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Evans. It is a fery discretion answer, save the fall is in the ord ‘dissolutely.’ The ort is (according to our meaning) ‘resolutely.’ His meaning is good.

Shal. Ay—I think my cousin meant well.

Slen. Ay, or else I would I might be hang’d, la!

Shal. Here comes fair Mistress Anne.

[Enter Anne Page.]

Would I were young for your sake, Mistress Anne!

Anne. The dinner is on the table. My father desires your worships’ company.

Shal. I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne.

Evans. ’Od’s plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace.

[Exeunt Shallow and Evans.]

Anne. Will’t please your worship to come in, sir?

Slen. No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well.

Anne. The dinner attends you, sir.

Slen. I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go, sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my cousin Shallow. [Exit Simple.] A Justice of Peace sometime may be beholding to his friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy yet, till my mother be dead. But what though? yet I live like a poor gentleman born.