Page 2504 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Truly, sir, to see your wife. Is she at home?

FORD
Ay, and as idle as she may hang together, for want of [10] company. I think,
if your husbands were dead, you two would marry.

MISTRESS PAGE
Be sure of that − two other husbands.

FORD
Where had you this pretty weathercock?

MISTRESS PAGE
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is [15] my husband had him of. −

What do you call your knight’s name, sirrah?

ROBIN
Sir John Falstaff.

FORD
Sir John Falstaff?

MISTRESS PAGE
He, he; I can never hit on’s name. There is [20] such a league between my
goodman and he! Is your wife at home indeed?

FORD
Indeed she is.

MISTRESS PAGE

By your leave, sir; I am sick till I see her.
[Exeunt Mistress Page and Robin.]

FORD
Has Page any brains? Hath he any eyes? Hath he any [25] thinking? Sure,
they sleep; he hath no use of them. Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty
mile as easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve score. He pieces out