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Peace be with you, sir. [50]
Exit.

FALSTAFF
I marvel I hear not of Master Brook; he sent me word to stay within. I like his
money well. − O, here he comes.

Enter Ford as Brook.

FORD

Bless you, sir!

FALSTAFF

Now, Master Brook, you come to know what [55] hath passed between me
and Ford’s wife?

FORD
That, indeed, Sir John, is my business.

FALSTAFF
Master Brook, I will not lie to you: I was at her house the hour she appointed
me.

FORD
And sped you, sir? [60]

FALSTAFF
Very ill-favouredly, Master Brook.

FORD
How so, sir? Did she change her determination?

FALSTAFF
No, Master Brook, but the peaking cornuto her husband, Master Brook,
dwelling in a continual larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our
encounter, after [65] we had embraced, kissed, protested, and, as it were,

spoke the prologue of our comedy; and at his heels a rabble of his