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not [35] true, Master Page?

PAGE
Master Shallow, you have yourself been a great fighter, though now a man of
peace.

SHALLOW
Bodykins, Master Page, though I now be old, and of the Peace, if I see a
sword out, my finger itches to [40] make one. Though we are justices, and

doctors, and churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our youth in us;
we are the sons of women, Master Page.

PAGE
’Tis true, Master Shallow.

SHALLOW
It will be found so, Master Page. Master Doctor [45] Caius, I am come to
fetch you home. I am sworn of the Peace; you have showed yourself a wise

physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise and patient churchman;
you must go with me, Master Doctor.

HOST
Pardon, guest Justice. − A word, Mounseur Mockwater. [50]

CAIUS
Mock-vater? Vat is dat?

HOST
Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour, bully.

CAIUS
By gar, then, I have as much mock-vater as de Englishman. Scurvy Jack-dog

priest! By gar, me vill cut [55] his ears.

HOST
He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.