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Slen. I’ll eat nothing, I thank you, sir.
Page. By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! come, come.
Slen. Nay, pray you lead the way.
Page. Come on, sir.
Slen. Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first.
Anne. Not I, sir, pray you keep on.
Slen. Truly I will not go first; truly la! I will not do you that wrong.
Anne. I pray you, sir.
Slen. I’ll rather be unmannerly than troublesome. You do yourself wrong indeed la!
Exeunt.
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Scene II
Enter Evans and Simple [from dinner].
Evans. Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius’ house which is the way; and there dwells one Mistress Quickly, which is in the manner of his nurse—or his dry nurse—or his cook—or his laundry—his washer and his wringer.
Sim. Well, sir.
Evans. Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it is a oman that altogether’s acquaintance with Mistress Anne Page; and the letter is to desire and require her to solicit 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.