LANCASTER Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?
PRINCE HENRY I did; I saw him dead, Art thou alive? thou art not what thou seem'st.
FALSTAFF No, that's certain; I am not a double man: but if I be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy: if your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can assure you.
PRINCE HENRY Why, Percy I killed myself and saw thee dead.
FALSTAFF Didst thou? Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he: but we rose both at an instant and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be believed, so; if not, let them that should reward valour bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the thigh: if the man were alive and would deny it, 'zounds, I would make him eat a piece of my sword.
LANCASTER This is the strangest tale that ever I heard.
PRINCE HENRY This is the strangest fellow, brother John. Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back: For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field, To see what friends are living, who are dead Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field, To see what friends are living, who are dead