232Eu. It is a fery discetion-answere; saue the fall is in

233the 'ord, dissolutely: the ort is (according to our mea-

234ning) resolutely: his meaning is good.

235Sh. I: I thinke my Cosen meant well.

236Sl. I, or else I would I might be hang'd (la.)

237Sh. Here comes faire Mistris Anne; would I were

238yong for your sake, Mistris Anne.

239An. The dinner is on the Table, my Father desires

240your worships company.

241Sh. I will wait on him, (faire Mistris Anne.)

242Eu. Od's plessed-wil: I wil not be absēce at the grace.

243An. Wil't please your worship to come in, Sir?

244Sl. No, I thank you forsooth, hartely; I am very well.

245An. The dinner attends you, Sir.

246Sl. I am not a-hungry, I thanke you, forsooth: goe,

247Sirha, for all you are my man, goe wait vpon my Cosen

248Shallow: a Iustice of peace sometime may be beholding

249to his friend, for a Man; I keepe but three Men, and a

250Boy yet, till my Mother be dead: but what though, yet

251I liue like a poore Gentleman borne.

252An. I may not goe in without your worship: they

253will not sit till you come.

254Sl. I'faith, ile eate nothing: I thanke you as much as

255though I did.

256An. I pray you Sir walke in.

257Sl. I had rather walke here (I thanke you) I bruiz'd

258my shin th'other day, with playing at Sword and Dag-

259ger with a Master of Fence (three veneys for a dish of

260stew'd Prunes) and by my troth, I cannot abide the smell

261of hot meate since. Why doe your dogs barke so? be

262there Beares ith' Towne?

263An. I thinke there are, Sir, I heard them talk'd of.

264Sl. I loue the sport well, but I shall as soone quarrell

265at it, as any man in England: you are afraid if you see the

266Beare loose, are you not?

267An. I indeede Sir.

268Sl. That's meate and drinke to me now: I haue seene

269Sackerson loose, twenty times, and haue taken him by the

270Chaine: but (I warrant you) the women haue so cride

271and shrekt at it, that it past: But women indeede, cannot

272abide 'em, they are very ill-fauour'd rough things.

273Ma. Pa. Come, gentle M. Slender, come; we stay for you.

274Sl. Ile eate nothing, I thanke you Sir.

275Ma. Pa. By cocke and pie, you shall not choose, Sir:

276come, come.

277Sl. Nay, pray you lead the way.

278Ma. Pa. Come on, Sir.

279Sl. Mistris Anne: your selfe shall goe first.

280An. Not I Sir, pray you keepe on.

281Sl. Truely I will not goe first: truely-la: I will not

282doe you that wrong.

283An. I pray you Sir.

284Sl. Ile rather be vnmannerly, then troublesome: you

285doe your selfe wrong indeede-la. Exeunt.

288Eu. Go your waies, and aske of Doctor Caius house,

289which is the way; and there dwels one Mistris Quickly;

290which is in the manner of his Nurse; or his dry-Nurse; or

291his Cooke; or his Laundry; his Washer, and his Ringer.

292Si. Well Sir.

293Eu. Nay, it is petter yet: giue her this letter; for it is

294a 'oman that altogeathers acquaintāce with Mistris Anne

295Page; and the Letter is to desire, and require her to soli-

296cite your Masters desires, to Mistris Anne Page: I pray

297you be gon: I will make an end of my dinner; ther's Pip-

298pins and Cheese to come. Exeunt.

301Fal. Mine Host of the Garter?

302Ho. What saies my Bully Rooke? speake schollerly,

303and wisely.

304Fal. Truely mine Host; I must turne away some of my

305followers.

306Ho. Discard, (bully Hercules) casheere; let them wag;

307trot, trot.

308Fal. I sit at ten pounds a weeke.

309Ho. Thou'rt an Emperor (Cesar, Keiser and Pheazar)

310I will entertaine Bardolfe: he shall draw; he shall tap; said

311I well (bully Hector?)

312Fa. Doe so (good mine Host.

313Ho. I haue spoke; let him follow; let me see thee froth,

314and liue: I am at a word: follow.

315Fal. Bardolfe, follow him: a Tapster is a good trade:

316an old Cloake, makes a new Ierkin: a wither'd Seruing-

317man, a fresh Tapster: goe, adew.

318Ba. It is a life that I haue desir'd: I will thriue.

319Pist. O base hungarian wight: wilt y^u the spigot wield.

320Ni. He was gotten in drink: is not the humor cōceited?

321Fal. I am glad I am so acquit of this Tinderbox: his

322Thefts were too open: his filching was like an vnskilfull

323Singer, he kept not time.

324Ni. The good humor is to steale at a minutes rest.

325Pist. Conuay: the wise it call: Steale? foh: a fico for

326the phrase.

327Fal. Well sirs, I am almost out at heeles.

328Pist. Why then let Kibes ensue.

329Fal. There is no remedy: I must conicatch, I must shift.

330Pist. Yong Rauens must haue foode.

331Fal. Which of you know Ford of this Towne?

332Pist. I ken the wight: he is of substance good.

333Fal. My honest Lads, I will tell you what I am about.

334Pist. Two yards, and more.

335Fal. No quips now Pistoll: (Indeede I am in the waste

336two yards about: but I am now about no waste: I am a-

337bout thrift) briefely: I doe meane to make loue to Fords

338wife: I spie entertainment in her: shee discourses: shee

339carues: she giues the leere of inuitation: I can construe

340the action of her familier stile, & the hardest voice of her

341behauior (to be english'd rightly) is, I am Sir Iohn Falstafs.

342Pist. He hath studied her will; and translated her will:

343out of honesty, into English.

344Ni. The Anchor is deepe: will that humor passe?

345Fal. Now, the report goes, she has all the rule of her

346husbands Purse: he hath a legend of Angels.

347Pist. As many diuels entertaine: and to her Boy say I.

348Ni. The humor rises: it is good: humor me the angels.

349Fal. I haue writ me here a letter to her: & here ano-

350ther to Pages wife, who euen now gaue mee good eyes

351too; examind my parts with most iudicious illiads: some-

352times the beame of her view, guilded my foote: some-

353times my portly belly.