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God save you, Master Doctor Caius.
How do you, master doctor?
God bless thee, my bully doctor, God bless thee!
Vat be all you, van, two, tree, come for, ah?
Bully, to see thee fight, to see thee foin, to656 see thee traverse, to see thee here, to see thee there,1089657 to see thee pass the punto, the stock, the reverse,1090658 the distance, the montant. Is 'a dead, my Français?1091659 Is 'a dead, my Ethiopian? Hah? What says my galant?1092660 my Aesculapius? Is 'a dead, bully's tail, is 'a dead?
Thou art a Castalian king urinal,664 Hector of Greece, my boy!
He hath shown himself the wiser man,666 master doctor.667 Sir Hugh is a parson, and you a physician. You must1116668 go with me, master doctor.
Pardon, bully justice. -- A word, Monsieur Mockwater.
[They step away to talk aside.]
Mockwater, vat be dat?
That is, in our English tongue, valor, bully,672 valor!
He will clapperclaw thee tightly, bully.
Clapperclaw, vat be dat?
That is, he will make thee amends.
Begar, I do look he shall clapperclaw me den,1130679 and I'll provoke him to do it, or let him wag.1132680 And moreover, bully -- [Returning to the others] but Master Page and Master Shallow1133681 and eke Cavaliero Slender, go you all over the fields1134682 to Frogmore?
[Aside to Host and Shallow] Sir Hugh is there, is he?
[Aside to Page and Shallow] He is there. Go see what humor he is in.685 I'll bring the doctor about by the fields.1137686 Will it do well?
We will do it, my host. -- Farewell, Master Doctor.
Let him die, but first sheathe your impatience,692 throw cold water on your choler, come go with me1143693 through the fields to Frogmore, and I'll bring thee1144694 where Mistress Anne Page is a-feasting at a farm house,1145695 and thou shalt wear her. Cried game! Said I well, bully?
Begar, excellent vel, and if you speak pour1148697 moi, I shall procure you de guests of all de gentlemen1149698 mes patients. Ay, begar, I sall.
Ay, begar, excellent.
Let us wag then.
Allons, allons, allons!