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Exeunt.

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Enter Host and Bardolph.

Bard. Sir, the [Germans desire] to have three of your horses. The Duke himself will be to-morrow at court, and they are going to meet him.

Host. What duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear not of him in the court. Let me speak with the gentlemen; they speak English?

Bard. Ay, sir; I’ll call [them] to you.

Host. They shall have my horses, but I’ll make them pay; I’ll sauce them. They have had my [house] a week at command. I have turn’d away my other guests; they must come off. I’ll sauce them, come.

Exeunt.

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Enter Page, Ford, Mistress Page, Mistress Ford, and Evans.

Evans. ’Tis one of the best discretions of a oman as ever I did look upon.

Page. And did he send you both these letters at an instant?

Mrs. Page. Within a quarter of an hour.

Ford.

Pardon me, wife, henceforth do what thou wilt.

I rather will suspect the sun with [cold]

Than thee with wantonness. Now doth thy honor stand,

In him that was of late an heretic,