was to see him.
SHALLOW
It doth so.
SHALLOW
Yes, it does.
FALSTAFF
It shows my earnestness of affection—
FALSTAFF
It shows him how serious my feelings are for him—
SHALLOW
It doth so.
SHALLOW
It does.
FALSTAFF
My devotion—
FALSTAFF
My devotion—
SHALLOW
It doth, it doth, it doth.
SHALLOW
It does, it does, it does.
FALSTAFF
As it were, to ride day and night, and not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to shift me—
FALSTAFF
The truth is, we rode all day and all night, not considering our plan, not thinking of stopping, not even having the time to change my shirt—
SHALLOW
It is best, certain.
SHALLOW
It will look good, that's for certain.
FALSTAFF
But to stand stained with travel and sweating with desire to see him, thinking of nothing else, putting allaffairs else in oblivion, as if there were nothing elseto be done but to see him.
FALSTAFF
We will stand there, dirty from our journey and sweating with our desire to see him. We couldn't think of anything else, all other matters were ignored, our only concern was seeing him.
PISTOL
'Tis semper idem , for obsque hoc nihil est ; ’tis all inevery part.
PISTOL
It is all the same, for there is nothing apart from this. Nothing else is important.
SHALLOW
'Tis so indeed.
SHALLOW
That's true indeed.
PISTOL
My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver, and make thee rage. Thy Doll and Helen of thy noble thoughts is in base durance and contagious prison, Haled thither by most mechanical and dirty hand. Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto’s snake, for Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.
PISTOL
My knight, I am going to stir up your noble liver, and make you angry. Your Doll, the mistress of your noble thoughts, has been imprisoned in a dirty and infected jail—hauled there by an unemotional and dirty hand. Summon up revenge from the deepest pit of your stomach, and release the snakes of hell. For Doll is in prison. Pistol only speaks the truth.
FALSTAFF
I will deliver her.
FALSTAFF
I will set her free.
Shouts within, and the trumpets sound
PISTOL
There roared the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.
PISTOL
That was the sea roaring. The blaring trumpets have sounded.
Enter PRINCE HENRY and his train, the Lord CHIEF JUSTICE among them
FALSTAFF
God save thy Grace, King Hal, my royal Hal.
FALSTAFF
God save your Grace, King Hal, my royal Hal.
PISTOL
The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!
PISTOL
May the heavens look after you, you royal child of fame!
FALSTAFF
God save thee, my sweet boy!
FALSTAFF
God save you, my sweet boy!
KING
My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man.
KING
My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that foolish man.
CHIEF JUSTICE
[to FALSTAFF] Have you your wits? Know you what ’tis to speak?
CHIEF JUSTICE
[To FALSTAFF] Are you out of your mind? Do you know what you are saying?
FALSTAFF
My King, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart!
FALSTAFF
My King, my Jupiter, I am speaking to you, my dear one!
KING
I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester. I have long dreamtof such a kind of man, So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane; But being awaked, I do despise my dream. Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; Leave gormandizing. Know the grave doth gape For thee thrice wider than for other men. Reply not to me with a fool-born jest. Presume not that I am the thing I was, For God doth know—so shall the world perceive— That I have turned away my former self. So will I those that kept me company. When thou dost hear I am as I have been, Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast, The tutor and the feeder of my riots. Till then I banish thee, on pain of death, As I have done the rest of my misleaders, Not to come near our person by ten mile. Forcompetence of life I will allow you, That lack of meansenforce you not to evils. And, as we hear you do reformyourselves, We will, according to your strengths and qualities, Give you advancement. [to CHIEF JUSTICE ] Beit your charge, my lord, To see performed the tenor of my word.— [To the attendants] Set on.
KING
I don't know you, old man. Fall to your knees and pray. White hair doesn't suit a fool and a clown like you. I have dreamed about a man like you for a long tim—ridiculously swollen, old, and so foul. But now that I am awake, I hate that dream. Lose some weight and find some manners instead; stop eating so much. You know that your grave is going to have to be three times wider than other men's. And don't reply to me with some kind of foolish joke, because I am not the man I was before. For God knows—and the whole world will soon realize—that I have left behind my previous life. And so I will also leave behind the people I knew in that life. If you ever hear that I have gone back to my old ways, then come and find me. You will be like you were before—my teacher and the inspiration of my rebellious ways. But until then, I banish you, on pain of death, and you must not come within ten miles of me—this is the same warning I have given to the other men who have misled me. I will give you just enough money to live on, so that you won't be tempted to do bad things. And, if we hear that you have changed your ways, we will give you the honors that your strengths and qualities deserve.
[To CHIEF JUSTICE] It is up to you to make sure that this order is carried out.
[To the attendants] Let's go.
Exeunt PRINCE HENRY, the CHIEF JUSTICE, and the attendants.
FALSTAFF
Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.
FALSTAFF
Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pounds.
SHALLOW
Yea, marry, Sir John, which I beseech you to let me have home with me.
SHALLOW
Yes, indeed, Sir John. And I would like to take the money home with me.
FALSTAFF
That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you grieve at this. I shall be sent for in private to him. Look you, he must seem thus to the world. Fear not your advancements. I will be the man yet that shall make you great.
FALSTAFF
You can't do that, Master Shallow. Don't worry about this. He will want to talk to me in private—this is just how he has to act in front of everyone else. Don't worry about your own future, I will still be the man who will make you great.
SHALLOW
I cannot well perceive how, unless you should give me your doublet and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you,good Sir John, let me have five hundred of my thousand.
SHALLOW
I don't know how you plan on doing that, unless you let me wear your jacket and stuff it full of straw. Please, good Sir John, can I just have five pounds out of that thousand?
FALSTAFF
Sir, I will be as good as my word. This that you heard was but a color.
FALSTAFF
Sir, I will be as good as my word. Everything you just heard is simply a color, just a pretense.
SHALLOW
A color that I fear you will die in, Sir John.
SHALLOW
A collar that I am scared will kill you, Sir John.
FALSTAFF
Fear no colors. Go with me to dinner.—Come, Lieutenant Pistol.—Come, Bardolph.—I shall be sent for soon at night.
FALSTAFF
Don't be afraid of any collars. Come on, let's go and have lunch. Come on, Lieutenant Pistol. Come on, Bardolph. He will send for me soon in the evening.
Enter the Lord CHIEF JUSTICE and Prince John of LANCASTER; officers with them
CHIEF JUSTICE
Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet. Take all his company along with him.
CHIEF JUSTICE
Go on, take Sir John Falstaff to prison and take all of his friends with him as well.
FALSTAFF
My lord, my lord—
FALSTAFF
My lord, my lord—
CHIEF JUSTICE
I cannot now speak. I will hear you soon.— Take them away.
CHIEF JUSTICE
I can't speak to you now. I will hear what you have to say soon enough. Take them away.
PISTOL
Si fortune me tormenta, spero me contenta.
PISTOL
If my fortunes torment me, then hope contents me.
Exeunt all but Prince John of LANCASTER andthe CHIEF JUSTICE
LANCASTER
I like this fair proceeding of the King’s. He hath intent his wonted followers Shall all be very well provided for, But all are banished till their conversations Appear more wise and modest to the world.
LANCASTER
I like how the King has handled this situation. He has made sure that his old followers will be looked after and provided for, but he has banished them until they can act with the intelligence and modesty they need to have in this world.
CHIEF JUSTICE
And so they are.
CHIEF JUSTICE
That he has.
LANCASTER
The King hath called his parliament, my lord.
LANCASTER
The King has assembled his parliament, my lord.
CHIEF JUSTICE
He hath.
CHIEF JUSTICE
He has.
LANCASTER
I will lay odds that, ere this year expire, We bear ourcivil swords and native fire As far as France: I beard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased theKing. Come, will you hence?
LANCASTER
I bet that before this year is over, we will have tried to invade France. I heard a bird singing about it, and I noticed that the King liked hearing that song. Come on, will you go with me?
Exeunt
