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will not stay long. [Simple steps into the closet.] What, John Rugby! John!
[35] What, John, I say! Go, John, go enquire for my master; I doubt he be not
well, that he comes not home. [Singing.] And down, down, adown-a, etc.
[Enter Doctor Caius.]
CAIUS
Vat is you sing? I do not like des toys. Pray you go and vetch me in my closet
une boitine verde − a box, a [40] green-a box. Do intend vat I speak? A
green-a box.
QUICKLY
Ay, forsooth; I’ll fetch it you. [Aside.] I am glad he went not in himself; if he
had found the young man, he would have been horn-mad.
CAIUS
Fe, fe, fe, fe, ma foi, il fait fort chaud. Je m’en vais voir à [45] la court la
grande affaire.
QUICKLY
Is it this, sir?
CAIUS
Oui, mette le au mon pocket; dépêche, quickly. Vere is dat knave Rugby?
QUICKLY
What, John Rugby! John! [50]
RUGBY
Here, sir!
CAIUS
You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. Come, take-a your rapier, and
come after my heel to the court.
RUGBY
’Tis ready, sir, here in the porch. [55]
