Page 2540 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

If you find a man there, he shall die a flea’s death.

PAGE
Here’s no man.

SHALLOW
By my fidelity, this is not well, Master Ford; this wrongs you. [140]

EVANS
Master Ford, you must pray, and not follow the imaginations of your own
heart; this is jealousies.

FORD
Well, he’s not here I seek for.

PAGE
No, nor nowhere else but in your brain.

FORD
Help to search my house this one time. If I find not [145] what I seek, show
no colour for my extremity; let me for ever be your table-sport; let them say
of me, ’As jealous as Ford, that searched a hollow walnut for his wife’s
leman’. Satisfy me once more; once more search with me.

[Exeunt John and Robert with the basket.]

MISTRESS FORD
What, ho, Mistress Page, come you and [150] the old woman down; my
husband will come into the chamber.

FORD
Old woman? What old woman’s that?

MISTRESS FORD
Why, it is my maid’s aunt of Brainford.

FORD
A witch, a quean, an old cozening quean! Have I not [155] forbid her my