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Exeunt.

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Enter Falstaff, Host, Bardolph, Nym, Pistol, [Robin, Falstaff’s] page.

Fal. Mine host of the Garter!

Host. What says my bully-rook? Speak scholarly and wisely.

Fal. Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my followers.

Host. Discard, bully Hercules, cashier; let them wag; trot, trot.

Fal. I sit at ten pounds a week.

Host. Thou’rt an emperor—Caesar, Keiser, and Pheazar. I will entertain Bardolph; he shall draw, he shall tap. Said I well, bully Hector?

Fal. Do so, good mine host.

Host. I have spoke; let him follow. [To Bardolph.] Let me see thee froth and [lime]. I am at a word; follow.

[Exit.]

Fal. Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade. An old cloak makes a new jerkin; a wither’d servingman a fresh tapster. Go, adieu.

Bard. It is a life that I have desir’d. I will thrive.

Pist. O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?

[Exit Bardolph.]

Nym. He was gotten in drink. Is not the humor conceited?

Fal. I am glad I am so acquit of this tinderbox; his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskillful singer, he kept not time.