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I thank your worship: I shall make my master glad with these tidings.
May I be bold to say so, sir?
What, sir?
Why, sir, they were nothing but about Mistress Anne Page; to know if it were my master's fortune to have her or no.
I may not conceal them, sir.
I would I could have spoken with the woman herself; I had other things to have spoken with her too from him.
And what says she, I pray, sir?
My master, sir, Master Slender, sent to her, seeing her go through the streets, to know, sir, whether one Nym, sir, that beguiled him of a chain, had the chain or no.
Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of Brentford?
There's an old woman, a fat woman, gone up into his chamber: I'll be so bold as stay, sir, till she come down; I come to speak with her, indeed.
Marry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff from Master Slender.
No weapons, sir. There comes my master, Master Shallow, and another gentleman, from Frogmore, over the stile, this way.
Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh.
I will, sir.
Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every way; old Windsor way, and every way but the town way.
Aside to MISTRESS QUICKLY 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand.
To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to speak a good word to Mistress Anne Page for my master in the way of marriage.
Ay, forsooth; to desire her to--
Yes, indeed, does he.
Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.
No, forsooth: he hath but a little wee face, with a little yellow beard, a Cain-coloured beard.
Ay, forsooth.
Ay, for fault of a better.
Well, sir.
Book of Riddles! why, did you not lend it to Alice Shortcake upon All-hallowmas last, a fortnight afore Michaelmas?