The Merry Wiues of Windsor.Cai.I, dat is very good, excellant.Host.Peace, I say: heare mine Host of the Garter,Am I politicke? Am I subtle? Am I a Machiuell?
[1155]
Shall I loose my Doctor? No, hee giues me the Potions
and the Motions. Shall I loose my Parson? my Priest?
my Sir
Hugh? No, he giues me the
Prouerbes, and the
No‑verbes. Giue me thy hand (Celestiall) so: Boyes
of
Art, I haue deceiu'd you both: I haue directed you
to
[1160]
wrong places: your hearts are mighty, your skinnes are
whole, and let burn'd Sacke be the issue: Come, lay
their
swords to pawne: Follow me, Lad of peace, follow,
fol
low, follow.
Shal.Trust me, a mad Host: follow Gentlemen,
fol
low.
Slen.
[1165]
O sweet
Anne Page.
Cai.Ha' do I perceiue dat? Haue you
make‑a‑de‑sot
of vs, ha, ha?
Eua.
This is well, he has made vs his vlowting‑stog:
I desire you that we may be friends: and let vs knog our
praines together to be reuenge on this same scall‑scur
were wont to be a
follower, but now you are a Leader:
whether had your rather
lead mine eyes, or eye your ma
sters heeles?
Rob.
I had rather (forsooth) go before you like a man,
then
follow him like a dwarfe.
M. Pa.
[1180]
O you are a flattering boy, now I see you'l be a
(Courtier.
Ford.Well met mistris
Page, whether go
you.
M. Pa. Truly Sir, to see your wife, is she at home?Ford.I, and as idle she may hang together for want
of company: I
think if your husbands were dead, you
two would marry.
M.Pa.Be sure of that, two other husbands.Ford.
[1185]
Where had your this pretty weather‑cocke?M.Pa.I cannot tell what (the dickens) his name is my
husband had
him of, what do you cal your Knights name
(sirrah?
Rob.Sir
Iohn Falstaffe.
Ford.Sir
Iohn Falstaffe.
M. Pa.He, he I can neuer hit on's name: there is such a
league between my goodman, and he: is your Wife at
(home
indeed?
Ford.
[1190]
Indeed she is.M.Pa.By your leaue sir, I am sicke till I see her.Ford.
Has
Page any braines? Hath he any eies?
Hath he
any thinking? Sure they sleepe, he hath no vse of
them:
why this boy will carrie a letter twentie mile as
easie, as
[1195]
a Canon will shoot point‑blanke twelue
score: hee pee
ces out his wiues inclination: he
giues her folly motion
and aduantage: and now she's
going to my wife,
Fal
staffes
boy with her: A man
may heare this showre sing
in the winde; and
Falstaffes boy with her: good
plots,
[1200]
they are laide, and our reuolted wiues share
damnation
together. Well, I will take him, then torture my
wife,
plucke the borrowed vaile of modestie from the
so‑see
ming Mist.
Page, divulge
Page himselfe for a
secure and
wilfull
Acteon, and to these violent proceedings all my
[1205]
neighbors shall cry aime. The clocke giues my Qu,
and my assurance bids me search, there I shall finde
Fal
staffe
: I shall
be rather praisd for this, then mock'd, for
it is
as possitiue, as the earth is firme, that
Falstaffe is
there: I will
go.
Shal. Page &c.
[1210]
Well
met M
rFord.
Ford.
Trust me a good knotte; I haue good cheere at
home,
and I pray you all go with me.
Shal.I must excuse my selfe M
r.
Ford.
Slen.And so must I Sir,
[1215]
We haue appointed to dine with Mistris
Anne,
And I would not breake with her for more monyThen Ile speake of.Shal.
We haue linger'd about a match betweene
An
Page
, and my cozen
Slender, and this day wee shall haue
[1220]
our answer.
Slen.I hope I haue your good will Father
Page.
Pag.You haue M
rSlender, I stand wholly
for you,
But my wife (M
r Doctor) is for you altogether.
Cai.I be‑gar, and de Maid is loue‑a‑me: my
nursh‑
a‑Quickly
tell me so mush.
Host.
[1225]
What say you to yong M
rFenton? He capers,
he dances, he has eies of youth: he writes verses, hee
speakes holliday, he smels April and May, he wil
carry't,
he will carry't, 'tis in his
buttons, he will carry't.
Page.
Not by my consent I promise you. The Gentle
[1230]
man is
of no hauing, hee kept companie with the wilde
Prince, and
Pointz: he is of too high a Region, he
knows
too much: no, hee shall not knit a knot in his
fortunes,
with the finger of my substance: if
he take her, let him
take her simply: the wealth I haue
waits on my consent,
[1235]
and my consent goes not that way.
Ford.
I beseech you heartily, some of you goe home
with me to
dinner: besides your cheere you shall haue
sport, I will
shew you a monster: M
r Doctor, you shal
go,
so shall you Mr
Page, and you Sir
Hugh.
Shal.
[1240]
Well, fare you well:We shall haue the freer woing at M
rPages.
Cai.Go home
Iohn Rugby, I come anon.
Host.Farewell my hearts, I will to my honest Knight
Falstaffe, and drinke Canarie
with him.
Ford.
I thinke I shall drinke in Pipe‑wine first
with
[1245]
him, Ile make him dance. Will you go Gentles?
All.
Haue with you, to see this Monster.
Exeunt.
Scena Tertia.
[Act 3, Scene 3]
Enter M.Ford, M.Page,
Seruants, Robin, Falstaffe,
Ford, Page, Caius,
Euans.
Mist.Ford.What
Iohn, what
Robert.
M.Page.Quickly, quickly: Is the Buck‑basket—Mis.Ford.I warrant. What
Robin I say.
Mis.Page.
[1250]
Come, come, come.Mist.Ford.Heere, set it downe.M.Pag.Giue your men the charge, we must be briefe.M.Ford.
Marrie, as I told you before (
Iohn &
Robert
)
be ready here hard‑by in the
Brew‑house, & when I so
[1255]
dainly call you,
come forth, and (without any pause, or
staggering)
take this basket on your shoulders: y
t done,
trudge
with it in all hast, and carry it among the
Whit
sters in
Dotchet
Mead, and there empty it in the muddie
ditch, close by the
Thames side.
M.Page.
[1260]
You will do it?M.Ford.I ha told them ouer and ouer, they lacke no
(direction.
EBe
Scena Tertia.
[Act 3, Scene 3]
Enter M.Ford, M.Page,
Seruants, Robin, Falstaffe,
Ford, Page, Caius,
Euans.
Mist.Ford.What
Iohn, what
Robert.
M.Page.Quickly, quickly: Is the Buck‑basket—Mis.Ford.I warrant. What
Robin I say.
Mis.Page.
[1250]
Come, come, come.Mist.Ford.Heere, set it downe.M.Pag.Giue your men the charge, we must be briefe.M.Ford.
Marrie, as I told you before (
Iohn &
Robert
)
be ready here hard‑by in the
Brew‑house, & when I so
[1255]
dainly call you,
come forth, and (without any pause, or
staggering)
take this basket on your shoulders: y
t done,
trudge
with it in all hast, and carry it among the
Whit
sters in
Dotchet
Mead, and there empty it in the muddie
ditch, close by the
Thames side.
M.Page.
[1260]
You will do it?M.Ford.I ha told them ouer and ouer, they lacke no
(direction.
Be gone, and come when you are call'd.M.Page.Here comes little Robin.Mist.Ford.How now my Eyas‑Musket, what newes
(with you?
Rob.
[1265]
My M. Sir
Iohn is come in at your backe
doore
(Mist.
Ford, and requests your
company.
M.Page.You litle Iack‑a‑lent, haue you bin true to vsRob.I, Ile be sworne: my Master knowes not of your
being
heere: and hath threatned to put me into
euerla
sting liberty, if I tell you of it:
for he sweares he'll turne
me away.
Mist.Pag.
Thou'rt a good boy: this secrecy of thine
[1270]
shall be a
Tailor to thee, and shal make thee a new dou
blet
and hose. Ile go hide me.
Mi.Ford.Do so: go tell thy Master, I am alone: Mi
stris
Page, remember you your
Qu.
Mist.Pag.I warrant thee, if I do not act it, hisse me.Mist.Ford.
Go‑too then: we'l vse this vnwholsome
[1275]
humidity, this grosse‑watry Pumpion; we'll
teach him
to know Turtles from Iayes.
Fal.
Haue I caught thee, my heauenly Iewell? Why
now let me die,
for I haue liu'd long enough: This is the
period of
my ambition: O this blessed houre.
Mist.Ford.
[1280]
O sweet Sir
Iohn.
Fal.Mistris
Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot
prate (Mist.
Ford) now shall I sin in my wish; I would
thy Husband
were dead, Ile speake it before the best
Lord, I would
make thee my Lady.
Mist.Ford.I your Lady Sir
Iohn? Alas, I should bee a
pittifull Lady.
Fal.Let the Court of France shew me such another:
I see how thine eye would emulate the Diamond: Thou
hast the right arched‑beauty of the brow,
that becomes
the Ship‑tyre, the
Tyre‑valiant, or any Tire of Venetian
admittance.
Mist.Ford.A plaine Kerchiefe, Sir
Iohn:
[1285]
My browes become nothing else, nor that well neither.Fal.
Thou art a tyrant to say so: thou wouldst make
an
absolute Courtier, and the firme fixture of thy
foote,
would giue an excellent motion to thy gate, in a
semi‑
circled Farthingale. I see what thou wert if
Fortune thy
[1290]
foe, were not Nature thy friend: Come, thou
canst not
hide it.
Mist.Ford.Beleeue me, ther's no such thing in me.Fal.
What made me loue thee? Let that perswade
thee.
Ther's something extraordinary in thee: Come, I
[1295]
cannot cog, and say thou art this and that, like
a‑manie
of these lisping‑hauthorne buds,
that come like women
in mens apparrell, and smell like
Bucklers‑berry in sim
ple time: I cannot,
but I loue thee, none but thee; and
thou
deseru'st it.
M.Ford.
[1300]
Do not betray me sir, I fear you loue M
Page.
Fal.Thou mightst as well say, I loue to walke by the
Counter‑gate, which is as hatefull to me, as the reeke of
a Lime‑kill.
Mis.Ford.Well, heauen knowes how I loue you,And you shall one day finde it.Fal.Keepe in that minde, Ile deserue it.Mist.Ford.
[1305]
Nay, I must tell you, so you doe;Or else I could not be in that minde.Rob.
Mistris
Ford, Mistris
Ford: heere's Mistris
Page at
the doore, sweating, and
blowing, and looking wildely,
and would needs speake with
you presently.
Fal.
[1310]
She shall not see me, I will ensconce mee behind
the
Arras.
M.Ford.Pray you do so, she's a very tatling woman.Whats the matter? How now?Mist.Page.O mistris
Ford what haue you
done?
You'r sham'd, y'are ouerthrowne,
y'are vndone for euer.
M.Ford.
[1315]
What's the matter, good mistris
Page?
M.Page.O weladay, mist.
Ford, hauing an
honest man
to your husband, to giue him such cause
of suspition.
M.Ford.What cause of suspition?M.Page.What cause of suspition? Out vpon you:How am I mistooke in you?M.Ford.
[1320]
Why (alas) what's the matter?.M.Page.
Your husband's comming hether (Woman)
with all the
Officers in Windsor, to search for a Gentle
man,
that he sayes is heere now in the house; by your
consent to take an ill aduantage of his absence: you are
[1325]
vndone.
M.Ford.'Tis
ot so, I hope.
M.Page.
Pray heauen it be not so, that you haue such
a man heere:
but 'tis most certaine your husband's
com
ming, with halfe Windsor at his heeles, to
serch for such
[1330]
a one, I come before to tell you: If you
know your selfe
cleere, why I am glad of it: but if you
haue a friend here,
conuey, conuey him out. Be not
amaz'd, call all your
senses to you, defend your
reputation, or bid farwell to
your good life for euer.
M.Ford.
[1335]
What shall I do? There is a Gentleman my
deere friend: and
I feare not mine owne shame so much,
as his perill. I had
rather then a thousand pound he were
out of the house.
M.Page.
For shame, neuer stand (you had rather, and
[1340]
you had
rather:) your husband's heere at hand, bethinke
you
of some conueyance: in the house you cannot hide
him. Oh,
how haue you deceiu'd me? Looke, heere is a
basket,
if he be of any reasonable stature, he may creepe
in
heere, and throw fowle linnen vpon him, as if it were
[1345]
going to bucking: Or it is whiting time, send him by
your two men to
Datchet‑Meade.
M.Ford.He's too big to go in there: what shall I do?Fal.Let me see't, let me see't, O let me
see't:
Ile in, Ile in: Follow your friends counsell, Ile in.M.Page.
[1350]
What Sir
Iohn Falstaffe? Are these your Let
ters,
Knight?
Fal.I loue thee, helpe mee away: let me creepe in
heere: ile
neuer⸺
M.Page.Helpe to couer your master (Boy:) Call
your men
(Mist.
Ford.) You dissembling
Knight.
M.Ford.
What
Iohn, Robert, Iohn; Go, take vp these
cloathes
heere, quickly: Wher's the
Cowle‑staffe? Look
[1355]
how you drumble?
Carry them to the Landresse in Dat
chet mead:
quickly, come.
Ford.'Pray you come nere: if I suspect without
cause,
Why then make sport at me, then let me be your iest,I deserue it: How now? Whether beare you this?Ser.
[1360]
To the Landresse forsooth?M.Ford.
Why, what haue you to doe whether they
beare it? You were
best meddle with buck‑washing.
Ford.Buck? I would I could wash my selfe of yͤ Buck:Bucke, bucke, bucke, I bucke: I warrant you Bucke,
[1365]
And of the season too; it shall appeare.
Gentlemen, I haue dream'd to night, Ile tell you my
dreame: heere, heere, heere bee my keyes, ascend my
Chambers, search, seeke, finde out: Ile warrant
wee'le
vnkennell the Fox. Let me stop this
way first: so, now
[1370]
vncape.
Page.Good master
Ford, be contented:
You wrong your selfe too much.Ford.True (master
Page) vp Gentlemen,
You shall see sport anon:
[1375]
Follow me Gentlemen.Euans.This is fery fantasticall humors and iealousies.Caius.By gar, 'tis no‑the fashion of France:It is not iealous in France.Page.Nay follow him (Gentlemen) see the yssue of
his search.
Mist.Page
[1380]
Is there not a double excellency in this?Mist.Ford.I know not which pleases me better,That my husband is deceiued, or Sir
Iohn.
Mist.Page.What a taking was hee in, when your
husband askt who was in
the basket?
Mist.Ford.
I am halfe affraid he will haue neede of
[1385]
washing: so
throwing him into the water, will doe him
a
benefit.
Mist.Page.
Hang him dishonest rascall: I would all
of the same
straine, were in the same distresse.
Mist.Ford.
I thinke my husband hath some speciall
[1390]
suspition of
Falstaffs being heere: for I
neuer saw him so
grosse in his iealousie till now.
Mist.Page.
I will lay a plot to try that, and wee will
yet haue more
trickes with
Falstaffe: his
dissolute disease
will scarse obey this medicine.
Mis.Ford.
[1395]
Shall we send that foolishion Carion, Mist.
Quickly to him, and excuse his throwing into
the water,
and giue him another hope, to betray him to
another
punishment?
Mist.Page.
We will do it: let him be sent for to mor
[1400]
row eight
a clocke to haue amends.
Ford.
I cannot finde him: may be the knaue bragg'd
of that he could not compasse.
Mis.Page.Heard you that?Mis.Ford.You vse me well, M.
Ford? Do you?
Ford.
[1405]
I, I do so.M.Ford.Heauen make you better then your thoghtsFord.Amen.Mi.Page.You do your selfe mighty wrong (M.
Ford)
Ford.I, I: I must beare it.Eu.
[1410]
If there be any pody in the house, & in the cham
bers,
and in the coffers, and in the presses: heauen
for
giue my sins at the day of iudgement.
Caius.Be gar, nor I too: there is no‑bodies.Page.
Fy, fy, M.
Ford, are you not asham'd? What spi
[1415]
rit,
what diuell suggests this imagination? I wold not ha
your distemper in this kind, for yͤ welth of
Windsor castle.
Ford.'Tis my fault (M.
Page) I
suffer for it.
Euans.
You suffer for a pad conscience: your wife is
as
honest a o'mans, as I will desires among fiue
thou
[1420]
sand, and fiue hundred too.
Cai.By gar, I see 'tis an honest woman.Ford.
Well, I promisd you a dinner: come, come, walk
in the
Parke, I pray you pardon me: I wil hereafter make
knowne
to you why I haue done this. Come wife, come
[1425]
Mi.
Page, I pray you pardon me. Pray hartly
pardon me.
Page.
Let's go in Gentlemen, but (trust me) we'l
mock
him: I doe inuite you to morrow morning to my house
to breakfast: after we'll a Birding together,
I haue a fine
Hawke for the bush. Shall it be
so:
Ford.
[1430]
Any thing.Eu.If there is one, I shall make two in the CompanieCa.If there be one, or two, I shall
make‑a‑theturd.
Ford.Pray you go, M.
Page.
Eua.I pray you now remembrance to morrow on the
lowsie knaue,
mine Host.
Cai.
[1435]
Dat is good by gar, withall my heart.Eua.A lowsie knaue, to haue his gibes, and his moc
keries.
Exeunt.
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</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-fal">
<speaker rend="italic">Fal.</speaker>
<l n="1281">Mistris<hi rend="italic">Ford</hi>, I cannot cog, I cannot prate (Mist.
<lb/>
<hi rend="italic">Ford</hi>) now shall I sin in my wish; I would thy Husband
<lb/>were dead, Ile speake it before the best Lord, I would
<lb/>make thee my Lady.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1282">I your Lady Sir<hi rend="italic">Iohn</hi>? Alas, I should bee a
<lb/>pittifull Lady.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-fal">
<speaker rend="italic">Fal.</speaker>
<l n="1283">Let the Court of France shew me such another:
<lb/>I see how thine eye would emulate the Diamond: Thou
<lb/>hast the right arched‑beauty of the brow, that becomes
<lb/>the Ship‑tyre, the Tyre‑valiant, or any Tire of Venetian
<lb/>admittance.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1284">A plaine Kerchiefe, Sir<hi rend="italic">Iohn</hi>:</l>
<l n="1285">My browes become nothing else, nor that well neither.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-fal">
<speaker rend="italic">Fal.</speaker>
<p n="1286">Thou art a tyrant to say so: thou wouldst make
<lb n="1287"/>an absolute Courtier, and the firme fixture of thy foote,
<lb n="1288"/>would giue an excellent motion to thy gate, in a semi‑
<lb n="1289"/>circled Farthingale. I see what thou wert if Fortune thy
<lb n="1290"/>foe, were not Nature thy friend: Come, thou canst not
<lb n="1291"/>hide it.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1292">Beleeue me, ther's no such thing in me.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-fal">
<speaker rend="italic">Fal.</speaker>
<p n="1293">What made me loue thee? Let that perswade
<lb n="1294"/>thee. Ther's something extraordinary in thee: Come, I
<lb n="1295"/>cannot cog, and say thou art this and that, like a‑manie
<lb n="1296"/>of these lisping‑hauthorne buds, that come like women
<lb n="1297"/>in mens apparrell, and smell like Bucklers‑berry in sim
<lb n="1298"/>ple time: I cannot, but I loue thee, none but thee; and
<lb n="1299"/>thou deseru'st it.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1300">Do not betray me sir, I fear you loue M<hi rend="italic">Page</hi>.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-fal">
<speaker rend="italic">Fal.</speaker>
<l n="1301">Thou mightst as well say, I loue to walke by the
<lb/>Counter‑gate, which is as hatefull to me, as the reeke of
<lb/>a Lime‑kill.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">Mis.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1302">Well, heauen knowes how I loue you,</l>
<l n="1303">And you shall one day finde it.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-fal">
<speaker rend="italic">Fal.</speaker>
<l n="1304">Keepe in that minde, Ile deserue it.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1305">Nay, I must tell you, so you doe;</l>
<l n="1306">Or else I could not be in that minde.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-rob">
<speaker rend="italic">Rob.</speaker>
<p n="1307">Mistris<hi rend="italic">Ford</hi>, Mistris<hi rend="italic">Ford</hi>: heere's Mistris<hi rend="italic">Page</hi>at
<lb n="1308"/>the doore, sweating, and blowing, and looking wildely,
<lb n="1309"/>and would needs speake with you presently.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-fal">
<speaker rend="italic">Fal.</speaker>
<l n="1310">She shall not see me, I will ensconce mee behind
<lb/>the Arras.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1311">Pray you do so, she's a very tatling woman.</l>
<l n="1312">Whats the matter? How now?</l>
</sp>
<cb n="2"/>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Page.</speaker>
<l n="1313">O mistris<hi rend="italic">Ford</hi>what haue you done?</l>
<l n="1314">You'r sham'd, y'are ouerthrowne, y'are vndone for euer.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1315">What's the matter, good mistris<hi rend="italic">Page</hi>?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Page.</speaker>
<l n="1316">O weladay, mist.<hi rend="italic">Ford</hi>, hauing an honest man
<lb/>to your husband, to giue him such cause of suspition.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1317">What cause of suspition?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Page.</speaker>
<l n="1318">What cause of suspition? Out vpon you:</l>
<l n="1319">How am I mistooke in you?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1320">Why (alas) what's the matter?.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Page.</speaker>
<p n="1321">Your husband's comming hether (Woman)
<lb n="1322"/>with all the Officers in Windsor, to search for a Gentle
<lb n="1323"/>man, that he sayes is heere now in the house; by your
<lb n="1324"/>consent to take an ill aduantage of his absence: you are
<lb n="1325"/>vndone.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1326">'Tis<gap reason="illegible"
agent="hole"
extent="1"
unit="chars"
resp="#JS"/>ot so, I hope.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Page.</speaker>
<p n="1327">Pray heauen it be not so, that you haue such
<lb n="1328"/>a man heere: but 'tis most certaine your husband's com
<lb n="1329"/>ming, with halfe Windsor at his heeles, to serch for such
<lb n="1330"/>a one, I come before to tell you: If you know your selfe
<lb n="1331"/>cleere, why I am glad of it: but if you haue a friend here,
<lb n="1332"/>conuey, conuey him out. Be not amaz'd, call all your
<lb n="1333"/>senses to you, defend your reputation, or bid farwell to
<lb n="1334"/>your good life for euer.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Ford.</speaker>
<p n="1335">What shall I do? There is a Gentleman my
<lb n="1336"/>deere friend: and I feare not mine owne shame so much,
<lb n="1337"/>as his perill. I had rather then a thousand pound he were
<lb n="1338"/>out of the house.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Page.</speaker>
<p n="1339">For shame, neuer stand (you had rather, and
<lb n="1340"/>you had rather:) your husband's heere at hand, bethinke
<lb n="1341"/>you of some conueyance: in the house you cannot hide
<lb n="1342"/>him. Oh, how haue you deceiu'd me? Looke, heere is a
<lb n="1343"/>basket, if he be of any reasonable stature, he may creepe
<lb n="1344"/>in heere, and throw fowle linnen vpon him, as if it were
<lb n="1345"/>going to bucking: Or it is whiting time, send him by
<lb n="1346"/>your two men to<hi rend="italic">Datchet</hi>‑Meade.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1347">He's too big to go in there: what shall I do?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-fal">
<speaker rend="italic">Fal.</speaker>
<l n="1348">Let me see't, let me see't, O let me see't:</l>
<l n="1349">Ile in, Ile in: Follow your friends counsell, Ile in.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Page.</speaker>
<l n="1350">What Sir<hi rend="italic">Iohn Falstaffe</hi>? Are these your Let
<lb/>ters, Knight?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-fal">
<speaker rend="italic">Fal.</speaker>
<l n="1351">I loue thee, helpe mee away: let me creepe in
<lb/>heere: ile neuer⸺</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Page.</speaker>
<l n="1352">Helpe to couer your master (Boy:) Call
<lb/>your men (Mist.<hi rend="italic">Ford</hi>.) You dissembling Knight.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Ford.</speaker>
<p n="1353">What<hi rend="italic">Iohn, Robert, Iohn</hi>; Go, take vp these
<lb n="1354"/>cloathes heere, quickly: Wher's the Cowle‑staffe? Look
<lb n="1355"/>how you drumble? Carry them to the Landresse in Dat
<lb n="1356"/>chet mead: quickly, come.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-for">
<speaker rend="italic">Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1357">'Pray you come nere: if I suspect without cause,</l>
<l n="1358">Why then make sport at me, then let me be your iest,</l>
<l n="1359">I deserue it: How now? Whether beare you this?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-ser">
<speaker rend="italic">Ser.</speaker>
<l n="1360">To the Landresse forsooth?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Ford.</speaker>
<p n="1361">Why, what haue you to doe whether they
<lb n="1362"/>beare it? You were best meddle with buck‑washing.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-for">
<speaker rend="italic">Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1363">Buck? I would I could wash my selfe of yͤ Buck:</l>
<l n="1364">Bucke, bucke, bucke, I bucke: I warrant you Bucke,</l>
<l n="1365">And of the season too; it shall appeare.</l>
<p n="1366">Gentlemen, I haue dream'd to night, Ile tell you my
<lb n="1367"/>dreame: heere, heere, heere bee my keyes, ascend my
<lb n="1368"/>Chambers, search, seeke, finde out: Ile warrant wee'le
<lb n="1369"/>vnkennell the Fox. Let me stop this way first: so, now
<lb n="1370"/>vncape.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-pag">
<speaker rend="italic">Page.</speaker>
<l n="1371">Good master<hi rend="italic">Ford</hi>, be contented:</l>
<l n="1372">You wrong your selfe too much.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-for">
<speaker rend="italic">Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1373">True (master<hi rend="italic">Page</hi>) vp Gentlemen,</l>
<l n="1374">You shall see sport anon:</l>
<pb facs="FFimg:axc0071-0.jpg" n="51"/>
<cb n="1"/>
<l n="1375">Follow me Gentlemen.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-eva">
<speaker rend="italic">Euans.</speaker>
<l n="1376">This is fery fantasticall humors and iealousies.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-cai">
<speaker rend="italic">Caius.</speaker>
<l n="1377">By gar, 'tis no‑the fashion of France:</l>
<l n="1378">It is not iealous in France.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-pag">
<speaker rend="italic">Page.</speaker>
<l n="1379">Nay follow him (Gentlemen) see the yssue of
<lb/>his search.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Page</speaker>
<l n="1380">Is there not a double excellency in this?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1381">I know not which pleases me better,</l>
<l n="1382">That my husband is deceiued, or Sir<hi rend="italic">Iohn</hi>.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Page.</speaker>
<l n="1383">What a taking was hee in, when your
<lb/>husband askt who was in the basket?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Ford.</speaker>
<p n="1384">I am halfe affraid he will haue neede of
<lb n="1385"/>washing: so throwing him into the water, will doe him
<lb n="1386"/>a benefit.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Page.</speaker>
<p n="1387">Hang him dishonest rascall: I would all
<lb n="1388"/>of the same straine, were in the same distresse.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Ford.</speaker>
<p n="1389">I thinke my husband hath some speciall
<lb n="1390"/>suspition of<hi rend="italic">Falstaffs</hi>being heere: for I neuer saw him so
<lb n="1391"/>grosse in his iealousie till now.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Page.</speaker>
<p n="1392">I will lay a plot to try that, and wee will
<lb n="1393"/>yet haue more trickes with<hi rend="italic">Falstaffe</hi>: his dissolute disease
<lb n="1394"/>will scarse obey this medicine.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">Mis.Ford.</speaker>
<p n="1395">Shall we send that foolishion Carion, Mist.
<lb n="1396"/>
<hi rend="italic">Quickly</hi>to him, and excuse his throwing into the water,
<lb n="1397"/>and giue him another hope, to betray him to another
<lb n="1398"/>punishment?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">Mist.Page.</speaker>
<p n="1399">We will do it: let him be sent for to mor
<lb n="1400"/>row eight a clocke to haue amends.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-for">
<speaker rend="italic">Ford.</speaker>
<p n="1401">I cannot finde him: may be the knaue bragg'd
<lb n="1402"/>of that he could not compasse.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">Mis.Page.</speaker>
<l n="1403">Heard you that?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">Mis.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1404">You vse me well, M.<hi rend="italic">Ford</hi>? Do you?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-for">
<speaker rend="italic">Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1405">I, I do so.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mfo">
<speaker rend="italic">M.Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1406">Heauen make you better then your thoghts</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-for">
<speaker rend="italic">Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1407">Amen.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-mpa">
<speaker rend="italic">Mi.Page.</speaker>
<l n="1408">You do your selfe mighty wrong (M.<hi rend="italic">Ford</hi>)</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-for">
<speaker rend="italic">Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1409">I, I: I must beare it.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-eva">
<speaker rend="italic">Eu.</speaker>
<p n="1410">If there be any pody in the house, & in the cham
<lb n="1411"/>bers, and in the coffers, and in the presses: heauen for
<lb n="1412"/>giue my sins at the day of iudgement.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-cai">
<speaker rend="italic">Caius.</speaker>
<l n="1413">Be gar, nor I too: there is no‑bodies.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-pag">
<speaker rend="italic">Page.</speaker>
<p n="1414">Fy, fy, M.<hi rend="italic">Ford</hi>, are you not asham'd? What spi
<lb n="1415"/>rit, what diuell suggests this imagination? I wold not ha
<lb n="1416"/>your distemper in this kind, for yͤ welth of<hi rend="italic">Windsor castle</hi>.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-for">
<speaker rend="italic">Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1417">'Tis my fault (M.<hi rend="italic">Page</hi>) I suffer for it.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-eva">
<speaker rend="italic">Euans.</speaker>
<p n="1418">You suffer for a pad conscience: your wife is
<lb n="1419"/>as honest a o'mans, as I will desires among fiue thou
<lb n="1420"/>sand, and fiue hundred too.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-cai">
<speaker rend="italic">Cai.</speaker>
<l n="1421">By gar, I see 'tis an honest woman.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-for">
<speaker rend="italic">Ford.</speaker>
<p n="1422">Well, I promisd you a dinner: come, come, walk
<lb n="1423"/>in the Parke, I pray you pardon me: I wil hereafter make
<lb n="1424"/>knowne to you why I haue done this. Come wife, come
<lb n="1425"/>Mi.<hi rend="italic">Page</hi>, I pray you pardon me. Pray hartly pardon me.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-pag">
<speaker rend="italic">Page.</speaker>
<p n="1426">Let's go in Gentlemen, but (trust me) we'l mock
<lb n="1427"/>him: I doe inuite you to morrow morning to my house
<lb n="1428"/>to breakfast: after we'll a Birding together, I haue a fine
<lb n="1429"/>Hawke for the bush. Shall it be so:</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-for">
<speaker rend="italic">Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1430">Any thing.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-eva">
<speaker rend="italic">Eu.</speaker>
<l n="1431">If there is one, I shall make two in the Companie</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-cai">
<speaker rend="italic">Ca.</speaker>
<l n="1432">If there be one, or two, I shall make‑a‑theturd.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-for">
<speaker rend="italic">Ford.</speaker>
<l n="1433">Pray you go, M.<hi rend="italic">Page</hi>.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-eva">
<speaker rend="italic">Eua.</speaker>
<l n="1434">I pray you now remembrance to morrow on the
<lb/>lowsie knaue, mine Host.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-cai">
<speaker rend="italic">Cai.</speaker>
<l n="1435">Dat is good by gar, withall my heart.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-wiv-eva">
<speaker rend="italic">Eua.</speaker>
<l n="1436">A lowsie knaue, to haue his gibes, and his moc
<lb/>keries.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="exit">Exeunt.</stage>
</div>
