1705951Fal: Bardolfe brew me a pottle sack presently:

1706952Bar: With Egges sir?

1707953Fal: Simply of it selfe, Ile none of these pullets(sperme

954In my drinke: goe make haste.

1683955Haue I liued to be carried in a basket

E2 And

1684956and throwne into the Thames like a barow of But-

957chers offoll. Well, and I be serued such another

1685958tricke, Ile giue them leaue to take out my braines

1686959and butter them, and giue them to a dog for a new-

1687960yeares gift. Sblood, the rogues slided me in with as

1688961little remorse as if they had gone to drowne a blind

1689962bitches puppies in the litter: and they might know

1690963by my sise I haue a kind of alacritie in sinking: and

1691964the bottom had bin as deep as hell I should downe.

1692965I had bene drowned, but that the shore was sheluie

966and somewhat shallowe: a death that I abhorre.

1693967For you know the water swelles a man: and what a

1694968thing should I haue bene whẽ I had bene swelled?

1694.1969By the Lord a mountaine of money. Now is the

1694.2970Sacke brewed?

1697971Bar. I sir, there's a woman below would speake

972 with you.

1698973Fal. Bid her come vp. Let me put some Sacke

974among this cold water, for my belly is as cold as if I

1699975had swallowed snow-balles for pilles.

1708977Now whats the newes with you?

1709978Quic. I come from misteris Ford forsooth.

1710979Fal. Misteris Ford, I haue had Ford inough,

980I haue bene throwne into the Ford, my belly is full

1711981Of Ford: she hath tickled mee.

1716982Quic. O Lord sir, she is the sorrowfullest woman

1713983that her seruants mistooke, that euer liued. And sir,

1718984she would desire you of all loues you will meet her

985once againe, to morrow sir, betweene ten and ele-

1720986uen, and she hopes to make amends for all.

1725987Fal. Ten, and eleuen, saiest thou?

1725.1988Quic. I forsooth.

1727989Fal. Well, tell her Ile meet her. Let her but think

1727.1990Of mans frailtie: Let her iudge what man is,

1727.2991And then thinke of me. And so farwell.

1727.3992Quic. Youle not faile sir?

1727.5994Fal. I will not faile. Commend me to her.

1729995I wonder I heare not of M. Brooke, I like his

1730996Mony well. By the masse here he is.

1732998For. God saue you sir.

1733999Fal. Welcome good M. Brooke. You come to

17341000 know how matters goes.

17351001Ford. Thats my comming indeed sir Iohn.

17361002Fal. M. Brooke I will not lie to you sir,

17371003I was there at my appointed time.

17381004For. And how sped you sir?

17391005Fal. Verie ilfauouredly sir.

17401006For. Why sir, did she change her determination?

17411007Fal. No M. Brooke, but you shall heare. After we

17431008had kissed and imbraced, and as it were euen amid

17441009the prologue of our incounter, who should come,

1010but the iealous knaue her husband, and a rabble of

17461011his companions at his heeles, thither prouoked and

1012instigated by his distemper. And what to do thinke

17471013you? to search for his wiues loue. Euen so, plainly

1014so.

17481015For. While ye were there?

17491016Fal. Whilst I was there.

17501017For. And did he search and could not find you?

17511018Fal. You shall heare sir, as God would haue it,

17521019A litle before comes me one Pages wife,

E3 Giues

1020Giues her intelligence of her husbands

1021 Approach: and by her inuention, and Fords wiues

17531022Distraction, conueyd me into a buck basket.

17551023Ford. A buck basket!

17561024Fal. By the Lord a buck basket, rammed me in

1025With foule shirts, stokins, greasie napkins,

17581026 That M. Brooke, there was a compound of the most

17591027Villanous smel, that euer offended nostrill.

17621028Ile tell you M. Brooke, by the Lord for your sake

17741029I suffered three egregious deaths: First to be

17771030 Crammed like a good bilbo, in the circomference

17781031Of a pack, Hilt to point, heele to head: and then to

17801032Be stewed in my owne grease like a Dutch dish:

17811033 A man of my kidney; by the Lord it was maruell I

17831034Escaped suffication; and in the heat of all this,

17861035To be throwne into Thames like a horshoo hot:

17881036 Maister Brooke, thinke of that hissing heate, Maister

17891037Brooke.

17921038Ford. Well sir then my shute is void?

1039Youle vndertake it no more?

17941040Fal. M. Brooke, Ile be throwne into Etna

17951041As I haue bene in the Thames,

1042Ere I thus leaue her: I haue receiued

17971043Another appointment of meeting,

17981044Between ten and eleuen is the houre.

18001045Ford: Why sir, tis almost ten alreadie:

18011046Fal: Is it? why then will I addresse my selfe

1047 For my appointment: M. Brooke come to me soone

18021048At night, and you shall know how I speed,

18031049And the end shall be, you shall enioy her loue:

18041050You shall cuckold Foord: Come to mee soone at

1804.11051at night. Exit Falstaffe.

18071052For. Is this a dreame? Is it a vision?

18081053Maister Ford, maister Ford, awake maister Ford,

18091054There is a hole made in your best coat M. Ford,

1809.11055And a man shall not only endure this wrong,

1809.21056But shall stand vnder the taunt of names,

1809.31057Lucifer is a good name, Barbason good : good

1809.41058Diuels names: But cuckold, wittold, godeso

1809.51059The diuel himselfe hath not such a name:

1809.61060And they may hang hats here, and napkins here

1809.71061Vpon my hornes: Well Ile home, I ferit him,

18151062And vnlesse the diuel himselfe should aide him,

18161063Ile search vnpossible places: Ile about it,

1816.11064Least I repent too late: