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1

Henry IV, Part II
[II, 4]

Falstaff

1517

A good shallow young fellow. 'A would have made a
pantler; 'a would ha' chipp'd bread well.

2

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

(stage directions)

1817

Enter SHALLOW and SILENCE, meeting; MOULDY, SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, BULLCALF, and servants behind

3

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Silence

1823

Good morrow, good cousin Shallow.

4

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Silence

1827

Alas, a black ousel, cousin Shallow!

5

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Robert Shallow

1832

'A must, then, to the Inns o' Court shortly. I was
Clement's Inn; where I think they will talk of mad Shallow

6

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Bardolph

1887

I beseech you, which is Justice Shallow?

7

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Robert Shallow

1888

I am Robert Shallow, sir, a poor esquire of this
and one of the King's justices of the peace. What is your
pleasure with me?

8

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Falstaff

2011

Well said, good woman's tailor! well said, courageous
Feeble! Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove or most
magnanimous mouse. Prick the woman's tailor—well, Master
Shallow, deep, Master Shallow.

9

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Falstaff

2045

Come, I will go drink with you, but I cannot tarry
dinner. I am glad to see you, by my troth, Master Shallow.

10

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Falstaff

2050

No more of that, Master Shallow, no more of that.

11

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Falstaff

2052

She lives, Master Shallow.

12

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Falstaff

2054

Never, never; she would always say she could not
Master Shallow.

13

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Falstaff

2060

Old, old, Master Shallow.

14

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Falstaff

2068

We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.

15

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Falstaff

2121

Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how to choose a
Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big
assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit, Master Shallow.
Wart; you see what a ragged appearance it is. 'A shall charge
and discharge you with the motion of a pewterer's hammer,
off and on swifter than he that gibbets on the brewer's
And this same half-fac'd fellow, Shadow—give me this man. He
presents no mark to the enemy; the foeman may with as great
level at the edge of a penknife. And, for a retreat—how
will this Feeble, the woman's tailor, run off! O, give me the
spare men, and spare me the great ones. Put me a caliver into
Wart's hand, Bardolph.

16

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Falstaff

2158

These fellows will do well. Master Shallow, God keep
Master Silence, I will not use many words with you: Fare you
well! Gentlemen both, I thank you. I must a dozen mile
Bardolph, give the soldiers coats.

17

Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Falstaff

2172

Fare you well, gentle gentlemen. [Exeunt JUSTICES] On,
Bardolph; lead the men away. [Exeunt all but FALSTAFF] As I
return, I will fetch off these justices. I do see the bottom of
justice Shallow. Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this
vice of lying! This same starv'd justice hath done nothing but
prate to me of the wildness of his youth and the feats he hath
done about Turnbull Street; and every third word a lie, duer paid
to the hearer than the Turk's tribute. I do remember him at
Clement's Inn, like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring.
When 'a was naked, he was for all the world like a fork'd radish,
with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife. 'A was so
forlorn that his dimensions to any thick sight were invisible. 'A
was the very genius of famine; yet lecherous as a monkey, and the
whores call'd him mandrake. 'A came ever in the rearward of the
fashion, and sung those tunes to the overscutch'd huswifes that
he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his fancies or
his good-nights. And now is this Vice's dagger become a squire,
and talks as familiarly of John a Gaunt as if he had been sworn
brother to him; and I'll be sworn 'a ne'er saw him but once in
the Tiltyard; and then he burst his head for crowding among the
marshal's men. I saw it, and told John a Gaunt he beat his own
name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an
eel-skin; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a
court—and now has he land and beeves. Well, I'll be acquainted
with him if I return; and 't shall go hard but I'll make him a
philosopher's two stones to me. If the young dace be a bait for
the old pike, I see no reason in the law of nature but I may snap
at him. Let time shape, and there an end. Exit

18

Henry IV, Part II
[IV, 2]

Prince John

2493

YOU are too shallow, Hastings, much to shallow,
To sound the bottom of the after-times.

19

Henry IV, Part II
[IV, 3]

Falstaff

2739

Let them go. I'll through Gloucestershire, and there
I visit Master Robert Shallow, Esquire. I have him already
temp'ring between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I
with him. Come away. Exeunt

20

Henry IV, Part II
[V, 1]

(stage directions)

3139

Enter SHALLOW, FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, and PAGE