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20 W I T. Ch. XIII.
Lancafter. Fare yon well, Falstaff; I, in my condi-
tion ,
Shall better speak of you than you deserve. (Exit.
Faljlaff. I would you had but the wit; ’twere better
tha»i your dukedom. Good faith, this same young
sober-blodded boy doth not love, me; nor a man can-
not make him laugh; but that’s no marvel, he drinks
no wine. There’s never any of these demure boys
come to any proof; for thin drink -doth so overcool
their blood, and making many fissr-meals, that they
sall into a kind os male green-sickness : and then,
when they marry, they get wenches. They are gene-
rally fools and cowards; which some of us fliould be
too, but for inflammation. A good sherris-sacl hath
a twofold operation in it: it ascends me into the
brain; dries me there all the foolish, dull, and crudy
vapours which environ it ; makes it apprehensive ,
quick, forgetive, full of nimble , fiery and delectable
shapes ; which deliver’d o’er to the voice, the tongue,
which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The second
property of your excellent sherris is, the warming of
the blood ; which before cold andsettled, left the li-
ver white and pale ; which is the badge ofpusnlanimity
and cowardice: but the sherris warms it, and makes it
course from the inwards to the parts extreme ; it illu-
minateth the face, which, as a beacon, gives warning
to all the rest of this little kingdom , man, to arm ,
and then the vital commoners and inland petty spirits
muller me all to their captain , the heart; who, great,
and puss’d up with this retinue, doth any deed of cou-
rage : and thus valour comes os sherris. So that skill
in the weapon is nothing without sack , forthat sets it
a-work; and learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a
Lancafter. Fare yon well, Falstaff; I, in my condi-
tion ,
Shall better speak of you than you deserve. (Exit.
Faljlaff. I would you had but the wit; ’twere better
tha»i your dukedom. Good faith, this same young
sober-blodded boy doth not love, me; nor a man can-
not make him laugh; but that’s no marvel, he drinks
no wine. There’s never any of these demure boys
come to any proof; for thin drink -doth so overcool
their blood, and making many fissr-meals, that they
sall into a kind os male green-sickness : and then,
when they marry, they get wenches. They are gene-
rally fools and cowards; which some of us fliould be
too, but for inflammation. A good sherris-sacl hath
a twofold operation in it: it ascends me into the
brain; dries me there all the foolish, dull, and crudy
vapours which environ it ; makes it apprehensive ,
quick, forgetive, full of nimble , fiery and delectable
shapes ; which deliver’d o’er to the voice, the tongue,
which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The second
property of your excellent sherris is, the warming of
the blood ; which before cold andsettled, left the li-
ver white and pale ; which is the badge ofpusnlanimity
and cowardice: but the sherris warms it, and makes it
course from the inwards to the parts extreme ; it illu-
minateth the face, which, as a beacon, gives warning
to all the rest of this little kingdom , man, to arm ,
and then the vital commoners and inland petty spirits
muller me all to their captain , the heart; who, great,
and puss’d up with this retinue, doth any deed of cou-
rage : and thus valour comes os sherris. So that skill
in the weapon is nothing without sack , forthat sets it
a-work; and learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a