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And Master Slender’s your master?
SIMPLE
Ay, forsooth.
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Does he not wear a great round beard, like a glover’s paring-knife?
SIMPLE
No, forsooth; he hath but a little wee face, with a [20] little yellow beard − a
Cain-coloured beard.
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A softly-sprighted man, is he not?
SIMPLE
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. [25]
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How say you? − O, I should remember him: does he not hold up his head, as
it were, and strut in his gait?
SIMPLE
Yes, indeed, does he.
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Well, heaven send Anne Page no worse fortune! Tell Master Parson Evans I
will do what I can for your [30] master: Anne is a good girl, and I wish −
[Enter Rugby.]
RUGBY
Out, alas, here comes my master.
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We shall all be shent. Run in here, good young man; go into this closet; he
