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We do not act that often jest and laugh;

’Tis old, but true: still swine eats all the draff.

[Exit.]

[Enter Mistress Ford with two] Servants.

Mrs. Ford. Go, sirs, take the basket again on your shoulders. Your master is hard at door. If he bid you set it down, obey him. Quickly, dispatch.

[Exit.]

1. Serv. Come, come, take it up.

2. Serv. Pray heaven it be not full of knight again.

1. Serv. I hope not, I had lief as bear so much lead.

[Enter] Ford, Page, Caius, Evans, Shallow.

Ford. Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any way then to unfool me again? Set down the basket, villain! Somebody call my wife. Youth in a basket! O you panderly rascals, there’s a knot, a [ging], a pack, a conspiracy against me. Now shall the devil be sham’d. What, wife, I say! Come, come forth! Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!

Page. Why, this passes, Master Ford. You are not to go loose any longer, you must be pinion’d.

Evans. Why, this is lunatics! this is mad as a mad dog!