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CAIUS
By gar, ’tis no the fashion of France; it is not jealous in France.
PAGE
Nay, follow him, gentlemen; see the issue of his search.
[Exeunt Page, Caius, and Evans.]
MISTRESS PAGE
Is there not a double excellency in this? [160]
MISTRESS FORD
I know not which pleases me better, that my husband is deceived, or Sir
John.
MISTRESS PAGE
What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket!
MISTRESS FORD
I am half afraid he will have need of washing [165] − so throwing him into
the water will do him a benefit.
MISTRESS PAGE
Hang him, dishonest rascal! I would all of the same strain were in the same
distress.
MISTRESS FORD
I think my husband hath some special suspicion of Falstaff’s being here, for I
never saw him so [170] gross in his jealousy till now.
MISTRESS PAGE
I will lay a plot to try that, and we will yet have more tricks with Falstaff: his
dissolute disease will scarce obey this medicine.
MISTRESS FORD
Shall we send that foolish carrion, Mistress [175] Quickly, to him, and excuse
his throwing into the water, and give him another hope, to betray him to
another punishment?
