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FENTON

Farewell, gentle mistress; farewell, Nan.
[Exeunt Mistress Page and Anne.]

QUICKLY
This is my doing now. ‘Nay’, said I, ‘will you cast away your child on a fool,
and a physician? Look on Master Fenton’. This is my doing. [95]

FENTON

I thank thee; and I pray thee, once to-night
Give my sweet Nan this ring. There’s for thy pains.

QUICKLY
Now heaven send thee good fortune! [Exit Fenton.] A kind heart he hath; a
woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. But yet I
would my [100] master had Mistress Anne; or I would Master Slender had

her; or, in sooth, I would Master Fenton had her. I will do what I can for them
all three, for so I have promised, and I’ll be as good as my word, but
speciously for Master Fenton. Well, I must of another errand to Sir [105] John
Falstaff from my two mistresses; what a beast am I to slack it!

Exit.

Scene V IT

Enter Falstaff.

FALSTAFF
Bardolph, I say!

[Enter Bardolph.]

BARDOLPH

Here, sir.

FALSTAFF

Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in ’t. [Exit Bard.] Have I lived to be
carried in a basket, like a barrow of butcher’s offal, and to be thrown in the