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Host. Pardon, guest-justice. A [word], Mounseur Mock-water.

Caius. Mock-vater? vat is dat?

Host. Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valor, bully.

Caius. By gar, then I have as much mock-vater as de Englishman. Scurvy Jack-dog priest! By gar, me vill cut his ears.

Host. He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.

Caius. Clapper-de-claw? vat is dat?

Host. That is, he will make thee amends.

Caius. By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me, for, by gar, me vill have it.

Host. And I will provoke him to’t, or let him wag.

Caius. Me tank you for dat.

Host. And moreover, bully—but first, Master Guest, and Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you through the town to Frogmore.

[Aside to them.]

Page. Sir Hugh is there, is he?

Host. He is there. See what humor he is in; and I will bring the doctor about by the fields. Will it do well?

Shal. We will do it.

All [Page, Shal., Slen.] Adieu, good Master Doctor.

[Exeunt all but the Host, Caius, and Rugby.]

Caius. By gar, me vill kill de priest, for he speak for a jack-an-ape to Anne Page.