Page 1418 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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Enter [Page as a] lady, with Attendants. [One gives Sly a pot of ale.]
SLY
I thank thee, thou shalt not lose by it.
PAGE
How fares my noble lord?
SLY
Marry, I fare well, for here is cheer enough. [100]
Where is my wife?
PAGE
Here, noble lord, what is thy will with her?
SLY
Are you my wife, and will not call me husband?
My men should call me ‘lord’, I am your goodman.
PAGE
My husband and my lord, my lord and husband; [105]
I am your wife in all obedience.
SLY
I know it well. What must I call her?
LORD
Madam.
SLY
Alice madam, or Joan madam?
LORD
Madam and nothing else, so lords call ladies. [110]
SLY
Madam wife, they say that I have dream’d
And slept above some fifteen year or more.
