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Ha, thou mountaine Forreyner: Sir Iohn, and Master mine, I combat challenge of this Latine Bilboe: word of deniall in thy labras here; word of denial; froth, and scum thou liest

      Slen. By these gloues, then 'twas he

      Nym. Be auis'd sir, and passe good humours: I will say marry trap with you, if you runne the nut-hooks humor on me, that is the very note of it

      Slen. By this hat, then he in the red face had it: for though I cannot remember what I did when you made me drunke, yet I am not altogether an asse

      Fal. What say you Scarlet, and Iohn?

      Bar. Why sir, (for my part) I say the Gentleman had drunke himselfe out of his fiue sentences

      Eu. It is his fiue sences: fie, what the ignorance is

      Bar. And being fap, sir, was (as they say) casheerd: and so conclusions past the Careires

      Slen. I, you spake in Latten then to: but 'tis no matter; Ile nere be drunk whilst I liue againe, but in honest, ciuill, godly company for this tricke: if I be drunke, Ile be drunke with those that haue the feare of God, and not with drunken knaues

      Euan. So got-udge me, that is a vertuous minde

      Fal. You heare all these matters deni'd, Gentlemen;

      you heare it

      Mr.Page. Nay daughter, carry the wine in, wee'll

      drinke within

      Slen. Oh heauen: This is Mistresse Anne Page

      Mr.Page. How now Mistris Ford?

      Fal. Mistris Ford, by my troth you are very wel met:

      by your leaue good Mistris

      Mr.Page. Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome: come, we haue a hot Venison pasty to dinner; Come gentlemen, I hope we shall drinke downe all vnkindnesse

      Slen. I had rather then forty shillings I had my booke of Songs and Sonnets heere: How now Simple, where haue you beene? I must wait on my selfe, must I? you haue not the booke of Riddles about you, haue you? Sim. Booke of Riddles? why did you not lend it to Alice Short-cake vpon Alhallowmas last, a fortnight afore Michaelmas

      Shal. Come Coz, come Coz, we stay for you: a word with you Coz: marry this, Coz: there is as 'twere a tender, a kinde of tender, made a farre-off by Sir Hugh here: doe you vnderstand me? Slen. I Sir, you shall finde me reasonable; if it be so, I shall doe that that is reason

      Shal. Nay, but vnderstand me

      Slen. So I doe Sir

      Euan. Giue eare to his motions; (Mr. Slender) I will description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it

      Slen. Nay, I will doe as my Cozen Shallow saies: I pray you pardon me, he's a Iustice of Peace in his Countrie, simple though I stand here

      Euan. But that is not the question: the question is concerning your marriage

      Shal. I, there's the point Sir

      Eu. Marry is it: the very point of it, to Mi[stris]. An Page

      Slen. Why if it be so; I will marry her vpon any reasonable demands

      Eu. But can you affection the 'oman, let vs command to know that of your mouth, or of your lips: for diuers Philosophers hold, that the lips is parcell of the mouth: therfore precisely, ca[n] you carry your good wil to y maid? Sh. Cosen Abraham Slender, can you loue her? Slen. I hope sir, I will do as it shall become one that would doe reason

      Eu. Nay, got's Lords, and his Ladies, you must speake

      possitable, if you can carry-her your desires towards her

      Shal. That you must:

      Will you, (vpon good dowry) marry her?

      Slen. I will doe a greater thing then that, vpon your request (Cosen) in any reason

      Shal. Nay conceiue me, conceiue mee, (sweet Coz): What I doe is to pleasure you (Coz:) can you loue the maid? Slen. I will marry her (Sir) at your request; but if there bee no great loue in the beginning, yet Heauen may decrease it vpon better acquaintance, when wee are married, and haue more occasion to know one another: I hope vpon familiarity will grow more content: but if you say mary-her, I will mary-her, that I am freely dissolued, and dissolutely

      Eu. It is a fery discretion-answere; saue the fall is in the 'ord, dissolutely: the ort is (according to our meaning) resolutely: his meaning is good

      Sh. I: I thinke my Cosen meant well

      Sl. I, or else I would I might be hang'd (la.)

      Sh. Here comes faire Mistris Anne; would I were yong for your sake, Mistris Anne

      An. The dinner is on the Table, my Father desires

      your worships company

      Sh. I will wait on him, (faire Mistris Anne.)

      Eu. Od's plessed-wil: I wil not be abse[n]ce at the grace

      An. Wil't please your worship to come in, Sir?

      Sl. No, I thank you forsooth, hartely; I am very well

      An. The dinner attends you, Sir

      Sl. I am not a-hungry, I thanke you, forsooth: goe,

      Sirha, for all you are my man, goe wait vpon my Cosen

      Shallow: a Iustice of peace sometime may be beholding to his friend, for a Man; I keepe but three Men, and a

      Boy yet, till my Mother be dead: but what though, yet

      I liue like a poore Gentleman borne

      An. I may not goe in without your worship: they

      will not sit till you come

      Sl. I' faith, ile eate nothing: I thanke you as much as

      though I did

      An. I pray you Sir walke in

      Sl. I had rather walke here (I thanke you) I bruiz'd my shin th' other day, with playing at Sword and Dagger with a Master of Fence (three veneys for a dish of stew'd Prunes) and by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meate since. Why doe your dogs barke so? be there Beares ith' Towne? An. I thinke there are, Sir, I heard them talk'd of

      Sl. I loue the sport well, but I shall as soone quarrell

      at it, as any man in England: you are afraid if you see the

      Beare loose, are you not?

      An. I indeede Sir

      Sl. That's meate and drinke to me now: I haue seene Saskerson loose, twenty times, and haue taken him by the Chaine: but (I warrant you) the women haue so cride and shrekt at it, that it past: But women indeede, cannot abide 'em, they are very ill-fauour'd rough things

      Ma.Pa. Come, gentle M[aster]. Slender, come; we stay for you

      Sl. Ile eate nothing, I thanke you Sir

      Ma.Pa. By cocke and pie, you shall not choose, Sir: come, come

      Sl. Nay, pray you lead the way

      Ma.Pa. Come on, Sir

      Sl. Mistris Anne: your selfe shall goe first

      An. Not I Sir, pray you keepe on

      Sl. Truely I will not goe first: truely-la: I will not doe you that wrong

      An. I pray you Sir

      Sl. Ile rather be vnmannerly, then troublesome: you doe your selfe wrong indeede-la.

Exeunt

      Scena Secunda

      Enter Euans, and Simple.

      Eu. Go your waies, and aske of Doctor Caius house, which is the way; and there dwels one Mistris Quickly; which is in the manner of his Nurse; or his dry-Nurse; or his Cooke; or his Laundry; his Washer, and his Ringer

      Si. Well Sir

      Eu. Nay, it is petter yet: giue her this letter; for it is a 'oman that altogeathers acquainta[n]ce with Mistris Anne Page; and the Letter is to desire, and require her to solicite your Masters desires, to Mistris Anne Page: I pray you be gon: I will

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