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familiarity will grow more content: but if you say ‘Marry her’, I will marry her;
that I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.

EVANS
It is a fery discretion answer; save the fall is in the’ord ‘dissolutely’: the ’ort is,
according to our meaning, [230] ‘resolutely’. His meaning is good.

SHALLOW
Ay, I think my cousin meant well.

SLENDER
Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la!

SHALLOW
Here comes fair Mistress Anne.
[Enter Anne Page.]
Would I were young for your sake, Mistress Anne! [235]

ANNE
The dinner is on the table; my father desires your worships’ company.

SHALLOW
I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne.

EVANS

Od’s plessed will, I will not be absence at the grace. [240]
[Exeunt Shallow and Evans.]

ANNE
Will’t please your worship to come in, sir?

SLENDER
No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well.

ANNE
The dinner attends you, sir.