23451397Host. Speake not to me
sir, my mind is heauie,
23471399Fen. Yet heare me, and as I am a gentleman,
23481400Ile giue you a hundred pound toward your lo
sse.
23501401Host. Well
sir Ile heare you, and at lea
st keep your
23521403Fen. Thẽ thus my ho
st. Tis not vnknown to you,
G1 The
A pleasant Comedie, of
23531404The feruent loue I beare to young
Anne Page,
23541405And mutally her loue againe to mee:
23671406But her father
still again
st her choi
se,
23681407Doth
seeke to marrie her to fooli
sh Slender,
23781408And in a robe of white this night di
sgui
sed,
23601409Wherein fat
Falstaffe had a mightie
scare,
23801410Mu
st Slender take her and carrie her to
Catlen,
2380.21412Now her mother
still again
st that match,
23821413And
firme for Do
ctor
Cayus, in a robe of red
23871414By her deuice, the Do
ctor mu
st steale her thence,
23881415And
she hath giuen con
sent to goe with him.
23891416Host. Now which means
she to deceiue, father or
23911418Fen. Both my good Ho
st, to go along with me.
23921419 Now here it re
sts, that you would procure a prie
st,
23931420And tarrie readie at the appointment place,
23951421To giue our harts vnited matrimonie.
2395.11422Host. But how will you come to
steale her from(among thẽ
2395.21423Fen. That hath
sweet
Nan and I agreed vpon,
2395.31424And by a robe of white, the which
she weares,
2395.41425With ribones pendant
flaring bout her head,
2395.51426I
shalbe
sure to know her, and conuey her thence,
2395.61427And bring her where the prie
st abides our cõming,
2395.71428And by thy furtherance there be married.
23961429Host. Well, hu
sband your deuice, Ile to the Vicar,
23971430Bring you the maide, you
shall not lacke a Prie
st.
23981431Fen. So
shall I euermore be bound vnto thee.
23991432Be
sides Ile alwaies be thy faithfull friend.