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Ay, there’s the point, sir.

EVANS
Marry, is it; the very point of it − to Mistress Anne Page.

SLENDER
Why, if it be so, I will marry her upon any reasonable demands. [205]

EVANS
But can you affection the ’oman? Let us command to know that of your mouth
or of your lips; for divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the
mouth. Therefore, precisely, can you carry your good will to the maid? [210]

SHALLOW
Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?

SLENDER
I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that would do reason.

EVANS
Nay, Got’s lords, and His ladies! You must speak possitable, if you can carry
her your desires towards her. [215]

SHALLOW
That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?

SLENDER
I will do a greater thing than that, upon your request, cousin, in any reason.

SHALLOW

Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz: what [220] I do is to pleasure
you, coz. Can you love the maid?

SLENDER
I will marry her, sir, at your request; but if there be no great love in the
beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we
are married and have more occasion to know one another. I hope [225] upon