562.5322Now Ieshu blesse me, am I methomorphised?

562.6323 I thinke I knowe not my selfe. Why what a Gods

562.7324name doth this man see in me, that thus he shootes

562.8325at my honestie? Well but that I knowe my owne

562.9326heart, I should scarcely perswade my selfe I were

562.10327hand. Why what an vnreasonable woolsack is this.

562.11328He was neuer twice in my companie, and if then I

562.12329thought I gaue such assurauce with my eies, Ide pul

562.13330them out, they should neuer see more holie daies.

562.14331Well, I shall trust fat men the worse while I liue for

577332his sake. O God that I knew how to be reuenged of

577.1333him. But in good time, heeres mistresse Foord.

577.3335Mis. For. How now Mistris Page, are you reading

577.4336Loue Letters? How do you woman?

577.5337Mis. Pa. O woman I am I know not what:

577.6338In loue vp to the hard eares. I was neuer in such a

577.7339 case in my life.

577.8340Mis. For. In loue, now in the name of God with

577.9341 whom?

577.10342Mis. Pa. With one that sweares he loues me,

577.11343And I must not choose but do the like againe:

577.12344I prethie looke on that Letter.

614345Mis. For. Ile match your letter iust with the like,

614.1346Line for line, word for word. Only the name

347Of misteris Page, and misteris Foord disagrees:

614.2348Do me the kindnes to looke vpon this.

614.3349Mis. Pa.Why this is right my letter.

614.4350O most notorious villaine!

614.6351Why what a bladder of iniquitie is this?

636352Lets be reuenged what so ere we do.

636.1353Mis. For. Reuenged, if we liue weel be reuenged.

641354O Lord if my husband should see this Letter,

642355Ifaith this would euen giue edge to his Iealousie.

644357Mis. Pa. See where our husbands are,

645358Mine's as far from Iealousie,

359As I am from wronging him.

645.1360Pis. Ford the words I speake are forst:

653361Beware, take heed, for Falstaffe loues thy wife:

653.1362When Pistoll lies do this.

654363Ford. Why sir my wife is not young.

655364Pis. He wooes both yong and old, both rich and (poore

656365None comes amis. I say he loues thy wife:

656.1366Faire warning did I giue, take heed,

665367For sommer comes, and Cuckoo birds appeare:

665.1368Page belieue him what he ses. Away sir Corporall(Nym.

665.3370Nym. Syr the humor of it is, he loues your wife,

670371I should ha borne the humor Letter to her:

674372I speake and I auouch tis true: My name is Nym.

675373 Farwell, I loue not the humor of bread and cheese:

675.1374And theres the humor of it. Exit Nym.

677375Pa. The humor of it, quoth you:

376Heres a fellow frites humor out of his wits.

687377Mis. Pa. How now sweet hart, how dost thou?

687.2379Pa. How now man? How do you mistris Ford?

687.3380Mis. For. Well I thanke you good M. Page.

381How now husband, how chaunce thou art so me-

688382 lancholy?

689383Ford. Melancholy, I am not melancholy.

690384Goe get you in, goe.

694385Mis. For. God saue me, see who yonder is:

C Weele

386Weele set her a worke in this businesse.

696387Mis. Pa. O sheele serue excellent.

697388Now you come to see my daughter An I am sure.

698389Quic. I forsooth that is my comming.

700390Mis. Pa. Come go in with me. Come Mis. Ford.

700.1391Mis. For. I follow you Mistresse Page.

703393For. M. Page did you heare what these fellowes(said?

704394Pa. Yes M. Ford, what of that sir?

705395For. Do you thinke it is true that they told vs?

705.1396Pa. No by my troth do I not,

705.2397I rather take them to be paltry lying knaues,

705.3398Such as rather speakes of enuie,

705.4399Then of any certaine they haue

705.5400Of any thing. And for the knight, perhaps

705.6401He hath spoke merrily, as the fashion of fat men

705.7402Are: But should he loue my wife,

705.8403Ifaith Ide turne her loose to him:

705.9404And what he got more of her,

705.10405Then ill lookes, and shrowd words,

705.11406Why let me beare the penaltie of it.

718407For. Nay I do not mistrust my wife,

408Yet Ide be loth to turne them together,

719409A man may be too confident.

722411Pa. Here comes my ramping host of the garter,

723412Ther's either licker in his hed, or mony in his purse,

724413That he lookes so merily. Now mine Host?

726414Host. God blesse you my bully rookes, God blesse(you.

727415Cauelera Iustice I say.

728416Shal. At hand mine host, at hand. M. Ford god den( to you.

728.1417God den an twentie good M. Page.

730418I tell you sir we haue sport in hand.

731419Host. Tell him cauelira Iustice: tell him bully(rooke.

735420Ford. Mine Host a the garter:

735.1421Host. What ses my bully rooke?

422Ford. A word with you sir.

735.3424Shal. Harke you sir, Ile tell you what the sport (shall be,

733425Doctor Cayus and sir Hu are to fight,

737426My merrie Host hath had the measuring

738427Of their weapons, and hath

428Appointed them contrary places. Harke in your (eare:

742429Host: Hast thou no shute against my knight,

430My guest, my cauellira:

744431For. None I protest: But tell him my name

746432Is Rrooke, onlie for a Iest.

747433Host: My hand bully: Thou shalt

434Haue egres and regres, and thy

748435Name shall be Brooke: Sed I well bully Hector?

749436Shal. I tell you what M. Page, I beleeue

740437The Doctor is no Iester, heele laie it on:

740.1438For tho we be Iustices and Doctors,

740.2439And Church men, yet we are

740.3440The sonnes of women M. Page:

740.4441Pa: True maister Shallow:

740.5442Shal: It will be found so maister Page:

740.6443Pa. Maister Shallow you your selfe

740.7444Haue bene a great fighter,

740.8445Tho now a man of peace:

756446Shal: M. Page I haue seene the day that yong

757447Tall fellowes with their stroke & their passado,

757.1448I haue made them trudge Maister Page,

755449A tis the hart, the hart doth all: I

C2 Haue

450Haue seene the day, with my two hand sword

451I would a made you foure tall Fencers

452Scipped like Rattes.

759453Host. Here boyes, shall we wag, shall we wag?

760454Shal. Ha with you mine host.

760.2456Pa. Come M. Ford, shall we to dinner?

760.3457I know these fellowes sticks in your minde.

760.4458For. No in good sadnesse not in mine:

765459Yet for all this Ile try it further,

765.1460I will not leaue it so:

765.2461Come M. Page, shall we to dinner?

765.3462Pa. With all my hart sir, Ile follow you.