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Alice Shortcake upon All-hallowmas last, a fortnight afore Michaelmas?

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Shal. Come, coz; come, coz; we stay for you. A word with you, coz; marry, this, coz: there is, as 'twere, a tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh here. Do you understand me?

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Slen. Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable; if it be so, I shall do that that is reason.

Shal. Nay, but understand me.

Slen. So I do, sir.

Evans. Give ear to his motions, Master Slender: I will description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it. 196

Slen. Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says: I pray you, pardon me; he's a justice of peace in his country, simple though I stand here.

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

Shal. Ay, there's the point, sir.

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Evans. Marry, is it; the very point of it; to Mistress Anne Page.

Slen. Why, if it be so, I will marry her upon any reasonable demands.

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Evans. But can you affection the 'oman? Let us command to know that of your mouth or of your lips; for divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. Therefore, precisely, can you carry your good will to the maid?

Shal. Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?

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186 Michaelmas] Martlemas Theobald.

188 this, coz] this Q3.

192 that that] that F3F4

195 motions, Master Slender: mo

tions; (Mr Slender) I F.

VOL. I.

207, 208 command] demand Collier MS.

210 mouth] mind Pope.

carry] F1Q3. marry F2F3F4.

14

Slen. I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that would do reason.

Evans. Nay, Got's lords and his ladies! you must speak possitable, if you can carry her your desires towards her.

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Shal. That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?

Slen. I will do a greater thing than that, upon your request, cousin, in any reason.

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Shal. Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz: what I do is to pleasure you, coz. Can you love the maid?

Slen. I will marry her, sir, at your request: but if there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another; I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt: but if you say, 'Marry her,' I will marry her; that I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely. Evans. It is a fery discretion answer; save the fall is in the ort 'dissolutely:' the ort is, according to our meaning, 'resolutely:' his meaning is good.

Shal. Ay, I think my cousin meant well.
Slen. Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la!
Shal. Here comes fair Mistress Anne.

Re-enter ANNE PAGE.

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235

Would I were young for your sake, Mistress Anne! Anne. The dinner is on the table; my father desires

your worships' company.

213 I hope, sir,] I hope, sir... Keightley conj.

216 carry her] carry-her F1Q3F2F3 carre-her F4. carry-a Anon. conj. 228 contempt] Theobald. content Ff Q3. 230 fall] Ff Q3. faul Hanmer. fault Collier. fall Singer. faul Dyce. 231 ort...ort] Rowe (ed. 2). 'ord...ort

Ff Q3.

232 good] goot Hanmer.
234 hanged] hang' F2F3F4
235 Re-enter...] Capell. Enter... Rowe.

om. Ff Q3.

236 SCENE V. Pope.
238 worships'] Capell. worships F1Q3
F2F3. worship's F4.

Shal. I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne.
Evans. Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the

[Exeunt Shallow and Evans.

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grace. Anne. Will't please your worship to come in, sir? Slen. No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very

well.

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Anne. The dinner attends you, sir. Slen. I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go, sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my cousin Shallow. [Exit Simple.] A justice of peace sometime may be beholding to his friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? yet I live like a poor gentleman born.

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Anne. I may not go in without your worship: they will not sit till you come.

Slen. I' faith, I'll eat nothing; I thank you as much as though I did.

Anne. I pray you, sir, walk in.

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Slen. I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised my shin th' other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meat since. Why do your dogs bark so? be there bears i' the town?

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Anne. I think there are, sir; I heard them talked of. Slen. I love the sport well; but I shall as soon quarrel

at it as any man in England. the bear loose, are you not? Anne. Ay, indeed, sir.

You are afraid, if you see

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241 [Exeunt...] Rowe. om. Ff Q3.

248 [Exit Simple.) Theobald. Ff Q3.

249 beholding] beholden Pope.

om.

251 though? Capell. though, Ff Q3.

like] om. F2F3F4

261 [Dogs bark. Collier, ed. 2 (Collier MS.).

265 any] my Johnson (a misprint).

Slen. That's meat and drink to me, now. I have seen Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by the chain; but, I warrant you, the women have so cried and shrieked at it, that it passed: but women, indeed, cannot abide 'em; they are very ill-favoured rough things.

Re-enter PAGE.

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Page. Come, gentle Master Slender, come; we stay for

you.

Slen. I'll eat nothing, I thank you, sir.

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Page. By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! come,

come.

Slen. Nay, pray you, lead the way.

Page. Come on, sir.

Slen. Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first.

Anne. Not I, sir; pray you, keep on.

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Slen. Truly, I will not go first; truly, la! I will not do

you that wrong.

Anne. I pray you, sir.

Slen. I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome.

You do yourself wrong, indeed, la!

[Exeunt. 286

SCENE II. The same.

Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE.

Evans. Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly, which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his wringer.

272 Re-enter...] Capell. Enter Mr
Page. Rowe. om. Ff Q3.
275 I'll eat] I chuse to eat Hanmer.

SCENE II.] SCENE VI. Pope. Scene
continued by Theobald.

The same.] Capell. An outer room
in Page's house. Dyce.
Enter...] Re-enter... Theobald.

3 dry] try (Q1Q2) Dyce.

4 wringer] Theobald. Ringer FfQ3.

Sim. Well, sir.

5

Evans. Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it is a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance with Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire and require her to solicit your master's desires to Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come. [Exeunt. 11

SCENE III. A room in the Garter Inn.

Enter FALSTAFF, Host, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, and ROBIN. Fal. Mine host of the Garter!

Host. What says my bully-rook? speak scholarly and wisely.

Fal. Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my followers.

5

Host. Discard, bully Hercules; cashier: let them wag; trot, trot.

Fal. I sit at ten pounds a week.

Host. Thou'rt an emperor, Cæsar, Keisar, and Pheezar. I will entertain Bardolph; he shall draw, he shall tap: said I well, bully Hector?

Fal. Do so, good mine host.

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Host. I have spoke; let him follow. [To Bard.] Let me see thee froth and lime: I am at a word; follow. [Exit.

7 altogether's] Steevens, 1778 (Tyr

whitt conj.). altogeathers F1Q3altogethers F2F3F4

11 cheese] seese Dyce.

[Exeunt.] Exeunt severally. Theobald.

SCENE III.] SCENE VII. Pope.

2 bully-rook] Bully Rock Rowe (and elsewhere).

scholarly] Schollary F4

10 shall...shall] F1 Q3. will...will F2F3F4

13 [To Bard.] Clark and Glover.

14 see thee froth] see thee, froth Staun

A room...] Capell. Changes to the
Garter-Inn. Pope.

ton.

Enter...and Robin] Rowe. Enter...
Page. Ff Q3.

lime] Capell. lyme (Q1Q2). live
Ff Q3.

[Exit.] Exit Host. Rowe. om. Ff Q3.

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