Page 2549 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2
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And what says she, I pray, sir?
FALSTAFF
Marry, she says that the very same man that beguiled Master Slender of his
chain cozened him of it.
SIMPLE
I would I could have spoken with the woman herself; I had other things to
have spoken with her too, from [35] him.
FALSTAFF
What are they? Let us know.
HOST
Ay, come; quick.
SIMPLE
I may not conceal them, sir.
HOST
Conceal them, or thou diest. [40]
SIMPLE
Why, sir, they were nothing but about Mistress Anne Page, to know if it were
my master’s fortune to have her or no.
FALSTAFF
’Tis, ’tis his fortune.
SIMPLE
What, sir? [45]
FALSTAFF
To have her, or no. Go; say the woman told me so.
SIMPLE