The Historie
20991926Pr. What
sai
st thou mi
stris quickly, how doth thy hu
sband?
21001927I loue him well, he is an hone
st man.
21031929Falst. Preethe let her alone, and li
st to me.
21051931Falst. The other night I fel a
sleepe here, behind the Arras, and
21061932had my pocket pickt, this hou
se is turn'd baudy hou
se, they pick
21081934Prin. What did
st thou loo
se iacke?
21091935Fal. Wilt thou beleeue me Hall, three or foure bonds of forty
21101936pound a peece, and a
seale ring of my grandfathers.
21121937Prin. A tri
fle,
some eight penie matter.
21131938Host. So I told him my Lord, and I
said I heard your grace
say
21141939so: & my lord he
speakes mo
st vilely of you, like a foule mouthd
21151940man as he is, and
said he would cudgel you.
21181942Ho. Theres neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in me el
se.
21201943Fal. Theres no more faith in thee then in a
stued prune, nor
21211944no more truth in thee then in a drawn fox, and for womandood
21221945maid marion may be the deputies wife of the ward to thee. Go
21241947Host. Say what thing, what thing?
21251948Fal. What thing? why a thing to thanke God on.
21261949Ho. I am nothing to thanke God on, I would thou
should
st 21271950know it, I am an hone
st mans wife, and
setting thy knighthood
21281951a
side, thou art a knaue to call me
so.
21291952Fal. Setting thy womanhood a
side, thou art a bea
st to
say o
- 21311954Host. Say, what bea
st, thou knaue thou?
21321955Falst. What bea
st? why an Otter.
21331956Prin. An Otter
sir
Iohn, why an Otter?
21341957Falst. Why?
shees neither
fish nor
fle
sh, a man knowes not
21361959Host. Thou art an vniu
st man in
saying
so, thou or anie man
21371960knowes where to haue me, thou knaue thou.
21381961Prin. Thou
sai
st true ho
ste
sse, and hee
slaunders thee mo
st 21401963Host. So hee doth you my Lord, and
saide this other day you
ought