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MISTRESS PAGE
Fear not you that. Go get us properties [75]
And tricking for our fairies.
EVANS
Let us about it; it is admirable pleasures and fery honest knaveries.
[Exeunt Page, Ford, and Evans.]
MISTRESS PAGE
Go, Mistress Ford,
Send quickly to Sir John to know his mind. [80]
[Exit Mistress Ford.]
I’ll to the Doctor, he hath my good will,
And none but he to marry with Nan Page.
That Slender, though well landed, is an idiot;
And he my husband best of all affects.
The Doctor is well money’d, and his friends [85]
Potent at court: he, none but he, shall have her,
Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her.
[Exit.]
Scene V IT
Enter Host and Simple.
HOST
What wouldst thou have, boor? What, thick-skin? Speak, breathe, discuss;
brief, short, quick, snap.
SIMPLE
Marry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff from Master Slender.
HOST
There’s his chamber, his house, his castle, his [5] standing-bed, and truckle-
bed; ’tis painted about with the story of the Prodigal, fresh and new. Go,
knock and call; he’ll speak like an Anthropophaginian unto thee; knock, I say.
