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FALSTAFF
Well, I am your theme; you have the start of [155] me. I am dejected; I am
not able to answer the Welsh flannel; ignorance itself is a plummet o’er me;
use me as you will.
FORD
Marry, sir, we’ll bring you to Windsor to one Master Brook that you have
cozened of money, to whom you should have been a pandar. Over and above
that [160] you have suffered, I think to repay that money will be a biting
affliction.
PAGE
Yet be cheerful, knight: thou shalt eat a posset tonight at my house, where I
will desire thee to laugh at my wife that now laughs at thee. Tell her Master
Slender [165] hath married her daughter.
MISTRESS PAGE
[Aside] Doctors doubt that; if Anne Page be my daughter, she is, by this,
Doctor Caius’ wife.
Enter Slender.
SLENDER
Whoa, ho, ho, father Page!
PAGE
Son, how now? How now, son? Have you [170] dispatched?
SLENDER
Dispatched? I’ll make the best in Gloucestershire know on ’t; would I were
hanged, la, else!
PAGE
Of what, son?
SLENDER
I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne [175] Page, and she’s a great
