616523Hostesse Master Phang, haue you entred the action?

617524Phang It is entred.

618525Host. Wheres your yeoman? ist a lusty yeoman? wil a stand

619526too't?

620527Phang Sirra, wheres Snare?

621528Host. O Lord I, good master Snare.

622529Snare Here, here.

623530Phang Snare, we must arest sir Iohn Falstaffe.

624531Host. Yea good master Snare, I haue entred him and all.

625532Snare It may chaunce cost some of vs our liues, for he will

533stabbe.

626534Host. Alas the day, take heed of him, he stabd me in mine

627535owne house, most beastly in good faith, a cares not what mis-

628536chiefe he does, if his weapon be out, he will foyne like any di-

629537uell, he will spare neither man, woman, nor child.

631538Phang If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.

632539Host. No nor I neither, Ile be at your elbow.

633540Phang And I but fist him once, and a come but within my

634541view.

635542Host. I am vndone by his going, I warrant you, hees an in-

636543finitiue thing vppon my score, good maister Phang holde him

637544sure, good master Snare let him not scape, a comes continually

638545to Pie corner (sauing your manhoods) to buy a saddle, and he

639546is indited to dinner to the Lubbers head in Lumbert streete to

640547master Smooths the silk man, I pray you since my exion is en-

641548tred, and my case so openly knowne to the worlde, let him be

642549brought in to his answer, a hundred marke is a long one, for a

643550poore lone woman to beare, and I haue borne, and borne, and

644551borne, and haue bin fubd off, and fubd off, and fubd off, from

645552this day to that day, that it is a shame to be thought on, there is

646553no honesty in such dealing, vnlesse a woman should be made

647554an asse, and a beast, to beare euery knaues wrong: yonder he

649555comes, and that arrant malmsie-nose knaue Bardolfe with him,

650556do your offices do your offices master Phãg, & master Snare,

651557do me, do me, do me your offices.