] To engage and to pawn
were in our author's time synonymous.]

[Footnote I.10: _----gloze_] Expound, explain.]

[Footnote I.11: _----+imbare+ their crooked titles_] i.e., to lay
open, to display to view.]

[Footnote I.12: In allusion to the battle of Crecy, fought 25th
August, 1346.]

[Footnote I.13: _So hath your highness;_] i.e., your highness hath
indeed what they think and know you have.]

[Footnote I.14: _They of those +marches+,_] The _marches_ are the
borders, the confines. Hence the _Lords Marchers_, i.e., the lords
presidents of the _marches_, &c.]

[Footnote I.15: _----in few._] i.e., in short, brief.]

[Footnote I.16: _----a nimble +galliard+ won;_] A _galliard_ was
an ancient dance. The word is now obsolete.]

SCENE II.--EASTCHEAP, LONDON.

_Enter BARDOLPH,(I) NYM, PISTOL, MRS. QUICKLY, and BOY, L.2 E._

_Quick._ (L.C.) Pr'ythee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to
Staines.[17]

_Pist._ (C.) No; for my manly heart doth yearn.--
Bardolph, be blithe;--Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins;
Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,
And we must yearn therefore.

_Bard._ (R.) 'Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is!

_Quick._ (C.) Sure, he's in Arthur's bosom,[18] if ever man went to
Arthur's bosom. 'A made a finer end,[19] and went away, an it had been
any christom child;[20] 'a parted even just between twelve and one, e'en
at turning o' the tide:[21] for after I saw him fumble with the
sheets,[22] and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends,
I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a'
babbled of green fields. How now, Sir John! quoth I: what, man! be of
good cheer. So a' cried out--Heaven, Heaven, Heaven! three or four
times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him 'a should not think of Heaven;
I hoped, there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts
yet. So 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the
bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone.

_Nym._ (R.C.) They say he cried out of sack.

_Quick._ Ay, that 'a did.

_Bard._ And of women.

_Quick._ Nay, that 'a did not.

_Boy._ (L.) Yes, that 'a did, and said they were devils incarnate.

_Quick._ (_crosses L.C._) 'A could never abide carnation;[23] 'twas a
colour he never liked.

_Boy._ Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea stick upon Bardolph's nose,
and 'a said it was a black so