"Medicines To Make Me Love Him"
Context: Prince Hal, heir to the throne, and Poins, his low companion, set out to frustrate their friends Falstaff, Gadshill, Bardolph, and Peto, who plan to rob a traveling group. Pretending to take part in the robbery, Poins, with Hal's knowledge, hides the rotund Falstaff's horse. Falstaff, unaccustomed to walking, rages at his supposed brother in banditry:
FALSTAFF
. . . If I travel but four foot by the squier further afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt not but to die a fair death for all this, if I 'scape hanging for killing that rogue. I have forsworn his company hourly any time this two and twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. It could not be else; I have drunk medicines. Poins, Hal, a plague upon you both!
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