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cheese. [135]
EVANS
Seese is not good to give putter; your belly is all putter.
FALSTAFF
‘Seese’ and ‘putter’? Have I lived to stand at the taunt of one that makes
fritters of English? This is enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking
through the realm. [140]
MISTRESS PAGE
Why, Sir John, do you think, though we would have thrust virtue out of our
hearts by the head and shoulders, and have given ourselves without scruple
to hell, that ever the devil could have made you our delight? [145]
FORD
What, a hodge-pudding? A bag of flax?
MISTRESS PAGE
A puffed man?
PAGE
Old, cold, withered, and of intolerable entrails?
FORD
And one that is as slanderous as Satan?
PAGE
And as poor as Job? [150]
FORD
And as wicked as his wife?
EVANS
And given to fornications, and to taverns, and sack, and wine, and
metheglins, and to drinkings, and swearings, and starings, pribbles and
prabbles?
