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                <title>The Merry Wives of Windsor</title>
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                        <title>The Globe Shakespeare</title>
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                            <pubPlace>New York</pubPlace>
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            <head>DRAMATIS PERSON&AElig;</head>
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                <castItem type="role"><role id="fal.">SIR JOHN FALSTAFF</role></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="fent.">FENTON</role><roleDesc>a gentleman</roleDesc></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="shal.">SHALLOW</role><roleDesc>a country justice</roleDesc></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="slen.">SLENDER</role><roleDesc>cousin to Shallow</roleDesc></castItem>
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                    <lb/><head rend="braced"> two gentlemen dwelling at Windsor.</head>
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                    <castItem type="role"><role id="page.">PAGE</role></castItem>
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                <castItem type="role"><role id="will.">WILLIAM PAGE</role><roleDesc>a boy; a son to Page</roleDesc></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="evans.">SIR HUGH EVANS</role><roleDesc>a Welsh parson</roleDesc></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="caius.">DOCTOR CAIUS</role><roleDesc>a French physician</roleDesc></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="host.">Host</role><roleDesc>of the Garter Inn</roleDesc></castItem>
                <castGroup>
                    <lb/><head rend="braced"> sharpers attending on Falstaff.</head>
                    <castItem type="role"><role id="bard.">BARDOLPH</role></castItem>
                    <castItem type="role"><role id="pist.">PISTOL</role></castItem>
                    <castItem type="role"><role id="nym.">NYM</role></castItem>
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                <castItem type="role"><role id="rob.">ROBIN</role><roleDesc>page to Falstaff</roleDesc></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="sim.">SIMPLE</role><roleDesc>servant to Slender</roleDesc></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="rug.">RUGBY</role><roleDesc>servant to Doctor Caius</roleDesc></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="mrs.-ford.">MISTRESS FORD</role></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="mrs.-page.">MISTRESS PAGE</role></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="anne.">ANNE PAGE</role><roleDesc>her daughter</roleDesc></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="quick.">MISTRESS QUICKLY</role><roleDesc>servant to Doctor Caius</roleDesc></castItem>
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                <castItem type="role"><role id="sec.-serv.">Second Servant</role></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="serv.">Servant</role></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><role id="all.">All</role></castItem>
                <castItem type="role"><roleDesc>Servants to Page, Ford, &amp;c</roleDesc></castItem>
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<div1 type="act" n="1">
    <head>ACT I</head><lb ed="F1" n="2"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Windsor. Before PAGE'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="3"/><stage type="entrance">Enter JUSTICE SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="4"/>
<lb ed="F1" n="5"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="6"/><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will
<lb ed="G"/>make a <lb ed="F1" n="7"/>Star-chamber matter of it: if he were
<lb ed="G"/>twenty Sir <lb ed="F1" n="8"/>John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse
<lb ed="G"/>Robert Shallow, <lb ed="F1" n="9"/>esquire.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="10"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>In the county of Gloucester, justice
<lb ed="G"/>of peace and 'Coram.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="11"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Ay, cousin Slender, and 'Custalorum.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="12"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Ay, and 'Rato-lorum' too; and a
<lb ed="G"/>gentleman born, <lb ed="F1" n="13"/>master parson; who writes
<lb ed="G"/>himself 'Armigero,' in any <lb ed="F1" n="14"/>bill, warrant, quittance,
<lb ed="G" n="11"/>or obligation, 'Armigero.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="15"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Ay, that I do; and have done any
<lb ed="G"/>time these three <lb ed="F1" n="16"/>hundred years.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="17"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>All his successors gone before him
<lb ed="G"/>hath done't; <lb ed="F1" n="18"/>and all his ancestors that come
<lb ed="G"/>after him may: they <lb ed="F1" n="19"/>may give the dozen white
<lb ed="G"/>luces in their coat.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="20"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>It is an old coat.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="21"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>The dozen white louses do become
<lb ed="G"/>an old <lb ed="F1" n="22"/>coat well; it agrees well, passant; it is
<lb ed="G" n="21"/>a familiar beast to <lb ed="F1" n="23"/>man, and signifies love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="24"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>The luce is the fresh fish; the salt
<lb ed="G"/>fish is an old <lb ed="F1" n="25"/>coat.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="26"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I may quarter, coz.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="27"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>You may, by marrying.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="28"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>It is marring indeed, if he quarter it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="29"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Not a whit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="30"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Yes, py'r lady; if he has a quarter
<lb ed="G"/>of your coat, <lb ed="F1" n="31"/>there is but three skirts for yourself,
<lb ed="G"/>in my simple conjectures: <lb ed="F1" n="32"/>but that is all
<lb ed="G"/>one. If Sir John Falstaff have <lb ed="F1" n="33"/>committed disparagements
<lb ed="G"/>unto you, I am of the church,
<lb ed="F1" n="34"/><lb ed="G"/>and will be glad to do my benevolence to make
<lb ed="G"/>atonements <lb ed="F1" n="35"/>and compremises between you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="36"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>The council shall hear it; it is a riot.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="37"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>It is not meet the council hear a
<lb ed="G"/>riot; there <lb ed="F1" n="38"/>is no fear of Got in a riot: the
<lb ed="G"/>council, look you, <lb ed="F1" n="39"/>shall desire to hear the fear
<lb ed="G"/>of Got, and not to hear a <lb ed="F1" n="40"/>riot; take your vizaments
<lb ed="G"/>in that.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="41"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Ha! o' my life, if I were young again,
<lb ed="G" n="41"/>the sword <lb ed="F1" n="42"/>should end it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="43"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>It is petter that friends is the sword,
<lb ed="G"/>and end <lb ed="F1" n="44"/>it: and there is also another device
<lb ed="G"/>in my prain, which <lb ed="F1" n="45"/>peradventure prings goot
<lb ed="G"/>discretions with it: there is <lb ed="F1" n="46"/>Anne Page, which
<lb ed="G"/>is daughter to Master Thomas Page, <lb ed="F1" n="47"/>which is
<lb ed="G"/>pretty virginity.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="48"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Mistress Anne Page? She has brown
<lb ed="G"/>hair, and <lb ed="F1" n="49"/>speaks small like a woman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="50"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>It is that fery person for all the
<lb ed="G"/>orld, as just as <lb ed="F1" n="51"/>you will desire; and seven hundred
<lb ed="G"/>pounds of moneys, <lb ed="F1" n="52"/>and gold and silver,
<lb ed="G"/>is her grandsire upon his death's-bed <lb ed="F1" n="53"/>--Got
<lb ed="G"/>deliver to a joyful resurrections!--give, when
<lb ed="F1" n="54"/><lb ed="G"/>she is able to overtake seventeen years old:
<lb ed="G"/>it were a <lb ed="F1" n="55"/>goot motion if we leave our pribbles
<lb ed="G"/>and prabbles, and <lb ed="F1" n="56"/>desire a marriage between
<lb ed="G"/>Master Abraham and Mistress <lb ed="F1" n="57"/>Anne Page.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="58"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Did her grandsire leave her seven
<lb ed="G" n="60"/>hundred <lb ed="F1" n="59"/>pound?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="60"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Ay, and her father is make her a
<lb ed="G"/>petter penny.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="61"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I know the young gentlewoman; she
<lb ed="G"/>has good <lb ed="F1" n="62"/>gifts.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="63"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Seven hundred pounds and possibilities
<lb ed="G"/>is <lb ed="F1" n="64"/>goot gifts.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="65"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Well, let us see honest Master Page.
<lb ed="G"/>Is Falstaff there?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="66"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Shall I tell you a lie?   I do despise
<lb ed="G"/>a liar as I <lb ed="F1" n="67"/>do despise one that is false, or as I
<lb ed="G"/>despise one that is not <lb ed="F1" n="68"/>true.   The knight, Sir
<lb ed="G"/>John, is there; and, I beseech you, be <lb ed="F1" n="69"/>ruled by
<lb ed="G"/>your well-willers.   I will peat the door for Master

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="70"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><stage>[Knocks.]</stage><p>What, hoa!   Got pless your
<lb ed="G"/>house here!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="71"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p><stage>[Within]</stage> Who's there!
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                  Enter PAGE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="72"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Here is Got's plessing, and your
<lb ed="G"/>friend, and Justice <lb ed="F1" n="73"/>Shallow; and here young
<lb ed="G"/>Master Slender, that peradventures <lb ed="F1" n="74"/>shall tell
<lb ed="G"/>you another tale, if matters grow to <lb ed="F1" n="75"/>your
<lb ed="G"/>likings.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="76"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>I am glad to see your worships well.
<lb ed="G"/>I <lb ed="F1" n="77"/>thank you for my venison, Master Shallow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="78"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Master Page, I am glad to see you:
<lb ed="G"/>much good <lb ed="F1" n="79"/>do it your good heart!   I wished
<lb ed="G"/>your venison better; it <lb ed="F1" n="80"/>was ill killed. How doth
<lb ed="G"/>good Mistress Page?--and I thank <lb ed="F1" n="81"/>you always
<lb ed="G"/>with my heart, la! with my heart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="82"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Sir, I thank you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="83"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Sir, I thank you; by yea and no, I do.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="84"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>I am glad to see you, good Master
<lb ed="G" n="90"/>Slender.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="85"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>How does your fallow greyhound,
<lb ed="G"/>sir? I heard <lb ed="F1" n="86"/>say he was outrun on Cotsall.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="87"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>It could not be judged, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="88"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>You'll not confess, you'll not confess.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="89"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>That he will not. 'Tis your fault, 'tis
<lb ed="G"/>your fault; <lb ed="F1" n="90"/>'tis a good dog.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="91"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>A cur, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="92"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog:
<lb ed="G"/>can there <lb ed="F1" n="93"/>be more said? he is good and fair.
<lb ed="G" n="100"/>Is Sir John Falstaff <lb ed="F1" n="94"/>here?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="95"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Sir, he is within; and I would I
<lb ed="G"/>could do a <lb ed="F1" n="96"/>good office between you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="97"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>It is spoke as a Christians ought to
<lb ed="G"/>speak.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="98"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>He hath wronged me, Master Page.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="99"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Sir, he doth in some sort confess it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="100"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>If it be confessed, it is not redressed:
<lb ed="G"/>is not that <lb ed="F1" n="101"/>so, Master Page? He hath wronged
<lb ed="G"/>me; indeed he hath; at a <lb ed="F1" n="102"/>word, he hath, believe
<lb ed="G"/>me: Robert Shallow, esquire, saith, <lb ed="F1" n="103"/>he is
<lb ed="G" n="110"/>wronged.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="104"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Here comes Sir John.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">Enter SIR JOHN FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, NYM and PISTOL.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="105"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain
<lb ed="G"/>of me to <lb ed="F1" n="106"/>the king?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="107"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Knight, you have beaten my men,
<lb ed="G"/>killed my <lb ed="F1" n="108"/>deer, and broke open my lodge.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="109"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>But not kissed your keeper's daughter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="110"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Tut, a pin! this shall be answered.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="111"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>I will answer it straight, I have done all this.
<lb ed="F1" n="112"/><lb ed="G"/>That is now answered.

<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="113"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><l>The council shall know this.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="114"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>'Twere better for you if it were known
<lb ed="G"/>in counsel: <lb ed="F1" n="115"/>you'll be laughed at.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="116"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Pauca verba, Sir John; goot worts.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="117"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Good worts! good cabbage. Slender,
<lb ed="G"/>I broke <lb ed="F1" n="118"/>your head: what matter have you
<lb ed="G"/>against me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="119"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Marry, sir, I have matter in my head
<lb ed="G"/>against you; <lb ed="F1" n="120"/>and against your cony-catching
<lb ed="G"/>rascals, Bardolph, Nym, <lb ed="F1" n="121"/>and Pistol.

<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="122"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><l>You Banbury cheese!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="123"/></l></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Ay, it is no matter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="124"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>How now, Mephostophilus!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="125"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Ay, it is no matter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="126"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>Slice, I say! pauca, pauca: slice!
<lb ed="G"/>that's my humor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="127"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Where's Simple, my man?   Can you
<lb ed="G"/>tell, cousin?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="128"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Peace, I pray you. Now let us understand.
<lb ed="G"/>There <lb ed="F1" n="129"/>is three umpires in this matter,
<lb ed="G"/>as I understand; that is, <lb ed="F1" n="130"/>Master Page,
<lb ed="G"/>fidelicet Master Page; and there is myself,
<lb ed="F1" n="131"/><lb ed="G"/>fidelicet myself; and the three party is, lastly
<lb ed="G"/>and finally, <lb ed="F1" n="132"/>mine host of the Garter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="133"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>We three, to hear it and end it between
<lb ed="G"/>them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="134"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Fery goot: I will make a prief of
<lb ed="G"/>it in my <lb ed="F1" n="135"/>note-book; and we will afterwards ork
<lb ed="G"/>upon the cause <lb ed="F1" n="136"/>with as great discreetly as we
<lb ed="G"/>can.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="137"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Pistol!

<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="138"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>He hears with ears.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="139"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>The tevil and his tam! what phrase
<lb ed="G"/>is this, <lb ed="F1" n="140"/>'He hears with ear'? why, it is
<lb ed="G"/>affectations.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="141"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Pistol, did you pick Master Slender's
<lb ed="G"/>purse?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="142"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Ay, by these gloves, did he, or I
<lb ed="G"/>would I might <lb ed="F1" n="143"/>never come in mine own great
<lb ed="G"/>chamber again else, of <lb ed="F1" n="144"/>seven groats in
<lb ed="G"/>mill-sixpences, and two Edward shovel-boards, <lb ed="F1" n="145"/>that
<lb ed="G"/>cost me two shilling and two pence a-piece <lb ed="F1" n="146"/>of
<lb ed="G"/>Yead Miller, by these gloves.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="147"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Is this true, Pistol?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="148"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>No; it is false, if it is a pick-purse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="149"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Ha, thou mountain-foreigner!   Sir John and <lb ed="F1" n="150"/>master mine,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I combat challenge of this latten bilbo.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="151"/></l><l>Word of denial in thy labras here!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Word of denial; froth <lb ed="F1" n="152"/>and scum, thou liest!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="153"/></l></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>By these gloves, then, 'twas he.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="154"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>Be avised, sir, and pass good humors:
<lb ed="G"/>I will <lb ed="F1" n="155"/>say 'marry trap' with you, if you
<lb ed="G"/>run the nuthook's humour <lb ed="F1" n="156"/>on me; that is the
<lb ed="G"/>very note of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="157"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>By this hat, then, he in the red face
<lb ed="G"/>had it; for <lb ed="F1" n="158"/>though I cannot remember what I
<lb ed="G"/>did when you made <lb ed="F1" n="159"/>me drunk, yet I am not
<lb ed="G"/>altogether an ass.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="160"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>What say you, Scarlet and John?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="161"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Why, sir, for my part, I say the gentleman
<lb ed="G"/>had <lb ed="F1" n="162"/>drunk himself out of his five
<lb ed="G" n="180"/>sentences.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="163"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>It is his five senses: fie, what the
<lb ed="G"/>ignorance is!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="164"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>And being fap, sir, was, as they say,
<lb ed="G"/>cashiered; and <lb ed="F1" n="165"/>so conclusions passed the
<lb ed="G"/>careires.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="166"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but
<lb ed="G"/>'tis no matter: <lb ed="F1" n="167"/>I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live
<lb ed="G"/>again, but in honest, <lb ed="F1" n="168"/>civil, godly company, for
<lb ed="G"/>this trick: if I be drunk, I'll <lb ed="F1" n="169"/>be drunk with
<lb ed="G"/>those that have the fear of God, and not <lb ed="F1" n="170"/>with
<lb ed="G" n="190"/>drunken knaves.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="171"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>So Got udge me, that is a virtuous
<lb ed="G"/>mind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="172"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>You hear all these matters denied,
<lb ed="G"/>gentlemen; <lb ed="F1" n="173"/>you hear it.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">Enter ANNE PACE, with wine; MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE, following.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="174"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Nay, daughter, carry the wine in;
<lb ed="G"/>we'll <lb ed="F1" n="175"/>drink within.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit Anne Page.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="176"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>O heaven! this is Mistress Anne Page.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="177"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>How now, Mistress Ford!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="178"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are
<lb ed="G" n="200"/>very well met: <lb ed="F1" n="179"/>by your leave, good mistress.
                  <lb ed="G"/><stage>[Kisses her.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="180"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome:
<lb ed="G"/>Come, <lb ed="F1" n="181"/>we have a hot venison pasty to dinner:
<lb ed="G"/>come, gentlemen, <lb ed="F1" n="182"/>I hope we shall drink down
<lb ed="G"/>all unkindness.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt all except Shal., Slen., and Evans.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="183"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I had rather than forty shillings I had
<lb ed="G"/>my Book <lb ed="F1" n="184"/>of Songs and Sonnets here.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">    Enter SIMPLE.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>How now, Simple! where <lb ed="F1" n="185"/>have you been? I
<lb ed="G"/>must wait on myself, must I? You <lb ed="F1" n="186"/>have not
<lb ed="G"/>the Book of Riddles about you, have you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="187"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>Book of Riddles! why, did you not
<lb ed="G"/>lend it to <lb ed="F1" n="188"/>Alice Shortcake upon All-hallowmas
<lb ed="G"/>last, a fortnight afore <lb ed="F1" n="189"/>Michaelmas?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="190"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Come, coz; come, coz; we stay for
<lb ed="G"/>you. A word <lb ed="F1" n="191"/>with you, coz; marry, this, coz:
<lb ed="G"/>there is, as 'twere, a tender, <lb ed="F1" n="192"/>a kind of tender,
<lb ed="G"/>made afar off by Sir Hugh here. <lb ed="F1" n="193"/>Do you
<lb ed="G"/>understand me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="194"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable;
<lb ed="G"/>if it be so, <lb ed="F1" n="195"/>I shall do that is reason.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="196"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Nay, but understand me.

<lb ed="G" n="220"/><lb ed="F1" n="197"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><l>So I do, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="198"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Give ear to his motions, Master
<lb ed="G"/>Slender: I will <lb ed="F1" n="199"/>description the matter to you,
<lb ed="G"/>if you be capacity of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="200"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow
<lb ed="G"/>says: I <lb ed="F1" n="201"/>pray you, pardon me; he's a justice of
<lb ed="G"/>peace in his country, <lb ed="F1" n="202"/>simple though I stand
<lb ed="G"/>here.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="203"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>But that is not the question: the
<lb ed="G"/>question is <lb ed="F1" n="204"/>concerning your marriage.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="205"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><l>Ay, there's the point, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="206"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Marry, is it; the very point of it;
<lb ed="G" n="231"/>to Mistress Anne Page.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="207"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Why, if it be so, I will marry her
<lb ed="G"/>upon any reasonable <lb ed="F1" n="208"/>demands.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="209"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>But can you affection the 'oman?
<lb ed="G"/>Let us command <lb ed="F1" n="210"/>to know that of your mouth
<lb ed="G"/>or of your lips; for divers <lb ed="F1" n="211"/>philosophers hold
<lb ed="G"/>that the lips is parcel of the mouth. <lb ed="F1" n="212"/>Therefore,
<lb ed="G"/>precisely, can you carry your good will to the
<lb ed="G"/>maid?

<lb ed="G" n="240"/><lb ed="F1" n="213"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><l>Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="214"/></l></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become
<lb ed="G"/>one that <lb ed="F1" n="215"/>would do reason.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="216"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Nay, Got's lords and his ladies! you
<lb ed="G"/>must speak <lb ed="F1" n="217"/>possitable, if you can carry her
<lb ed="G"/>your desires towards her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="218"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>That you must. <lb ed="F1" n="219"/>Will you, upon good
<lb ed="G"/>dowry, marry her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="220"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I will do a greater thing than that,
<lb ed="G"/>upon your <lb ed="F1" n="221"/>request, cousin, in any reason.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="222"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet
<lb ed="G"/>coz: <lb ed="F1" n="223"/>what I do is to pleasure you, coz. Can
<lb ed="G"/>you love the <lb ed="F1" n="224"/>maid?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="225"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I will marry her, sir, at your request:
<lb ed="G"/>but if <lb ed="F1" n="226"/>there be no great love in the beginning,
<lb ed="G"/>yet heaven <lb ed="F1" n="227"/>may decrease it upon better acquaintance,
<lb ed="G"/>when we <lb ed="F1" n="228"/>are married and have
<lb ed="G"/>more occasion to know one another; <lb ed="F1" n="229"/>I hope,
<lb ed="G"/>upon familiarity will grow more contempt:
<lb ed="F1" n="230"/><lb ed="G"/>but if you say, 'Marry her,' I will marry her;
<lb ed="G" n="260"/>that I am freely <lb ed="F1" n="231"/>dissolved, and dissolutely.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="232"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>It is a fery discretion answer; save
<lb ed="G"/>the fall is in <lb ed="F1" n="233"/>the ort 'dissolutely:' the ort is,
<lb ed="G"/>according to our meaning, <lb ed="F1" n="234"/>'resolutely:' his
<lb ed="G"/>meaning is good.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="235"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Ay, I think my cousin meant well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="236"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="237"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><l>Here comes fair Mistress Anne.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">     Re-enter ANNE PAGE.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Would I were <lb ed="F1" n="238"/>young for your sake, Mistress Anne!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="239"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><p>The dinner is on the table; my father
<lb ed="G" n="271"/>desires <lb ed="F1" n="240"/>your worships' company.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="241"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="242"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Od's plessed will! I will not be
<lb ed="G"/>absence at the grace.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Shallow, and Evans.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="243"/></p></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><p>Will 't please your worship to come
<lb ed="G"/>in, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="244"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily;
<lb ed="G"/>I am very well.

<lb ed="G" n="279"/><lb ed="F1" n="245"/></p></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>The dinner attends you, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="246"/></l></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth.
<lb ed="G"/>Go, <lb ed="F1" n="247"/>sirrah, for all you are my man, go
<lb ed="G"/>wait upon my cousin <lb ed="F1" n="248"/>Shallow. <stage>[Exit Simple.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>A justice of peace sometime may be beholding
<lb ed="F1" n="249"/><lb ed="G"/>to his friend for a man. I keep but three
<lb ed="G"/>men and a <lb ed="F1" n="250"/>boy yet, till my mother be dead:
<lb ed="G"/>but what though? yet <lb ed="F1" n="251"/>I live like a poor
<lb ed="G"/>gentleman born.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="252"/></p></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><p>I may not go in without your worship:
<lb ed="G"/>they <lb ed="F1" n="253"/>will not sit till you come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="254"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I' faith, I'll eat nothing; I thank you
<lb ed="G" n="291"/>as much as <lb ed="F1" n="255"/>though I did.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="256"/></p></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><p>I pray you, sir, walk in.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="257"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I had rather walk here, I thank you.
<lb ed="G"/>I bruised <lb ed="F1" n="258"/>my shin th' other day with playing
<lb ed="G"/>at sword and dagger <lb ed="F1" n="259"/>with a master of fence;
<lb ed="G"/>three veneys for a dish of <lb ed="F1" n="260"/>stewed prunes; and,
<lb ed="G"/>by my troth, I cannot abide the smell <lb ed="F1" n="261"/>of hot
<lb ed="G"/>meat since. Why do your dogs bark so? be
<lb ed="F1" n="262"/><lb ed="G"/>there bears i' the town?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="263"/></p></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><p>I think there are, sir; I heard them
<lb ed="G" n="301"/>talked of.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="264"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I love the sport well; but I shall as
<lb ed="G"/>soon quarrel <lb ed="F1" n="265"/>at it as any man in England.
<lb ed="G"/>You are afraid, if you see the <lb ed="F1" n="266"/>bear loose, are
<lb ed="G"/>you not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="267"/></p></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><p>Ay, indeed, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="268"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>That's meat and drink to me, now.
<lb ed="G"/>I have seen <lb ed="F1" n="269"/>Sackerson loose twenty times, and
<lb ed="G"/>have taken him by the <lb ed="F1" n="270"/>chain; but, I warrant
<lb ed="G"/>you, the women have so cried <lb ed="F1" n="271"/>and shrieked at
<lb ed="G"/>it, that it passed; but women, indeed, cannot
<lb ed="F1" n="272"/><lb ed="G"/>abide 'em; they are very ill-favoured rough
<lb ed="G"/>things.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                 Re-enter PAGE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="273"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Come, gentle Master Slender, come;
<lb ed="G"/>we stay for you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="274"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I'll eat nothing, I thank you, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="275"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>By cock and pie, you shall not
<lb ed="G"/>choose, sir! <lb ed="F1" n="276"/>come, come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="277"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Nay, pray you, lead the way.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="278"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Come on, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="279"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="280"/></p></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><p>Not I, sir: pray you, keep on.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="281"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Truly, I will not go first; truly, la!
<lb ed="G"/>I will not <lb ed="F1" n="282"/>do you that wrong.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="283"/></p></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><p>I pray you, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="284"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome.
<lb ed="G"/>You <lb ed="F1" n="285"/>do yourself wrong, indeed, la!
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
    <head>SCENE II</head><lb ed="F1" n="286"/>
<stage type="setting">The same.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="287"/><stage type="entrance">    Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="288"/><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Go your ways, and ask of Doctor
<lb ed="G"/>Caius' house <lb ed="F1" n="289"/>which is the way: and there
<lb ed="G"/>dwells one Mistress Quickly, <lb ed="F1" n="290"/>which is in the
<lb ed="G"/>manner of his nurse, or his dry nurse, or <lb ed="F1" n="291"/>his
<lb ed="G"/>cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his
<lb ed="G"/>wringer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="292"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>Well, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="293"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Nay it is petter yet. Give her this
<lb ed="G"/>letter; for it is <lb ed="F1" n="294"/>a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance
<lb ed="G"/>with Mistress Anne <lb ed="F1" n="295"/>Page: and the
<lb ed="G"/>letter is, to desire and require her to solicit
<lb ed="F1" n="296"/><lb ed="G"/>your master's desires to Mistress Anne Page.
<lb ed="G"/>I pray <lb ed="F1" n="297"/>you, be gone: I will make an end of
<lb ed="G"/>my dinner; there's pippins <lb ed="F1" n="298"/>and cheese to come.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
    <head>SCENE III</head><lb ed="F1" n="299"/>
<stage type="setting">A   room in the Garter Inn.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="300"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter FALSTAFF, HOST, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, and ROBIN.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="301"/><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Mine host of the Garter!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="302"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>What says my bully-rook? speak
<lb ed="G"/>scholarly <lb ed="F1" n="303"/>and wisely.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="304"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Truly, mine host, I must turn away
<lb ed="G"/>some of my <lb ed="F1" n="305"/>followers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="306"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Discard, bully Hercules; cashier:
<lb ed="G"/>let them wag; <lb ed="F1" n="307"/>trot, trot.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="308"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>I sit at ten pounds a week.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="309"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Thou'rt an emperor, Caesar, Keisar,
<lb ed="G"/>and Pheezar.   <lb ed="F1" n="310"/>I will entertain Bardolph; he
<lb ed="G"/>shall draw, he shall tap: said <lb ed="F1" n="311"/>I well, bully
<lb ed="G"/>Hector?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="312"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Do so, good mine host.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="313"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>I have spoke; let him follow.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[To Bard.] </stage>Let me see thee froth <lb ed="F1" n="314"/>and lime: I am
<lb ed="G"/>at a word; follow.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="315"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a
<lb ed="G"/>good trade: <lb ed="F1" n="316"/>an old cloak makes a new jerkin;
<lb ed="G"/>a withered serving-man <lb ed="F1" n="317"/>a fresh tapster. Go;
<lb ed="G" n="20"/>adieu.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="318"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>It is a life that I have desired: I will
<lb ed="G"/>thrive.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="319"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou
<lb ed="G"/>the spigot wield?
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit Bardolph.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="320"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>He was gotten in drink: is not the
<lb ed="G"/>humor conceited?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="321"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>I am glad I am so acquit of this tinderbox:
<lb ed="G"/>his <lb ed="F1" n="322"/>thefts were too open; his filching
<lb ed="G"/>was like an unskilful <lb ed="F1" n="323"/>singer; he kept not time.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="324"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>The good humor is to steal at a
<lb ed="G" n="31"/>minute's rest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="325"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>'Convey,' the wise it call. 'Steal!'
<lb ed="G"/>foh! a fico for <lb ed="F1" n="326"/>the phrase!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="327"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Well, sirs, I am almost out at heels.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="328"/></l></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Why, then, let kibes ensue.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="329"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>There is no remedy; I must conycatch;
<lb ed="G"/>I must shift.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="330"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Young ravens must have food.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="331"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Which of you know Ford of this town?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="332"/></l></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>I ken the wight: he is of substance
<lb ed="G" n="41"/>good.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="333"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>My honest lads, I will tell you what I
<lb ed="G"/>am about.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="334"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Two yards, and more.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="335"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>No quips now, Pistol! Indeed, I am
<lb ed="G"/>in the waist <lb ed="F1" n="336"/>two yards about: but I am now
<lb ed="G"/>about no waste; I am about <lb ed="F1" n="337"/>thrift. Briefly, I
<lb ed="G"/>do mean to make love to Ford's <lb ed="F1" n="338"/>wife: I spy
<lb ed="G"/>entertainment in her; she discourses, she
<lb ed="F1" n="339"/><lb ed="G"/>carves, she gives the leer of invitation: I can
<lb ed="G"/>construe <lb ed="F1" n="340"/>the action of her familiar style; and
<lb ed="G"/>the hardest voice of her <lb ed="F1" n="341"/>behaviour, to be Englished
<lb ed="G"/>rightly, is, 'I am Sir John Falstaff's.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="342"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>He hath studied her will, and translated
<lb ed="G"/>her will, <lb ed="F1" n="343"/>out of honesty into English.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="344"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>The anchor is deep: will that
<lb ed="G"/>humor pass?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="345"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Now, the report goes she has all the
<lb ed="G"/>rule of her <lb ed="F1" n="346"/>husband's purse: he hath a legion
<lb ed="G" n="60"/>of angels.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="347"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>As many devils entertain; and 'To
<lb ed="G"/>her, boy,' say I.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="348"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>The humor rises; it is good: humor
<lb ed="G"/>me the angels.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="349"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>I have writ me here a letter to her:
<lb ed="G"/>and here another <lb ed="F1" n="350"/>to Page's wife, who even now
<lb ed="G"/>gave me good eyes <lb ed="F1" n="351"/>too, examined my parts
<lb ed="G"/>with most judicious oeillades; sometimes <lb ed="F1" n="352"/>the
<lb ed="G"/>beam of her view gilded my foot, sometimes
<lb ed="F1" n="353"/><lb ed="G"/>my portly belly.

<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="354"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Then did the sun on dunghill shine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="355"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><l>I thank thee for that humor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="356"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>O, she did so course o'er my exteriors
<lb ed="G"/>with such <lb ed="F1" n="357"/>a greedy intention, that the appetite
<lb ed="G"/>of her eye did seem <lb ed="F1" n="358"/>to scorch me up like a
<lb ed="G"/>burning-glass! Here's another <lb ed="F1" n="359"/>letter to her:
<lb ed="G"/>she bears the purse too; she is a region <lb ed="F1" n="360"/>in
<lb ed="G"/>Guiana, all gold and bounty.   I will be cheater
<lb ed="G"/>to <lb ed="F1" n="361"/>them both, and they shall be exchequers to
<lb ed="G"/>me; they <lb ed="F1" n="362"/>shall be my East and West Indies,
<lb ed="G"/>and I will trade to <lb ed="F1" n="363"/>them both. Go bear thou
<lb ed="G"/>this letter to Mistress Page; <lb ed="F1" n="364"/>and thou this to
<lb ed="G"/>Mistress Ford: we will thrive, lads, we <lb ed="F1" n="365"/>will
<lb ed="G"/>thrive.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="366"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="367"/></l><l>And by my side wear steel? then, Lucifer take all!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="368"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>I will run no base humor: here,
<lb ed="G"/>take the humor-letter: <lb ed="F1" n="369"/>I will keep the havior
<lb ed="G"/>of reputation.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="370"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><stage>[To Robin]</stage><l>Hold, sirrah, bear you these letters tightly;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="371"/></l><l>Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores.
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="372"/></l><l>Rogues, hence, avaunt! vanish like hailstones go:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="373"/></l><l>Trudge, plod away o' the hoof; seek shelter, pack!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="374"/></l><l>Falstaff will learn the humor of the age,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="375"/></l><l>French thrift, you rogues; myself and skirted page.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Falstaff and Robin. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="376"/></l></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd and <lb ed="F1" n="377"/>fullam holds,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And high and low beguiles the rich and poor:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="378"/></l><l>Tester I'll have in pouch when thou shalt lack,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="379"/></l><l>Base Phrygian Turk!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="380"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>I have operations <lb ed="F1" n="381"/>which be humours
<lb ed="G"/>of revenge.

<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="382"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Wilt thou revenge?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="383"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><l>By welkin and her star!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="384"/></l></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>With wit or steel?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="385"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><l>With both the humors, I:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="386"/></l><l>I will discuss the humor of this love to Page.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="387"/></l></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>And I to Ford shall eke unfold
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="388"/></l><l>How Falstaff varlet vile,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="389"/></l><l>His dove will prove, his gold will hold,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="390"/></l><l>And his soft couch defile.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="391"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>My humor shall not cool: I will incense
<lb ed="G"/>Page <lb ed="F1" n="392"/>to deal with poison; I will possess
<lb ed="G"/>him with yellowness, <lb ed="F1" n="393"/>for the revolt of mine
<lb ed="G"/>is dangerous: that is my <lb ed="F1" n="394"/>true humor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="395"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Thou art the Mars of malecontents:
<lb ed="G"/>I second <lb ed="F1" n="396"/>thee; troop on.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage></p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
    <head>SCENE IV</head><lb ed="F1" n="397"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in DOCTOR CAIUS'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="398"/><stage type="entrance">    Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, SIMPLE, and RUGBY.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="399"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="400"/><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>What, John Rugby! I pray thee,
<lb ed="G"/>go to the casement, <lb ed="F1" n="401"/>and see if you can see my
<lb ed="G"/>master, Master Doctor <lb ed="F1" n="402"/>Caius, coming.   If he
<lb ed="G"/>do, i' faith, and find any body <lb ed="F1" n="403"/>in the house,
<lb ed="G"/>here will be an old abusing of God's patience
<lb ed="F1" n="404"/><lb ed="G"/>and the king's English.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="405"/></p></sp><sp who="rug."><speaker>Rug.</speaker><l>I'll go watch.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="406"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Go; and we'll have a posset for't
<lb ed="G"/>soon at night, <lb ed="F1" n="407"/>in faith, at the latter end of a
<lb ed="G"/>sea-coal fire. <stage>[Exit Rugby.]</stage> An honest, <lb ed="F1" n="408"/>willing,
<lb ed="G"/>kind fellow, as ever servant shall come
<lb ed="G"/>in house <lb ed="F1" n="409"/>withal, and, I warrant you, no tell-tale
<lb ed="G"/>nor no breed-bate: <lb ed="F1" n="410"/>his worst fault is, that
<lb ed="G"/>he is given to prayer; he is <lb ed="F1" n="411"/>something peevish
<lb ed="G"/>that way: but nobody but has his <lb ed="F1" n="412"/>fault; but
<lb ed="G"/>let that pass. Peter Simple, you say your <lb ed="F1" n="413"/>name is?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="414"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><l>Ay, for fault of a better.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="415"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>And Master Slender's your master?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="416"/></l></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><l>Ay, forsooth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="417"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Does he not wear a great round
<lb ed="G" n="21"/>beard, like a <lb ed="F1" n="418"/>glover's paring-knife?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="419"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>No, forsooth: he hath but a little wee
<lb ed="G"/>face, with <lb ed="F1" n="420"/>a little yellow beard, a
<lb ed="G"/>Cain-colored beard.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="421"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>A softly-sprighted man, is he not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="422"/></l></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man
<lb ed="G"/>of his hands as <lb ed="F1" n="423"/>any is between this and his
<lb ed="G"/>head; he hath fought with <lb ed="F1" n="424"/>a warrener.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="425"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>How say you? O, I should remember
<lb ed="G"/>him: does <lb ed="F1" n="426"/>he not hold up his head, as it
<lb ed="G" n="31"/>were, and shut in his gait?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="427"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><l>Yes, indeed, does he.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="428"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Well, heaven send Anne Page no
<lb ed="G"/>worse fortune! <lb ed="F1" n="429"/>Tell Master Parson Evans I
<lb ed="G"/>will do what I can for your <lb ed="F1" n="430"/>master: Anne is
<lb ed="G"/>a good girl, and I wish--
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                Re-enter RUGBY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="431"/></p></sp><sp who="rug."><speaker>Rug.</speaker><l>Out, alas! here comes my master.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="432"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>We shall all be shent. Run in here,
<lb ed="G"/>good young <lb ed="F1" n="433"/>man; go into this closet: he will
<lb ed="G"/> not stay long. <stage>[Shuts Simple in the closet.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>What, <lb ed="F1" n="434"/>John Rugby! John! what, John, I say!
<lb ed="G"/>Go, John, go inquire <lb ed="F1" n="435"/>for my master; I doubt
<lb ed="G" n="43"/>he be not well, that he <lb ed="F1" n="436"/>comes not home.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Singing]</stage> And down, down, adown-a, &amp;c.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">             Enter DOCTOR CAIUS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="437"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Vat is you sing? I do not like des
<lb ed="G"/>toys.   Pray <lb ed="F1" n="438"/>you, go and vetch me in my closet
<lb ed="G"/>un boitier vert, <lb ed="F1" n="439"/>a box, a green-a box: do intend
<lb ed="G"/>vat I speak? a <lb ed="F1" n="440"/>green-a box.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="441"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Ay, forsooth; I'll fetch it you.
<lb ed="F1" n="442"/><lb ed="G"/><stage>[Aside]</stage> I am glad he went not in himself: if
<lb ed="G"/>he had found the <lb ed="F1" n="443"/>young man, he would have
<lb ed="G" n="52"/>been horn-mad.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="444"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Fe, fe, fe, fe! ma foi, il fait fort
<lb ed="G"/>chaud.   Je m'en vais a la <lb ed="F1" n="445"/>cour--la grande
<lb ed="G"/>affaire.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="446"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>Is it this, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="447"/></l></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Oui; mette le au mon pocket: depeche,
<lb ed="G"/>quickly. <lb ed="F1" n="448"/>Vere is dat knave Rugby?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="449"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>What, John Rugby! John!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="450"/></l></sp><sp who="rug."><speaker>Rug.</speaker><l>Here, sir!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="451"/></l></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>You are John Rugby, and you are
<lb ed="G"/>Jack Rugby. <lb ed="F1" n="452"/>Come, take-a your rapier, and
<lb ed="G" n="62"/>come after my heel to <lb ed="F1" n="453"/>the court.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="454"/></p></sp><sp who="rug."><speaker>Rug.</speaker><l>'Tis ready, sir, here in the porch.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="455"/></l></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>By my trot, I tarry too long. Od's
<lb ed="G"/>me! Qu'ai-j'oublie! <lb ed="F1" n="456"/>dere is some simples in
<lb ed="G"/>my closet, dat I vill not <lb ed="F1" n="457"/>for the varld I shall
<lb ed="G"/>leave behind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="458"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Ay me, he'll find the young man
<lb ed="G"/>there, and be mad!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="459"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>O diable, diable! vat is in my
<lb ed="G"/>closet? <lb ed="F1" n="460"/>Villain! larron! <stage>[Pulling Simple out.]</stage>
<lb ed="G" n="72"/>Rugby, my rapier!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="461"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>Good master, be content.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="462"/></l></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><l>Wherefore shall I be content-a?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="463"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>The young man is an honest man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="464"/></l></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>What shall de honest man do in my
<lb ed="G"/>closet? dere <lb ed="F1" n="465"/>is no honest man dat shall come
<lb ed="G"/>in my closet.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="466"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>I beseech you, be not so phlegmatic.
<lb ed="G"/>Hear the <lb ed="F1" n="467"/>truth of it: he came of an errand to
<lb ed="G" n="81"/>me from Parson <lb ed="F1" n="468"/>Hugh.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="469"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><l>Vell.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="470"/></l></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><l>Ay, forsooth; to desire her to--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="471"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>Peace, I pray you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="472"/></l></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Peace-a your tongue. Speak-a your
<lb ed="G"/>tale.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="473"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>To desire this honest gentlewoman,
<lb ed="G"/>your maid, <lb ed="F1" n="474"/>to speak a good word to Mistress
<lb ed="G"/>Anne Page for my master <lb ed="F1" n="475"/>in the way of marriage.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="476"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>This is all, indeed, la! but I'll ne'er
<lb ed="G" n="91"/>put my finger <lb ed="F1" n="477"/>in the fire, and need not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="478"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Sir Hugh send-a you? Rugby, baille
<lb ed="G"/>me some <lb ed="F1" n="479"/>paper. Tarry you a little-a while.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Writes.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="480"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p><stage>[Aside to Simple.]</stage> I am glad he is
<lb ed="G"/>so quiet: if he had been throughly <lb ed="F1" n="481"/>moved,
<lb ed="G"/>you should have heard him so loud and so
<lb ed="G"/>melancholy. <lb ed="F1" n="482"/>But notwithstanding, man, I'll do
<lb ed="G"/>you your <lb ed="F1" n="483"/>master what good I can: and the
<lb ed="G"/>very yea and the no is, the <lb ed="F1" n="484"/>French doctor, my
<lb ed="G"/>master,--I may call him my master, <lb ed="F1" n="485"/>look you,
<lb ed="G"/>for I keep his house; and I wash, wring, brew,
<lb ed="F1" n="486"/><lb ed="G"/>bake, scour, dress meat and drink, make the
<lb ed="G"/>beds, and <lb ed="F1" n="487"/>do all myself,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="488"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p><stage>[Aside to Quickly]</stage> 'Tis a great
<lb ed="G"/>charge to come under one body's <lb ed="F1" n="489"/>hand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="490"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p><stage>[Aside to Simple]</stage> Are you avised
<lb ed="G"/>o' that? you shall find it a great <lb ed="F1" n="491"/>charge: and
<lb ed="G"/>to be up early and down late; but notwithstanding,
<lb ed="F1" n="492"/><lb ed="G"/>--to tell you in your ear; I would
<lb ed="G"/>have no words <lb ed="F1" n="493"/>of it,--my master himself is in
<lb ed="G"/>love with Mistress Anne <lb ed="F1" n="494"/>Page: but notwithstanding
<lb ed="G"/>that, I know Anne's mind,--that's <lb ed="F1" n="495"/>neither
<lb ed="G"/>here nor there.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="496"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>You jack'nape, give-a this letter to
<lb ed="G"/>Sir <lb ed="F1" n="497"/>Hugh; by gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut
<lb ed="G"/> his troat in de <lb ed="F1" n="498"/>park; and I will teach a scurvy
<lb ed="G"/>jack-a-nape priest to <lb ed="F1" n="499"/>meddle or make. You
<lb ed="G"/>may be gone; it is not good <lb ed="F1" n="500"/>you tarry here.
<lb ed="G"/>By gar, I will cut all his two stones; by <lb ed="F1" n="501"/>gar,
<lb ed="G"/>he shall not have a stone to throw at his dog.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit Simple.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="502"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>Alas, he speaks but for his friend.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="503"/></l></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>It is no matter-a ver dat: do not
<lb ed="G"/>you tell-a me <lb ed="F1" n="504"/>dat I shall have Anne Page for
<lb ed="G"/>myself? By gar, I vill <lb ed="F1" n="505"/>kill de Jack priest; and
<lb ed="G"/>I have appointed mine host of de <lb ed="F1" n="506"/>Jarteer to
<lb ed="G"/>measure our weapon. By gar, I will myself
<lb ed="F1" n="507"/><lb ed="G"/>have Anne Page.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="508"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Sir, the maid loves you, and all
<lb ed="G"/>shall be well. <lb ed="F1" n="509"/>We must give folks leave to
<lb ed="G"/>prate: what, the good-jer!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="510"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Rugby, come to the court with me.
<lb ed="G"/>By gar, if <lb ed="F1" n="511"/>I have not Anne Page, I shall turn
<lb ed="G"/>your head out of my <lb ed="F1" n="512"/>door. Follow my heels,
<lb ed="G"/>Rugby.  <stage>[Exeunt Caius and Rugby.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="513"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>You shall have An fool's-head of
<lb ed="G"/>your own. <lb ed="F1" n="514"/>No, I know Anne's mind for that:
<lb ed="G"/>never a woman in Windsor <lb ed="F1" n="515"/>knows more of
<lb ed="G"/>Anne's mind than I do: nor can do <lb ed="F1" n="516"/>more than
<lb ed="G"/>I do with her, I thank heaven.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="517"/></p></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><p><stage>[Within]</stage> Who's within there? ho!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="518"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Who's there, I trow! Come near
<lb ed="G" n="141"/>the house, I <lb ed="F1" n="519"/>pray you.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter FENTON.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="520"/></p></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><p>How now, good woman! how dost
<lb ed="G"/>thou?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="521"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>The better that it pleases your good
<lb ed="G"/>worship <lb ed="F1" n="522"/>to ask.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="523"/></p></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><p>What news? how does pretty Mistress
<lb ed="G"/>Anne?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="524"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and
<lb ed="G"/>honest, and <lb ed="F1" n="525"/>gentle; and one that is your
<lb ed="G"/>friend, I can tell you that by <lb ed="F1" n="526"/>the way; I praise
<lb ed="G" n="151"/>heaven for it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="527"/></p></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><p>Shall I do any good, thinkest thou?
<lb ed="G"/>shall I not <lb ed="F1" n="528"/>lose my suit?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="529"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Troth, sir, all is in his hands
<lb ed="G"/>above: but notwithstanding, <lb ed="F1" n="530"/>Master Fenton,
<lb ed="G"/>I'll be sworn on a book, <lb ed="F1" n="531"/>she loves you.   Have
<lb ed="G"/>not your worship a wart above <lb ed="F1" n="532"/>your eye?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="533"/></p></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l>Yes, marry, have I; what of that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="534"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Well, thereby hangs a tale: good
<lb ed="G"/>faith, it is such <lb ed="F1" n="535"/>another Nan; but, I detest,
<lb ed="G"/>an honest maid as ever <lb ed="F1" n="536"/>broke bread: we had
<lb ed="G"/>an hour's talk of that wart. I <lb ed="F1" n="537"/>shall never laugh
<lb ed="G"/>but in that maid's company! But indeed <lb ed="F1" n="538"/>she
<lb ed="G"/>is given too much to allicholy and musing:
<lb ed="F1" n="539"/><lb ed="G"/>but for you--well, go to.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="540"/></p></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><p>Well, I shall see her to-day. Hold,
<lb ed="G"/>there's money <lb ed="F1" n="541"/>for thee; let me have thy voice
<lb ed="G"/>in my behalf: if <lb ed="F1" n="542"/>thou seest her before me,
<lb ed="G"/>commend me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="543"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Will I? i' faith, that we will; and I
<lb ed="G"/>will tell <lb ed="F1" n="544"/>your worship more of the wart the
<lb ed="G"/>next time we have <lb ed="F1" n="545"/>confidence; and of other
<lb ed="G"/>wooers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="546"/></p></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><p>Well, farewell; I am in great haste
<lb ed="G"/>now.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="547"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Farewell to your worship.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit Fenton.]</stage> Truly, an honest <lb ed="F1" n="548"/>gentleman: but
<lb ed="G"/>Anne loves him not; for I know Anne's <lb ed="F1" n="549"/>mind
<lb ed="G"/>as well as another does.   Out upon't!   what
<lb ed="G" n="180"/>have I <lb ed="F1" n="550"/>forgot?        <stage>[Exit.      </stage></p></sp>
</div2>
</div1>

    <div1 type="act" n="2">
        <head>ACT II</head><lb ed="F1" n="551"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Before PAGE'S house. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="552"/><stage type="entrance">Enter MISTRESS PAGE, with a letter. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="553"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="554"/><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>What, have I scaped love-letters
<lb ed="G"/>in the <lb ed="F1" n="555"/>holiday-time of my beauty, and am
<lb ed="G"/>I now a subject <lb ed="F1" n="556"/>for them? Let me see.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Reads.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="557"/></p><p>'Ask me no reason why I love you; for
<lb ed="G"/>though Love use Reason <lb ed="F1" n="558"/>for his physician, he
<lb ed="G"/>admits him not for his counsellor.   <lb ed="F1" n="559"/>You are
<lb ed="G"/>not young, no more am I; go to then, there's
<lb ed="G"/>sympathy: <lb ed="F1" n="560"/>you are merry, so am I; ha, ha!
<lb ed="G"/>then there 's more sympathy: <lb ed="F1" n="561"/>you love sack,
<lb ed="G"/>and so do I; would you desire better sympathy?
<lb ed="F1" n="562"/><lb ed="G"/>Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page,--at
<lb ed="G"/>the least, if the love of <lb ed="F1" n="563"/>soldier can suffice,--
<lb ed="G"/>that I love thee.   I will not say, pity me; <lb ed="F1" n="564"/>'tis
<lb ed="G"/>not a soldier-like phrase: but I say, love me.
<lb ed="F1" n="565"/><lb ed="G"/>By me,
<lb ed="G"/>Thine own true knight,
<lb ed="G"/>By day or night,
<lb ed="F1" n="566"/><lb ed="G"/>Or any kind of light,
<lb ed="G"/>With all his might
<lb ed="F1" n="567"/><lb ed="G"/>For thee to fight,   JOHN FALSTAFF.'
<lb ed="F1" n="568"/><lb ed="G"/>What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked,
<lb ed="G"/>wicked world! <lb ed="F1" n="569"/>One that is well-nigh worn to
<lb ed="G"/>pieces with age <lb ed="F1" n="570"/>to show himself a young gallant!
<lb ed="G"/>What an unweighed <lb ed="F1" n="571"/>behavior hath this
<lb ed="G"/>Flemish drunkard picked--with <lb ed="F1" n="572"/>the devil's
<lb ed="G"/>name!--out of my conversation, that he dares
<lb ed="F1" n="573"/><lb ed="G"/>in this manner assay me? Why, he hath not
<lb ed="G"/>been thrice <lb ed="F1" n="574"/>in my company! What should I
<lb ed="G"/>say to him? I was then <lb ed="F1" n="575"/>frugal of my mirth:
<lb ed="G"/>Heaven forgive me! Why, I'll <lb ed="F1" n="576"/>exhibit a bill
<lb ed="G"/>in the parliament for the putting down <lb ed="F1" n="577"/>of men.
<lb ed="G"/>How shall I be revenged on him? for revenged
<lb ed="G"/>I <lb ed="F1" n="578"/>will be, as sure as his guts are made of
<lb ed="G"/>puddings.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">            Enter MISTRESS FORD.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="579"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Mistress Page! trust me, I was
<lb ed="G"/>going to your <lb ed="F1" n="580"/>house.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="581"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>And, trust me, I was coming to
<lb ed="G"/>you. You <lb ed="F1" n="582"/>look very ill.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="583"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Nay, I'll ne'er believe that; I
<lb ed="G"/>have to show <lb ed="F1" n="584"/>to the contrary.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="585"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Faith, but you do, in my mind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="586"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Well, I do then; yet I say I
<lb ed="G"/>could show <lb ed="F1" n="587"/>you to the contrary. O Mistress
<lb ed="G"/>Page, give me some <lb ed="F1" n="588"/>counsel!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="589"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>What's the matter, woman?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="590"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>O woman, if it were not for
<lb ed="G"/>one trifling respect, <lb ed="F1" n="591"/>I could come to such
<lb ed="G"/>honor!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="592"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Hang the trifle, woman! take
<lb ed="G"/>the honor. <lb ed="F1" n="593"/>What is it? dispense with trifles;
<lb ed="G"/>what is it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="594"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>If I would but go to hell for an
<lb ed="G" n="50"/>eternal <lb ed="F1" n="595"/>moment or so, I could be knighted.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="596"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>What? thou liest! Sir Alice
<lb ed="G"/>Ford! These <lb ed="F1" n="597"/>knights will hack; and so thou
<lb ed="G"/>shouldst not alter the article <lb ed="F1" n="598"/>of thy gentry.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="599"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>We burn daylight; here, read,
<lb ed="G"/>read; <lb ed="F1" n="600"/>perceive how I might be knighted.   I
<lb ed="G"/>shall think the <lb ed="F1" n="601"/>worse of fat men, as long as I
<lb ed="G"/>have an eye to make difference <lb ed="F1" n="602"/>of men's liking;
<lb ed="G"/>and yet he would not swear; <lb ed="F1" n="603"/>praised
<lb ed="G"/>women's modesty; and gave such orderly and
<lb ed="G"/>well-behaved <lb ed="F1" n="604"/>reproof to all uncomeliness, that
<lb ed="G"/>I would have <lb ed="F1" n="605"/>sworn his disposition would have
<lb ed="G"/>gone to the truth of <lb ed="F1" n="606"/>his words; but they do
<lb ed="G"/>no more adhere and keep place <lb ed="F1" n="607"/>together than
<lb ed="G"/>the Hundredth Psalm to the tune of 'Green
<lb ed="G"/>Sleeves.' <lb ed="F1" n="608"/>What tempest, I trow, threw this
<lb ed="G"/>whale, with <lb ed="F1" n="609"/>so many tuns of oil in his belly,
<lb ed="G"/>ashore at Windsor? <lb ed="F1" n="610"/>How shall I be revenged
<lb ed="G"/>on him? I think the best way <lb ed="F1" n="611"/>were to entertain
<lb ed="G"/>him with hope, till the wicked fire <lb ed="F1" n="612"/>of lust
<lb ed="G"/>have melted him in his own grease. Did you
<lb ed="G" n="70"/>ever <lb ed="F1" n="613"/>hear the like?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="614"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Letter for letter, but that the
<lb ed="G"/>name of <lb ed="F1" n="615"/>Page and Ford differs! To thy great
<lb ed="G"/>comfort in this mystery <lb ed="F1" n="616"/>of ill opinions, here's
<lb ed="G"/>the twin-brother of thy letter: <lb ed="F1" n="617"/>but let thine
<lb ed="G"/>inherit first; for, I protest, mine never <lb ed="F1" n="618"/>shall.
<lb ed="G"/>I warrant he hath a thousand of these letters,
<lb ed="G"/>writ <lb ed="F1" n="619"/>with blank space for different names,--
<lb ed="G"/>sure, more,--and <lb ed="F1" n="620"/>these are of the second edition:
<lb ed="G"/>he will print them, out <lb ed="F1" n="621"/>of doubt; for
<lb ed="G"/>he cares not what he puts into the press, <lb ed="F1" n="622"/>when
<lb ed="G"/>he would put us two. I had rather be a giantess,
<lb ed="F1" n="623"/><lb ed="G"/>and lie under Mount Pelion. Well, I will
<lb ed="G"/>find you twenty <lb ed="F1" n="624"/>lascivious turtles ere one
<lb ed="G"/>chaste man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="625"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Why, this is the very same;
<lb ed="G"/>the very hand, <lb ed="F1" n="626"/>the very words.   What doth he
<lb ed="G"/>think of us?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="627"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Nay, I know not: it makes me
<lb ed="G"/>almost ready <lb ed="F1" n="628"/>to wrangle with mine own honesty.
<lb ed="G"/>I'll entertain <lb ed="F1" n="629"/>myself like one that I am
<lb ed="G"/>not acquainted withal; for, <lb ed="F1" n="630"/>sure, unless he
<lb ed="G"/>know some strain in me, that I know <lb ed="F1" n="631"/>not myself,
<lb ed="G"/>he would never have boarded me in this
<lb ed="F1" n="632"/><lb ed="G"/>fury.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="633"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>'Boarding,' call you it? I'll be
<lb ed="G"/>sure to keep <lb ed="F1" n="634"/>him above deck.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="635"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>So will I: if he come under
<lb ed="G"/>my hatches, <lb ed="F1" n="636"/>I'll never to sea again. Let's be
<lb ed="G"/>revenged on him: let's <lb ed="F1" n="637"/>appoint him a meeting;
<lb ed="G"/>give him a show of comfort in <lb ed="F1" n="638"/>his suit and lead
<lb ed="G"/>him on with a fine-baited delay, till
<lb ed="G"/>he <lb ed="F1" n="639"/>hath pawned his horses to mine host of
<lb ed="G" n="100"/>the Garter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="640"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Nay, I will consent to act any
<lb ed="G"/>villany against <lb ed="F1" n="641"/>him, that may not sully the
<lb ed="G"/>chariness of our honesty. O, <lb ed="F1" n="642"/>that my husband
<lb ed="G"/>saw this letter! it would give eternal <lb ed="F1" n="643"/>food to
<lb ed="G"/>his jealousy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="644"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Why, look where he comes;
<lb ed="G"/>and my good <lb ed="F1" n="645"/>man too: he's as far from jealousy
<lb ed="G"/>as I am from giving <lb ed="F1" n="646"/>him cause; and
<lb ed="G" n="109"/>that I hope is an unmeasurable <lb ed="F1" n="647"/>distance.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="648"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>You are the happier woman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="649"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Let's consult together against
<lb ed="G"/>this greasy <lb ed="F1" n="650"/>knight. Come hither.  <stage>[They retire.</stage>
<stage type="entrance">Enter FORD with PISTOL, and PAGE with NYM.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="651"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Well, I hope it be not so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="652"/></l></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs:
<lb ed="F1" n="653"/><lb ed="G"/>Sir John affects thy wife.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="654"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Why, sir, my wife is not young.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="655"/></l></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>He wooes both high and low, both rich and poor.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="656"/></l><l>Both young and old, one with another, Ford;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>He loves the <lb ed="F1" n="657"/>gallimaufry: Ford, perpend.

<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="658"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Love my wife!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="659"/></l></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>With liver burning hot. Prevent, <lb ed="F1" n="660"/>or go thou,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Like Sir Actaeon he, with <lb ed="F1" n="661"/>Ringwood at thy heels:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>O, odious is the name!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="662"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>What name, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="663"/></l></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>The horn, I say. Farewell.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="664"/></l><l>Take heed, have open eyes, for thieves do foot by night:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="665"/></l><l>Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="666"/></l><l>Away, Sir Corporal Nym!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="667"/></l><l>Believe it, Page; he speaks sense. <stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="668"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><stage>[Aside]</stage><p> I will be patient; I will find
<lb ed="G" n="131"/>out this.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="669"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><stage>[To Page]</stage><p>And this is true; I like
<lb ed="G"/>not the humor of lying. <lb ed="F1" n="670"/>He hath wronged me
<lb ed="G"/>in some humors: I should have <lb ed="F1" n="671"/>borne the humored
<lb ed="G"/>letter to her; but I have a sword <lb ed="F1" n="672"/>and
<lb ed="G"/>it shall bite upon my necessity. He loves your
<lb ed="G"/>wife; <lb ed="F1" n="673"/>there's the short and the long. My name
<lb ed="G"/>is Corporal <lb ed="F1" n="674"/>Nym; I speak and I avouch; 'tis
<lb ed="G"/>true: my name is Nym <lb ed="F1" n="675"/>and Falstaff loves your
<lb ed="G"/>wife. Adieu. I love not the humor <lb ed="F1" n="676"/>of bread
<lb ed="G"/>and cheese, and there's the humor of it.
<lb ed="G" n="141"/>Adieu.     <stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="677"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>'The humor of it,' quoth a'! here's
<lb ed="G"/>a fellow <lb ed="F1" n="678"/>frights English out of his wits.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="679"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>I will seek out Falstaff.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="680"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>I never heard such a drawling, affecting
<lb ed="G"/>rogue.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="681"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>If I do find it; well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="682"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>I will not believe such a Cataian,
<lb ed="G"/>though the <lb ed="F1" n="683"/>priest o' the town commended him
<lb ed="G" n="150"/>for a true man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="684"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>'Twas a good sensible fellow: well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="685"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>How now, Meg!
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Mrs. Page and Mrs. Ford come forward.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="686"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Whither go you, George?
<lb ed="G"/>Hark you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="687"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>How now, sweet Frank! why
<lb ed="G"/>art thou <lb ed="F1" n="688"/>melancholy?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="689"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>I melancholy! I am not melancholy.
<lb ed="F1" n="690"/><lb ed="G"/>Get you home, go.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="691"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Faith, thou has some crotchets
<lb ed="G"/>in thy head. <lb ed="F1" n="692"/>Now, will you go, Mistress Page?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="693"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Have with you, You'll come to
<lb ed="G"/>dinner, <lb ed="F1" n="694"/>George. <stage>[Aside to Mrs. Ford]</stage> Look
<lb ed="G"/>who comes yonder; she shall be our <lb ed="F1" n="695"/>messenger
<lb ed="G"/>to this paltry knight.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="696"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p><stage>[Aside to Mrs. Page]</stage> Trust me,
<lb ed="G"/>I thought on her: she'll fit it.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">           Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="697"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>You are come to see my
<lb ed="G"/>daughter Anne?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="698"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Ay, forsooth; and, I pray, how does
<lb ed="G" n="170"/>good Mistress <lb ed="F1" n="699"/>Anne?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="700"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Go in with us and see: we
<lb ed="G"/>have an hour's <lb ed="F1" n="701"/>talk with you.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Mrs. Page, Mrs. Ford, and Mrs. Quickly.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="702"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>How now, Master Ford!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="703"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>You heard what this knave told me,
<lb ed="G"/>did you not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="704"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Yes: and you heard what the other
<lb ed="G"/>told me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="705"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Do you think there is truth in them?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="706"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Hang 'em, slaves! I do not think the
<lb ed="G"/>knight <lb ed="F1" n="707"/>would offer it: but these that accuse
<lb ed="G"/>him in his intent <lb ed="F1" n="708"/>towards our wives are a yoke
<lb ed="G"/>of his discarded men; very <lb ed="F1" n="709"/>rogues, now they
<lb ed="G"/>be out of service.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="710"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Were they his men?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="711"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Marry, were they.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="712"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>I like it never the better for that.
<lb ed="F1" n="713"/><lb ed="G"/>Does he lie at the Garter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="714"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Ay, marry, does he. If he should intend
<lb ed="G"/>this voyage <lb ed="F1" n="715"/>towards my wife, I would
<lb ed="G"/>turn her loose to him; <lb ed="F1" n="716"/>and what he gets more
<lb ed="G"/>of her than sharp words, let it <lb ed="F1" n="717"/>lie on my head.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="718"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>I do not misdoubt my wife; but I
<lb ed="G"/>would be <lb ed="F1" n="719"/>loath to turn them together. A man
<lb ed="G"/>may be too confident: <lb ed="F1" n="720"/>I would have nothing
<lb ed="G"/>lie on my head: I cannot <lb ed="F1" n="721"/>be thus satisfied.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="722"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Look where my ranting host of the
<lb ed="G"/>Garter <lb ed="F1" n="723"/>comes: there is either liquor in his
<lb ed="G"/>pate or money in his <lb ed="F1" n="724"/>purse when he looks so
<lb ed="G"/>merrily.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                  Enter HOST.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>How now, mine <lb ed="F1" n="725"/>host!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="726"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>How now, bully-rook! thou'rt a gentleman.
<lb ed="F1" n="727"/><lb ed="G" n="201"/>Cavaleiro-justice, I say!
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                Enter SHALLOW.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="728"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>I follow, mine host, I follow. Good
<lb ed="G"/>even <lb ed="F1" n="729"/>and twenty, good Master Page! Master
<lb ed="G"/>Page, will you go <lb ed="F1" n="730"/>with us? we have sport in
<lb ed="G"/>hand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="731"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Tell him, cavaleiro-justice; tell him,
<lb ed="F1" n="732"/><lb ed="G"/>bully-rook.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="733"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Sir, there is a fray to be fought between
<lb ed="G"/>Sir <lb ed="F1" n="734"/>Hugh the Welsh priest and Caius the
<lb ed="G" n="210"/>French doctor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="735"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Good mine host o' the Garter, a
<lb ed="G"/>word with you.      <stage>[Drawing him aside.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="736"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><l>What sayest thou, my bully-rook?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="737"/></l></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p><stage>[To Page]</stage> Will you go with us to behold
<lb ed="G"/>it? My merry <lb ed="F1" n="738"/>host hath had the measuring
<lb ed="G"/>of their weapons; and, I <lb ed="F1" n="739"/>think, hath appointed
<lb ed="G"/>them contrary places; for, believe <lb ed="F1" n="740"/>me,
<lb ed="G"/>I hear the parson is no jester. Hark, I will <lb ed="F1" n="741"/>tell
<lb ed="G"/>you what our sport shall be.
<lb ed="G"/>   <stage>[They converse apart.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="742"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Hast thou no suit against my knight,
<lb ed="G" n="221"/>my <lb ed="F1" n="743"/>guest-cavaleire?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="744"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>None, I protest: but I'll give you a
<lb ed="G"/>pottle of <lb ed="F1" n="745"/>burnt sack to give me recourse to
<lb ed="G"/>him and tell him <lb ed="F1" n="746"/>my name is Brook; only
<lb ed="G"/>for a jest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="747"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>My hand, bully; thou shalt have
<lb ed="G"/>egress and <lb ed="F1" n="748"/>regress;--said I well?--and thy
<lb ed="G"/>name shall be Brook. It <lb ed="F1" n="749"/>is a merry knight.
<lb ed="G"/>Will you go, An-heires?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="750"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><l>Have with you, mine host.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="751"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>I have heard the Frenchman hath
<lb ed="G" n="231"/>good skill <lb ed="F1" n="752"/>in his rapier.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="753"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Tut, sir, I could have told you more.
<lb ed="G"/>In these <lb ed="F1" n="754"/>times you stand on distance, your
<lb ed="G"/>passes, stoccadoes. and <lb ed="F1" n="755"/>I know not what:
<lb ed="G"/>'tis the heart, Master Page; <lb ed="F1" n="756"/>'tis here, 'tis here.
<lb ed="G"/>I have seen the time, with my long sword
<lb ed="G"/>I <lb ed="F1" n="757"/>would have made you four tall fellows skip
<lb ed="G"/>like <lb ed="F1" n="758"/>rats.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="759"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><l>Here, boys, here, here shall we wag?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="760"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Have with you. I had rather hear
<lb ed="G"/>them scold <lb ed="F1" n="761"/>than fight.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Host, Shal., and Page.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="762"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Though Page be a secure fool, an
<lb ed="G"/>stands so <lb ed="F1" n="763"/>firmly on his wife's frailty, yet I
<lb ed="G"/>cannot put off my opinion <lb ed="F1" n="764"/>so easily: she was
<lb ed="G"/>in his company at Page's house; <lb ed="F1" n="765"/>and what
<lb ed="G"/>they made there, I know not. Well, I will look
<lb ed="F1" n="766"/><lb ed="G"/>further into't; and I have a disguise to sound
<lb ed="G"/>Falstaff. If <lb ed="F1" n="767"/>I find her honest, I lose not my
<lb ed="G"/>labor; if she be otherwise, <lb ed="F1" n="768"/>'tis labour well
<lb ed="G"/>bestowed.            <stage>[Exit.</stage></p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
    <head>SCENE II</head><lb ed="F1" n="769"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in the Garter Inn.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="770"/><stage type="entrance">         Enter FALSTAFF and PISTOL.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="771"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="772"/><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>I will not lend thee a penny.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="773"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Why, then the world's mine oyster,
<lb ed="G"/>Which I <lb ed="F1" n="774"/>with sword will open.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="775"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Not a penny.   I have been content, sir,
<lb ed="G"/>you <lb ed="F1" n="776"/>should lay my countenance to pawn: I
<lb ed="G"/>have grated upon <lb ed="F1" n="777"/>my good friends for three
<lb ed="G"/>reprieves for you and <lb ed="F1" n="778"/>your coach-fellow
<lb ed="G"/>Nym; or else you had looked through <lb ed="F1" n="779"/>the
<lb ed="G"/>grate, like a geminy of baboons.   I am damned
<lb ed="G"/>in <lb ed="F1" n="780"/>hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends,
<lb ed="G"/>you were <lb ed="F1" n="781"/>good soldiers and tall fellows; and
<lb ed="G"/>when Mistress <lb ed="F1" n="782"/>Bridget lost the handle of her
<lb ed="G"/>fan, I took 't upon mine honor <lb ed="F1" n="783"/>thou hadst it not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="784"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Didst not thou share? hadst thou not fifteen <lb ed="F1" n="785"/>pence?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="786"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Reason, you rogue, reason: thinkest
<lb ed="G"/>thou I'll endanger <lb ed="F1" n="787"/>my soul gratis? At a word,
<lb ed="G"/>hang no more about <lb ed="F1" n="788"/>me, I am no gibbet for
<lb ed="G"/>you. Go. A short knife and a <lb ed="F1" n="789"/>throng!   To your
<lb ed="G"/>manor of Pickt-hatch! Go. You'll not <lb ed="F1" n="790"/>bear a
<lb ed="G"/>letter for me, you rogue! you stand upon your
<lb ed="F1" n="791"/><lb ed="G"/>honor!   Why, thou unconfinable baseness, it
<lb ed="G"/>is as much <lb ed="F1" n="792"/>as I can do to keep the terms of
<lb ed="G"/>my honor precise: <lb ed="F1" n="793"/>I, I, I myself sometimes,
<lb ed="G"/>leaving the fear of God on <lb ed="F1" n="794"/>the left hand and
<lb ed="G"/>hiding mine honor in my necessity, am <lb ed="F1" n="795"/>fain to
<lb ed="G"/>shuffle, to hedge and to lurch; and yet you,
<lb ed="F1" n="796"/><lb ed="G"/>rogue, will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain
<lb ed="G"/>looks, <lb ed="F1" n="797"/>your red-lattice phrases, and
<lb ed="G"/>your bold-beating oaths, <lb ed="F1" n="798"/>under the shelter of
<lb ed="G" n="30"/>your honour!   You <lb ed="F1" n="799"/>will not do it, you!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="800"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>I do relent: what would thou more of man?
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                  Enter ROBIN.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="801"/></p></sp><sp who="rob."><speaker>Rob.</speaker><p>Sir, here's a woman would speak with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="802"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Let her approach.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">          Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="803"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Give your worship good morrow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="804"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Good morrow, good wife.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="805"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Not so, an 't please your worship.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="806"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Good maid, then.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="807"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>I'll be sworn,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="808"/>As my mother was, the first hour I was born.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="809"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>I do believe the swearer. What with me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="810"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Shall I vouchsafe your worship a
<lb ed="G"/>word or <lb ed="F1" n="811"/>two?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="812"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Two thousand, fair woman: and I'll
<lb ed="G"/>vouchsafe <lb ed="F1" n="813"/>thee the hearing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="814"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>There is one Mistress Ford, sir:--
<lb ed="G"/>I pray come a <lb ed="F1" n="815"/>little nearer this ways:--I myself
<lb ed="G"/>dwell with Master Doctor <lb ed="F1" n="816"/>Caius,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="817"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Well, on: Mistress Ford, you say,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="818"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Your worship says very true: I
<lb ed="G"/>pray your worship, <lb ed="F1" n="819"/>come a little nearer this
<lb ed="G"/>ways.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="820"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>I warrant thee, nobody hears; mine
<lb ed="G"/>own <lb ed="F1" n="821"/>people, mine own people.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="822"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Are they so?   God bless them and
<lb ed="G"/>make <lb ed="F1" n="823"/>them his servants!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="824"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Well, Mistress Ford; what of her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="825"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Why, sir, she's a good creature.
<lb ed="G"/>Lord, Lord! <lb ed="F1" n="826"/>your worship's a wanton! Well,
<lb ed="G"/>heaven forgive you <lb ed="F1" n="827"/>and all of us, I pray!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="828"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Mistress Ford; come, Mistress Ford,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="829"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Marry, this is the short and the
<lb ed="G"/>long of it; you <lb ed="F1" n="830"/>have brought her into such a
<lb ed="G"/>canaries as 'tis wonderful. <lb ed="F1" n="831"/>The best courtier
<lb ed="G"/>of them all, when the court lay <lb ed="F1" n="832"/>at Windsor,
<lb ed="G"/>could never have brought her to such a canary.
<lb ed="F1" n="833"/><lb ed="G"/>Yet there has been knights, and lords,
<lb ed="G"/>and gentlemen, <lb ed="F1" n="834"/>with their coaches, I warrant
<lb ed="G"/>you, coach after <lb ed="F1" n="835"/>coach, letter after letter, gift
<lb ed="G"/>after gift; smelling so sweetly, <lb ed="F1" n="836"/>all musk, and
<lb ed="G"/>so rushling, I warrant you, in silk <lb ed="F1" n="837"/>and gold;
<lb ed="G"/>and in such alligant terms; and in such wine
<lb ed="F1" n="838"/><lb ed="G"/>and sugar of the best and the fairest, that
<lb ed="G"/>would have <lb ed="F1" n="839"/>won any woman's heart; and I
<lb ed="G"/>warrant you, they could <lb ed="F1" n="840"/>never get an eye-wink
<lb ed="G"/>of her: I had myself twenty <lb ed="F1" n="841"/>angels given me
<lb ed="G"/>this morning; but I defy all angels, in <lb ed="F1" n="842"/>any
<lb ed="G"/>such sort, as they say, but in the way of honesty:
<lb ed="G"/>and, <lb ed="F1" n="843"/>I warrant you, they could never
<lb ed="G"/>get her so much as sip <lb ed="F1" n="844"/>on a cup with the
<lb ed="G"/>proudest of them all: and yet there has <lb ed="F1" n="845"/>been
<lb ed="G"/>earls, nay, which is more, pensioners; but, I
<lb ed="F1" n="846"/><lb ed="G" n="80"/>warrant you, all is one with her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="847"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>But what says she to me?   be brief,
<lb ed="G"/>my good <lb ed="F1" n="848"/>she-Mercury.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="849"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Marry, she hath received your letter,
<lb ed="G"/>for the <lb ed="F1" n="850"/>which she thanks you a thousand
<lb ed="G"/>times; and she gives <lb ed="F1" n="851"/>you to notify that her
<lb ed="G"/>husband will be absence from his <lb ed="F1" n="852"/>house between
<lb ed="G"/>ten and eleven.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="853"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Ten and eleven?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="854"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Ay, forsooth; and then you may
<lb ed="G"/>come and see the <lb ed="F1" n="855"/>picture, she says, that you
<lb ed="G"/>wot of: Master Ford, her husband, <lb ed="F1" n="856"/>will be
<lb ed="G"/>from home. Alas! the sweet woman leads <lb ed="F1" n="857"/>an
<lb ed="G"/>ill life with him: he's a very jealousy man:
<lb ed="G"/>she leads <lb ed="F1" n="858"/>a very frampold life with him, good
<lb ed="G"/>heart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="859"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Ten and eleven. <lb ed="F1" n="860"/>Woman, commend
<lb ed="G"/>me to her; I will not fail her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="861"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Why, you say well. But I have another
<lb ed="G"/>messenger <lb ed="F1" n="862"/>to your worship. Mistress
<lb ed="G"/>Page hath her hearty <lb ed="F1" n="863"/>commendations to you
<lb ed="G"/>too: and let me tell you in your <lb ed="F1" n="864"/>ear, she's as
<lb ed="G"/>fartuous a civil modest wife, and one, I <lb ed="F1" n="865"/>tell
<lb ed="G"/>you, that will not miss you morning nor evening
<lb ed="F1" n="866"/><lb ed="G"/>prayer, as any is in Windsor, whoe'er be
<lb ed="G"/>the other: and <lb ed="F1" n="867"/>she bade me tell your worship
<lb ed="G"/>that her husband is seldom <lb ed="F1" n="868"/>from home; but
<lb ed="G"/>she hopes there will come a time.   <lb ed="F1" n="869"/>I never
<lb ed="G"/>knew a woman so dote upon a man: surely
<lb ed="G"/>I <lb ed="F1" n="870"/>think you have charms, la; yes, in truth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="871"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Not I, I assure thee: setting the attraction
<lb ed="G"/>of my <lb ed="F1" n="872"/>good parts aside I have no
<lb ed="G" n="111"/>other charms.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="873"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>Blessing on your heart for't!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="874"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>But, I pray thee, tell me this: has
<lb ed="G"/>Ford's wife and <lb ed="F1" n="875"/>Page's wife acquainted each
<lb ed="G"/>other how they love me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="876"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>That were a jest indeed! they have
<lb ed="G"/>not so little <lb ed="F1" n="877"/>grace, I hope: that were a trick
<lb ed="G"/>indeed! but Mistress Page <lb ed="F1" n="878"/>would desire you to
<lb ed="G"/>send her your little page, of all loves: <lb ed="F1" n="879"/>her
<lb ed="G"/>husband has a marvellous infection to the
<lb ed="G"/>little page; <lb ed="F1" n="880"/>and truly Master Page is an honest
<lb ed="G"/>man. Never a wife in <lb ed="F1" n="881"/>Windsor leads a better
<lb ed="G"/>life than she does: do what she <lb ed="F1" n="882"/>will, say what
<lb ed="G"/>she will, take all, pay all, go to bed when <lb ed="F1" n="883"/>she
<lb ed="G"/>list, rise when she list, all is as she will: and
<lb ed="G"/>truly she <lb ed="F1" n="884"/>deserves it; for if there be a kind
<lb ed="G"/>woman in Windsor, she <lb ed="F1" n="885"/>is one.   You must
<lb ed="G"/>send her your page; no remedy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="886"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Why, I will.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="887"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Nay, but do so, then: and, look
<lb ed="G"/>you, he may <lb ed="F1" n="888"/>come and go between you both;
<lb ed="G"/>and in any case have <lb ed="F1" n="889"/>a nay-word, that you
<lb ed="G"/>may know one another's mind, <lb ed="F1" n="890"/>and the boy
<lb ed="G"/>never need to understand any thing; for <lb ed="F1" n="891"/>'tis
<lb ed="G"/>not good that children should know any wickedness:
<lb ed="F1" n="892"/><lb ed="G"/>old folks, you know, have discretion,
<lb ed="G"/>as they say, and <lb ed="F1" n="893"/>know the world.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="894"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Fare thee well: commend me to them
<lb ed="G"/>both: <lb ed="F1" n="895"/>there's my purse; I am yet thy debtor
<lb ed="G"/>Boy, go along <lb ed="F1" n="896"/>with this woman.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Mistress Quickly and Robin.]</stage> This news
<lb ed="G"/>distracts me!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="897"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>This punk is one of Cupid's carriers:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="898"/></l><l>'Clap on more sails; pursue; up with your fights:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="899"/></l><l>Give fire: she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!
<stage>[Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="900"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Sayest thou so, old Jack? go thy
<lb ed="G"/>ways; I'll make <lb ed="F1" n="901"/>more of thy old body than I
<lb ed="G"/>have done. Will they yet <lb ed="F1" n="902"/>look after thee? Wilt
<lb ed="G"/>thou, after the expense of so much <lb ed="F1" n="903"/>money,
<lb ed="G"/>be now a gainer?   Good body, I thank thee.
<lb ed="G"/>Let <lb ed="F1" n="904"/>them say 'tis grossly done; so it be fairly
<lb ed="G"/>done, no <lb ed="F1" n="905"/>matter.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter BARDOLPH.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="906"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Sir John, there's one Master Brook
<lb ed="G"/>below would <lb ed="F1" n="907"/>fain speak with you, and be acquainted
<lb ed="G"/>with you; and <lb ed="F1" n="908"/>hath sent your worship
<lb ed="G"/>a morning's draught of sack.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="909"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Brook is his name?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="910"/></l></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><l>Ay, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="911"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Call him in. <stage>[Exit Bardolph.]</stage> Such
<lb ed="G"/>Brooks are welcome to me, <lb ed="F1" n="912"/>that o'erflow such
<lb ed="G"/>liquor.   Ah, ha!   Mistress Ford and Mistress
<lb ed="F1" n="913"/><lb ed="G"/>Page, have I encompassed you? go to; via!
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance"> Re-enter BARDOLPH, with FORD disguised.</stage>

<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="914"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Bless you, sir!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="915"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>And you, sir! Would you speak with me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="916"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>I make bold to press with so little
<lb ed="G"/>preparation <lb ed="F1" n="917"/>upon you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="918"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>You're welcome.   What's your will?
<lb ed="G"/>Give us leave, <lb ed="F1" n="919"/>drawer.  <stage>[Exit Bardolph.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="920"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Sir, I am a gentleman that have
<lb ed="G"/>spent much: <lb ed="F1" n="921"/>my name is Brook.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="922"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Good Master Brook, I desire more
<lb ed="G"/>acquaintance <lb ed="F1" n="923"/>of you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="924"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Good Sir John, I sue for yours: not
<lb ed="G"/>to charge <lb ed="F1" n="925"/>you; for I must let you understand
<lb ed="G"/>I think myself in <lb ed="F1" n="926"/>better plight for a lender
<lb ed="G"/>than you are: the which hath <lb ed="F1" n="927"/>something emboldened
<lb ed="G"/>me to this unseasoned intrusion; <lb ed="F1" n="928"/>for
<lb ed="G"/>they say, if money go before, all ways do lie
<lb ed="F1" n="929"/><lb ed="G"/>open.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="930"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="931"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Troth, and I have a bag of money
<lb ed="G"/>here troubles <lb ed="F1" n="932"/>me: if you will help to bear it,
<lb ed="G"/>Sir John, take all, <lb ed="F1" n="933"/>or half, for easing me of
<lb ed="G"/>the carriage.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="934"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Sir, I know not how I may deserve to
<lb ed="G" n="181"/>be your <lb ed="F1" n="935"/>porter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="936"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>I will tell you, sir, if you will give
<lb ed="G"/>me the <lb ed="F1" n="937"/>hearing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="938"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Speak, good Master Brook: I shall
<lb ed="G"/>be glad to <lb ed="F1" n="939"/>be your servant.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="940"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Sir, I hear you are a scholar,--I will
<lb ed="G"/>be brief <lb ed="F1" n="941"/>with you,--and you have been a man
<lb ed="G"/>long known to me, <lb ed="F1" n="942"/>though I had never so good
<lb ed="G"/>means, as desire, to make myself <lb ed="F1" n="943"/>acquainted
<lb ed="G"/>with you.   I shall discover a thing to <lb ed="F1" n="944"/>you,
<lb ed="G"/>wherein I must very much lay open mine own
<lb ed="G"/>imperfection: <lb ed="F1" n="945"/>but good Sir John, as you have
<lb ed="G"/>one eye upon <lb ed="F1" n="946"/>my follies, as you hear them unfolded,
<lb ed="G"/>turn another <lb ed="F1" n="947"/>into the register of your
<lb ed="G"/>own; that I may pass with a <lb ed="F1" n="948"/>reproof the
<lb ed="G"/>easier, sith you yourself know how easy it <lb ed="F1" n="949"/>is
<lb ed="G"/>to be such an offender.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="950"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Very well, sir; proceed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="951"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>There is a gentlewoman in this
<lb ed="G"/>town; her <lb ed="F1" n="952"/>husband's name is Ford.

<lb ed="G" n="200"/><lb ed="F1" n="953"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Well, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="954"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>I have long loved her, and, I protest
<lb ed="G"/>to you, bestowed <lb ed="F1" n="955"/>much on her; followed her
<lb ed="G"/>with a doting observance; <lb ed="F1" n="956"/>engrossed opportunities
<lb ed="G"/>to meet her; fee'd every <lb ed="F1" n="957"/>slight occasion
<lb ed="G"/>that could but niggardly give me <lb ed="F1" n="958"/>sight
<lb ed="G"/>of her; not only bought many presents to give
<lb ed="G"/>her, <lb ed="F1" n="959"/>but have given largely to many to know
<lb ed="G"/>what she <lb ed="F1" n="960"/>would have given; briefly, I have
<lb ed="G"/>pursued her as love <lb ed="F1" n="961"/>hath pursued me; which
<lb ed="G"/>hath been on the wing of all <lb ed="F1" n="962"/>occasions. But
<lb ed="G"/>whatsoever I have merited, either in my <lb ed="F1" n="963"/>mind
<lb ed="G"/>or in my means, meed, I am sure, I have received
<lb ed="F1" n="964"/><lb ed="G"/>none; unless experience be a jewel that
<lb ed="G"/>I have purchased <lb ed="F1" n="965"/>at an infinite rate, and that
<lb ed="G"/>hath taught me to say <lb ed="F1" n="966"/>this:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="967"/></p><l>'Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="968"/></l><l>Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="969"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Have you received no promise of satisfaction
<lb ed="G"/>at <lb ed="F1" n="970"/>her hands?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="971"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Never.

<lb ed="G" n="221"/><lb ed="F1" n="972"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Have you importuned her to such a purpose?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="973"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Never.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="974"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Of what quality was your love, then?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="975"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Like a fair house built on another
<lb ed="G"/>man's ground; <lb ed="F1" n="976"/>so that I have lost my edifice
<lb ed="G"/>by mistaking the place <lb ed="F1" n="977"/>where I erected it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="978"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>To what purpose have you unfolded
<lb ed="G"/>this to me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="979"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>When I have told you that, I have
<lb ed="G"/>told you all. <lb ed="F1" n="980"/>Some say, that though she appear
<lb ed="G"/>honest to me, yet in <lb ed="F1" n="981"/>other places she enlargeth
<lb ed="G"/>her mirth so far that there <lb ed="F1" n="982"/>is shrewd
<lb ed="G"/>construction made of her.   Now, Sir John, here
<lb ed="F1" n="983"/><lb ed="G"/>is the heart of my purpose: you are a gentleman
<lb ed="G"/>of excellent <lb ed="F1" n="984"/>breeding, admirable discourse,
<lb ed="G"/>of great admittance, <lb ed="F1" n="985"/>authentic in your
<lb ed="G"/>place and person, generally <lb ed="F1" n="986"/>allowed for your
<lb ed="G"/>many war-like, court-like, and learned <lb ed="F1" n="987"/>preparations.

<lb ed="G" n="239"/><lb ed="F1" n="988"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>O, sir!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="989"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Believe it, for you know it. There
<lb ed="G"/>is money; <lb ed="F1" n="990"/>spend it, spend it; spend more;
<lb ed="G"/>spend all I have; only <lb ed="F1" n="991"/>give me so much of
<lb ed="G"/>your time in exchange of it, as to lay <lb ed="F1" n="992"/>an amiable
<lb ed="G"/>siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife:
<lb ed="G"/>use <lb ed="F1" n="993"/>your art of wooing; win her to consent
<lb ed="G"/>to you: if any <lb ed="F1" n="994"/>man may, you may as soon
<lb ed="G"/>as any.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="995"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Would it apply well to the vehemency
<lb ed="G"/>of your <lb ed="F1" n="996"/>affection, that I should win what you
<lb ed="G"/>would enjoy?   Methinks <lb ed="F1" n="997"/>you prescribe by yourself
<lb ed="G" n="250"/>very preposterously.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="998"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>O, understand my drift. She dwells
<lb ed="G"/>so securely <lb ed="F1" n="999"/>on the excellency of her honor,
<lb ed="G"/>that the folly of my soul <lb ed="F1" n="1000"/>dares not present itself:
<lb ed="G"/>she is too bright to be looked <lb ed="F1" n="1001"/>against.
<lb ed="G"/>Now, could I come to her with any detection
<lb ed="F1" n="1002"/><lb ed="G"/>in my hand, my desires had instance and argument
<lb ed="G"/>to <lb ed="F1" n="1003"/>commend themselves: I could drive
<lb ed="G"/>her then from the <lb ed="F1" n="1004"/>ward of her purity, her reputation,
<lb ed="G"/>her marriage-vow, <lb ed="F1" n="1005"/>and a thousand
<lb ed="G"/>other her defences, which now are too <lb ed="F1" n="1006"/>too
<lb ed="G"/>strongly embattled against me.   What say you
<lb ed="G" n="261"/>to't, <lb ed="F1" n="1007"/>Sir John?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1008"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Master Brook, I will first make bold
<lb ed="G"/>with your <lb ed="F1" n="1009"/>money; next, give me your hand;
<lb ed="G"/>and last, as I am a <lb ed="F1" n="1010"/>gentleman, you shall, if
<lb ed="G"/>you will, enjoy Ford's wife.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1011"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>O good sir!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1012"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>I say you shall.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1013"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Want no money, Sir John; you shall
<lb ed="G"/>want none.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1014"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Want no Mistress Ford, Master
<lb ed="G"/>Brook: you shall <lb ed="F1" n="1015"/>want none. I shall be with
<lb ed="G"/>her, I may tell you, by her <lb ed="F1" n="1016"/>own appointment;
<lb ed="G"/>even as you came in to me, her assistant <lb ed="F1" n="1017"/>or
<lb ed="G"/>go-between parted from me: I say I shall be
<lb ed="F1" n="1018"/><lb ed="G"/>with her between ten and eleven; for at that
<lb ed="G"/>time the <lb ed="F1" n="1019"/>jealous rascally knave her husband
<lb ed="G"/>will be forth. Come <lb ed="F1" n="1020"/>you to me at night; you
<lb ed="G"/>shall know how I speed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1021"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>I am blest in your acquaintance. Do
<lb ed="G" n="280"/>you know <lb ed="F1" n="1022"/>Ford, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1023"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Hang him, poor cuckoldly knave!   I
<lb ed="G"/>know <lb ed="F1" n="1024"/>him not: yet I wrong him to call him
<lb ed="G"/>poor; they say <lb ed="F1" n="1025"/>the jealous wittolly knave hath
<lb ed="G"/>masses of money; for <lb ed="F1" n="1026"/>the which his wife seems
<lb ed="G"/>to me well-favored. I will use <lb ed="F1" n="1027"/>her as the key
<lb ed="G"/>of the cuckoldly rogue's coffer; and there's
<lb ed="F1" n="1028"/><lb ed="G"/>my harvest-home.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1029"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>I would you knew Ford, sir, that
<lb ed="G"/>you might avoid <lb ed="F1" n="1030"/>him if you saw him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1031"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Hang him, mechanical salt-butter
<lb ed="G"/>rogue!   I will <lb ed="F1" n="1032"/>stare him out of his wits; I will
<lb ed="G"/>awe him with my cudgel: <lb ed="F1" n="1033"/>it shall hang like a
<lb ed="G"/>meteor o'er the cuckold's horns. <lb ed="F1" n="1034"/>Master
<lb ed="G"/>Brook, thou shalt know I will predominate
<lb ed="G"/>over <lb ed="F1" n="1035"/>the peasant and thou shalt lie with his
<lb ed="G"/>wife. Come <lb ed="F1" n="1036"/>to me soon at night. Ford's a
<lb ed="G"/>knave, and I will aggravate <lb ed="F1" n="1037"/>his style; thou,
<lb ed="G"/>Master Brook, shalt know him for <lb ed="F1" n="1038"/>knave and
<lb ed="G"/>cuckold. Come to me soon at night.  <stage>[Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1039"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>What a damned Epicurean rascal is
<lb ed="G"/>this! My <lb ed="F1" n="1040"/>heart is ready to crack with impatience.
<lb ed="G"/>Who says this <lb ed="F1" n="1041"/>is improvident jealousy?
<lb ed="G"/>my wife hath sent to him; the <lb ed="F1" n="1042"/>hour is
<lb ed="G"/>fixed; the match is made. Would any man
<lb ed="G"/>have <lb ed="F1" n="1043"/>thought this? See the hell of having a
<lb ed="G"/>false woman!   My <lb ed="F1" n="1044"/>bed shall be abused, my
<lb ed="G"/>coffers ransacked, my reputation <lb ed="F1" n="1045"/>gnawn at;
<lb ed="G"/>and I shall not only receive this villanous
<lb ed="F1" n="1046"/><lb ed="G"/>wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable
<lb ed="F1" n="1047"/><lb ed="G"/>terms, and by him   that does me this
<lb ed="G"/>wrong.   Terms! <lb ed="F1" n="1048"/>names! Amaimon sounds
<lb ed="F1" n="1049"/><lb ed="G"/>well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they
<lb ed="G"/>are devils' additions, the names of fiends: <lb ed="F1" n="1050"/>but
<lb ed="G"/>Cuckold! Wittol!--Cuckold! the devil himself
<lb ed="F1" n="1051"/><lb ed="G"/>hath not such a name.   Page is an ass, a
<lb ed="G"/>secure ass: he <lb ed="F1" n="1052"/>will trust his wife: he will not
<lb ed="G"/>be jealous. I will rather <lb ed="F1" n="1053"/>trust a Fleming with
<lb ed="G"/>my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman <lb ed="F1" n="1054"/>with
<lb ed="G"/>my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae
<lb ed="F1" n="1055"/><lb ed="G"/>bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding,
<lb ed="G"/>than <lb ed="F1" n="1056"/>my wife with herself: then she plots,
<lb ed="F1" n="1057"/><lb ed="G"/>then she ruminates, then she devises; and
<lb ed="G"/>what they think in their <lb ed="F1" n="1058"/>hearts they may effect,
<lb ed="G"/>they will break their hearts but <lb ed="F1" n="1059"/>they will
<lb ed="G"/>effect. God be praised for my jealousy!
<lb ed="F1" n="1060"/><lb ed="G"/>Eleven o'clock the hour. I will prevent this,
<lb ed="G"/>detect <lb ed="F1" n="1061"/>my wife, be revenged on Falstaff, and
<lb ed="G"/>laugh at Page.   I <lb ed="F1" n="1062"/>will about it; better three
<lb ed="G"/>hours too soon than a minute <lb ed="F1" n="1063"/>too late. Fie, fie,
<lb ed="G"/>fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold!  <lb ed="F1" n="1064"/> <stage>[Exit.</stage></p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
    <head>SCENE III</head><lb ed="F1" n="1065"/>
<stage type="setting">A field near Windsor.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1066"/><stage type="entrance">          Enter CAIUS and RUGBY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1067"/><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Jack Rugby!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1068"/></p></sp><sp who="rug."><speaker>Rug.</speaker><p>Sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1069"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Vat is de clock, Jack?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1070"/></p></sp><sp who="rug."><speaker>Rug.</speaker><p>'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh
<lb ed="G"/>promised <lb ed="F1" n="1071"/>to meet.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1072"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>By gar, he has save his soul, dat he
<lb ed="G"/>is no come; <lb ed="F1" n="1073"/>he has pray his Pible well, dat he
<lb ed="G"/>is no come: by gar, <lb ed="F1" n="1074"/>Jack Rugby, he is dead
<lb ed="G"/>already, if he be come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1075"/></p></sp><sp who="rug."><speaker>Rug.</speaker><p>He is wise, sir; he knew your worship
<lb ed="G" n="11"/>would <lb ed="F1" n="1076"/>kill him, if he came.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1077"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>By gar, de herring is no dead so as
<lb ed="G"/>I vill kill <lb ed="F1" n="1078"/>him. Take your rapier, Jack; I vill
<lb ed="G"/>tell you how I vill <lb ed="F1" n="1079"/>kill him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1080"/></p></sp><sp who="rug."><speaker>Rug.</speaker><p>Alas, sir, I cannot fence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1081"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Villany, take your rapier.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1082"/></p></sp><sp who="rug."><speaker>Rug.</speaker><p>Forbear; here's company.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">Enter HOST, SHALLOW, SLENDER, and PAGE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1083"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Bless thee, bully doctor!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1084"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Save you, Master Doctor Caius!

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1085"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Now, good master doctor!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1086"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Give you good morrow, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1087"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four,
<lb ed="G"/>come for?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1088"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to
<lb ed="G"/>see thee <lb ed="F1" n="1089"/>traverse; to see thee here, to see thee
<lb ed="G"/>there; to see thee <lb ed="F1" n="1090"/>pass thy punto, thy stock,
<lb ed="G"/>thy reverse, thy distance, thy <lb ed="F1" n="1091"/>montant. Is he
<lb ed="G"/>dead, my Ethiopian? is he dead, my Francisco?
<lb ed="F1" n="1092"/><lb ed="G"/>ha, bully! What says my AEsculapius?
<lb ed="G"/>my Galen? my <lb ed="F1" n="1093"/>heart of elder? ha! is he dead,
<lb ed="G" n="31"/>bully stale? is he dead?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1094"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>By gar, he is de coward Jack priest
<lb ed="G"/>of de vorld; <lb ed="F1" n="1095"/>he is not show his face.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1096"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Thou art a Castalion-King-Urinal.
<lb ed="G"/>Hector of <lb ed="F1" n="1097"/>Greece, my boy!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1098"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>I pray you, bear vitness that me
<lb ed="G"/>have stay <lb ed="F1" n="1099"/>six or seven, two, tree hours for him,
<lb ed="G"/>and he is no <lb ed="F1" n="1100"/>come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1101"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>He is the wiser man, master doctor:
<lb ed="G"/>he is a curer of <lb ed="F1" n="1102"/>souls, and you a curer of
<lb ed="G"/>bodies; if you should fight, you <lb ed="F1" n="1103"/>go against the
<lb ed="G"/>hair of your professions. Is it not true, <lb ed="F1" n="1104"/>Master
<lb ed="G"/>Page?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1105"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Master Shallow, you have yourself
<lb ed="G"/>been a <lb ed="F1" n="1106"/>great fighter, though now a man of
<lb ed="G"/>peace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1107"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Bodykins, Master Page, though I now
<lb ed="G"/>be old and <lb ed="F1" n="1108"/>of the peace, if I see a sword out,
<lb ed="G"/>my finger itches to <lb ed="F1" n="1109"/>make one.   Though we are
<lb ed="G"/>justices and doctors and <lb ed="F1" n="1110"/>churchmen, Master
<lb ed="G"/>Page, we have some salt of our youth <lb ed="F1" n="1111"/>in us;
<lb ed="G" n="51"/>we are the sons of women, Master

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1112"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>'Tis true, Master Shallow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1113"/></l></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>It will be found so, Master Page.
<lb ed="G"/>Master Doctor Caius, <lb ed="F1" n="1114"/>I am come to fetch you
<lb ed="G"/>home.   I am sworn of the peace: <lb ed="F1" n="1115"/>you have
<lb ed="G"/>showed yourself a wise physician, and Sir
<lb ed="F1" n="1116"/><lb ed="G"/>Hugh hath shown himself a wise and patient
<lb ed="G"/>churchman.   <lb ed="F1" n="1117"/>You must go with me, master
<lb ed="G"/>doctor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1118"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Pardon, guest-justice.   A word, Mounseur
<lb ed="F1" n="1119"/><lb ed="G" n="60"/>Mockwater.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1120"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><l>Mock-vater! vat is dat?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1121"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Mock-water, in our English tongue,
<lb ed="G"/>is valor, <lb ed="F1" n="1122"/>bully.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1123"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>By gar, den, I have as mush mockvater
<lb ed="G"/>as de <lb ed="F1" n="1124"/>Englishman.   Scurvy jack-dog
<lb ed="G"/>priest! by gar, me vill <lb ed="F1" n="1125"/>cut his ears.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1126"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>He will clapper-claw thee tightly,
<lb ed="G"/>bully.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1127"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><l>Clapper-de-claw! vat is dat?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1128"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><l>That is, he will make thee amends.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1129"/></l></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw
<lb ed="F1" n="1130"/><lb ed="G"/>me; for, by gar, me vill have it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1131"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>And I will provoke him to't, or let
<lb ed="G"/>him wag.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1132"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><l>Me tank you for dat.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1133"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>And, moreover, bully,--but first,
<lb ed="G"/>master guest, <lb ed="F1" n="1134"/>and Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro
<lb ed="G"/>Slender, go you through <lb ed="F1" n="1135"/>the town to
<lb ed="G"/>Frogmore.    <stage>[Aside to them.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1136"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>Sir Hugh is there, is he?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1137"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>He is there: see what humor he is
<lb ed="G"/>in; and I will <lb ed="F1" n="1138"/>bring the doctor about by the
<lb ed="G"/>fields.   Will it do well?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1139"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><l>We will do it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1140"/></l></sp><sp who="page. shal. slen."><speaker>Page., Shal., and Slen.</speaker><p>Adieu, good master doctor.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Page, Shal., and Slen.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1141"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>By gar, me vill kill de priest; for
<lb ed="G"/>he speak for a <lb ed="F1" n="1142"/>jack-an-ape to Anne Page.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1143"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Let him die; sheathe thy impatience,
<lb ed="G"/>throw cold <lb ed="F1" n="1144"/>water on thy choler: go about the
<lb ed="G"/>fields with me <lb ed="F1" n="1145"/>through Frogmore: I will bring
<lb ed="G"/>thee where Mistress Anne <lb ed="F1" n="1146"/>Page is, at a farm-house
<lb ed="G"/>a-feasting; and thou shalt woo <lb ed="F1" n="1147"/>her.
<lb ed="G"/>Cried I aim? said I well?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1148"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>By gar, me dank you vor dat: by
<lb ed="G"/>gar, I love <lb ed="F1" n="1149"/>you; and I shall procure-a you de
<lb ed="G"/>good guest, de earl, <lb ed="F1" n="1150"/>de knight, de lords, de
<lb ed="G"/>gentlemen, my patients.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1151"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>For the which I will be thy adversary
<lb ed="G"/>toward <lb ed="F1" n="1152"/>Anne Page.   Said I well?

<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="1153"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><l>By gar, 'tis good; veil said.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1154"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><l>Let us wag, then.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1155"/></l></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><l>Come at my heels, Jack Rugby.
<lb ed="F1" n="1156"/><lb ed="G"/>                 <stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
</div1>

    <div1 type="act" n="3">
        <head>ACT III</head><lb ed="F1" n="1157"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">A field near Frogmore.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1158"/><stage type="entrance">    Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1159"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1160"/><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>I pray you now, good Master Slender's
<lb ed="G"/>serving-man, <lb ed="F1" n="1161"/>and friend Simple by your
<lb ed="G"/>name, which way have <lb ed="F1" n="1162"/>you looked for Master
<lb ed="G"/>Caius, that calls himself doctor <lb ed="F1" n="1163"/>of physic?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1164"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward,
<lb ed="F1" n="1165"/><lb ed="G"/>every way; old Windsor way, and
<lb ed="G"/>every way but the <lb ed="F1" n="1166"/>town way.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1167"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>I most fehemently desire you you
<lb ed="G"/> will also <lb ed="F1" n="1168"/>look that way.

<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1169"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><l>I will, sir.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1170"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>'Pless my soul, how full of chollors
<lb ed="G"/>I am, and <lb ed="F1" n="1171"/>trempling of mind!   I shall be
<lb ed="G"/>glad if he have deceived <lb ed="F1" n="1172"/>me. How melancholies
<lb ed="G"/>I am!   I will knog his urinals about
<lb ed="F1" n="1173"/><lb ed="G"/>his knave's costard when I have good opportunities
<lb ed="F1" n="1174"/><lb ed="G"/>for the ork. 'Pless my soul!
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Sings. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/></p><l>To shallow rivers, to whose <lb ed="F1" n="1175"/>falls
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Melodious birds sings madrigals;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>There will we make <lb ed="F1" n="1176"/>our peds of roses,
<lb ed="G" n="20"/></l><l>And a thousand fragrant posies.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>To shallow--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1177"/></l><p>Mercy on me!   I have a great dispositions to
<lb ed="G"/>cry.  <stage>[Sings. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1178"/></p><l>Melodious birds sing madrigals--
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>When as I sat in Pabylon--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1179"/></l><l>And a thousand vagram posies.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>To shallow, &amp;c.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">               Re-enter SIMPLE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1180"/></l></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir
<lb ed="G"/>Hugh.

<lb ed="G" n="29"/><lb ed="F1" n="1181"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>He's welcome.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Sings.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></p><l>To shallow rivers, to whose falls--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1182"/></l><l>Heaven prosper the right!   What weapons is he?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1183"/></l></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>No weapons, sir. There comes my
<lb ed="G"/>master, Master <lb ed="F1" n="1184"/>Shallow, and another gentle-
<lb ed="G"/>man, from Frogmore, over <lb ed="F1" n="1185"/>the stile, this way.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1186"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Pray you, give me my gown; or
<lb ed="G"/>else keep it <lb ed="F1" n="1187"/>in your arms.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">    Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1188"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>How   now, master Parson! Good
<lb ed="G"/>morrow, good <lb ed="F1" n="1189"/>Sir Hugh.   Keep a gamester
<lb ed="G"/>from the dice, and a good <lb ed="F1" n="1190"/>student from his
<lb ed="G"/>book, and it is wonderful.

<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="1191"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p><stage>[Aside]</stage> Ah, sweet Anne Page!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1192"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>'Save you, good Sir Hugh!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1193"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>'Pless you from his mercy sake, all
<lb ed="G"/>of you

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1194"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>What, the sword and the word! <lb ed="F1" n="1195"/>do
<lb ed="G"/>you study them both, master parson?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1196"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>And youthful still! in your doublet
<lb ed="G"/>and hose <lb ed="F1" n="1197"/>this raw rheumatic day!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1198"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><l>There is reasons and causes for it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1199"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>We are come to you to do a good
<lb ed="G" n="50"/>office, master <lb ed="F1" n="1200"/>parson.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1201"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><l>Fery well: what is it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1202"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Yonder is a most reverend gentleman,
<lb ed="G"/>who, <lb ed="F1" n="1203"/>belike having received wrong by
<lb ed="G"/>some person, is at <lb ed="F1" n="1204"/>most odds with his own
<lb ed="G"/>gravity and patience that ever <lb ed="F1" n="1205"/>you saw.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1206"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>I have lived fourscore years and upward;
<lb ed="G"/>I <lb ed="F1" n="1207"/>never heard a man of his place, gravity
<lb ed="G"/> and learning, <lb ed="F1" n="1208"/>so wide of his own respect.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1209"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><l>What is he?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1210"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>I think you know him; Master Doctor
<lb ed="G"/>Caius, the <lb ed="F1" n="1211"/>renowned French physician. 61

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1212"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Got's will, and his passion of my
<lb ed="G"/>heart! I had <lb ed="F1" n="1213"/>as lief you would tell me of a
<lb ed="G"/>mess of porridge.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1214"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>Why?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1215"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>He has no more knowledge in Hibocrates
<lb ed="G"/>and <lb ed="F1" n="1216"/>Galen, and he is a knave besides;
<lb ed="G"/>a cowardly knave as <lb ed="F1" n="1217"/>you would desires
<lb ed="G"/>to be acquainted withal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1218"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>I warrant you, he's the man should
<lb ed="G" n="71"/>fight with <lb ed="F1" n="1219"/>him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1220"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p><stage>[Aside]</stage> O sweet Anne Page!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1221"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>It appears so by his weapons. Keep
<lb ed="G"/>them asunder; <lb ed="F1" n="1222"/>here comes Doctor Caius.
<stage type="entrance">Enter HOST, CAIUS and RUGBY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1223"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Nay, good master parson, keep in
<lb ed="G"/>your weapon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1224"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><l>So do you, good master doctor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1225"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Disarm them, and let them question:
<lb ed="G"/>let them <lb ed="F1" n="1226"/>keep their limbs whole and hack our
<lb ed="G" n="80"/>English.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1227"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>I pray you, let-a me speak a word
<lb ed="G"/>with your <lb ed="F1" n="1228"/>ear. Vherefore vill you not meet-
<lb ed="G"/>a me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1229"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p><stage>[Aside to Caius]</stage> Pray you, use
<lb ed="G"/>your patience: in good time.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1230"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>By gar, you are de coward, de Jack
<lb ed="G"/>dog, John <lb ed="F1" n="1231"/>ape.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1232"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><stage>[Aside to Caius]</stage><p>Pray you, let us
<lb ed="G"/>not be laughing-stocks to other <lb ed="F1" n="1233"/>men's humours;
<lb ed="G"/>I desire you in friendship and will one <lb ed="F1" n="1234"/>way
<lb ed="G"/>or other make you amends. <stage>[Aloud]</stage> I will
<lb ed="G"/>knog your urinals <lb ed="F1" n="1235"/>about your knave's cogs-
<lb ed="G"/>comb for missing your meetings and appointments.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1236"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Diable! Jack Rugby,--mine host
<lb ed="G"/>de Jarteer,--have I <lb ed="F1" n="1237"/>not stay for him to kill
<lb ed="G"/>him? have I not, at de place I did <lb ed="F1" n="1238"/>appoint?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1239"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>As I am a Christians soul now,
<lb ed="G"/>look you, <lb ed="F1" n="1240"/>this is the place appointed: I'll be
<lb ed="G"/>judgement by mine <lb ed="F1" n="1241"/>host of the Garter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1242"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><l>Peace, I say, Gallia and Gaul,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>French and Welsh, <lb ed="F1" n="1243"/>soul-curer and body-curer!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1244"/></l></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><l>Ay, dat is very good; excellent.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1245"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Peace, I say! hear mine host of the
<lb ed="G"/>Garter.   <lb ed="F1" n="1246"/>Am I politic? am   I subtle? am I
<lb ed="G"/>a Machiavel?   <lb ed="F1" n="1247"/>Shall I lose my doctor? no;
<lb ed="G"/>he gives me the potions <lb ed="F1" n="1248"/>and the motions.
<lb ed="G"/>Shall I lose my parson, my priest, <lb ed="F1" n="1249"/>my Sir
<lb ed="G"/>Hugh? no: he gives me the proverbs and the
<lb ed="F1" n="1250"/><lb ed="G"/>no-verbs. Give me thy hand, terrestrial; so.
<lb ed="G"/>Give me thy hand, celestial; so. Boys of <lb ed="F1" n="1251"/>art,
<lb ed="G"/>I have deceived you both; I have directed you
<lb ed="G"/>to <lb ed="F1" n="1252"/>wrong places: your hearts are mighty, your
<lb ed="G"/>skins are <lb ed="F1" n="1253"/>whole, and let burnt sack be the issue.
<lb ed="G"/>Come, lay their <lb ed="F1" n="1254"/>swords to pawn. Follow
<lb ed="G"/>me, lads of peace; follow, follow, <lb ed="F1" n="1255"/>follow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1256"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Trust me, a mad host. Follow, gentlemen,
<lb ed="F1" n="1257"/><lb ed="G"/>follow.
</p></sp>
<sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><stage>[Aside]</stage> <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1258"/><l>O sweet Anne Page!
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">Exeunt Shal., Slen., Page, and Host.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1259"/></l></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Ha, do I perceive dat? have you
<lb ed="G" n="119"/>make-a de sot <lb ed="F1" n="1260"/>of us, ha, ha?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1261"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>This is well; he has made us his
<lb ed="G"/>vlouting-stog. <lb ed="F1" n="1262"/>I desire you that we may be
<lb ed="G"/>friends; and let us knog our <lb ed="F1" n="1263"/>prains together
<lb ed="G"/>to be revenge on this same scall, scurvy, <lb ed="F1" n="1264"/>cogging
<lb ed="G"/>companion, the host of the Garter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1265"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>By gar, with all my heart.   He
<lb ed="G"/>promise to bring <lb ed="F1" n="1266"/>me where is Anne Page; by
<lb ed="G"/>gar, he deceive me too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1267"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Well, I will smite his noddles.
<lb ed="G"/>Pray you, follow.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
    <head>SCENE II</head><lb ed="F1" n="1268"/>
<lb ed="F1" n="1269"/>
<lb ed="F1" n="1270"/>
<stage type="setting">A street. Enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1271"/><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Nay, keep your way, little gallant;
<lb ed="G"/>you <lb ed="F1" n="1272"/>were wont to be a follower, but now
<lb ed="G"/>you are a leader.   <lb ed="F1" n="1273"/>Whether had you rather
<lb ed="G"/>lead mine eyes, or eye your master's <lb ed="F1" n="1274"/>heels?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1275"/></p></sp><sp who="rob."><speaker>Rob.</speaker><p>I had rather, forsooth, go before you
<lb ed="G"/>like a man <lb ed="F1" n="1276"/>than follow him like a dwarf.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1277"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>O, you are a flattering boy:
<lb ed="G"/>now I see you'll be a courtier.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                  Enter FORD.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1278"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Well met, Mistress Page. Whither
<lb ed="G"/>go you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1279"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Truly, sir, to see your wife. Is
<lb ed="G"/>she at home?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1280"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Ay; and as idle as she may hang
<lb ed="G"/>together, for want <lb ed="F1" n="1281"/>of company.   I think, if
<lb ed="G"/>your husbands were dead, you <lb ed="F1" n="1282"/>two would
<lb ed="G"/>marry.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1283"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Be sure of that,--two other
<lb ed="G"/>husbands.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1284"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Where had you this pretty weather-cock?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1285"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>I cannot tell what the dickens
<lb ed="G"/>his name is my <lb ed="F1" n="1286"/>husband had him of. What
<lb ed="G" n="21"/>do you call your knight's name, sirrah?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1287"/></p></sp><sp who="rob."><speaker>Rob.</speaker><l>Sir John Falstaff.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1288"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Sir John Falstaff!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1289"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>He, he; I can never hit on's
<lb ed="G"/>name.   There is such a <lb ed="F1" n="1290"/>league between my
<lb ed="G"/>good man and he!   Is your wife at home
<lb ed="G"/>indeed?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1291"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Indeed she is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1292"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>By your leave, sir: I am sick
<lb ed="G"/>till I see her.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Mrs. Page and Robin.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1293"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Has Page any brains? hath he any
<lb ed="G"/>eyes? hath he <lb ed="F1" n="1294"/>any thinking? Sure, they sleep;
<lb ed="G"/>he hath no use of them. <lb ed="F1" n="1295"/>Why, this boy will
<lb ed="G"/>carry a letter twenty mile, as easy as <lb ed="F1" n="1296"/>a cannon
<lb ed="G"/>will shoot point-blank twelve score. He pieces
<lb ed="F1" n="1297"/><lb ed="G"/>out his wife's inclination; he gives her folly
<lb ed="G"/>motion <lb ed="F1" n="1298"/>and advantage: and now she's going to
<lb ed="G"/>my wife, and Falstaff's <lb ed="F1" n="1299"/>boy with her. A man
<lb ed="G"/>may hear this shower sing <lb ed="F1" n="1300"/>in the wind. And
<lb ed="G"/>Falstaff's boy with her!   Good plots, <lb ed="F1" n="1301"/>they
<lb ed="G"/>are laid; and our revolted wives share damnation
<lb ed="F1" n="1302"/><lb ed="G"/>together.   Well; I will take him,
<lb ed="G"/>then torture my wife, <lb ed="F1" n="1303"/>pluck the borrowed veil
<lb ed="G"/>of modesty   from the so seeming <lb ed="F1" n="1304"/>Mistress
<lb ed="G"/>Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and
<lb ed="F1" n="1305"/><lb ed="G"/>wilful Actaeon; and to these violent proceedings
<lb ed="G"/>all my <lb ed="F1" n="1306"/>neighbours shall cry aim.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Clock heard.]</stage> The clock
<lb ed="G"/>gives me my cue, <lb ed="F1" n="1307"/>and my assurance bids me
<lb ed="G"/>search: there I shall find Falstaff: <lb ed="F1" n="1308"/>I shall be
<lb ed="G"/>rather praised for this than mocked; for <lb ed="F1" n="1309"/>it is
<lb ed="G"/>as positive as the earth is firm that Falstaff is
<lb ed="F1" n="1310"/><lb ed="G" n="50"/>there: I will go.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, SLENDER, HOST, SIR HUGH EVANS, CAIUS, and RUGBY. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1311"/></p></sp><sp who="shal. page."><speaker>Shal., Page, &amp;c.</speaker><p>Well met, Master Ford.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1312"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Trust me a good knot: I have good
<lb ed="G"/>cheer at <lb ed="F1" n="1313"/>home; and I pray you all go with me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1314"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>I must excuse myself, Master Ford.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1315"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>And so must I, sir: <lb ed="F1" n="1316"/>we have appointed
<lb ed="G"/>to dine with Mistress Anne, <lb ed="F1" n="1317"/>and I
<lb ed="G"/>would not break with her for more money
<lb ed="F1" n="1318"/><lb ed="G"/>than I'll speak of.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1319"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>We have lingered about a match between
<lb ed="G"/>Anne <lb ed="F1" n="1320"/>Page and my cousin Slender, and
<lb ed="G" n="60"/>this day we shall have <lb ed="F1" n="1321"/>our answer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1322"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I hope I have your good will, father
<lb ed="G"/>Page.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1323"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>You have, Master Slender; I stand
<lb ed="G"/>wholly for you: <lb ed="F1" n="1324"/>but my wife, master doctor,
<lb ed="G"/>is for you altogether.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1325"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Ay, be-gar; and de maid is love-a
<lb ed="G"/>me: my nursh-a-Quickly <lb ed="F1" n="1326"/>tell me so mush.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1327"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>What say you to young Master Fenton?
<lb ed="G"/>he capers, <lb ed="F1" n="1328"/>he dances, he has eyes of
<lb ed="G"/>youth, he writes verses, he <lb ed="F1" n="1329"/>speaks holiday, he
<lb ed="G"/>smells April and May: he will carry't, <lb ed="F1" n="1330"/>he
<lb ed="G"/>will carry't; 'tis in his buttons; he will
<lb ed="G" n="71"/>carry't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1331"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Not by my consent, I promise you.
<lb ed="G"/>The gentleman <lb ed="F1" n="1332"/>is of no having: he kept company
<lb ed="G"/>with the wild <lb ed="F1" n="1333"/>prince and Poins; he is
<lb ed="G"/>of too high a region; he knows <lb ed="F1" n="1334"/>too much. No,
<lb ed="G"/>he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes <lb ed="F1" n="1335"/>with
<lb ed="G"/>the finger of my substance: if he takes her, let
<lb ed="G"/>him <lb ed="F1" n="1336"/>take her simply; the wealth I have waits
<lb ed="G"/>on my consent, <lb ed="F1" n="1337"/>and my consent goes not that
<lb ed="G"/>way.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1338"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>I beseech you heartily, some of you
<lb ed="G"/>go home <lb ed="F1" n="1339"/>with me to dinner: besides your
<lb ed="G"/>cheer, you shall have <lb ed="F1" n="1340"/>sport; I will show you a
<lb ed="G"/>monster.   Master doctor, you shall <lb ed="F1" n="1341"/>go; so
<lb ed="G"/>shall you, Master Page; and you, Sir Hugh.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1342"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Well, fare you well: <lb ed="F1" n="1343"/>we shall have
<lb ed="G"/>the freer wooing at Master Page's.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Shal. and Slen.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1344"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><l>Go home, John Rugby: I come anon.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit Rugby.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1345"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Farewell, my hearts: I will to my
<lb ed="G"/>honest knight <lb ed="F1" n="1346"/>Falstaff, and drink canary with
<lb ed="G"/>him.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1347"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><stage>[Aside]</stage><p>I think I shall drink in
<lb ed="G"/>pipe-wine first with <lb ed="F1" n="1348"/>him: I'll make him dance.
<lb ed="G"/>Will you go, gentles?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1349"/></p></sp><sp who="all."><speaker>All.</speaker><l>Have with you to see this monster.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
    <head>SCENE III</head><lb ed="F1" n="1350"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in FORD'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1351"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1352"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1353"/><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>What, John!   What, Robert!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1354"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>Quickly, quickly! Is the buck-basket--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1355"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>I warrant. What, Robin, I say!
<stage type="entrance">Enter SERVANTS with a basket.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1356"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>Come, come, come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1357"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Here, set it down.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1358"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Give your men the charge; we
<lb ed="G"/>must be brief.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1359"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Marry, as I told you before,
<lb ed="G"/>John and Robert, <lb ed="F1" n="1360"/>be ready here hard by in
<lb ed="G"/> the brew-house: and when I suddenly <lb ed="F1" n="1361"/>call
<lb ed="G"/> you, come forth, and without any pause or
<lb ed="F1" n="1362"/><lb ed="G"/> staggering take this basket on your shoulders:
<lb ed="G"/> that done, <lb ed="F1" n="1363"/>trudge with it in all haste, and
<lb ed="G"/> carry it among the whitsters <lb ed="F1" n="1364"/>in Datchet-mead,
<lb ed="G"/> and there empty it in the muddy <lb ed="F1" n="1365"/>ditch close
<lb ed="G"/> by the Thames side.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1366"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>You will do it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1367"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>I ha' told them over and over;
<lb ed="G"/>they lack no direction.   <lb ed="F1" n="1368"/>Be gone, and come
<lb ed="G" n="20"/>when you are called.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Servants. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1369"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>Here comes little Robin.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                  Enter ROBIN.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1370"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>How   now, my eyas-musket!
<lb ed="G"/>what news with you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1371"/></p></sp><sp who="rob."><speaker>Rob.</speaker><p>My master, Sir John, is come in at
<lb ed="G"/>your back-door, <lb ed="F1" n="1372"/>Mistress Ford, and requests
<lb ed="G"/>your company.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1373"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>You little Jack-a-Lent, have
<lb ed="G"/>you been true to us?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1374"/></p></sp><sp who="rob."><speaker>Rob.</speaker><p>Ay, I'll be sworn. My master knows
<lb ed="G"/>not of your <lb ed="F1" n="1375"/>being here and hath threatened to
<lb ed="G"/>put me into everlasting <lb ed="F1" n="1376"/>liberty if I tell you of
<lb ed="G"/>it; for he swears he'll turn <lb ed="F1" n="1377"/>me away.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1378"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Thou'rt a good boy: this secrecy
<lb ed="G"/>of thine <lb ed="F1" n="1379"/>shall be a tailor to thee and
<lb ed="G"/>shall make thee a new doublet <lb ed="F1" n="1380"/>and hose. I'll
<lb ed="G"/>go hide me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1381"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Do so.   Go tell thy master I
<lb ed="G"/>am alone. <stage>[Exit Robin.</stage> Mistress <lb ed="F1" n="1382"/>Page, remember
<lb ed="G"/>you your cue.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1383"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>I warrant thee; if I do not act
<lb ed="G" n="41"/>it, hiss me.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1384"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Go to, then: we'll use this
<lb ed="G"/>unwholesome <lb ed="F1" n="1385"/>humidity, this gross watery
<lb ed="G"/>pumpion; we'll teach him <lb ed="F1" n="1386"/>to know turtles
<lb ed="G"/>from jays.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                Enter FALSTAFF.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1387"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Have I caught thee, my heavenly
<lb ed="G"/>jewel? Why, <lb ed="F1" n="1388"/>now let me die, for I have lived
<lb ed="G"/>long enough: this is the <lb ed="F1" n="1389"/>period of my ambition:
<lb ed="G"/>O this blessed hour!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1390"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>O sweet Sir John!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1391"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot
<lb ed="G"/>prate, Mistress <lb ed="F1" n="1392"/>Ford.   Now shall I sin in my
<lb ed="G"/>wish: I would thy husband <lb ed="F1" n="1393"/>were dead: I'll
<lb ed="G"/>speak it before the best lord; I would <lb ed="F1" n="1394"/>make
<lb ed="G"/>thee my lady.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1395"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>I your lady, Sir John! alas, I
<lb ed="G"/>should be a <lb ed="F1" n="1396"/>pitiful lady!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1397"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Let the court of France show me
<lb ed="G"/>such another. <lb ed="F1" n="1398"/>I see how thine eye would emulate
<lb ed="G"/>the diamond: thou <lb ed="F1" n="1399"/>hast the right arched
<lb ed="G"/>beauty of the brow that becomes <lb ed="F1" n="1400"/>the ship-tire,
<lb ed="G"/>the tire-valiant, or any tire of Venetian
<lb ed="F1" n="1401"/><lb ed="G" n="61"/>admittance.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1402"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>A   plain kerchief, Sir John:
<lb ed="F1" n="1403"/><lb ed="G"/>my brows become nothing else; nor that well
<lb ed="G"/>neither.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1404"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>By the Lord. thou art a traitor to say
<lb ed="G"/>so: thou wouldst make <lb ed="F1" n="1405"/>an absolute courtier;
<lb ed="G"/>and the firm fixture of thy foot <lb ed="F1" n="1406"/>would give an
<lb ed="G"/>excellent motion to thy gait in a semi-circled
<lb ed="F1" n="1407"/><lb ed="G"/>farthingale.   I see what thou wert, if Fortune
<lb ed="G"/>thy <lb ed="F1" n="1408"/>foe were not, Nature thy friend.   Come,
<lb ed="G" n="71"/>thou canst not <lb ed="F1" n="1409"/>hide it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1410"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Believe me, there's no such
<lb ed="G"/>thing in me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1411"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>What made me love thee? let that
<lb ed="G"/>persuade <lb ed="F1" n="1412"/>thee there's something extraordinary
<lb ed="G"/>in thee. Come, I <lb ed="F1" n="1413"/>cannot cog and cay thou art
<lb ed="G"/>this and that, like a many <lb ed="F1" n="1414"/>of these lisping
<lb ed="G"/>hawthorn-buds, that come like women <lb ed="F1" n="1415"/>in men's
<lb ed="G"/>apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury in simple
<lb ed="F1" n="1416"/><lb ed="G"/>time; I cannot: but I love thee; none but
<lb ed="G" n="81"/>thee; and <lb ed="F1" n="1417"/>thou deserves it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1418"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Do not betray me, sir. I fear
<lb ed="G"/>you love Mistress Page.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1419"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Thou mightst as well say I love to
<lb ed="G"/>walk by the <lb ed="F1" n="1420"/>Counter-gate, which is as hateful
<lb ed="G"/>to me as the reek of <lb ed="F1" n="1421"/>a lime-kiln.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1422"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Well, heaven knows how I
<lb ed="G"/>love you; <lb ed="F1" n="1423"/>and you shall one day find it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1424"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Keep in that mind; I'll deserve it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1425"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Nay, I must tell you, so you
<lb ed="G" n="91"/>do; <lb ed="F1" n="1426"/>or else I could not be in that mind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1427"/></p></sp><sp who="rob."><speaker>Rob.</speaker><p><stage>[Within]</stage> Mistress Ford, Mistress
<lb ed="G"/>Ford! here's Mistress Page at <lb ed="F1" n="1428"/>the door sweating
<lb ed="G"/>and blowing and looking wildly, <lb ed="F1" n="1429"/>and
<lb ed="G"/>would needs speak with you presently.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1430"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>She shall not see me: I will ensconce
<lb ed="G"/>me behind <lb ed="F1" n="1431"/>the arras.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1432"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Pray you, do so: she's a very
<lb ed="G"/>tattling woman.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Falstaff hides himself.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">    Re-enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN.</stage>
<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="1433"/>What's the matter? how now!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1434"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>O Mistress Ford, what have
<lb ed="G"/>you done?   <lb ed="F1" n="1435"/>You're shamed, you're over-
<lb ed="G"/>thrown, you're undone for ever!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1436"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>What's the matter, good Mistress Page?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1437"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>O well-a-day, Mistress Ford!
<lb ed="G"/>having an honest man <lb ed="F1" n="1438"/>to your husband, to
<lb ed="G"/>give him such cause of suspicion!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1439"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>What cause of suspicion?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1440"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>What cause of suspicion! Out
<lb ed="G" n="111"/>upon you! <lb ed="F1" n="1441"/>how am I mistook in you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1442"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Why, alas, what's the matter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1443"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Your husband's coming hither,
<lb ed="G"/>woman, <lb ed="F1" n="1444"/>with all the officers in Windsor, to
<lb ed="G"/>search for a gentleman <lb ed="F1" n="1445"/>that he says is here
<lb ed="G"/>now in the house by your <lb ed="F1" n="1446"/>consent, to take an
<lb ed="G"/>ill advantage of his absence: you are <lb ed="F1" n="1447"/>undone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1448"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>'Tis not so, I hope.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1449"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Pray heaven it be not so, that
<lb ed="G"/>you have such <lb ed="F1" n="1450"/>a man here! but 'tis most certain
<lb ed="G"/>your husband's coming, <lb ed="F1" n="1451"/>with half Windsor
<lb ed="G"/>at his heels, to search for such <lb ed="F1" n="1452"/>a one. I
<lb ed="G"/>come before to tell you. If you know yourself
<lb ed="F1" n="1453"/><lb ed="G"/>clear, why, I am glad of it; but if you
<lb ed="G"/>have a friend here, <lb ed="F1" n="1454"/>convey, convey him out.
<lb ed="G"/>Be not amazed; call all your <lb ed="F1" n="1455"/>senses to you;
<lb ed="G"/>defend your reputation, or bid farewell to
<lb ed="F1" n="1456"/><lb ed="G"/>your good life for ever.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1457"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>What shall I do?   There is a
<lb ed="G"/>gentleman my <lb ed="F1" n="1458"/>dear friend; and I fear not
<lb ed="G"/>mine own shame so much <lb ed="F1" n="1459"/>as his peril: I had
<lb ed="G"/>rather than a thousand pound he were <lb ed="F1" n="1460"/>out of
<lb ed="G"/>the house.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1461"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>For shame! never stand 'you
<lb ed="G"/>had rather' and <lb ed="F1" n="1462"/>'you had rather:' your husband's
<lb ed="G"/>here at hand; bethink <lb ed="F1" n="1463"/>you of some
<lb ed="G"/>conveyance; in the house you cannot hide <lb ed="F1" n="1464"/>him.
<lb ed="G"/>O, how have you deceived me! Look, here is
<lb ed="G"/>a <lb ed="F1" n="1465"/>basket: if he be of any reasonable stature,
<lb ed="G"/>he may creep <lb ed="F1" n="1466"/>in here; and throw foul linen
<lb ed="G"/>upon him, as if it were <lb ed="F1" n="1467"/>going to bucking: or--
<lb ed="G"/>it is whiting time--send him by <lb ed="F1" n="1468"/>your two men
<lb ed="G" n="141"/>to Datchet-mead.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1469"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>He's too big to go in there.
<lb ed="G"/>What shall I do?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1470"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><stage>[Coming forward]</stage><p>Let me see't, let
<lb ed="G"/>me see't, O, let me see't! <lb ed="F1" n="1471"/>I'll in, I'll in.
<lb ed="G"/></p><l>Follow your friend's counsel. I'll in.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1472"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>What, Sir John Falstaff! Are
<lb ed="G"/>these your letters, <lb ed="F1" n="1473"/>knight?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1474"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>I love thee. Help me away. Let me
<lb ed="G" n="150"/>creep in <lb ed="F1" n="1475"/>here.   I'll never--
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Gets into the basket; they cover him with foul linen.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1476"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Help to cover your master,
<lb ed="G"/> boy.   Call <lb ed="F1" n="1477"/>your men, Mistress Ford.   You
<lb ed="G"/>dissembling knight!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1478"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>What, John! Robert! John!
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit Robin.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                Re-enter Servants.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>Go take up these <lb ed="F1" n="1479"/>clothes here quickly. Where's
<lb ed="G"/>the cowl-staff? look, <lb ed="F1" n="1480"/>how you drumble!
<lb ed="G"/>Carry them to the laundress in Datchet-mead;
<lb ed="F1" n="1481"/><lb ed="G"/>quickly, come.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter FORD, PAGE, CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1482"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Pray you, come near: if I suspect
<lb ed="G"/> without cause, <lb ed="F1" n="1483"/>why then make sport at me;
<lb ed="G"/> then let me be your jest; <lb ed="F1" n="1484"/>I deserve it. How
<lb ed="G"/> now! whither bear you this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1485"/></p></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><p>To the laundress, forsooth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1486"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Why, what have you to do
<lb ed="G"/> whither they <lb ed="F1" n="1487"/>bear it?   You were best meddle
<lb ed="G"/> with buck-washing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1488"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Buck! I would I could wash myself
<lb ed="G"/>of the buck!   <lb ed="F1" n="1489"/>Buck, buck, buck!   Ay,
<lb ed="G"/>buck; I warrant you, buck; <lb ed="F1" n="1490"/>and of the season
<lb ed="G"/>too, it shall appear.

<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Servants with the basket.]</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1491"/>Gentlemen, I have dreamed tonight;
<lb ed="G"/>I'll tell you my <lb ed="F1" n="1492"/>dream. Here, here,
<lb ed="G"/>here be my keys: ascend my <lb ed="F1" n="1493"/>chambers;
<lb ed="G"/>search, seek, find out: I'll warrant we'll <lb ed="F1" n="1494"/>unkennel
<lb ed="G"/>the fox.   Let me stop this way first. <stage>[Locking the door.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>So, now <lb ed="F1" n="1495"/>uncape.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1496"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Good Master Ford, be contented;
<lb ed="F1" n="1497"/><lb ed="G"/>you wrong yourself too much.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1498"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>True, Master Page.   Up, gentlemen;
<lb ed="F1" n="1499"/><lb ed="G"/>you shall see sport anon: <lb ed="F1" n="1500"/>follow me.
<lb ed="G"/>gentlemen.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1501"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>This is fery fantastical humours
<lb ed="G"/>and jealousies.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1502"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>By gar, 'tis no the fashion of
<lb ed="G"/>France; <lb ed="F1" n="1503"/>it is not jealous in France.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1504"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Nay, follow   him, gentlemen; see
<lb ed="G"/>the issue of <lb ed="F1" n="1505"/>his search.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Page, Caius and Evans.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1506"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Is there not a double excellency
<lb ed="G"/>in this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1507"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>I know not which pleases me
<lb ed="G"/>better, <lb ed="F1" n="1508"/>that my husband is deceived, or Sir
<lb ed="G"/>John.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1509"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>What a taking was he in when
<lb ed="G"/>your <lb ed="F1" n="1510"/>husband asked who was in the basket!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1511"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>I am half afraid he will have
<lb ed="G"/>need of <lb ed="F1" n="1512"/>washing; so throwing him into the
<lb ed="G"/>water will do him <lb ed="F1" n="1513"/>a benefit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1514"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Hang him, dishonest rascal! I
<lb ed="G"/>would all <lb ed="F1" n="1515"/>of the same strain were in the same
<lb ed="G"/>distress.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1516"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>I think my husband hath some
<lb ed="G"/>special <lb ed="F1" n="1517"/>suspicion of Falstaff's being here; for
<lb ed="G"/>I never saw him so <lb ed="F1" n="1518"/>gross in his jealousy till
<lb ed="G"/>now.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1519"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>I will lay a plot to try that;
<lb ed="G"/>and we will <lb ed="F1" n="1520"/>yet have more tricks with Falstaff:
<lb ed="G"/>his dissolute disease <lb ed="F1" n="1521"/>will scarce obey
<lb ed="G"/>this medicine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1522"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Shall we send that foolish carrion,
<lb ed="G"/>Mistress <lb ed="F1" n="1523"/>Quickly, to him, and excuse his
<lb ed="G"/>throwing into the water; <lb ed="F1" n="1524"/>and give him another
<lb ed="G"/>hope, to betray him to another <lb ed="F1" n="1525"/>punishment?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1526"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>We will do it: let him be sent
<lb ed="G"/>for to-morrow, <lb ed="F1" n="1527"/>eight o'clock, to have amends.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter FORD, PAGE, CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1528"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>I cannot find him: may be the knave
<lb ed="G"/>bragged <lb ed="F1" n="1529"/>of that he could not compass.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1530"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><stage>[Aside to Mrs. Ford]</stage><p>Heard you that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1531"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>You use me well, Master Ford, do you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1532"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Ay, I do so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1533"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Heaven make you better than
<lb ed="G"/>sour thoughts!

<lb ed="G" n="220"/><lb ed="F1" n="1534"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Amen!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1535"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>You do yourself mighty wrong,
<lb ed="G"/>Master Ford.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1536"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Ay, ay; I must bear it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1537"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>If there be any pody in the house
<lb ed="G"/>and in the chambers, <lb ed="F1" n="1538"/>and in the coffers, and
<lb ed="G"/>in the presses, heaven forgive <lb ed="F1" n="1539"/>my sins at
<lb ed="G"/>the day of judgement!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1540"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>By gar, nor I too: there is no
<lb ed="G"/>bodies.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1541"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Fie, fie, Master Ford! are you not
<lb ed="G"/>ashamed?   What spirit, <lb ed="F1" n="1542"/>what devil suggests
<lb ed="G"/>this imagination? I would not ha' <lb ed="F1" n="1543"/>your distemper
<lb ed="G"/>in this kind for the wealth of Windsor
<lb ed="G"/>Castle.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1544"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>'Tis my fault, Master Page: I suffer
<lb ed="G"/>for it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1545"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>You suffer for a pad conscience:
<lb ed="G"/>your wife is <lb ed="F1" n="1546"/>as honest a 'omans as I will desires
<lb ed="G"/>among five thousand, <lb ed="F1" n="1547"/>and five hundred
<lb ed="G"/>too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1548"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><l>By gar, I see 'tis an honest woman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1549"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Well, I promised you a dinner.
<lb ed="G"/>Come, come back <lb ed="F1" n="1550"/>in the Park: I pray you,
<lb ed="G"/>pardon me; I will hereafter make <lb ed="F1" n="1551"/>known to
<lb ed="G"/>you why I have done this.   Come, wife;
<lb ed="G"/>come, <lb ed="F1" n="1552"/>Mistress Page. I pray you pardon me;
<lb ed="G"/>pray heartily, pardon me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1553"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Let's go in, gentlemen; but, trust
<lb ed="G"/>me, we'll mock <lb ed="F1" n="1554"/>him. I do invite you to-morrow
<lb ed="G"/>morning to my house <lb ed="F1" n="1555"/>to breakfast: after,
<lb ed="G"/>we'll a-birding together; I have a fine <lb ed="F1" n="1556"/>hawk
<lb ed="G"/>for the bush. Shall it be so?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1557"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Any thing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1558"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>If there is one, I shall make two in
<lb ed="G" n="251"/> the company.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1559"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>If dere be one or two, I shall make-
<lb ed="G"/>a the turd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1560"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Pray you, go, Master Page.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1561"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>I pray you now, remembrance to-morrow
<lb ed="G"/>on the <lb ed="F1" n="1562"/>lousy knave, mine host.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1563"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>Dat is good; by gar, with all my
<lb ed="G"/>heart!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1564"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>A lousy knave, to have his gibes
<lb ed="G"/> and his <lb ed="F1" n="1565"/>mockeries!
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
    <head>SCENE IV</head><lb ed="F1" n="1566"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in PAGE'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1567"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter FENTON and ANNE PAGE. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1568"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1569"/><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l>I see I cannot get thy father's love;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1570"/></l><l>Therefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1571"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l part="I">Alas, how then?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1572"/></l></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l part="F">Why, thou must be thyself.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1573"/></l><l>He doth object I am too great of birth;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1574"/></l><l>And that, my state being gall'd with my expense,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1575"/></l><l>I seek to heal it only by his wealth:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1576"/></l><l>Besides these, other bars he lays before me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1577"/></l><l>My riots past, my wild societies;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1578"/></l><l>And tells me 'tis a thing impossible
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1579"/></l><l>I should love thee but as a property.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1580"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>May be he tells you true.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1581"/></l></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l>No, heaven so speed me in my time to come!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1582"/></l><l>Albeit I will confess thy father's wealth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1583"/></l><l>Was the first motive that I woo'd thee, Anne:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1584"/></l><l>Yet, wooing thee, I found thee of more value
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1585"/></l><l>Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1586"/></l><l>And 'tis the very riches of thyself
<lb ed="F1" n="1587"/></l><l part="I">That now I aim at.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1588"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l part="F">Gentle Master Fenton,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1589"/></l><l>Yet seek my father's love; still seek it, sir:
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1590"/></l><l>If opportunity and humblest suit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1591"/></l><l>Cannot attain it, why, then,--hark you hither!
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[They converse apart.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and MISTRESS QUICKLY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1592"/></l></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Break their talk, Mistress Quickly:
<lb ed="F1" n="1593"/><lb ed="G"/>my kinsman shall speak for himself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1594"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I'll make a shaft or a bolt on't:
<lb ed="G"/>'slid, 'tis but venturing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1595"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><l>Be not dismayed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1596"/></l></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>No, she shall not dismay me: <lb ed="F1" n="1597"/>I care
<lb ed="G"/>not for that, but that I am afeard.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1598"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Hark ye; Master Slender would
<lb ed="G" n="30"/>speak a word with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1599"/></p></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>I come to him.   <stage>Aside</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>This is my father's choice.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1600"/></l><l>O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1601"/></l><l>Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1602"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>And how does good Master Fenton?
<lb ed="F1" n="1603"/><lb ed="G"/>Pray you, a word with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1604"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>She's coming; to her, coz. <lb ed="F1" n="1605"/>O boy,
<lb ed="G"/>thou hadst a father!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1606"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>I had a father, Mistress Anne; my
<lb ed="G"/>uncle can tell you good <lb ed="F1" n="1607"/>jests of him.   Pray
<lb ed="G"/>you, uncle, tell Mistress Anne the jest, how
<lb ed="F1" n="1608"/><lb ed="G"/>my father stole two geese out of a pen, good
<lb ed="G" n="41"/>uncle.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1609"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><l>Mistress Anne, my cousin loves you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1610"/></l></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Ay, that I do: as well as I love any
<lb ed="G"/>woman in <lb ed="F1" n="1611"/>Gloucestershire.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1612"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><l>He will maintain you like a gentlewoman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1613"/></l></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Ay, that I will, come cut and long-tail,
<lb ed="G"/>under the <lb ed="F1" n="1614"/>degree of a squire.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1615"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>He will make you a hundred and
<lb ed="G" n="50"/>fifty pounds <lb ed="F1" n="1616"/>jointure.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1617"/></p></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><p>Good Master Shallow, let him woo
<lb ed="G"/>for <lb ed="F1" n="1618"/>himself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1619"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Marry, I thank you for it; I thank
<lb ed="G"/>you for <lb ed="F1" n="1620"/>that good comfort.   She calls you,
<lb ed="G"/>coz: I'll leave you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1621"/></p></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Now, Master Slender,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1622"/></l></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><l>Now, good Mistress Anne,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1623"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>What is your will?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1624"/></l></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>My will! 'od's heartlings, that's a
<lb ed="G"/>pretty <lb ed="F1" n="1625"/>jest indeed! I ne'er made my will yet,
<lb ed="G"/>I thank heaven; <lb ed="F1" n="1626"/>I am not such a sickly creature,
<lb ed="G" n="62"/>I give heaven <lb ed="F1" n="1627"/>praise.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1628"/></p></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><p>I mean, Master Slender, what would
<lb ed="G"/>you with me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1629"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Truly, for mine own part, I would
<lb ed="G"/>little or <lb ed="F1" n="1630"/>nothing with you. Your father and
<lb ed="G"/>my uncle hath made <lb ed="F1" n="1631"/>motions: if it be my luck,
<lb ed="G"/>so; if not, happy man be his <lb ed="F1" n="1632"/>dole! They can
<lb ed="G"/>tell you how things go better than I can: <lb ed="F1" n="1633"/>you
<lb ed="G" n="70"/>may ask your father; here he comes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1634"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>Now, Master Slender: love him, daughter Anne.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1635"/></l><l>Why, how now! what does Master Fenton here?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1636"/></l><l>You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1637"/></l><l>I told you, sir, my daughter is disposed of.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1638"/></l></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l>Nay, Master Page, be not impatient.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1639"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Good Master Fenton, come not to my child.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1640"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>She is no match for you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1641"/></l></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l part="I">Sir, will you hear me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1642"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l part="F">No, good Master Fenton.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1643"/></l><l>Come, Master Shallow; come, son Slender in.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1644"/></l><l>Knowing my mind, you wrong me, Master Fenton.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Page, Shal., and Slen. </stage>

<lb ed="G" n="81"/><lb ed="F1" n="1645"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>Speak to Mistress Page.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1646"/></l></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l>Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1647"/></l><l>In such a righteous fashion as I do,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1648"/></l><l>Perforce, against all checks, rebukes and manners,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1649"/></l><l>I must advance the colours of my love
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1650"/></l><l>And not retire: let me have your good will.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1651"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1652"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>I mean it not; I seek you a better <lb ed="F1" n="1653"/>husband.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1654"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>That's my master, master doctor.

<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="1655"/></l></sp><sp who="anne."><speaker>Anne.</speaker><l>Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1656"/></l><l>And bowl'd to death with turnips!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1657"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>Come, trouble not yourself. Good Master Fenton,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1658"/></l><l>I will not be your friend nor enemy:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1659"/></l><l>My daughter will I question how she loves you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1660"/></l><l>And as I find her, so am I affected.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1661"/></l><l>Till then farewell, sir: she must needs go in;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1662"/></l><l>Her father will be angry.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1663"/></l></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l>Farewell, gentle mistress; farewell, Nan.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Mrs. Page and Anne. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1664"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>This is my doing, now: 'Nay,' said
<lb ed="G"/>I, 'will you <lb ed="F1" n="1665"/>cast away your child on a fool,
<lb ed="G"/>and a physician?   <lb ed="F1" n="1666"/>Look on Master Fenton:'
<lb ed="G" n="102"/>this is my doing

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1667"/></p></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l>I thank thee; and I pray thee, once to-night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1668"/></l><l>Give my sweet Nan this ring: there's for thy pains.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1669"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Now heaven send thee good fortune!
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit Fenton.]</stage> A kind <lb ed="F1" n="1670"/>heart he hath;
<lb ed="G"/>a woman would run through fire and water
<lb ed="F1" n="1671"/><lb ed="G"/>for such a kind heart. But yet I would my
<lb ed="G"/>master <lb ed="F1" n="1672"/>had Mistress Anne; or I would Master
<lb ed="G"/>Slender had her; or, in <lb ed="F1" n="1673"/>sooth, I would
<lb ed="G"/>Master Fenton had her: I will do what I can
<lb ed="F1" n="1674"/><lb ed="G"/>for them all three; for so I have promised,
<lb ed="G"/>and I'll be as <lb ed="F1" n="1675"/>good as my word; but speciously
<lb ed="G"/>for Master Fenton. Well, I <lb ed="F1" n="1676"/>must of
<lb ed="G"/>another errand to Sir John Falstaff from my
<lb ed="G"/>two <lb ed="F1" n="1677"/>mistresses: what a beast am I to slack it!
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="5">
    <head>SCENE V</head><lb ed="F1" n="1678"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in the Garter Inn.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1679"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1680"/><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Bardolph, I say,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1681"/></l></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><l>Here, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1682"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Go fetch me a quart of sack'; put a
<lb ed="G"/>toast in't. <stage>[Exit Bard.]</stage> <lb ed="F1" n="1683"/>Have I lived to be
<lb ed="G"/>carried in a basket, like a barrow of <lb ed="F1" n="1684"/>butcher's
<lb ed="G"/>offal, and to be thrown in the Thames? Well,
<lb ed="F1" n="1685"/><lb ed="G"/>if I be served such another trick, I'll have my
<lb ed="G"/>brains <lb ed="F1" n="1686"/>ta'en out and buttered, and give them
<lb ed="G"/>to a dog for a <lb ed="F1" n="1687"/>new-year's gift. The rogues
<lb ed="G"/>slighted me into the river <lb ed="F1" n="1688"/>with as little remorse
<lb ed="G"/>as they would have drowned a <lb ed="F1" n="1689"/>blind
<lb ed="G"/>bitch's puppies, fifteen i' the litter: and you
<lb ed="G"/>may <lb ed="F1" n="1690"/>know by my size that I have a kind of
<lb ed="G"/>alacrity in sinking; <lb ed="F1" n="1691"/>if the bottom were as
<lb ed="G"/>deep as hell, I should down.   <lb ed="F1" n="1692"/>I had been
<lb ed="G"/>drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and
<lb ed="F1" n="1693"/><lb ed="G"/>shallow,--a death that I abhor; for the water
<lb ed="G"/>swells a <lb ed="F1" n="1694"/>man; and what a thing should I
<lb ed="G"/>have been when I <lb ed="F1" n="1695"/>had been swelled!   I
<lb ed="G"/>should have been a mountain of <lb ed="F1" n="1696"/>mummy.
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter BARDOLPH with sack.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1697"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Here's Mistress Quickly, sir, to
<lb ed="G" n="21"/> speak with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1698"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Come, let me pour in some sack to
<lb ed="G"/> the Thames <lb ed="F1" n="1699"/>water; for my belly's as cold
<lb ed="G"/> as if I had swallowed snowballs <lb ed="F1" n="1700"/>for pills to
<lb ed="G"/> cool the reins. Call her in.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1701"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><l>Come in, woman!
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">           Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1702"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>By your leave; I cry you mercy:
<lb ed="F1" n="1703"/><lb ed="G"/> give your worship good morrow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1704"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Take away these chalices. <lb ed="F1" n="1705"/>Go brew
<lb ed="G" n="30"/> me a pottle of sack finely.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1706"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><l>With eggs, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1707"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Simple of itself; I'll no pullet-sperm
<lb ed="G"/>in my <lb ed="F1" n="1708"/>brewage. <stage>[Exit Bardolph.]</stage> How now!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1709"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Marry, sir, I come to your worship
<lb ed="G"/>from   Mistress Ford.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1710"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Mistress Ford!   I have had ford
<lb ed="G"/>enough; I was thrown <lb ed="F1" n="1711"/>into the ford; I have
<lb ed="G"/>my belly full of ford.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1712"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Alas the day! good heart, that
<lb ed="G"/>was not her <lb ed="F1" n="1713"/>fault: she does so take on with
<lb ed="G" n="41"/>her men; they mistook <lb ed="F1" n="1714"/>their erection.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1715"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>So did I mine, to build upon a foolish
<lb ed="G"/>woman's promise.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1716"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Well, she laments, sir, for it, that
<lb ed="G"/>it would yearn <lb ed="F1" n="1717"/>your heart to see it. Her
<lb ed="G"/>husband goes this morning a-birding; <lb ed="F1" n="1718"/>she desires
<lb ed="G"/>you once more to come to her between
<lb ed="F1" n="1719"/><lb ed="G"/>eight and nine:   I must carry her word
<lb ed="G"/>quickly: <lb ed="F1" n="1720"/>she'll make you amends, I warrant
<lb ed="G"/>you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1721"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Well, I will visit her: tell her so;
<lb ed="G"/>and bid her <lb ed="F1" n="1722"/>think what a man is: let her consider
<lb ed="G"/>his frailty, and <lb ed="F1" n="1723"/>then judge of my merit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1724"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>I will tell her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1725"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Do so. Between nine and ten, sayest
<lb ed="G"/>thou?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1726"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>Eight and nine, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1727"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Well, be gone: I will not miss her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1728"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>Peace be with you, sir.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1729"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>I marvel I hear not of Master Brook;
<lb ed="G"/>he sent me <lb ed="F1" n="1730"/>word to stay within: i like his
<lb ed="G" n="60"/>money well.   <lb ed="F1" n="1731"/>O, here he comes.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                  Enter FORD.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1732"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Bless you, sir!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1733"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Now, Master Brook, you come to
<lb ed="G"/>know <lb ed="F1" n="1734"/>what hath passed between me and
<lb ed="G"/>Ford's wife?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1735"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>That, indeed, Sir John, is my business.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1736"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Master Brook, I will not lie to you;
<lb ed="F1" n="1737"/><lb ed="G"/>I was at her house the hour she appointed me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1738"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>And sped you, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1739"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Very ill-favouredly, Master Brook.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1740"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>How so, sir? Did she change her
<lb ed="G" n="70"/>determination?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1741"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>No, Master Brook; but the peaking
<lb ed="G"/>Cornuto her husband, <lb ed="F1" n="1742"/>Master Brook, dwelling
<lb ed="G"/>in a continual 'larum of jealousy, <lb ed="F1" n="1743"/>comes
<lb ed="G"/>me in the instant of our encounter, after we
<lb ed="G"/>had <lb ed="F1" n="1744"/>embraced, kissed, protested, and, as it
<lb ed="G"/>were, spoke the prologue <lb ed="F1" n="1745"/>of our comedy; and
<lb ed="G"/>at his heels a rabble of his companions, <lb ed="F1" n="1746"/>thither
<lb ed="G"/>provoked and instigated by his distemper,
<lb ed="F1" n="1747"/><lb ed="G"/>and, forsooth, to search his house for his wife's
<lb ed="G"/>love.

<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="1748"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>What, while you were there?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1749"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>While I was there.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1750"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>And did he search for you, and
<lb ed="G"/>could not find you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1751"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>You shall hear. As good luck would
<lb ed="G"/>have it, <lb ed="F1" n="1752"/>comes in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence
<lb ed="G"/>of Ford's approach; <lb ed="F1" n="1753"/>and, in her invention
<lb ed="G"/>and Ford's wife's distraction, <lb ed="F1" n="1754"/>they conveyed
<lb ed="G"/>me into a buck-basket.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1755"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>A buck-basket!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1756"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed
<lb ed="G"/>me in with foul <lb ed="F1" n="1757"/>shirts and smocks, socks, foul
<lb ed="G"/>stockings, greasy <lb ed="F1" n="1758"/>napkins; that, Master Brook,
<lb ed="G"/>there was the rankest <lb ed="F1" n="1759"/>compound of villanous
<lb ed="G"/>smell that ever offended <lb ed="F1" n="1760"/>nostril.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1761"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>And how long lay you there?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1762"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook,
<lb ed="G"/>what I <lb ed="F1" n="1763"/>have suffered to bring this woman to
<lb ed="G"/>evil for your <lb ed="F1" n="1764"/>good. Being thus crammed in the
<lb ed="G"/>basket, a couple of <lb ed="F1" n="1765"/>Ford's knaves, his hinds,
<lb ed="G"/>were called forth by their mistress <lb ed="F1" n="1766"/>to carry me
<lb ed="G"/>in the name of foul clothes to <lb ed="F1" n="1767"/>Datchet-lane:
<lb ed="G"/>they took me on their shoulders; met <lb ed="F1" n="1768"/>the jealous
<lb ed="G"/>knave their master in the door, who <lb ed="F1" n="1769"/>asked
<lb ed="G"/>them once or twice what they had in their basket:
<lb ed="F1" n="1770"/><lb ed="G"/>I quaked for fear, lest the lunatic knave
<lb ed="F1" n="1771"/><lb ed="G"/>would have searched it; but fate, ordaining he
<lb ed="G"/>should <lb ed="F1" n="1772"/>be a cuckold, held his hand. Well: on
<lb ed="G"/>went he for <lb ed="F1" n="1773"/>a search, and away went I for foul
<lb ed="G"/>clothes. But <lb ed="F1" n="1774"/>mark the sequel, Master Brook:
<lb ed="G"/>I suffered the pangs <lb ed="F1" n="1775"/>of three several deaths;
<lb ed="G"/>first, an intolerable fright, <lb ed="F1" n="1776"/>to be detected with a
<lb ed="G"/>jealous rotten bell-wether; <lb ed="F1" n="1777"/>next, to be compassed,
<lb ed="G"/>like a good bilbo, in the circumference <lb ed="F1" n="1778"/>of
<lb ed="G"/>a peck, hilt to point, heel to head; and <lb ed="F1" n="1779"/>then,
<lb ed="G"/>to be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with
<lb ed="G"/>stinking <lb ed="F1" n="1780"/>clothes that fretted in their own grease.
<lb ed="F1" n="1781"/><lb ed="G"/>think of that,--a man of my kidney,--think of
<lb ed="G"/>that,--<lb ed="F1" n="1782"/>that am as subject to heat as butter; a
<lb ed="G"/>man of continual <lb ed="F1" n="1783"/>dissolution and thaw: it was
<lb ed="G"/>a miracle to 'scape <lb ed="F1" n="1784"/>suffocation. And in the
<lb ed="G"/>height of this bath, when I <lb ed="F1" n="1785"/>was more than half
<lb ed="G"/>stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, <lb ed="F1" n="1786"/>to be
<lb ed="G"/>thrown into the Thames, and <lb ed="F1" n="1787"/>cooled, glowing
<lb ed="G"/>hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe; <lb ed="F1" n="1788"/>think of
<lb ed="G"/>that,--hissing   hot,--think   of   that, Master
<lb ed="F1" n="1789"/><lb ed="G"/>Brook.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1790"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>In good sadness, sir, I am sorry that
<lb ed="G"/>for my sake <lb ed="F1" n="1791"/>you have suffered all this. <lb ed="F1" n="1792"/>My suit
<lb ed="G"/>then is desperate; you'll undertake her no
<lb ed="F1" n="1793"/><lb ed="G"/>more?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1794"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Master Brook, I will be thrown into
<lb ed="G"/>Etna, <lb ed="F1" n="1795"/>as I have been into Thames, ere I will
<lb ed="G"/>leave her thus. <lb ed="F1" n="1796"/>Her husband is this morning
<lb ed="G"/>gone a-birding: I <lb ed="F1" n="1797"/>have received from her another
<lb ed="G"/>embassy of meeting; <lb ed="F1" n="1798"/>'twixt eight and
<lb ed="G"/>nine is the hour, Master <lb ed="F1" n="1799"/>Brook.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1800"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>'Tis past eight already, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1801"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Is it? I will then address me to my appointment.
<lb ed="F1" n="1802"/><lb ed="G"/>Come to me at your convenient
<lb ed="G"/>leisure, and <lb ed="F1" n="1803"/>you shall know how I speed; and
<lb ed="G"/>the conclusion <lb ed="F1" n="1804"/>shall be crowned with your enjoying
<lb ed="G"/>her. Adieu. You <lb ed="F1" n="1805"/>shall have her, Master
<lb ed="G"/>Brook; Master Brook, you shall <lb ed="F1" n="1806"/>cuckold Ford.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1807"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Hum! ha! is this a vision? is this a
<lb ed="G"/>dream? <lb ed="F1" n="1808"/>do I sleep? Master Ford, awake!
<lb ed="G"/>awake, Master Ford! <lb ed="F1" n="1809"/>there's a hole made in
<lb ed="G"/>your best coat, Master Ford. This <lb ed="F1" n="1810"/>'tis to be
<lb ed="G"/>married! this 'tis to have linen and buck-baskets!
<lb ed="F1" n="1811"/><lb ed="G"/>Well, I will proclaim myself what I am:
<lb ed="F1" n="1812"/><lb ed="G"/>I will now take the lecher; he is at my house;
<lb ed="G"/>he <lb ed="F1" n="1813"/>cannot 'scape me; 'tis impossible he should;
<lb ed="G"/>he cannot <lb ed="F1" n="1814"/>creep into a halfpenny purse, nor into
<lb ed="G"/>a pepper-box: <lb ed="F1" n="1815"/>but, lest the devil that guides
<lb ed="G"/>him should <lb ed="F1" n="1816"/>aid him, I will search impossible
<lb ed="G"/>places. Though <lb ed="F1" n="1817"/>what I am I cannot avoid, yet
<lb ed="G"/>to be what I would <lb ed="F1" n="1818"/>not shall not make me tame:
<lb ed="G"/>if I have horns to make <lb ed="F1" n="1819"/>one mad, let the proverb
<lb ed="G"/>go with me: I'll be <lb ed="F1" n="1820"/>horn-mad.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit.</stage></p></sp>
</div2>
    </div1>
    
<div1 type="act" n="4">
    <head>ACT IV</head><lb ed="F1" n="1821"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">A street.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1822"/><stage type="entrance">Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and WILLIAM.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1823"/><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Is he at Master Ford's already,
<lb ed="G"/>think'st thou?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1824"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Sure he is by this, or will be presently:
<lb ed="G"/>but, <lb ed="F1" n="1825"/>truly, he is very courageous mad
<lb ed="G"/>about his throwing <lb ed="F1" n="1826"/>into the water. Mistress
<lb ed="G"/>Ford desires you to come <lb ed="F1" n="1827"/>suddenly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1828"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>I'll be with her by and by; I'll
<lb ed="G"/>but bring <lb ed="F1" n="1829"/>my young man here to school. Look,
<lb ed="G"/>where his master <lb ed="F1" n="1830"/>comes; 'tis a playing-day,
<lb ed="G"/>I see.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">          Enter SIR HUGH EVANS.</stage>
<lb ed="G" n="10"/>How now. Sir Hugh! no <lb ed="F1" n="1831"/>school to-day?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1832"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>No; Master Slender is let the boys
<lb ed="G"/>leave to play.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1833"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>Blessing of his heart!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1834"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Sir Hugh, my husband says
<lb ed="G"/>my son profits <lb ed="F1" n="1835"/>nothing in the world at his
<lb ed="G"/>book. I pray you, ask <lb ed="F1" n="1836"/>him some questions in
<lb ed="G"/>his accidence--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1837"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Come hither, William; hold up
<lb ed="G"/>your head; come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1838"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Come on, sirrah; hold up your
<lb ed="G" n="20"/>head; answer <lb ed="F1" n="1839"/>your master, be not afraid.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1840"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>William, how many numbers is in
<lb ed="G"/>nouns?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1841"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><l>Two.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1842"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Truly. I thought there had been one
<lb ed="G"/>number <lb ed="F1" n="1843"/>more, because they say, ''Od's nouns.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1844"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Peace your tattlings! What is 'fair,'
<lb ed="G"/>William?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1845"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><l>Pulcher.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1846"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Polecats! there are fairer things
<lb ed="G" n="30"/> than polecats, <lb ed="F1" n="1847"/>sure.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1848"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>You are a very simplicity 'oman; I
<lb ed="G"/>pray you, <lb ed="F1" n="1849"/>peace. What is 'lapis,' William?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1850"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><l>A stone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1851"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><l>And what is 'a stone,' William?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1852"/></l></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><l>A pebble.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1853"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>No, it is 'lapis:' I pray you, remember
<lb ed="G"/>in your <lb ed="F1" n="1854"/>prain.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1855"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><l>Lapis.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1856"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>That is a good William. What is
<lb ed="G" n="40"/>he, William, that <lb ed="F1" n="1857"/>does lend articles?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1858"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>Articles are borrowed of the pronoun,
<lb ed="G"/>and be <lb ed="F1" n="1859"/>thus declined, Singulariter, nominativo,
<lb ed="G"/>hic, haec, hoc.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1860"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Nominativo, hig, hag, hog; pray
<lb ed="G"/>you, mark: genitivo, <lb ed="F1" n="1861"/>hujus. Well what is
<lb ed="G"/>your accusative case?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1862"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><l>Accusativo, hinc.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1863"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>I pray you, have your remembrance,
<lb ed="G"/>child; accusative, <lb ed="F1" n="1864"/>hung, hang, hog.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1865"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>'Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I
<lb ed="G" n="51"/>warrant you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1866"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Leave your prabbles. 'oman. What
<lb ed="G"/>is the focative <lb ed="F1" n="1867"/>case, William?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1868"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><l>O,--vocativo, O.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1869"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Remember, William; focative is
<lb ed="G"/>caret.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1870"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>And that's a good root.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1871"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><l>'Oman, forbear.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1872"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>Peace!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1873"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>What is your genitive case plural,
<lb ed="G" n="60"/>William?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1874"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><l>Genitive case!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1875"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><l>Ay.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1876"/></l></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><l>Genitive,--horum, harum, horum.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1877"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Vengeance of Jenny's case! fie on
<lb ed="G"/>her! never <lb ed="F1" n="1878"/>name her, child, if she be a whore.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1879"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><l>For shame, 'oman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1880"/></l></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>You do ill to teach the child such
<lb ed="G"/> words: he <lb ed="F1" n="1881"/>teaches him to hick and to hack,
<lb ed="G"/> which they'll do fast <lb ed="F1" n="1882"/>enough of themselves, and
<lb ed="G" n="70"/> to call 'horum:' fie upon you!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1883"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>'Oman, art thou lunatics? hast thou
<lb ed="G"/>no understandings <lb ed="F1" n="1884"/>for thy cases and the numbers
<lb ed="G"/>of the genders? <lb ed="F1" n="1885"/>Thou art as foolish
<lb ed="G"/>Christian creatures as I would <lb ed="F1" n="1886"/>desires.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1887"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Prithee, hold thy peace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1888"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Show me now, William, some declensions
<lb ed="G"/>of your <lb ed="F1" n="1889"/>pronouns.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1890"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><l>Forsooth, I have forgot.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1891"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>It is qui, quae, quod: if you forget
<lb ed="G"/> your 'quies,' <lb ed="F1" n="1892"/>your 'quaes,' and your 'quods,'
<lb ed="G"/> you must be preeches. Go <lb ed="F1" n="1893"/>your ways, and
<lb ed="G"/> play; go.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1894"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>He is a better scholar than I
<lb ed="G"/> thought he was.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1895"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>He is a good sprag memory. Fare-
<lb ed="G"/> well, Mistress Page.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1896"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Adieu, good Sir Hugh.
<stage>[Exit Sir Hugh.]</stage> <lb ed="F1" n="1897"/><lb ed="G"/>Get you home, boy. Come, we stay
<lb ed="G"/>too long.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
    <head>SCENE II</head><lb ed="F1" n="1898"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in FORD'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1899"/><stage type="entrance">    Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS FORD.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1900"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1901"/><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten
<lb ed="G"/>up my sufferance. <lb ed="F1" n="1902"/>I see you are obsequious in
<lb ed="G"/>your love, and I profess <lb ed="F1" n="1903"/>requital to a hair's
<lb ed="G"/>breadth; not only, Mistress Ford, <lb ed="F1" n="1904"/>in the simple
<lb ed="G"/>office of love, but in all the accoutrement,
<lb ed="F1" n="1905"/><lb ed="G"/>complement and ceremony of it. But are you
<lb ed="G"/>sure of <lb ed="F1" n="1906"/>your husband now?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1907"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>He's a-birding, sweet Sir John.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1908"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><stage>[Within]</stage><p>What, ho, gossip
<lb ed="G" n="10"/>Ford! what, ho!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1909"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Step into the chamber, Sir John.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit Falstaff.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">            Enter MISTRESS PAGE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1910"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>How now, sweetheart! who's at
<lb ed="G"/>home <lb ed="F1" n="1911"/>besides yourself?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1912"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Why, none but mine own people.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1913"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>Indeed!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1914"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>No, certainly. <stage>[Aside to her]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>Speak louder.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1915"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Truly, I am so glad you have
<lb ed="G"/>nobody here.

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1916"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Why?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1917"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Why, woman, your husband is
<lb ed="G"/>in his old <lb ed="F1" n="1918"/>lunes again: he so takes on yonder
<lb ed="G"/>with my husband; so <lb ed="F1" n="1919"/>rails against all married
<lb ed="G"/>mankind; so curses all Eve's <lb ed="F1" n="1920"/>daughters, of
<lb ed="G"/>what complexion soever; and so buffets <lb ed="F1" n="1921"/>himself
<lb ed="G"/>on the forehead, crying, 'Peer out, peer
<lb ed="G"/>out!' <lb ed="F1" n="1922"/>that any madness I ever yet beheld
<lb ed="G"/>seemed but tameness, <lb ed="F1" n="1923"/>civility and patience, to
<lb ed="G"/>this his distemper he is in <lb ed="F1" n="1924"/>now: I am glad the
<lb ed="G"/>fat knight is not here.

<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1925"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><l>Why, does he talk of him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1926"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Of none but him; and swears
<lb ed="G"/>he was carried <lb ed="F1" n="1927"/>out, the last time he searched
<lb ed="G"/>for him, in a basket; <lb ed="F1" n="1928"/>protests to my husband
<lb ed="G"/>he is now here, and hath drawn <lb ed="F1" n="1929"/>him and the
<lb ed="G"/>rest of their company from their sport to
<lb ed="F1" n="1930"/><lb ed="G"/>make another experiment of his suspicion: but
<lb ed="G"/>I am glad <lb ed="F1" n="1931"/>the knight is not here; now he shall
<lb ed="G"/>see his own <lb ed="F1" n="1932"/>foolery.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1933"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>How near is he, Mistress Page?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1934"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Hard by; at street end; he will
<lb ed="G" n="41"/>be here anon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1935"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>I am undone! The knight is here.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1936"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Why then you are utterly
<lb ed="G"/> shamed, and he's <lb ed="F1" n="1937"/>but a dead man. What a
<lb ed="G"/> woman are you!--Away with <lb ed="F1" n="1938"/>him, away with
<lb ed="G"/> him! better shame than murder.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1939"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Which way should he go? how
<lb ed="G"/> should I <lb ed="F1" n="1940"/>bestow him?   Shall I put him into
<lb ed="G"/> the basket again?
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">              Re-enter FALSTAFF.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1941"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>No, I'll come no more i' the basket.
<lb ed="G" n="51"/><lb ed="F1" n="1942"/></l><l>May I not go out ere he come?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1943"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Alas, three of Master Ford's
<lb ed="G"/>brothers watch <lb ed="F1" n="1944"/>the door with pistols, that none
<lb ed="G"/>shall issue out; otherwise <lb ed="F1" n="1945"/>you might slip away
<lb ed="G"/>ere he came. But what make <lb ed="F1" n="1946"/>you here?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1947"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>What shall I do?   I'll creep up into
<lb ed="G"/>the chimney.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1948"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>There they always use to discharge
<lb ed="G"/>their <lb ed="F1" n="1949"/>birding-pieces. Creep into the
<lb ed="G"/>kiln-hole.

<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1950"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Where is it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1951"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>He will seek there, on my word.
<lb ed="G"/>Neither <lb ed="F1" n="1952"/>press, coffer, chest, trunk, well, vault,
<lb ed="G"/>but he hath <lb ed="F1" n="1953"/>an abstract for the remembrance of
<lb ed="G"/>such places, and goes <lb ed="F1" n="1954"/>to them by his note:
<lb ed="G"/>there is no hiding you in the <lb ed="F1" n="1955"/>house.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1956"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>I'll go out then.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1957"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>If you go out in your own semblance,
<lb ed="F1" n="1958"/><lb ed="G"/>you die, Sir John. Unless you go out
<lb ed="G" n="69"/>disguised--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1959"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>How might we disguise him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1960"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Alas the day, I know not!
<lb ed="G"/>There is no woman's <lb ed="F1" n="1961"/>gown big enough for him;
<lb ed="G"/>otherwise he might <lb ed="F1" n="1962"/>put on a hat, a muffler and
<lb ed="G"/>a kerchief, and so escape.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1963"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Good hearts, devise something; any
<lb ed="G"/>extremity <lb ed="F1" n="1964"/>rather than a mischief.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1965"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>My maid's aunt, the fat woman
<lb ed="G"/>of Brentford, <lb ed="F1" n="1966"/>has a gown above.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1967"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>On my word, it will serve him;
<lb ed="G"/>she's as <lb ed="F1" n="1968"/>big as he is: and there's her thrummed
<lb ed="G"/>hat and her muffler <lb ed="F1" n="1969"/>too. Run up, Sir John.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1970"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Go, go, sweet Sir John: Mistress
<lb ed="G"/>Page and <lb ed="F1" n="1971"/>I will look some linen for your head.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1972"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Quick, quick! we'll come dress
<lb ed="G" n="81"/>you <lb ed="F1" n="1973"/>straight: put on the gown the while.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit Falstaff.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1974"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>I would my husband would meet
<lb ed="G"/>him <lb ed="F1" n="1975"/>in this shape: he cannot abide the old
<lb ed="G"/>woman of Brentford; <lb ed="F1" n="1976"/>he swears she's a witch;
<lb ed="G"/>forbade her my house and <lb ed="F1" n="1977"/>hath threatened to
<lb ed="G"/>beat her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1978"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Heaven guide him to thy husband's
<lb ed="G"/>cudgel, <lb ed="F1" n="1979"/>and the devil guide his cudgel
<lb ed="G"/>afterwards!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1980"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>But is my husband coming?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1981"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Ay, in good sadness, is he; and
<lb ed="G"/> talks of the <lb ed="F1" n="1982"/>basket too, howsoever he hath had
<lb ed="G"/> intelligence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1983"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>We'll try that; for I'll appoint
<lb ed="G"/>my men to <lb ed="F1" n="1984"/>carry the basket again, to meet him
<lb ed="G"/>at the door with <lb ed="F1" n="1985"/>it, as they did last time.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1986"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Nay, but he'll be here presently:
<lb ed="G"/> let's go <lb ed="F1" n="1987"/>dress him like the witch of Brentford.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1988"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>I'll first direct my men what
<lb ed="G"/> they <lb ed="F1" n="1989"/>shall do with the basket. Go up; I'll
<lb ed="G"/> bring linen for <lb ed="F1" n="1990"/>him straight.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1991"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Hang him, dishonest varlet! <lb ed="F1" n="1992"/>we
<lb ed="G"/>cannot misuse him enough.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1993"/></p><l>We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1994"/></l><l>Wives may be merry, and yet honest too:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1995"/></l><l>We do not act that often jest and laugh;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1996"/></l><l>'Tis old, but true, Still swine eats all the draff.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter MISTRESS FORD with two Servants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1997"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Go, sirs, take the basket again
<lb ed="G"/>on your <lb ed="F1" n="1998"/>shoulders: your master is hard at
<lb ed="G"/>door; if he bid you <lb ed="F1" n="1999"/>set it down, obey him:
<lb ed="G"/>quickly, dispatch.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2000"/></p></sp><sp who="first-serv."><speaker>First Serv.</speaker><l>Come, come, take it up.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2001"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-serv."><speaker>Sec. Serv.</speaker><p>Pray heaven it be not full of
<lb ed="G"/>knight again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2002"/></p></sp><sp who="first-serv."><speaker>First Serv.</speaker><l>I hope not; I had as lief bear
<lb ed="G"/>so much lead.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">Enter FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2003"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page,
<lb ed="G"/>have you any <lb ed="F1" n="2004"/>way then to unfool me again?
<lb ed="G"/>Set down the basket, <lb ed="F1" n="2005"/>villain! Somebody call
<lb ed="G"/>my wife. Youth in a basket! <lb ed="F1" n="2006"/>O you panderly
<lb ed="G"/>rascals! there's a knot, a ging, a pack, <lb ed="F1" n="2007"/>a conspiracy
<lb ed="G"/>against me: now   shall the devil be
<lb ed="G"/>shamed. <lb ed="F1" n="2008"/>What, wife, I say! Come, come
<lb ed="G"/>forth! Behold what honest <lb ed="F1" n="2009"/>clothes you send
<lb ed="G"/>forth to bleaching!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2010"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Why, this passes, Master Ford; you
<lb ed="G"/>are not to go <lb ed="F1" n="2011"/>loose any longer; you must be
<lb ed="G"/>pinioned.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2012"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Why, this is lunatics! this is mad as
<lb ed="G" n="131"/>a <lb ed="F1" n="2013"/>mad dog.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2014"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>Indeed, Master Ford, this is not well,
<lb ed="G"/>indeed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2015"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>So say I too, sir.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">           Re-enter MISTRESS FORD.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>Come hither, Mistress Ford; Mistress <lb ed="F1" n="2016"/>Ford, the
<lb ed="G"/>honest woman, the modest wife, the virtuous
<lb ed="F1" n="2017"/><lb ed="G"/>creature, that hath the jealous fool to her husband!
<lb ed="F1" n="2018"/><lb ed="G"/>I suspect without cause, mistress, do I?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2019"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Heaven be my witness you do,
<lb ed="G" n="140"/>if you <lb ed="F1" n="2020"/>suspect me in any dishonesty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2021"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Well said, brazen-face! hold it out.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Come forth, <lb ed="F1" n="2022"/>sirrah!
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Pulling clothes out of the basket.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2023"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>This passes!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2024"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Are you not ashamed? let the
<lb ed="G"/>clothes alone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2025"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>I shall find you anon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2026"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>'Tis unreasonable! Will you take
<lb ed="G"/>up your wife's <lb ed="F1" n="2027"/>clothes? Come away.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2028"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Empty the basket, I say!

<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="2029"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><l>Why, man, why?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2030"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Master Page, as I am a man, there was
<lb ed="G"/>one conveyed <lb ed="F1" n="2031"/>out of my house yesterday in
<lb ed="G"/>this basket: why <lb ed="F1" n="2032"/>may not he be there again?
<lb ed="G"/>in my house I am sure he is: <lb ed="F1" n="2033"/>my intelligence
<lb ed="G"/>is true; my jealousy is reasonable. Pluck <lb ed="F1" n="2034"/>me
<lb ed="G"/>out all the linen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2035"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>If you find a man there, he shall
<lb ed="G"/>die a flea's <lb ed="F1" n="2036"/>death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2037"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>Here's no man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2038"/></l></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>By my fidelity, this is not well, Master
<lb ed="G" n="161"/>Ford; this <lb ed="F1" n="2039"/>wrongs you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2040"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Master Ford, you must pray, and
<lb ed="G"/>not follow the <lb ed="F1" n="2041"/>imaginations of your own heart:
<lb ed="G"/>this is jealousies.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2042"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>No, nor nowhere else but in your
<lb ed="G"/>brain.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2043"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Help to search my house this one
<lb ed="G"/>time. If I find <lb ed="F1" n="2044"/>not what I seek show no colour
<lb ed="G"/>for my extremity; let <lb ed="F1" n="2045"/>me for ever be your table-sport;
<lb ed="G"/>let them say of me, 'As <lb ed="F1" n="2046"/>jealous as
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2047"/></p><l>Ford, that searched a hollow walnut for his
<lb ed="F1" n="2048"/><lb ed="G"/>wife's leman.' Satisfy me once more; once
<lb ed="G"/>more search <lb ed="F1" n="2049"/>with me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2050"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>What, ho, Mistress Page! come
<lb ed="G"/>you and <lb ed="F1" n="2051"/>the old woman down; my husband
<lb ed="G"/>will come into the <lb ed="F1" n="2052"/>chamber.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2053"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Old woman! what old woman's that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2054"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Why, it is my maid's aunt of
<lb ed="G" n="179"/>Brentford.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2055"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>A witch, a quean, an old cozening
<lb ed="G"/>quean! <lb ed="F1" n="2056"/>Have I not forbid her my house? She
<lb ed="G"/>comes of errands, <lb ed="F1" n="2057"/>does she? We are simple
<lb ed="G"/>men; we do not know what's <lb ed="F1" n="2058"/>brought to pass
<lb ed="G"/>under the profession of fortune-telling.   <lb ed="F1" n="2059"/>She
<lb ed="G"/>works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and
<lb ed="G"/>such <lb ed="F1" n="2060"/>daubery as this is, beyond our element:
<lb ed="G"/>we know nothing. <lb ed="F1" n="2061"/>Come down, you witch,
<lb ed="G"/>you hag, you; come <lb ed="F1" n="2062"/>down, I say!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2063"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Nay, good, sweet husband! Good
<lb ed="G"/>gentlemen, <lb ed="F1" n="2064"/>let him not strike the old woman.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter FALSTAFF in woman's clothes, and MISTRESS PAGE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2065"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Come, Mother Prat; come, give
<lb ed="G"/>me your <lb ed="F1" n="2066"/>hand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2067"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>I'll prat her. <stage>[Beating him]</stage> Out of
<lb ed="G"/>my door, you witch, <lb ed="F1" n="2068"/>you hag, you baggage,
<lb ed="G"/>you polecat, you ronyon! <lb ed="F1" n="2069"/>out, out! I'll conjure
<lb ed="G"/>you, I'll fortune-tell you.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit Falstaff.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2070"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Are you not ashamed? <lb ed="F1" n="2071"/>I think
<lb ed="G"/>you have killed the poor woman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2072"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Nay, he will do it. 'Tis a
<lb ed="G" n="200"/>goodly credit <lb ed="F1" n="2073"/>for you

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2074"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Hang her, witch!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2075"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>By yea and no, I think the 'oman is
<lb ed="G"/>a witch indeed: <lb ed="F1" n="2076"/>I like not when a 'oman has
<lb ed="G"/>a great peard; I spy <lb ed="F1" n="2077"/>a great peard under his
<lb ed="G"/>muffler.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2078"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Will you follow, gentlemen? I beseech
<lb ed="G"/>you, follow; <lb ed="F1" n="2079"/>see but the issue of my
<lb ed="G"/>jealousy: if I cry out thus <lb ed="F1" n="2080"/>upon no trail, never
<lb ed="G"/>trust me when I open again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2081"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Let's obey his humour a little further:
<lb ed="F1" n="2082"/><lb ed="G" n="211"/>come, gentlemen.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Ford, Page, Shal., Caius, and Evans.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2083"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Trust me, he beat him   most
<lb ed="G"/>pitifully.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2084"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Nay, by the mass, that he did
<lb ed="G"/>not; he beat <lb ed="F1" n="2085"/>him most unpitifully, methought.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2086"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>I'll have the cudgel hallowed
<lb ed="G"/>and hung <lb ed="F1" n="2087"/>o'er the altar; it hath done meritorious
<lb ed="G"/>service.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2088"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>What think you? may we, with
<lb ed="G"/>the warrant <lb ed="F1" n="2089"/>of womanhood and the witness of
<lb ed="G"/>a good conscience, <lb ed="F1" n="2090"/>pursue him with any
<lb ed="G"/>further revenge?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2091"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>The spirit of wantonness is,
<lb ed="G"/>sure, scared out <lb ed="F1" n="2092"/>of him: if the devil have him
<lb ed="G"/>not in fee-simple, with <lb ed="F1" n="2093"/>fine and recovery, he
<lb ed="G"/>will never, I think, in the way of <lb ed="F1" n="2094"/>waste, attempt
<lb ed="G"/>us again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2095"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Shall we tell our husbands how
<lb ed="G" n="229"/>we have <lb ed="F1" n="2096"/>served him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2097"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Yes, by all means; if it be but
<lb ed="G"/>to scrape <lb ed="F1" n="2098"/>the figures out of your husband's
<lb ed="G"/>brains.   If they can find <lb ed="F1" n="2099"/>in their hearts the
<lb ed="G"/>poor unvirtuous   fat knight shall be <lb ed="F1" n="2100"/>any
<lb ed="G"/>further afflicted, we two will still be the
<lb ed="F1" n="2101"/><lb ed="G"/>ministers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2102"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>I'll warrant they'll have him
<lb ed="G"/>publicly <lb ed="F1" n="2103"/>shamed: and methinks there would be
<lb ed="G"/>no period to the <lb ed="F1" n="2104"/>jest, should he not be publicly
<lb ed="G"/>shamed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2105"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Come, to the forge with it then;
<lb ed="G"/>shape it: <lb ed="F1" n="2106"/>I would not have things cool.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
    <head>SCENE III</head><lb ed="F1" n="2107"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in the Garter Inn.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2108"/><stage type="entrance">         Enter HOST and BARDOLPH.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2109"/><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Sir, the Germans desire to have three
<lb ed="G"/>of your <lb ed="F1" n="2110"/>horses: the duke himself will be to-morrow
<lb ed="G"/>at court, <lb ed="F1" n="2111"/>and they are going to meet
<lb ed="G"/>him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2112"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>What duke should that be comes so
<lb ed="G"/>secretly? <lb ed="F1" n="2113"/>I hear not of him in the court. Let
<lb ed="G"/>me speak with the <lb ed="F1" n="2114"/>gentlemen: they speak
<lb ed="G"/>English?

<lb ed="G" n="9"/><lb ed="F1" n="2115"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><l>Ay, sir; I'll call them to you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2116"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>They shall have my horses; but I'll
<lb ed="G"/>make them <lb ed="F1" n="2117"/>pay; I'll sauce them: they have
<lb ed="G"/>had my house a week at <lb ed="F1" n="2118"/>command; I have
<lb ed="G"/>turned away my other guests: they <lb ed="F1" n="2119"/>must come
<lb ed="G"/>off; I'll sauce them. Come.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
    <head>SCENE IV</head><lb ed="F1" n="2120"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in FORD'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2121"/><stage type="entrance">  Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2122"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2123"/><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>'Tis one of the best discretions of a
<lb ed="G"/>'oman as ever <lb ed="F1" n="2124"/>I did look upon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2125"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>And did he send you both these letters
<lb ed="G"/>at an <lb ed="F1" n="2126"/>instant?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2127"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>Within a quarter of an hour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2128"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Pardon me, wife. Henceforth do what thou wilt;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2129"/></l><l>I rather will suspect the sun with cold
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2130"/></l><l>Than thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2131"/></l><l>In him that was of late an heretic,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2132"/></l><l>As firm as faith.

<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2133"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>'Tis well, 'tis well; no more:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2134"/></l><l>Be not as extreme in submission
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>As in offence.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2135"/></l><l>But let our plot go forward: let our wives
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2136"/></l><l>Yet once again, to make us public sport,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2137"/></l><l>Appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2138"/></l><l>Where we may take him and disgrace him for it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2139"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>There is no better way than that
<lb ed="G"/>they spoke of.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2140"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>How? to send him word they'll meet
<lb ed="G"/>him in <lb ed="F1" n="2141"/>the park at midnight? Fie, fie! he'll
<lb ed="G"/>never come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2142"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>You say he has been thrown in the
<lb ed="G"/>rivers and <lb ed="F1" n="2143"/>has been grievously peaten as an old
<lb ed="G"/>'oman: methinks <lb ed="F1" n="2144"/>there should be terrors in him
<lb ed="G"/>that he should not come; <lb ed="F1" n="2145"/>methinks his flesh is
<lb ed="G"/>punished, he shall have no <lb ed="F1" n="2146"/>desires.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2147"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>So think I too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2148"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><l>Devise but how you'll use him when he comes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2149"/></l><l>And let us two devise to bring him thither.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2150"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>There is an old tale goes that Herne the <lb ed="F1" n="2151"/>hunter,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2152"/></l><l>Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2153"/></l><l>Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2154"/></l><l>And there he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2155"/></l><l>And makes milch-kine yield blood and shakes a chain
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2156"/></l><l>In a most hideous and dreadful manner:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2157"/></l><l>You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2158"/></l><l>The superstitious idle-headed eld
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2159"/></l><l>Received and did deliver to our age
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2160"/></l><l>This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2161"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>Why, yet there want not many that do fear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2162"/></l><l>In deep of night to walk by this Herne's oak:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2163"/></l><l>But what of this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2164"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Marry, this is our device;
<lb ed="F1" n="2165"/><lb ed="G"/>That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2166"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>Well, let it not be doubted but he'll come:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2167"/></l><l>And in this shape when you have brought him thither,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2168"/></l><l>What shall be done with him? what is your plot?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2169"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>That likewise have we thought upon, and thus:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2170"/></l><l>Nan Page my daughter and my little son
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2171"/></l><l>And three or four more of their growth we'll dress
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2172"/></l><l>Like urchins, ouphes and fairies, green and white,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2173"/></l><l>With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2174"/></l><l>And rattles in their hands: upon a sudden,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2175"/></l><l>As Falstaff, she and I, are newly met,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2176"/></l><l>Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2177"/></l><l>With some diffused song: upon their sight,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2178"/></l><l>We two in great amazedness will fly:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2179"/></l><l>Then let them all encircle him about
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2180"/></l><l>And, fairy-like, to pinch the unclean knight,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2181"/></l><l>And ask him why, that hour of fairy revel,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2182"/></l><l>In their so sacred paths he dares to tread
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2183"/></l><l>In shape profane.

<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="2184"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><l>And till he tell the truth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2185"/></l><l>Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound
<lb ed="F1" n="2186"/></l><l part="I">And burn him with their tapers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2187"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l part="F">The truth being known,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2188"/></l><l>We'll all present ourselves, dis-horn the spirit,
<lb ed="F1" n="2189"/></l><l part="I">And mock him home to Windsor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2190"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l part="F">The children must
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2191"/></l><l>Be practised well to this, or they'll ne'er do't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2192"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>I will teach the children their behaviours;
<lb ed="G"/>and I <lb ed="F1" n="2193"/>will be like a jack-an-apes
<lb ed="G"/>also, to burn the knight <lb ed="F1" n="2194"/>with my taber.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2195"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>That will be excellent.   <lb ed="F1" n="2196"/>I'll go buy
<lb ed="G" n="70"/>them vizards.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2197"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>My Nan shall be the queen of all the <lb ed="F1" n="2198"/>fairies,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Finely attired in a robe of white.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2199"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>That silk will I go buy. <stage>[Aside]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And in that time
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2200"/></l><l>Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2201"/></l><l>And marry her at Eton. Go send to Falstaff straight.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2202"/></l></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><l>Nay, I'll to him again in name of Brook:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2203"/></l><l>He'll tell me all his purpose: sure, he'll come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2204"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>Fear not you that. Go get us properties
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2205"/></l><l>And tricking for our fairies.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2206"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Let us about it: <lb ed="F1" n="2207"/>it is admirable
<lb ed="G" n="81"/>pleasures and fery honest knaveries.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Page, Ford, and Evans.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2208"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>Go, Mistress Ford,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2209"/></l><l>Send quickly to Sir John, to know his mind.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit Mrs. Ford.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2210"/></l><l>I'll to the doctor: he hath my good will.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2211"/></l><l>And none but he, to marry with Nan Page.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2212"/></l><l>That Slender, though well landed, is an idiot;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2213"/></l><l>And he my husband best of all affects.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2214"/></l><l>The doctor is well money'd and his friends
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2215"/></l><l>Potent at court: he, none but he, shall have her,
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="2216"/></l><l>Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit. </stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="5">
    <head>SCENE V</head><lb ed="F1" n="2217"/>
<stage type="setting">A   room in the Garter Inn.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2218"/><stage type="entrance">          Enter HOST and SIMPLE.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2219"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2220"/><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>What wouldst thou have, boor? what,
<lb ed="G"/>thick-skin?   <lb ed="F1" n="2221"/>speak, breathe, discuss;   brief,
<lb ed="G"/>short, quick, <lb ed="F1" n="2222"/>snap.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2223"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><l>Marry, sir, I come to speak with Sir
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>John Falstaff <lb ed="F1" n="2224"/>from Master Slender.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2225"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>There's his chamber, his house, his
<lb ed="G"/>castle, <lb ed="F1" n="2226"/>his standing-bed and truckle-bed; 'tis
<lb ed="G"/>painted about <lb ed="F1" n="2227"/>with the story of the Prodigal,
<lb ed="G"/>fresh and new. Go knock <lb ed="F1" n="2228"/>and call; he'll
<lb ed="G"/>speak like an Anthropophaginian unto <lb ed="F1" n="2229"/>thee:
<lb ed="G" n="11"/>knock, I say.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2230"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>There's an old woman, a fat woman,
<lb ed="G"/>gone up <lb ed="F1" n="2231"/>into his chamber. I'll be so bold as
<lb ed="G"/>stay, sir, till she come <lb ed="F1" n="2232"/>down; I come to speak
<lb ed="G"/>with her, indeed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2233"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Ha! a fat woman! the knight may be
<lb ed="G"/>robbed; <lb ed="F1" n="2234"/>I'll call. Bully knight! bully Sir
<lb ed="G"/>John! speak from thy <lb ed="F1" n="2235"/>lungs military: art thou
<lb ed="G"/>there? it is thine host, thine <lb ed="F1" n="2236"/>Ephesian, calls.

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="2237"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p> <stage>[Above]</stage> How now, mine host!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2238"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Here's a Bohemian-Tartar tarries the
<lb ed="G"/>coming <lb ed="F1" n="2239"/>down of thy fat woman. Let her descend,
<lb ed="G"/>bully, let <lb ed="F1" n="2240"/>her descend; my chambers
<lb ed="G"/>are honourable: fie! privacy? <lb ed="F1" n="2241"/>fie!
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                Enter FALSTAFF.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2242"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>There was, mine host, an old fat woman
<lb ed="G"/>even <lb ed="F1" n="2243"/>now with me! but she's gone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2244"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman
<lb ed="G"/>of <lb ed="F1" n="2245"/>Brentford?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2246"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Ay, marry, was it, mussel-shell: what
<lb ed="G" n="30"/>would you <lb ed="F1" n="2247"/>with her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2248"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>My master, sir, Master Slender, sent
<lb ed="G"/>to her, <lb ed="F1" n="2249"/>seeing her go thorough the streets, to
<lb ed="G"/>know, sir, whether <lb ed="F1" n="2250"/>one Nym, sir, that beguiled
<lb ed="G"/>him of a chain, had the <lb ed="F1" n="2251"/>chain or no.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2252"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>I spake with the old woman about it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2253"/></l></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><l>And what says she, I pray, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2254"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Marry, she says that the very same
<lb ed="G"/>man that <lb ed="F1" n="2255"/>beguiled Master Slender of his
<lb ed="G"/>chain cozened him of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2256"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>I would I could have spoken with the
<lb ed="G"/>woman <lb ed="F1" n="2257"/>herself; I had other things to have
<lb ed="G" n="42"/>spoken with her <lb ed="F1" n="2258"/>too from him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2259"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>What are they? let us know.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2260"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><l>Ay, come; quick.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2261"/></l></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><l>I may not conceal them, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2262"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><l>Conceal them, or thou diest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2263"/></l></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>Why, sir, they were nothing but about
<lb ed="G"/>Mistress <lb ed="F1" n="2264"/>Anne Page; to know if it were my
<lb ed="G"/>master's fortune to <lb ed="F1" n="2265"/>have her or no.

<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2266"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>'Tis, 'tis his fortune.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2267"/></l></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><l>What, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2268"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>To have her, or no. Go; say the
<lb ed="G"/>woman told <lb ed="F1" n="2269"/>me so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2270"/></p></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><l>May I be bold to say so, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2271"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Ay, sir; like who more bold.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2272"/></l></sp><sp who="sim."><speaker>Sim.</speaker><p>I thank your worship: I shall make
<lb ed="G"/>my master <lb ed="F1" n="2273"/>glad with these tidings.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2274"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><l>Thou art clerkly, thou art clerkly, Sir
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>John. <lb ed="F1" n="2275"/>Was there a wise woman with thee?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2276"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Ay, that there was, mine host; one that
<lb ed="G"/>hath taught <lb ed="F1" n="2277"/>me more wit than ever I learned
<lb ed="G"/>before in my life; and <lb ed="F1" n="2278"/>I paid nothing for it
<lb ed="G"/>neither, but was paid for my <lb ed="F1" n="2279"/>learning.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">               Enter BARDOLPH.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2280"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><l>Out, alas, sir! cozenage, mere cozenage!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2281"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Where be my horses? speak well of
<lb ed="G"/>them, <lb ed="F1" n="2282"/>varletto.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2283"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Run away with the cozeners; for so
<lb ed="G"/>soon as <lb ed="F1" n="2284"/>I came beyond Eton, they threw me off
<lb ed="G"/>from behind <lb ed="F1" n="2285"/>one of them, in a slough of mire;
<lb ed="G"/>and set spurs and <lb ed="F1" n="2286"/>away, like three German
<lb ed="G" n="71"/>devils, three Doctor <lb ed="F1" n="2287"/>Faustuses.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2288"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>They are gone but to meet the duke,
<lb ed="G"/>villain: <lb ed="F1" n="2289"/>do not say they be fled; Germans are
<lb ed="G"/>honest men.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">          Enter SIR HUGH EVANS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2290"/></p></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><l>Where is mine host?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2291"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><l>What is the matter, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2292"/></l></sp><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Have a care of your entertainments:
<lb ed="G"/>there is a <lb ed="F1" n="2293"/>friend of mine come to town, tells me
<lb ed="G"/>there is three <lb ed="F1" n="2294"/>cozen-germans that has cozened
<lb ed="G"/>all the hosts of Readins, <lb ed="F1" n="2295"/>of Maidenhead, of
<lb ed="G"/>Colebrook, of horses and money. I <lb ed="F1" n="2296"/>tell you for
<lb ed="G"/>good will, look you: you are wise and full <lb ed="F1" n="2297"/>of
<lb ed="G"/>gibes and vlouting-stocks, and 'tis not convenient
<lb ed="F1" n="2298"/><lb ed="G"/>you should be cozened.   Fare you well.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">            Enter DOCTOR CAIUS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2299"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><l>Vere is mine host de Jarteer?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2300"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Here, master doctor, in perplexity
<lb ed="G"/>and <lb ed="F1" n="2301"/>doubtful dilemma.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2302"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><p>I cannot tell vat is dat: but it is
<lb ed="G"/>tell-a me dat <lb ed="F1" n="2303"/>you make grand preparation for
<lb ed="G"/>a duke de Jamany: by <lb ed="F1" n="2304"/>my trot, dere is no
<lb ed="G"/>duke dat the court is know to <lb ed="F1" n="2305"/>come. I tell you
<lb ed="G" n="91"/>for good vill: adieu.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2306"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me,
<lb ed="G"/>knight, I <lb ed="F1" n="2307"/>am undone! Fly, run, hue and cry,
<lb ed="G"/>villain! I am <lb ed="F1" n="2308"/>undone!
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Host and Bard.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2309"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>I would all the world might be cozened;
<lb ed="G"/>for I <lb ed="F1" n="2310"/>have been cozened and beaten too. If it
<lb ed="G"/>should come <lb ed="F1" n="2311"/>to the ear of the court, how I have
<lb ed="G"/>been transformed <lb ed="F1" n="2312"/>and how my transformation
<lb ed="G"/>hath been washed and <lb ed="F1" n="2313"/>cudgelled, they would
<lb ed="G"/>melt me out of my fat drop by <lb ed="F1" n="2314"/>drop and liquor
<lb ed="G"/>fishermen's boots with me: I warrant <lb ed="F1" n="2315"/>they would
<lb ed="G"/>whip me with their fine wits till I were as
<lb ed="F1" n="2316"/><lb ed="G"/>crestfallen as a dried pear. I never prospered
<lb ed="G"/>since I <lb ed="F1" n="2317"/>forswore myself at primero. Well, if
<lb ed="G"/>my wind were <lb ed="F1" n="2318"/>but long enough to say my
<lb ed="G"/>prayers, I would repent.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">          Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>Now, whence come <lb ed="F1" n="2319"/>you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2320"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><l>From the two parties, forsooth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2321"/></l></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>The devil take one party and his dam
<lb ed="G"/>the <lb ed="F1" n="2322"/>other! and so they shall be both bestowed.
<lb ed="G"/>I have suffered <lb ed="F1" n="2323"/>more for their sakes, more than
<lb ed="G"/>the villanous inconstancy <lb ed="F1" n="2324"/>of man's disposition
<lb ed="G"/>is able to bear.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2325"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>And have not they suffered? Yes, I
<lb ed="G"/>warrant; speciously <lb ed="F1" n="2326"/>one of them; Mistress
<lb ed="G"/>Ford, good heart, is beaten <lb ed="F1" n="2327"/>black and blue,
<lb ed="G"/>that you cannot see a white spot about <lb ed="F1" n="2328"/>her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2329"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>What tellest thou me of black and
<lb ed="G"/>blue? I <lb ed="F1" n="2330"/>was beaten myself into all the colours
<lb ed="G"/>of the rainbow; <lb ed="F1" n="2331"/>and I was like to be apprehended
<lb ed="G"/>for the witch <lb ed="F1" n="2332"/>of Brentford: but that
<lb ed="G"/>my admirable dexterity of wit, <lb ed="F1" n="2333"/>my counterfeiting
<lb ed="G"/>the action of an old woman, delivered <lb ed="F1" n="2334"/>me,
<lb ed="G"/>the knave constable had set me i' the stocks, i'
<lb ed="G"/>the common <lb ed="F1" n="2335"/>stocks, for a witch.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2336"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>Sir, let me speak with you in your
<lb ed="G"/>chamber: <lb ed="F1" n="2337"/>you shall hear how things go; and, I
<lb ed="G"/>warrant, to your <lb ed="F1" n="2338"/>content. Here is a letter will
<lb ed="G"/>say somewhat. Good <lb ed="F1" n="2339"/>hearts, what ado here is to
<lb ed="G"/>bring you together! Sure, <lb ed="F1" n="2340"/>one of you does not
<lb ed="G" n="130"/>serve heaven well, that you are so <lb ed="F1" n="2341"/>crossed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2342"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><l>Come up into my chamber.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="6">
    <head>SCENE VI</head><lb ed="F1" n="2343"/>
<stage type="setting">Another room in the Garter Inn.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2344"/><stage type="entrance">          Enter FENTON and HOST.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2345"/><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Master Fenton, talk not to me; my
<lb ed="G"/>mind is <lb ed="F1" n="2346"/>heavy: I will give over all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2347"/></p></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l>Yet hear me speak. Assist me in my purpose,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2348"/></l><l>And, as I am a gentleman, I'll give thee
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2349"/></l><l>A hundred pound in gold more than your loss.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2350"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><l>I will hear you, Master Fenton; and
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I will at <lb ed="F1" n="2351"/>the least keep your counsel.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2352"/></l></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l>From time to time I have acquainted you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2353"/></l><l>With the dear love I bear to fair Anne Page;
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2354"/></l><l>Who mutually hath answer'd my affection,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2355"/></l><l>So far forth as herself might be her chooser,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2356"/></l><l>Even to my wish: I have a letter from her
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2357"/></l><l>Of such contents as you will wonder at;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2358"/></l><l>The mirth whereof so larded with my matter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2359"/></l><l>That neither singly can be manifested,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2360"/></l><l>Without the show of both; fat Falstaff
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2361"/></l><l>Hath a great scene: the image of the jest
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2362"/></l><l>I'll show you here at large. Hark, good mine host.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2363"/></l><l>To-night at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2364"/></l><l>Must my sweet Nan present the Fairy Queen;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2365"/></l><l>The purpose why, is here: in which disguise,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2366"/></l><l>While other jests are something rank on foot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2367"/></l><l>Her father hath commanded her to slip
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2368"/></l><l>Away with Slender and with him at Eton
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2369"/></l><l>Immediately to marry: she hath consented:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Now, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2370"/></l><l>Her mother, ever strong against that match
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2371"/></l><l>And firm for Doctor Caius, hath appointed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2372"/></l><l>That he shall likewise shuffle her away,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2373"/></l><l>While other sports are tasking of their minds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2374"/></l><l>And at the deanery, where a priest attends,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2375"/></l><l>Straight marry her: to this her mother's plot
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2376"/></l><l>She seemingly obedient likewise hath
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2377"/></l><l>Made promise to the doctor. Now, thus it rests:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2378"/></l><l>Her father means she shall be all in white,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2379"/></l><l>And in that habit, when Slender sees his time
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2380"/></l><l>To take her by the hand and bid her go,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2381"/></l><l>She shall go with him: her mother hath intended,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2382"/></l><l>The better to denote her to the doctor,
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="2383"/></l><l>For they must all be mask'd and vizarded,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2384"/></l><l>That quaint in green she shall be loose enrobed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2385"/></l><l>With ribands pendent, flaring 'bout her head:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2386"/></l><l>And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2387"/></l><l>To pinch her by the hand, and, on that token,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2388"/></l><l>The maid hath given consent to go with him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2389"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><l>Which means she to deceive, father or <lb ed="F1" n="2390"/>mother?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2391"/></l></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l>Both, my good host, to go along with me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2392"/></l><l>And here it rests, that you'll procure the vicar
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2393"/></l><l>To stay for me at church 'twixt twelve and one,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2394"/></l><l>And, in the lawful name of marrying,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2395"/></l><l>To give our hearts united ceremony.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2396"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><l>Well, husband your device; I'll to the vicar:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2397"/></l><l>Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a priest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2398"/></l></sp><sp who="fent."><speaker>Fent.</speaker><l>So shall I evermore be bound to thee;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2399"/></l><l>Besides, I'll make a present recompense.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
</div1>
    
<div1 type="act" n="5">
    <head>ACT V</head><lb ed="F1" n="2400"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">A room in the Garter Inn.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2401"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2402"/><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Prithee, no more prattling; go, I'll
<lb ed="G"/>hold.   This is <lb ed="F1" n="2403"/>the third time; I hope good
<lb ed="G"/>luck lies in odd numbers. <lb ed="F1" n="2404"/>Away! go. They
<lb ed="G"/>say there is divinity in odd numbers, <lb ed="F1" n="2405"/>either in
<lb ed="G"/>nativity, chance, or death.   Away!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2406"/></p></sp><sp who="quick."><speaker>Quick.</speaker><p>I'll provide you a chain; and I'll
<lb ed="G"/>do what I can <lb ed="F1" n="2407"/>to get you a pair of horns.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2408"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Away, I say; time wears: hold up
<lb ed="G"/>your head, and <lb ed="F1" n="2409"/>mince.   <stage>[Exit Mrs Quickly.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                  Enter FORD.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the
<lb ed="G"/>matter <lb ed="F1" n="2410"/>will be known to-night, or never. Be
<lb ed="G"/>you in the <lb ed="F1" n="2411"/>Park about midnight, at Herne's
<lb ed="G"/>oak, and you shall <lb ed="F1" n="2412"/>see wonders.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2413"/></p></sp><sp who="ford."><speaker>Ford.</speaker><p>Went you not to her yesterday, sir,
<lb ed="G"/>as you told <lb ed="F1" n="2414"/>me you had appointed?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2415"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>I went to her, Master Brook, as you
<lb ed="G"/>see, like a <lb ed="F1" n="2416"/>poor old man: but I came from
<lb ed="G"/>her, Master Brook, <lb ed="F1" n="2417"/>like a poor old woman.
<lb ed="G"/>That same knave Ford, her husband, <lb ed="F1" n="2418"/>hath the
<lb ed="G"/>finest mad devil of jealousy in him, Master
<lb ed="F1" n="2419"/><lb ed="G"/>Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell
<lb ed="G"/>you: <lb ed="F1" n="2420"/>he beat me grievously, in the shape of a
<lb ed="G"/>woman; for in <lb ed="F1" n="2421"/>the shape of man, Master
<lb ed="G"/>Brook, I fear not Goliath <lb ed="F1" n="2422"/>with a weaver's
<lb ed="G"/>beam; because I know also life is a <lb ed="F1" n="2423"/>shuttle.
<lb ed="G"/>I am in haste; go along with me; I'll tell you
<lb ed="G"/>all, <lb ed="F1" n="2424"/>Master Brook.   Since I plucked geese,
<lb ed="G"/>played truant <lb ed="F1" n="2425"/>and whipped top, I knew not
<lb ed="G"/>what 'twas to be beaten till <lb ed="F1" n="2426"/>lately.   Follow
<lb ed="G"/>me: I'll tell you strange things of this <lb ed="F1" n="2427"/>knave
<lb ed="G"/>Ford, on whom to-night I will be revenged,
<lb ed="G"/>and I <lb ed="F1" n="2428"/>will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow.
<lb ed="G"/>Strange <lb ed="F1" n="2429"/>things in hand, Master Brook!   Follow.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
    <head>SCENE II</head><lb ed="F1" n="2430"/>
<stage type="setting">Windsor Park.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2431"/><stage type="entrance">  Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2432"/><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>Come, come; we'll couch i' the castle-ditch
<lb ed="F1" n="2433"/><lb ed="G"/>till we see the light of our fairies,
<lb ed="G"/>Remember, son Slender, <lb ed="F1" n="2434"/>my daughter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2435"/></p></sp><sp who="slen."><speaker>Slen.</speaker><p>Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her
<lb ed="G"/>and we have <lb ed="F1" n="2436"/>a nay-word how to know one
<lb ed="G"/>another: I come to her <lb ed="F1" n="2437"/>in white, and cry
<lb ed="G"/>'mum;' she cries 'budget;' and by that <lb ed="F1" n="2438"/>we
<lb ed="G"/>know one another.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2439"/></p></sp><sp who="shal."><speaker>Shal.</speaker><p>That's good too: but what needs
<lb ed="G"/>either your <lb ed="F1" n="2440"/>'mum' or her 'budget?' the white
<lb ed="G"/>will decipher her well <lb ed="F1" n="2441"/>enough. It hath struck
<lb ed="G"/>ten o'clock.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2442"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>The night is dark; light and spirits
<lb ed="G"/>will become <lb ed="F1" n="2443"/>it well.   Heaven prosper our
<lb ed="G"/>sport!   No man means <lb ed="F1" n="2444"/>evil but the devil, and
<lb ed="G"/>we shall know him by his horns. <lb ed="F1" n="2445"/>Let's away;
<lb ed="G"/>follow me.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
    <head>SCENE III</head><lb ed="F1" n="2446"/>
<stage type="setting">A street leading to the Park.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2447"/><stage type="entrance">Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2448"/><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Master doctor, my daughter is
<lb ed="G"/>in green: when <lb ed="F1" n="2449"/>you see your time, take her by
<lb ed="G"/>the hand, away with her <lb ed="F1" n="2450"/>to the deanery, and
<lb ed="G"/>dispatch it quickly. Go before into <lb ed="F1" n="2451"/>the Park:
<lb ed="G"/>we two must go together.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2452"/></p></sp><sp who="caius."><speaker>Caius.</speaker><l>I know vat I have to do. Adieu.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2453"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>Fare you   well, sir. <stage>[Exit Caius.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>My husband will not <lb ed="F1" n="2454"/>rejoice so much
<lb ed="G"/>at the abuse of Falstaff as he will chafe <lb ed="F1" n="2455"/>at
<lb ed="G"/>the doctor's marrying my daughter: but 'tis no
<lb ed="G"/>matter; <lb ed="F1" n="2456"/>better a little chiding than a great deal
<lb ed="G" n="11"/>of <lb ed="F1" n="2457"/>heart-break.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2458"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Where is Nan now and her
<lb ed="G"/>troop of fairies, <lb ed="F1" n="2459"/>and the Welsh devil Hugh?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2460"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>They are all couched in a pit
<lb ed="G"/>hard by Herne's <lb ed="F1" n="2461"/>oak, with obscured lights;
<lb ed="G"/>which, at the very instant <lb ed="F1" n="2462"/>of Falstaff's and our
<lb ed="G"/>meeting, they will at once display to <lb ed="F1" n="2463"/>the night.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2464"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>That cannot choose but amaze
<lb ed="G"/>him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2465"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><p>If he be not amazed, he will be
<lb ed="G"/>mocked; if <lb ed="F1" n="2466"/>he be amazed, he will every way
<lb ed="G" n="21"/>be mocked.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2467"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>We'll betray him finely.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2468"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-page."><speaker>Mrs. Page.</speaker><l>Against such lewdsters and their lechery
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2469"/></l><l>Those that betray them do no treachery.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2470"/></l></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>The hour draws on. To the
<lb ed="G"/>oak, to the <lb ed="F1" n="2471"/>oak!
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
    <head>SCENE IV</head><lb ed="F1" n="2472"/>
<stage type="setting">Windsor Park.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2473"/><stage type="entrance">Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised, with others as Fairies.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2474"/><sp who="evans."><speaker>Evans.</speaker><p>Trib, trib, fairies; come; and remember
<lb ed="G"/>your <lb ed="F1" n="2475"/>parts: be pold, I pray you; follow
<lb ed="G"/>me into the pit; and <lb ed="F1" n="2476"/>when I give the
<lb ed="G"/>watch-'ords, do as I pid you: come, <lb ed="F1" n="2477"/>come;
<lb ed="G"/>trib, trib.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="5">
    <head>SCENE V</head><lb ed="F1" n="2478"/>
<stage type="setting">Another part of the Park.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2479"/><stage type="entrance">   Enter FALSTAFF disguised as Herne.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2480"/>
<lb ed="F1" n="2481"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2482"/><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>The Windsor bell hath struck twelve;
<lb ed="G"/>the minute <lb ed="F1" n="2483"/>draws on. Now, the hot-blooded
<lb ed="G"/>gods assist me! <lb ed="F1" n="2484"/>Remember, Jove, thou wast a
<lb ed="G"/>bull for thy Europa; love <lb ed="F1" n="2485"/>set on thy horns.
<lb ed="G"/>O powerful love! that, in some respects, <lb ed="F1" n="2486"/>makes
<lb ed="G"/>a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
<lb ed="F1" n="2487"/><lb ed="G"/>You were also, Jupiter, a swan for the love of
<lb ed="G"/>Leda.   O <lb ed="F1" n="2488"/>omnipotent Love!   how near the
<lb ed="G"/>god drew to the complexion <lb ed="F1" n="2489"/>of a goose!   A
<lb ed="G"/>fault done first in the form of a <lb ed="F1" n="2490"/>beast. O
<lb ed="G"/>Jove, a beastly fault! And then another fault
<lb ed="F1" n="2491"/><lb ed="G"/>in the semblance of a fowl; think on't, Jove;
<lb ed="G"/>a foul <lb ed="F1" n="2492"/>fault!   When gods have hot backs,
<lb ed="G"/>what shall poor <lb ed="F1" n="2493"/>men do?   For me, I am here
<lb ed="G"/>a Windsor stag; and the <lb ed="F1" n="2494"/>fattest, I think, i'
<lb ed="G"/>the forest. Send me a cool rut-time, <lb ed="F1" n="2495"/>Jove, or
<lb ed="G"/>who can blame me to piss my tallow?   Who
<lb ed="F1" n="2496"/><lb ed="G"/>comes here? my doe?
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2497"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Sir John! art thou there, my
<lb ed="G"/>deer? <lb ed="F1" n="2498"/>my male deer?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2499"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>My doe with the black scut!   Let the
<lb ed="G"/>sky <lb ed="F1" n="2500"/>rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of
<lb ed="G"/>Green <lb ed="F1" n="2501"/>Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits and snow
<lb ed="G"/>eringoes; let <lb ed="F1" n="2502"/>there come a tempest of provocation,
<lb ed="G"/>I will shelter me <lb ed="F1" n="2503"/>here.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2504"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs.-ford."><speaker>Mrs. Ford.</speaker><p>Mistress Page is come with
<lb ed="G"/>me, sweetheart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2505"/></p></sp><sp who="fal."><speaker>Fal.</speaker><p>Divide me like a bribe buck, each a
<lb ed="G"/>haunch: <lb ed="F1" n="2506"/>I will keep my sides to myself, my
<lb ed="G"/>shoulders for the <lb ed="F1" n="2507"/>fellow of this walk, and my
<lb ed="G"/>horns I bequeath your <lb ed="F1" n="2508"/>husbands.   Am I a
<lb ed="G"/>woodman, ha?   Speak I like Herne <lb ed="F1" n="2509"/>the hunter?
<lb ed="G"/>Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience;
<lb ed="F1" n="2510"/><lb ed="G"/>he makes restitution.   As I am a
<lb ed="G"/>true spirit, welcome!         <stage>[Noise within.</stage>
