SCENE V. A public place near Westminster Abbey.

Enter two Grooms, strewing rushes

FIRST GROOM
More rushes, more rushes.

SECOND GROOM
The trumpets have sounded twice.

FIRST GROOM
'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the
coronation: dispatch, dispatch.

Exeunt

Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and Page

FALSTAFF
Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow; I will
make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him as
a' comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he
will give me.

PISTOL
God bless thy lungs, good knight.