_West._ This is his uncle's teaching: this is Worcester, Malevolent to you in all aspects; Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up[2017] The crest of youth against your dignity.
_King._ But I have sent for him to answer this; 100 And for this cause awhile we must neglect Our holy purpose to Jerusalem. Cousin, on Wednesday next our council we[2018] Will hold at Windsor; so inform the lords:[2018][2019] But come yourself with speed to us again; 105 For more is to be said and to be done[2020] Than out of anger can be uttered.
SCENE II. _London. An apartment of the Prince's._
_Enter the_ PRINCE of WALES _and_ FALSTAFF.[2021]
_Fal._ Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?
_Prince._ Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old[2022] sack and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand[2023] that truly which thou wouldst truly know. What a devil 5 hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so[2024] 10 superfluous to demand the time of the day.
_Fal._ Indeed, you come near me now, Hal; for we that[2025] take purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and not[2026] by Phœbus, he, 'that wandering knight so fair.' And, I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art king, as, God save[2027] 15 thy grace,--majesty I should say, for grace thou wilt have none,--
_Fal._ No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to[2028] be prologue to an egg and butter. 20
_Prince._ Well, how then? come, roundly, roundly.
_Fal._ Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night's body be called thieves of the day's beauty: let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen[2029] of the shade, minions of the moon; and let men say we 25 be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.[2030]
_Prince._ Thou sayest well, and it holds well too; for the fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and 30 flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon. As, for proof, now: a purse of gold most resolutely[2031] snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with swearing 'Lay by' and spent[2032] with crying 'Bring in;' now in as low an ebb as the foot of 35 the ladder and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of[2033] the gallows.