Page 2534 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2
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[Exit Falstaff.]
[Enter Mistress Page.]
MISTRESS PAGE
How now, sweetheart, who’s at home [10] besides yourself?
MISTRESS FORD
Why, none but mine own people.
MISTRESS PAGE
Indeed?
MISTRESS FORD
No, certainly. − [Aside to her.] Speak louder. [15]
MISTRESS PAGE
Truly, I am so glad you have nobody here.
MISTRESS FORD
Why?
MISTRESS PAGE
Why, woman, your husband is in his old lines again; he so takes on yonder
with my husband; so rails against all married mankind; so curses all Eve’s
[20] daughters, of what complexion soever; and so buffets himself on the
forehead, crying, ‘Peer out, peer out!’, that any madness I ever yet beheld
seemed but tameness, civility, and patience to this his distemper he is in
now. I am glad the fat knight is not here. [25]
MISTRESS FORD
Why, does he talk of him?
MISTRESS PAGE
Of none but him, and swears he was carried out, the last time he searched
for him, in a basket; protests to my husband he is now here, and hath drawn
him and the rest of their company from their [30] sport, to make another
