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MISTRESS PAGE
Peace.
EVANS
What is your genitive case plural, William? [50]
WILLIAM
Genitive case?
EVANS
Ay.
WILLIAM
Genitive horum, harum, horum.
QUICKLY
Vengeance of Ginny’s case; fie on her! Never name her, child, if she be a
whore. [55]
EVANS
For shame, ’oman.
QUICKLY
You do ill to teach the child such words. − He teaches him to hick and to
hack, which they’ll do fast enough of themselves, and to call ‘horum’ − fie
upon you! [60]
EVANS
’Oman, art thou lunatics? Hast thou no understandings for thy cases, and the
numbers of the genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as I would
desires.
MISTRESS PAGE
[To Quickly] Prithee hold thy peace.
EVANS
Show me now, William, some declensions of your [65] pronouns.
