1 Sats, sure. 10 Will. Lapis. 1 coat, Will. Two. Eva. He is a good sprag 2 memory. Farewelly. Mrs. Page. Adieu, good fir Hugh. Get you he height Eva. Peace your tatlings. What is fair, William? home, boy.--Come, we stay too long. [Exeunt. i fter's Will, Pulcber. 5 Quic. Poul-cats! there are fairer things than poul S CE N E II. Ford's House. Enter Falstaff and Mrs. Ford. Fal. Mistress Ford, your forrow hath eaten up my fufferance : I see, you are obsequious in your love, and I profess requital to a hair's breadth ; noc sret Eva. No, it is Lapis; I pray you, remember in Jonly, mistress Ford, in the simple office of love, 1 ប :. your prain. but in all the accoutrement, complement, and cea remony of it. But are you sure of your husband Mrs. Ford. He's a-birding, sweet fir John. Mrs. Page. [Witbin.] What hoa, gossip Ford ! berhus declind, Singulariter, nominativo, bic, bac, boc. what hoa ! Eva. Nominativo, big, bag, bog; - pray you, 20 Mrs. Ford. Step into the chamber, fir John. mark : genitive bujus: Well, what is your accu (Exit Falstaff. Enter Mrs. Page Mrs. Page. How now, sweetheart? who's at 25 Mrs. Ford. Why, none but my own people. this adiz Quic. Hang hog is Latin for bacon, I warrant Mrs. Page. Indeed? you. Mrs. Ford. No, certainly_Speak louder. [-Afide. Eva. Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the Mrs. Page. Truly, I am so glad you have nos 'tis tifocative case, William ? body here. will present Will. Ovocativo, O. Mrs. Ford. Why? 30 his old lunes 3 again : he so takes on 4 yonder with my husband; fo rails against all married man- kind; fo curses all Eve's daughters, of what com- head, crying, 5 Peer-out, peer-out! that any mad {ness, I ever yet beheld, seem'd but tameness, cie vility, and patience, to this distemper he is in now: . 'Vengeance of Giney's case! fie on her! I am glad the fat knight is not here. Deyer name her, child, if she be a whore. 40 Mrs. Ford. Why, does he talk of him? Mrs. Page. Of none but him; and swears, he . You do ill to teach the child such words: was carried out, the last time he search'd for him, 45 company from their sport, to make another expe- Mrs. Ford. How near is he, mistress Page? Mrs. Page. Hard by; at street end; he will be 50 here anon. Mrs. Page. Why, then thou art utterly Mam'd, and he's but a dead man. What a woman are you? Mrs. Ford. Which way should he go? how basket again? 2 This word , Sprigbrly: it is pronounced as if it was written--spracka 4 To take on, now used for to grieur, seems to be used by our author s That is, appear beruso End Will. Genitive case? Eva, Ay. not to Enter Falfaff Mrs. Ford. Go, firs, take the basket again on Fil. No, I'll come no more i' the basket : May Jyour shoulders; your master is hard at door; if he I not go out, ere he come? bid you set it down, obey him : quickly, dispatch, Mrs. Page. Alas, three of master Ford's bro [Exeunt Mrs. Page and Mrs. Ford. thers watch the door with pistols, that none 5 Enter Servants with tbe basket. 2 Serv. Pray heaven, it be not full of the knight 1 Serv. I hope not; I had as lief bear so much Mrs. Fird. There they always use to discharge 10 lead. their birding-pieces : creep into the kiln-hole. Enter Furd, Sballow, Page, Caius, and Sir Hugb Fal. Where is it? Evans. Mrs. Ford. He will seek there, on my word. Ford. Ay, but if it prove true, master Page, have Neither press, coffer, chest, trunk, well, vault, you any way then to unfool me again?-Set down but he hath an abstract' for the remembrance on 15the basket, villain :- Somebody call my wife :such places, and goes to them by his note : There Youth in a basket !- Oh, you pandarly rascals ! is no hiding you in the house. there's a knot, a gang, a pack, a conspiracy, against Fal. I'll go out then. me : Now Ihall the devil be mam'd.What! Mrs. Ford. If you go out in your own semblance, wife, I say! come, come forth; behold what hoyou die, sir John; unless you go out disguis'd 20 neft cloathis you send forth to bleaching. How might we disguise him? Page. Why, this paffes 4! Master Ford, you are Mrs. Page. Alas the day, I know not. There go loose any longer; you must be pinion'd. is no woman's gown big enough for him; other Eva. Why, this is lunatics ! this is mad as a mad wise, he might put on a hat, a muffler, and a dog! kerchief, and so escape. (25) Sbal. Indeed, master Ford, this is not well; ia- Enter Mrs. Ford. Ford ;-mistress Ford, the honest woman, the moMrs. Page. On my word, it will serve him ; 30 delt wife, the virtuous creature, that hath the jea. the's as big as he is ; and there's her thrum 2 hat, lous fool to her husband !-- suspect without cause, and her muffler 3 too: Run up, fir John. mistress, do I? Mrs. Ford. Go, go, sweet fir John: mistress Mrs. Ford. Heaven be my witness, you do, if Page, and I, will look some linen for your head. Jyou suspect me in any dishonesty. Mrs. Page, Quick, quick; we'll come dress you 35) Ford. Well said, brazen-face; hold it out.Itraight : put on the gown the while. [Exit Faljaff. Come forth, firrali. (Pulls the cluarbs cut of the basket. Mrs. Ford. I would, my husband would meet Page. This paffes 4. him in this shape: he cannot abide the old woman Mrs. Ford. Are you not alham'd ? let the cloaths of Brentford; he swears, she's a witch, forbade her alone. my house, and hath threatened to beat her. 401 Ferd. I all find you anon. Ford. Empty the basket, I say. one convey'd out of my house yesterday in this basMrs. Ford. We'll try that; for I'll appoint my ket; Why may not he be there again? In my men to carry the basket again, to meet him at the house I am fure he is: my intelligence is true ; door with it, as they did last time. my jealousy is reasonable : Pluck me out all the Mrs. Page. Nay, but he'll be here presently : 150 linen. let's go dress him like the witch of Brentford. Mrs. Ford. If you find a man there, he shall die Mrs. Ferd. I']] first direct my men what they Ja flea's death, fhall do with the basket. Go up, I'll bring linen Page. Here's no man, for him straight. Shal. By my fidelity, this is not well, mafter Mrs. Puge. Hang him, dishonest varlet! we 55 Ford; this wrongs 5 you. cannot misule him enough. Eva. Master Ford, you must pray, and not folWe'll leave a proof, by that which we will do, llow the imaginations of your own heart: this is Wives may be merry, and yet honest 100: jealousies. We do not act, that often jest and laugh; Ford. Well, he's not here I seek for. 'Tis old but true, Still fwine eat all the drwugh. 1601 Page. No, nor no where else but in your brain. 1 That is, a list, an inventory. 2 The brum is the end of a weaver's warp, and was probably used for making coarse hats. 3 A mujer was fome part of dress that cover'd the face. means here, to go beyond bounds. 5 Meaning, this is below your character. Forde A To pali 1ο your hand her, mitte nan, hath the without not Ford. Help to search my house this one time: inf Mrs. Page. Yea, by all means, if it be but to I find not what I seek, thew no colour for my ex fcrape the figures out of your husband's brains. If tremity, let me for ever be your table-sport; let they can find in their hearts, the poor unvirtuous them fay of me, As jealous as Ford, that search'd a fat knight shall be any further afflicted, we two hollow wall-nut for his wife's leman'. Satisfy 5 will be still the ministers. me once more, once more search with me. Mrs. Ford, I'll warrant, they'll have him pubi Mrs. Ford. What hoa, mistress Page ! come you) licly tham'd: and, methinks, there would be no and the old woman down; my husband will come period 5 to the jest, thould he not be publicly into the chamber. Thamn'd. SCENE III. The Garter inn. Enter Hoff and Bardolph. Bard. Sir, the Germans desire to have three of by the figure, and fuch daubery 2 as this is : be your horses: the duke himself will be to-morrow yond our element : we know nothing. Come at court, and they are going to meet him. down, you witch; you hag you, come down, 1/20 Hof. What duke should that be, comes fo fem fay. cretly? I hear not of him in the court : let me speak Bard. Sir, I'll call them to you. a week at command; I have turn'd away my other Ford. I'll prat her :---Out of my doors, you guests : they must come off ; I'U fauce them : witch! (Beats bime) you hag, you baggage, you come. [Exeunt. poulcat, you ronyon 3 ! out! out! I'll conjure you, I'll fortune tell you. [Exit Fal. 301 S CE N E IV. Ford's house. Enter Page, Ford, Mrs. Page, Mrs. Ford, and Sir Hugb Evans. 35 Eva. 'Tis one of the best discretions of a'omans Ford. Will you follow, gentlemen? I beseech Mrs. Puge. Within a quarter of an hour. Ford. Pardon me, wife : Henceforth do what thou wilt : I open again. I rather will suspect the fun with cold, [ftand, Page. Let's obey his humour a little further : Than thee with wantonness : now doth thy honour Come, gentlemen. [Exeunt. In him that was of late an heretic, . Trust me, he beat him molt pitifully. 145 As firm as faith. Be not as extreme in submission, 50 Yet once again, to make us public sport, Ford. There is no better way than that they spoke of. Mrs. Page. The spirit of wantonness is, sure, Page. How? to fend him word they'll meet him scar'd out of him; if the devil have him not in fec 55) in the park Eva. You say, he hath been thrown into the Mrs. Ford. Shall we tell our husbands how we rivers; and hath been grievously peaten, as an old have served him? Woman: methinks, there hould be terrors in him, Lner. Leman is derived from leef, Dutch, belwood, and man. 2 Daxberies are disguises. Ronyer, applied to a woman, imports much the same with scall or feab spoken of a man. 4 This expreffion is borrowed from hunting. Trail is the scent left by the passage of the game. To erg cut, is to open or bark. s Meaning, there would be no proper catastrophe. That is, they tha: credit for you. 3 15:25 protet! mun pay. that he should not come: methinks, his flesh is fand I will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the punish'd, he thall have no desires. knight with my taber. Page. So think I too. Ford. This will be excellent. I'll go buy them Mrs. Ford. Devise but how you'll use him when vizards. he comes, 5 Mrs. Page. My Nan Thall be the queen of all And let us two devise to bring him hither. the fairies, Mrs. Page. There is an old tale goes, that Finely attired in a robe of white. Herne the hunter, Page. That filk will I go buy ;-and in that time Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Shall master Slender steal my Nan away, [ Afide. Doth all the winter time, at ftill midnight, 10 And marry her at Eaton. -Go, send to Falstaff Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns; straight. And there he blasts the tree, and takes 'the cattle; Ford. Nay,I'll to him again in the name of Brooks And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a He'll tell me all his purpose. Sure, he'll come. In a most hideous and dreadful manner : [chain Mrs. Page. Fear not you that: Go, get us proYou have heard of such a spirit; and well you know, 15 And tricking for our fairies. [perties 5 The superstitious idle-headed eld 2 Eva. Let us about it: It is admirable pleasures, Receiv'd, and did deliver to our age, and fery honest knaveries. This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth. (Exeunt Page, Ford, and Evans. Page. Why, yet there want not many, that do fear Mrs. Page. Go, mistress Ford, In deep of night to walk by this Herne's oak: 20 Send Quickly to fir John, to know his mind. But what of this? [Exit Mrs. Ford. Mrs. Ford. Marry, this is our device ; I'll to the doctor; he hath my good will, That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us. And none but he, to marry with Nan Page. We'll send him word to meet us in the field, That Slender, though well-landed, is an ideot; Disguis'd like Herne, with huge horns on his head. 25 And he my husband best of all affects : Page. Well, let it not be doubted but he'll come, The doctor is well money'd, and his friends And in this shape : When you have brought him Potent at court; he, none but he shall have her, thither, Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave What shall be done with him? what is your plot? her. [Exit. Mrs. Page. That likewise we have thought 30 SCENE V. upon, and thus : Nan Page my daughter, and my little son, Tbo Garter inn. And throe or four more of their growth, we'll dress Enter Hot and Simple. Like urchins 3, ouphes, and fairies, green and white, Hoft. What would'st thou have, boor? what, With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads, 35 thick-skin?. [peak, breathe, discuss; brief, Thort, And rattles in their hands; upon a sudden, quick, snap. As Falstaff, the, and I, are newly met, Simp. Marry, fir, I come to speak with fir John Let them from forth a faw-pit rush at once Falstaff from master Slender. With some diffused 4 song: upon their light, Hoft. There's his chamber, his house, his castle, We two in great amazedness will ny : 40 his itanding-bed, and truckle-bed ? ; 'tis painted Then let them all encircle him about, about with the story of the prodigal, fresh and And, fairy-like, to pinch the unclean knight; new; Go, knock and call; he'll speak like an And ask him, why that hour of fairy revel, | Anthropophaginian' unto thee: Knock, I say. In their to sacred paths he dares to tread Simp. There's an old woman, a fat woman, gone In shape prophane? 45 up into his chamber; I'll be fo bold as stay, fir, Mrs. Ford. And till he tell the truth, 'till the come down: I come to speak with her, Let the supposed fairies pinch him found, indeed. And burn him with their tapers. Hoft. Ha! a fat woman! the knight may be Mrs. Page. The truth being known, robb'd : I'll call. Bully knight! Bully fir John! We'll all present ourselves; dif-horn the spirit, 50(peak from thy lungs military: Art thou there? And mock him home to Windsor. It is thine hoft, thine Ephesian, calls. Ford. The children must Falfaff above Be practis'd well to this, or they'll ne'er do't. Fal. How now, mine hoft? Eva. I will teach the children their behaviours ; Hift. Here's a Bohemian Tartar 9 tarries the 1 To take, here means to seize or strike with a disease. 2 Meaning, age. 3 Urchin is a hedge-hogs but is here used to fignify any thing little and dwarfish. Oupb is a fairy or goblin. 4 Dr. Warburton jays, this fignifies a song that strikes out into wild sentiments beyond the bounds of nature, such as those whose fubje& is fairy land. 5 Properties are incidental necessaries to a theatre, exclusive of scenes and dresses. • To trick, is to dress out. 7 The usual furniture of chambers in those times contisted of a standing-bed, ander which was a truckle, or running bed. In the former lay the master, and in the latter the servant. 8 That is, a Cannibal. The Host uses this high-sounding word to astonish Simple; an effect which he probably likewife means to produce by the word Epbefian, which follows, 9 See the preceding note. coming down of thy fat woman: Let her descended fhorses and money. I tell you for good-will, look bully, let her descend; my chambers are honour you : you are wise, and full of gibes and vloutingable: Fie! privacy? fie! togs; and 'tis not convenient you should be cozen'd: Enter Falfaff . Fare you well. [Exit, Fal. There was, mine hoft, an old fat woman 5 Enter Caius. Caius. Vere is mine Hoft de Farterre? doubtful dilemma.' 10 dat you make a grand preparation for a duke de JaSimp. My master, fir, master Slender sent to her, many : by my trot, dere is no duke, dat de court is feeing her go through the street, to know, fir, whe know, to come: I tell you for good-vill: adieu. ther one Nym, sir, that beguil'd him of a chain, had (Exit. the chain, or no, Hift. Hue and cry, villain, go! affift me, knight; Fal, I spake with the old woman about it, 15 I am undone :-fly, run, hue and cry, villain! I'm Simp. And what says the, I fir? undone! pray, [Exit. Fal. Marry, she says, that the very same man, Fal. I would all the world might be cozen'd; that beguild master Slender of his chain, cozen'd for I have been cozen'd, and beaten too. If it him of it. Jihould come to the ear of the court, how I have Simp. I would I could have spoken with the wo-f20 been transform’d, and how my transformation hath man herself; I had other things to have spoken been wash'd and cudgel'd, they would melt me with her too, from him. out of my fat, drop by drop, and liquor fither. Fal. What are they? let us know. men's boots with me: I warrant, they would Hafi . Ay, come; quick. whip me with their fine wits, till I were as cresta Simp. I'may not conceal them, fir, 25|faln as a dry'd pear. I never prosper'd fince I Fale Conceal them, or thou dy'ft. foreswore myself at Primero 3. Well, if my wind Enter Mistress Quickly. 30 Now! whence came you? Quic. From the two parties, forfooth. Fal. To have her or no: Go; say the woman Fal. The devil take one party, and his dam the told me so. other, and so they fhall be both beftow'd! I have Simp. May I be so bold to say fo, fir? suffer'd more for their fakes, more, than the vilFal. Ay, fir Tike; like who more bold. 135 lainous inconstancy of man's disposition is able to Simp. I thank your worship: į shall make my . Thou art clerkly”, thou art clerkly, sir rant; speciously one of them; mistress Ford, good John: Was there a wise woman with thee? heart, is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see Fal . Ay, that there was, mine hoft; one, that|40|a white spot about her. hath taught me more wit than ever I learn'd before Fal. What tell'At thou my of black and blue ? in my life; and I paid nothing for it neither, but I was beaten myself into all the colours of the rain. was paid for my learning. lbow; and I was like to be apprehended for the Enter Bardolph. witch of Brentford; but that my admirable dexBerd. Out, alas, fir! cozenage ! mere cozenage! 145 terity of wit, counterfeiting the action of an old Heft . Where be my horses ! speak well of them, woman, deliver'd me, the knave constable had fer me i' the stocks, i' the common stocks, for a Bard. Run away with the cozeners : for so soon witch, as I came beyond Eaton, they threw me off, from Quic. Sir, let me speak with you in your cham, behind one of them, in a nough of mire; and set 50 ber : you shall hear how things go; and, I war{purs , and away, like three German devils, three rant, to your content. Here is a letter will say romewhat. Good hearts, what ado is here to bring Hoft. They are gone but to meet the duke, vil Iyou together! sure, one of you does not serve lain : do not say, they are filed; Germans are ho heaven well, that you are so cross’d. 551 Fal. Come up into my chamber. [Exeunt. Enter Sir Hugb Evans, SCENE VI, Enter Fenton and Hoft. purpose, bear, varletto. Doctor Faustus's. neft men. tera % That is {sholar-like. Falftaff probably calls Simple musalafell, from his ftanding with his mouth open. 3 A game at cards, F 3 And, |