_Ver._ There is more news: I learn'd in Worcester, as I rode along, 125 He cannot draw his power this fourteen days.[2930] _Doug._ That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet.[2931] _Wor._ Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound. _Hot._ What may the king's whole battle reach unto? _Ver._ To thirty thousand. _Hot._ Forty let it be: 130 My father and Glendower being both away, The powers of us may serve so great a day.[2932] Come, let us take a muster speedily:[2933] Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily. _Doug._ Talk not of dying: I am out of fear 135 Of death or death's hand for this one half-year. [_Exeunt._[2934] SCENE II. _A public road near Coventry._[2935] _Enter_ FALSTAFF _and_ BARDOLPH. _Fal._ Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a bottle of sack: our soldiers shall march through; we'll to Sutton Co'fil' to-night.[2936] _Bard._ Will you give me money, captain? _Fal._ Lay out, lay out. 5 _Bard._ This bottle makes an angel. _Fal._ An if it do, take it for thy labour; and if it[2937] make twenty, take them all; I'll answer the coinage. Bid my lieutenant Peto meet me at town's end.[2938] _Bard._ I will, captain: farewell. [_Exit._ 10 _Fal._ If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused[2939] gurnet. I have misused the king's press damnably. I have got, in exchange of a hundred and fifty soldiers, three hundred[2940] and odd pounds. I press me none but good householders,[2941] yeoman's sons; inquire me out contracted bachelors,[2941] 15 such as had been asked twice on the banns; such a[2942] commodity of warm slaves, as had as lieve hear the devil as a drum; such as fear the report of a caliver worse than a[2943] struck fowl or a hurt wild-duck. I pressed me none but[2944] such toasts-and-butter, with hearts in their bellies no bigger 20 than pins'-heads, and they have bought out their services;[2945] and now my whole charge consists of ancients, corporals, lieutenants, gentlemen of companies, slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked[2946] his sores; and such as indeed were never soldiers, but 25 discarded unjust serving-men, younger sons to younger brothers, revolted tapsters and ostlers trade-fallen, the cankers[2947] of a calm world and a long peace, ten times more[2948] dishonourable ragged than an old faced ancient: and such have I, to[2949] fill up the rooms of them that have bought out their[2950] 30 services, that you would think that I had a hundred and fifty[2951] tattered prodigals lately come from swine-keeping, from[2952]