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Ford.

Nay, I’ll to him again in name of [Brook];

He’ll tell me all his purpose. Sure he’ll come.

Mrs. Page.

Fear not you that. Go get us properties

And tricking for our fairies.

Evans. Let us about it. It is admirable pleasures and fery honest knaveries.

[Exeunt Page, Ford, and Evans.]

Mrs. Page.

Go, Mistress Ford,

Send Quickly to Sir John, to know his mind.

[Exit Mrs. Ford.]

I’ll to the doctor, he hath my good will,

And none but he, to marry with Nan Page.

That Slender (though well landed) is an idiot;

And he my husband best of all affects.

The doctor is well money’d, and his friends

Potent at court. He, none but he, shall have her,

Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her.

[Exit.]

¶

Enter Host, Simple.

Host. What wouldst thou have, boor? What, thick- skin? Speak, breathe, discuss; brief, short, quick, snap.

Sim. Marry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff from Master Slender.

Host. There’s his chamber, his house, his castle, his standing-bed and truckle-bed; ’tis painted about with the story of the Prodigal, fresh and new. Go, knock and call; he’ll speak like an Anthropophaginian unto thee. Knock, I say.