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Love my wife?

PISTOL
With liver burning hot. Prevent,
Or go thou, like Sir Actæon he,
With Ringwood at thy heels.
O, odious is the name! [110]

FORD
What name, sir?

PISTOL
The horn, I say. Farewell.
Take heed; have open eye; for thieves do foot by night;
Take heed, ere summer comes, or cuckoo-birds do sing.

− Away, Sir Corporal Nym! − Believe it, Page, he [115]
Speaks sense.
Exit.

FORD
[Aside] I will be patient; I will find out this.

NYM
[To Page ] And this is true; I like not the humour of lying. He hath wronged
me in some humours. I should have borne the humoured letter to her; but I

have a [120] sword, and it shall bite upon my necessity. He loves your wife;
there’s the short and the long. My name is Corporal Nym; I speak, and I
avouch; ’tis true; my name is Nym, and Falstaff loves your wife. Adieu. I love

not the humour of bread and cheese. Adieu. [125]
Exit.

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The ‘humour’ of it, quoth ’a! Here’s a fellow frights English out of his wits.

FORD
I will seek out Falstaff.