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SLENDER
Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but ’tis no matter. I’ll ne’er be drunk whilst I
live again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick; if I be drunk, I’ll
be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with [165] drunken
knaves.
EVANS
So Got’ udge me, that is a virtuous mind.
FALSTAFF
You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen;
you hear it.
Enter Anne Page [with wine; then] Mistress Ford and Mistress Page.
PAGE
Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we’ll drink within. [170]
[Exit Anne Page.]
SLENDER
O heaven, this is Mistress Anne Page.
PAGE
How now, Mistress Ford?
FALSTAFF
Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well met; by your leave, good
mistress.
Kisses her.
PAGE
Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have [175] a hot venison
pasty to dinner; come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
Exeunt all except Slender.
SLENDER
I had rather than forty shillings I had my book of Songs and Sonnets here.
