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is for you altogether.

CAIUS
Ay, be-gar, and de maid is love-a me: my nursh-a [55] Quickly tell me so
mush.

HOST
What say you to young Master Fenton? He capers, he dances, he has eyes of
youth; he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May. He will

carry ’t, he will carry ’t; ’tis in his buttons he will carry ’t. [60]

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Not by my consent, I promise you. The gentleman is of no having: he kept
company with the wild Prince and Poins. He is of too high a region; he knows
too much. No, he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes with the finger of my

substance; if he take her, let him take her simply: the [65] wealth I have
waits on my consent, and my consent goes not that way.

FORD
I beseech you heartily, some of you go home with me to dinner; besides your
cheer, you shall have sport: I will show you a monster. Master Doctor, you
shall go; so shall [70] you, Master Page, and you, Sir Hugh.

SHALLOW
Well, fare you well: we shall have the freer wooing at Master Page’s.

Exeunt Shallow and Slender.

CAIUS
Go home, John Rugby; I come anon. [Exit Rugby.]

HOST
Farewell, my hearts; I will to my honest knight Falstaff, [75] and drink canary
with him.

Exit.

FORD

[Aside] I think I shall drink in pipe-wine first with him; I’ll make him dance. −