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Shal. Break their talk, Mistress Quickly, my kinsman shall speak for himself.

Slen. I’ll make a shaft or a bolt on’t. ’Slid, ’tis but venturing.

Shal. Be not dismay’d.

Slen. No, she shall not dismay me. I care not for that, but that I am afeard.

Quick. Hark ye, Master Slender would speak a word with you.

Anne.

I come to him.

[Aside.]

This is my father’s choice.

O, what a world of vild ill-favor’d faults

Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

Quick. And how does good Master Fenton? Pray you a word with you.

Shal. She’s coming; to her, coz. O boy, thou hadst a father!

Slen. I had a father, Mistress Anne, my uncle can tell you good jests of him. Pray you, uncle, tell Mistress Anne the jest how my father stole two geese out of a pen, good uncle.

Shal. Mistress Anne, my cousin loves you.

Slen. Ay, that I do—as well as I love any woman in Gloucestershire.

Shal. He will maintain you like a gentlewoman.

Slen. Ay, that I will, come cut and long-tail, under the degree of a squire.

Shal. He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure.