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CAIUS

Peace-a your tongue. [To Simple.] Speak-a your tale.

SIMPLE
To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to [75] speak a good word to
Mistress Anne Page for my master in the way of marriage.

QUICKLY
This is all, indeed, la, but I’ll ne’er put my finger in the fire, and need not.

CAIUS
Sir Hugh send-a you? Rugby, ballow me some [80] paper. Tarry you a little-a

while.
Writes.

QUICKLY
[Aside to Simple] I am glad he is so quiet: if he had been throughly moved,
you should have heard him so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding,
man, I’ll do you your master what good I can; and the very yea and [85] the

no is, the French doctor, my master − I may call him my master, look you, for
I keep his house; and I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink,
make the beds, and do all myself −

SIMPLE
[Aside to Quickly] ’Tis a great charge to come [90] under one body’s hand.

QUICKLY

[Aside to Simple] Are you avised o’ that? You shall find it a great charge; and
to be up early and down late; but notwithstanding − to tell you in your ear; I
would have no words of it − my master himself is in love with [95] Mistress
Anne Page; but notwithstanding that, I know Anne’s mind − that’s neither
here nor there.

CAIUS

You jack’nape, give-a this letter to Sir Hugh; by gar, it is a shallenge. I will
cut his troat in de Park, and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle
or make. You [100] may be gone; it is not good you tarry here. By gar, I will