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May I be bold to say so, sir?
FALSTAFF
Ay, sir; like who more bold.
SIMPLE
I thank your worship; I shall make my master glad [50] with these tidings.
[Exit.]
HOST
Thou art clerkly, thou art clerkly, Sir John. Was there a wise woman with
thee?
FALSTAFF
Ay, that there was, mine host; one that hath [55] taught me more wit than
ever I learned before in my life; and I paid nothing for it neither, but was paid
for my learning.
Enter Bardolph.
BARDOLPH
Out, alas sir, cozenage, mere cozenage!
HOST
Where be my horses? Speak well of them, varletto.
BARDOLPH
Run away with the cozeners: for so soon as I [60] came beyond Eton, they
threw me off, from behind one of them, in a slough of mire; and set spurs and
away, like three German devils, three Doctor Faustuses.
HOST
They are gone but to meet the Duke, villain; do not say they be fled.
Germans are honest men. [65]
Enter Evans.
