that man should be
lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for, Henry, I see virtue in his
looks. If, then, the tree may be known by the fruit, as the fruit by
the tree, then, peremptorily I speak it, there is virtue in that
Falstaff. Him keep with; the rest banish.

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"_P. Hen._ Swearest thou, ungracious boy? Henceforth ne'er look on
me. Thou art violently carried away from grace. There is a devil
haunts thee, in the likeness of a fat old man; a tun of man is thy
companion. Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that
bolting hutch of beastliness, that swoln parcel of dropsies, that
huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted
Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice,
that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?
Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and drink it? Wherein neat and
cleanly, but to carve a capon and eat it? Wherein cunning, but in
his craft? Wherein crafty, but in villany? Wherein villanous, but in
all things? Wherein worthy, but in nothing?

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"_Fal._ But to say I know more harm in him than in myself were to
say more than I know. That he is old (the more the pity!), his white
hairs do witness it; but that he is (saving your reverence) a
whore-master, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God
help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old
host that I know is damned. If to be fat be to be hated, then
Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord! Banish Peto,
banish Bardolph, banish Poins; but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind
Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and
therefore more valiant, being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff--banish
not him thy Harry's company; banish not him thy Harry's company!
Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world!"

"In Love Lane," says worthy Strype, "on the north-west corner, entering
into Little Eastcheap, is the Weigh-house, built on the ground where the
church of St. Andrew Hubbard stood before the fire of 1666. Which said
Weigh-house was before in Cornhill. In this house are weighed
merchandizes brought from beyond seas to the king's beam, to which doth
belong a master, and under him four master porters, with labouring
porters under them. They have carts and