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THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.

LITERARY AND HISTORICAL NOTICE.

THIS play was produced under two disadvantages: first, it was not the suggestion of Shakspeare's own genius, be having exhibited the character of Falstaff in three inimitable plays, and finished the portrait to his own taste; and secondly, it was written with unusual expedition, in the short period of fourteen days. Queen Elizabet is said to have been so delighted with the Knight, that she commanded our poet to show him in love; and, up on this regal signification, Dr. Johnson remarks, that "no task is harder than that of writing to the idens of another. Shakspeare knew what the Queen, if the story be true, seems not to have known--that by any real passion of tenderness, the selfish craft, the careless jollity, and the lazy luxury of Falstaff must have sai fered so much abatement, that little of his former craft would have remained. Falstaff could not love, but by ceasing to be Falstaff." The most noted propensities of "the fat old man," are however, skilfully engranted on the design of the piece; so that wit, covetousness, mendacity, and concupiscence, are as much as possive combined and developed in his conduct. The other characters, also, are well contrasted; and many of the scenes are pregnant with amusing incident. The circumstances of the plot are variously derived: some of them, probably, from an old translation of Il Pecorone by Giovanni Fiorentino; and the particular adventures of Falstaff, from The Lovers of Pisa, a story in an ancient piece called Tarleton's News out of Purgatorie. Nalene supposes that Shakspeare chose Windsor for the scene of Falstaff love-frolics, upon reading the subjoined passage in "Westward for Smelts:" "In Windsor not long agoe, dwelt a sumpterman, who had to wit a very faire but wanton creature, over whom, not without cause, he was something jealous; yet had he never any proof of her inconstancy."

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ACT I.

SCENE I-Windsor. Before PAGE's House.
Enter Justice SHALLOW, SLENDER, and Sir
HUGH EVANS.

Shal. Sir Hugh, persuade me not: I will make a star chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.

Sten. In the county of Gloster, justice of peace, and coram.

Shal. Ay, cousin Slender, and Cust-alorum. + Sien. Ay, and ratolorum too; and a gentle man boru, master parson; who writes himself armigero; in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, armigero.

Shal. Ay, that we do; and have done any time these three hundred years.

Sten. All his successors, gone before him have done't; and all his ancestors, that come after him, may; they may give the dozen white luces in their coat.

Shal. It is an old coat.

Eva. The dozen white louses do become an

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old coat well; it agrees well, passant: it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies-love.

Shal. The luce is the fresh fish; the salt ást is an old coat.

Sten. I may quarter, coz?

Shal. You may, by marrying.
Eva. It is marring indeed, if he quarter it.
Shal. Not a whit.

Eva. Yes, py'r⚫ lady if he has a quarter of Your coat, there is but three skirts for yourself, in my simple conjectures: but that is al: eue: If Sir John Falstaff have committed dispar will be glad to do my benevolence, to make agements unto you, I am of the church, and atonements and compromises between you.

Shal. The council shall hear it; it is a rist. Eva. It is not meet the council bear a riot; there is no fear of Got in a riot: the council and not to hear a riot; take your vizaments; look you, shall desire to hear the fear of Get, in that.

Shal. Ha! o' my life, if I were young again, the sword should end it.

and end it: and there is also another device Eva. It is petter that friends is the sword, in my prain, which, peradventure, prings gorą discretions with it: There is Aune Page

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which is daughter to master George Page, which is pretty virginity.

Slen. Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

Eva. It is that fery verson for all the 'orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of monies, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire, upon his death's-bed, (Got deliver to a joyful resurrections :) give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years old: it were a goot motion, if we leave our pribbles and prabbles, and desire a marriage between master Abraham, and mistress Anne Page.

Shal. Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound?

Eva. Ay, and her father is make her a petter penny :

Shal. I know the young gentlewoman; she has good gifts.

Eva. Seven hundred pounds, and possibilities, is good gifts.

Shal. Well, let us see honest master Page: Is Falstaff there?

Eva. Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar, as I do despise one that is false; or, as 1 despise one that is not true. The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers. I will peat the door [knocks] for master Page. What, hoa! Got plèss your house here!

Enter PAGE.

Page. Who's there?

Era. Here is Got's plessing, and your friend, and justice Shallow : and here young master Slender; that peradventures shall tell you another tale, if matters grow to your likings.

Page. I am glad to see your worship's well: I thank you for my venison, master Shallow.

Shal. Master Page, I am glad to see you: Much good do it your good heart! I wished your venison better: it was ill kill'd :-How doth good mistress Page -and I love you always with my heart, la; with my heart.

Page. Sir, I thank you.

Shal. Sir, I thank you; by yea and no, I do. Page. I am glad to see you, good master Slender.

Sten. How does your fallow greyhound, Sir? I heard say, he was out-run on Cotsale.+ Page. It could not be judg'd, Sir.

Sten. You'll not confess, you'll not confess. Shal. That he will not;-'tis your fault, 'tis your fault-'Tis a good dog.

Page. A cur, Sir.

Shat. Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog; Can there be more said? ue is good and fair.Is Sir John Falstaff here?

Page. Sir, he is within; and I would I could do a good office between you.

Era. It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.

Shal. He hath wrong'd me, master Page. Page. Sir, he doth in some sort confess it. Shal. If it be confess'd, it is not redress'd; is not that so, master Page? He hath wrong'd me; indeed, he hath ;-at a word, he hath believe ine-Robert Shallow, esquire, saith he is wrong'd.

Page. Here comes Sir John. Enter Sir JOHN FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, NYM, and PISTOL.

Fal. Now, master Shallow; you'll complain of me to the king ?

Shal. Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and broke open my lodge.

Fal. But not kiss'd your keeper's daughter? Shal. Tut, a pin! this shall be answer'd. Fal. I will answer it straight;-1 have done all this :-That is now answer'd.

Shal. The council shall know this.

• Soft.

+ Cotswold in Gloucestershire

Fal. 'Twcre better for you, if it were known in counsel you'll be laugh'd at.

Eva. Pauca verba, Sir John, good worts. Fal. Good worts! good cabbage.-Slender, I broke your head; What matter have you against me?

Slen. Marry, Sir, I have matter in my head against you; and against your coney-catching + rascals, Bardolph, Nym, and Pistol. They carried me to the tavern, and made me drunk, and afterwards picked my pocket.

Bard. You Banbury cheese! ‡
Slen. Ay, it is no matter.

Pist. How now, Mephostophilus ?§
Sten. Ay, it is no matter.

Nym. Slice, I say! pauca, pauca ; | slice ! that's my humour.

Sten. Where's Simple, my man?-can you tell, cousin?

Era. Peace: I pray you! Now let us understand: There is three umpires in this matter as I understand; that is-master Page, fidelicet, master Page; and there is myself, fidelicet, myself; and the three party is, lastly and finally, mine host of the Garter.

Page. We three, to hear it, and end it between them."

Eia. Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note-book; and we will afterwards 'ork upon the cause, with as great discreetly as we

can.

Fal. Pistol,

Pist. He bears with ears.

Eva. The tevil and his tam! what phrase is this, He hears with ears? Why, it is affectations.

Fal. Pistol, did you pick master Slender's purse?

Sten. Ay, by these gloves, did he, (or I would I might never come in mine own great chamber again else,) of seven groats_in_mill-sixpences, and two Edward shovel-boards, ¶ that cost ine two shillings and twopence a-piece of Yead Miller, by these gloves.

Fal. Is this true, Pistol?

Eva. No; it is false, if it is a pick-purse.
Pist. Ha, thon mountain-foreigner !--- Sir
John, and master mine,

I combat challenge of this latten bilbo : **
Word of denial in thy labras ++ here;
Word of denial; froth and scum, thou liest.
Slen. By these gloves, then 'twas he.

Nym. Be advised, Sir, and pass good hu mours: I will say, marry trap, with you, if you run the nutbook's humours on me; that is the very note of it.

Slen. By this hat, then he in the red face had it for though I cannot remember what I did when you made me drunk, yet I am not aitogeher an ass.

Fal. What say you, Scarlet and John?

Bard. Why, Sir, for my part, i say, the gentleinan bad drunk himself out of his five sentences.

Eva. It is his five senses: fie, what the ignorance is!

Bard. And being fap, 55 Sir, was, as they say, cashier'd; and so conclusions pass'd the careires.

Sten. Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but 'tis no matter: I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live

again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick: if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with

drunken knaves.

Eva. So Got 'udge me, that is a virtuous mind.

• Worts was the ancient name of all the cabbage kind. + Sharpers were called coney-catchers. 1 Nothing but paring.

The name of a familiar spirit in the old story of Faust. j Few words. King Edward's shillings, used in the game of shuffle-board. Blade as thin as a lath.

++ Tips. :: If you say I am a thief 4) Drunk, The bounds of good behaviour.

Fal. You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen; you hear it.

Enter Mistress ANNE PAGE with wine; Mistress FORD and Mistress PAGE following. Page. Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we'll drink within. [Exit ANNE PAGE. Slen. O heavens! this is mistress Anne Page. Page. How now, mistress Ford ? Ful. Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well met by your leave, good mistress.

Slen. Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la Re-enter ANNE PAGE.

Shal. Here comes fair mistress Would I were young, for your sake, mistress Aute Anne. The diauer is on the table; my fa desires your worship's company.

Shal. I will wait on him, fair mistress Anne. Eva. Od's plessed will; I will not be absence at the grace.

[Exeunt SHALLOW and Sir H. EVANS. Anne. Will't please your worship to case Sir. Sten. No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well.

[Kissing her. Page. Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome:-in, Come we have a hot venison pasty to dinner; come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

[Exeunt all but SHALLOW, SLENDER, and EVANS

Slen. I had rather than forty shillings, I had my book of Songs and Sonnets here:

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Anne. The dinner attends you, Sir,

Slen, I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth: Go, sirrah, for all you are my man, 2o, wait upon my cousin Shallow: [Ent SIMPLE A justice of peace sometime may be bebulera to his friend for a man:-1 keep bat three ma and a boy yet, till my mother be dead : Bet what though; yet I five like a poor gestina born.

Anne. I may not go in without your worship: they will not sit till you come.

Slen. I'faith, I'll eat nothing; I thank you as much as though I did.

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Shal. Come, coz; come, coz; we stay for you. A word with you, coz: marry, this, coz ; There is, as 'twere, a tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh here;-Do you un-at derstand me?

Sten. Ay, Sir, you shall find me reasonable; if it be so, I shall do that that is reason. Shal. Nay, but understand me.

Slen. So I do, Sir.

Era. Give ear to his motious, master Slender : I will description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.

Slen. Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says: I pray you, pardon me; he's a justice of peace in his country, simple though I stand here. Era. But that is not the question; the question is concerning your marriage.

Shal. Ay, there's the point, Sir. Era. Marry, is it; the very point of it; to mistress Anne Page.

Sten. Why, if it be so, I will marry her, upon any reasonable demands.

Era. But can yon affection the man? Let us command to know that of your mouth, or of your lips; for divers philosophers hold, that the lips is parcel of the mouth;-Therefore, precisely, can you carry your good will to the maid ?

Shal. Cousin Abraham Sleuder, can you love her?

Sten. I hope, Sir,-I will do as it shall become one that would do reason.

Era. Nay, Got's lords and his ladies, you must speak possitable, if you can carry her your desires towards her.

Shal. That you must: Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?

Slen. I will do a greater thing than that, upon your request, cousin, in any reason.

Shal. Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz; what I do, is to pleasure you, coz: Can you love the maid?

Sten. I will marry her, Sir, at your request; but if there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married, and have inore occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt: but if you say, marry her, I will marry her, that I an freely dissolv'd, and dissolutely.

Era. It is a ferry discretion answer; save, the faul' is in the 'ort dissolutely: the ortis, according to our meaning, resolutely ;-his mea ing is good.

Shal. Ay, I think my cousin meant well.

• An intended blunder,

Anne. I pray you, Sir, walk in.

Sten. I had rather walk bere, I Leank you; bruised my shin the other day with playing sword and dagger with a master of fence, three veneys for a dish of stewed prese; and by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot neat since. Why do your dogs bark sol be there bears i' the town?

Anne. I think there are, Sir; I heard them talked of.

Slen. I love the sport well; but I shall an soon quarrel at it, as any man in Enched.— You are afraid, if you see the bear louse, are you not?

Anne, Aye indeed, Sir.

Slen. That's meat aud drink to me now: I have seen Sackerson loose twenty times; and have taken him by the chain: but, I warrant you, the women have so cried and stries' at it, that it pass'd: -but women, indeed, ar not abide 'em; they are very ill favoured rough things.

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letter is, to desire and require her to solicit | with such a greedy intention, that the appetite your master's desires to mistress Anne Page I pray you, be gone; I will make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come. [Exeunt.

SCENE III.—A Room in the Garter Inn. Enter FALSTAFF, HOST, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, and ROBIN.

Fal. Mine host of the Garter,Host. What says, my bully-rook? Speak scholarly, and wisely.

Fal. Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my followers.

Host. Discard bully Hercules; cashier: let them wag; trot, trot.

Ful. I sit at ten pounds a week.

Host. Thou'rt an emperor, Cæsar, Keisar, and Pheezar, I will entertain Bardolph; he shall draw, he shall tap: said I well, Bully

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Nym. He was gotten in drink: Is not the humour conceited? His mind is not heroic, and there's the humour of it.

Fal. I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder-I box; his thefts were too open: his filching was like an unskilful singer, he kept not time.

Nym. The good humour is, to steal at a mi

nute's rest.

Pist. Convey, the wise it call: Steal! foh; a fco for the phrase I

Fal. Well, Sirs, I am almost out at heels.
Pist. Why then let kibes ensue.

Fal. There is no remedy; I must coney-catch; I must shift.

Pist. Young ravens must have food.

Fal. Which of you know Ford of this town? Pist. I ken the wight; he is of substance good.

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

Pist. Two yards, and more.

Fal. No quips now, Pistol; indeed I am in the waist two yards about: but I am now about no waste; I am about thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford's wife; I spy entertaininent in ber; she discourses, she carves, she gives the leer of invitation: I can construe the action of her familiar style; and the hardest voice of her behaviour, to be English'd rightly, is, I am Sir John Falstaff's.

Pist. He hath studied her well, and translated her well; out of honesty into English.

Nym. The anchor is deep: will that humour pass?

Fal. Now, the report goes, she has all the rale of her husband's purse; she hath legions of angels. I

Pist. As many devils entertain; and, To her, boy, say 1.

Num. The humour rises; it is good: humour me the angels.

and

Fal. I have writ me here a letter to her here another to Page's wife; who even now gave me good eyes too, examin'd my parts with most judicious eyliads: sometimes the beam of her view gilded my foot, sometimes my portly belly.

Pist. Then did the sun on dung-bill shine.
Nym. I thank thee for that bumour.
Fol. Ob! she did so course o'er my exteriors
Fig. : Gold coin.

For lunvarian.

of her eye did seem to scorch me up like a buruing glass! Here's another letter to ber: slie bears the purse too; she is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will be cheater to them both, and they shall be exchequers to me; they shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to them both. Go, bear thon this letter to mistress Page; and thou this to mistress Ford: we will thrive, lads, we will thrive.

Pist. Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become, And by my side wear steel? then, Lucifer take

all!

Nym. I will run no base humour; here, take the humour letter; I will keep the 'haviour of reputation.

Fal. Hold, sirrah, [To ROB.] bear you these letters tightly;

go;

Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores.Rogues, hence avaunt! vauish like bail-stones, [pack! Trudge, plod, away, o' the hoof; seek shelter Falstaff will learn the bumour of this age, French thrift, you rogues; myself, and skirted page. [Exeunt FALSTAFY and ROBIN. Pist. Let vultures gripe thy guts for gourd and fuilam holds,

And high and low beguile the rich and poor: Tester I'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk!

he humours of revenge.

Nym. I have operations in my head, which

Pist. Wilt thou revenge?

Nym. By welkin, and her star!
Pist. With wit, or steel?

Nym. With both the humours, 1:

will discuss the humour of this love to Page,
Pist. And I to Ford shall exe unfold,
How Falstaff, varlet vile,

His dove will prove, his gold will hold,
And bis soft couch deille.

Nym. My humour shall not cool: 1 will incense Page to deal with poison; I will possess him with yellowness, for the revolt of mien is dangerous: that is my true humour.

Pist. Thou art the Mars of malcontents: I second thee; troop on. [Exeunt.

SCENE IV-A Room in Dr. CAIUS's House.

Enter Mrs. QUICKLY, SIMPLE, and RUGBY.

Quick. What; John Rugby -I pray thee go to the casement, and see if you can see my master, master Doctor Caius, coming: if be do 'faith, and find any body in the house, here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

Rug. I'll go watch.

[Exit RUGBY.

Quick. Go; and we'll have a posset for't soon at night, in faith, at the latter end of a sea-coal fire. An honest, willing, kiud fellow, as ever servants shall come in house withal; and I warrant you, no tell-tale, nor no breed-bate :** his worst fault is, that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish ++ that way: but nobody but has his fault-but let that pass. Peter Simple, you say your name is?

Sim. Ay, for fault of a better.

Quick. And master Slender's your master!
Sim. Ay, forsooth.

Quick. Does he not wear a great round beard, like a glover's paring knife ?

Sim. No, forsooth; he hath but a little wee face, with a little yellow beard; a Cain coloured

beard. 1:

Quick. A softly-sprighted man, is he not?
Sim. Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man

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of his hands, as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.

Quick. How say yon ?-Oh! I should remem ber him? Does he not hold up his head, as it were? and strut in his gait ?

Sim. Yes, indeed, does he. Quick. Well, heaven send Anne Page no worse fortune! Tell master parson Evans, I will do what I can for your master: Anue is a good girl, and I wish

Re-enter RUGBY.

Rug. Out, alas! here comes my master. Quick. We shall all be shent: Run in here, good young man; go into this closet. [Shuts SIMPLE in the closet.] He will not stay long. What, John Rugby! John, what, John, I say! -Go, John, go inquire for my master; 1 doubt he be not well, that he comes not home :-and down, down, adown-a, &c. [Sings.

Enter Doctor CAIUS.

Caius. Vat is you sing? I do not like dese toys; Pray yon, go and vetch me in my closet un boitier verd: a box, a green-a box ; Do in tend vat I speak ? a green-a box.

Quick. Ay, forsooth, I'll fetch it you. I am glad he went not in himself; if he had found the young man, he would have been horn-mad.

[Aside. Caius. Fe, fe, fe, fe! ma foi, il fait fort chaud. Je m'en vais a la Cour,-la grand affaire.

Quick. Is it this, Sir?

Cains. Ouy; mette le au mon pocket; Depeche, quickly :-Vere is dat knave, Rugby? Quick. What, John Rugby John ? Rug. Here, Sir.

Caius. You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby: Come, take-a your rapier, and come after my heel to de court.

Rug. 'Tis ready, Sir, here in the porch. Caius. By my trot, I tarry too long:-Od's me! Qu'a y j'oublie ? dere is some simples in my closet, dat I vill not for the varid I shall leave behind.

Quick. Ah! me! he'll find the young man there, and be mad.

Caius. O diable! diable! vat is in my closet-Villany? larron! [Pulling SIMPLE out.] Rugby, my rapier.

Quick. Good master, be content. Caius. Verefore shall I be content-a! Quick. The young man is an bonest man. Caius. Vat shall de honest man do in my closet? dere is no honest man dat shall come in my closet.

Quick. I beseech you, be not so flegmatic; hear the truth of it: He came of an errand to me from parson Hugh.

Caius, Vell.

Sim. Ay, forsooth, to desire her to--
Quick. Peace, I pray you.

Caius. Peace-a your tongue :-Speak-a your

tale.

Sim. To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to speak a good word to mistress Anne Page for my master, in the way of marriage. Quick. This is all, indeed, la; but I'll ne'er but my finger in the fire, and need not. Caius. Sir Hugh send-a you ?-Rugby, baillez me some paper:-Tarry you a little-a while.

[Writes. Quick. I am glad he is so quiet: if he had been thoroughly moved, you should have heard him so loud, and so melancholy ;-But notwithstanding, man, I'll do your master what good can: and the very yea and the no is, the French Doctor, my master,-I may call him my master, look you, for I keep his house; and I wash, wring,

• The keeper of a warren. ↑ Scolued, reprimanded.

brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds, and do all myself;—

Sim. 'Tis a great charge, to come under obe body's hand.

Quick. Are you advis'd o'that? you shall find it a great charge and to be up early, and down late ;-but notwithstanding, (to tell you in your ear; I would have no words of it ;) my master himself is in love with mistress Anne Page: but notwithstanding that, I know Anne's mind,— that's neither here nor there.

Caius. You jack'nape; give-a dis letter to Sir Hugh; by gar, it is a sballenge: 1 vilt cat his throat in de park; and I vill teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make:-ya may be gone; it is not good you tarry here:by gar, I will cut all his two stones; by gar, be shall not have a stone to trow at his dog. [Erit SIMPLE.

Quick. Alas, he speaks but for his friend. Caius. It is no matter-a for dat :-do not you tell-a me dat I shall have Anne Page for my self?-by gar, I vill kill de Jack priest; and I have appointed mine host of de Jarterre to measure out weapon:-by gar, I vill myself have Anne Page.

Quick. Sir, the maid loves you, and all shall be well: we must give folks leave to prate: What the gonjere !❤

Caius. Rugby, come to the court vit me ;By gar, if I have not Anne Page, I shall turn your bead out of my door :-Follow my bees, Rugby. [Exeunt CAIUS and Brent.

Quick. You shall have An fools-bead of your own. No, I know Anne's mind for that: never a woman in Windsor knows more of Anne's mind than I do; nor can do more than i do with her, I thank heaven.

Fent. [Within.] Who's within there, bo! Quick. Who's there, I trow? Come near the house, I pray you.

Enter FENTON.

Fent. How now, good woman; how dos thon?

Quick. The better, that it pleases your good worship to ask.

Fent. What news? how does pretty mistress Anne ?

Quick. In truth, Sir, and she is pretty, and honest, and gentle; and one that is your friend, I can tell you that by the way; I praise heaven for it.

Fent. Shall I do any good, thinkest then! Shall I not lose my suit?

Quick. Troth, Sir, all is in his hands above: but notwithstanding, master Fenton, I'll be sworn on a book she loves you :-Have not your worship a wart about your eye f

Fent. Yes, marry, have 1; what of that! Quick. Well, thereby hangs a tail:-gand faith, it is such another Nau :-but, I detest, an honest maid as ever broke bread :-We had an hour's talk of that wart --I shall never laugh but in that maid's company?-But, indeed she is given too much to allicholly and musing: But for you-Well, go to.

Fent. Well, I shall see her to-day: Hold, there's money for thee; let me have thy voire in my behalf: if thou seest her before me, commend me

Quick. Will 1 i'faith, that we will: and ! will tell your worship more of the wart, the next time we have confidence; and of other wooers.

Fent. Well, farewell; I am in great haste ↑ Erit.

now. Quick. Farewell to your worship.—Truly, in honest gentleman; but Anne loves bim not; fer I know Anne's mind as well as another does :— out upon't! what have I forgot! [Brit.

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