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Quick. Will I? I’ faith, that we will; and I 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 now.
Quick. Farewell to your worship. [Exit Fenton.] Truly, an honest gentleman; but Anne loves him not; for I know Anne’s mind as well as another does. Out upon’t! what have I forgot?
Exit.
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ACT II
Scene I
Enter Mistress Page [reading of a letter].
Mrs. Page. What, have [I] scap’d love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them? Let me see.
[Reads.]
“Ask me no reason why I love you, for though Love use Reason for his precisian, he admits him not for his counsellor. You are not young, no more am I; go to then, there’s sympathy. You are merry, so am I; ha, ha! then there’s more sympathy. You love sack, and so do I; would you desire better sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page—at the least if the love of a soldier can suffice—that I love thee. I will not say, pity me—’tis not a soldier- like phrase—but I say, love me. By me,