Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
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SCENE XV.
Changes to the Garter-Inn.
Enter Falstaff and Bardolph.
Fal.
Bardolph, I say.
Bard.
Here, Sir.
Fal.
Go fetch me a quart of sack, put a toast in't.
[Ex. Bard.] Have I liv'd to be carry'd in a basket, like
a barrow of butchers' offal, and to be thrown into the
Thames? well, if I be serv'd such another trick, I'll
have my brains ta'en out and butter'd, and give them
to a dog for a new year's gift. The rogues slighted
me into the river with as little remorse 3 note
as they would
have drown'd a bitch's blind puppies, fifteen i'th' litter;
and you may know, by my size, that I have a
kind of alacrity in sinking: if the bottom were as
deep as hell, I should down. I had been drown'd,
but that the shore was shelvy and shallow; a death that
I abhor; for the water swells a man: and what a thing
should I have been, when I had been swell'd? I should
have been a mountain of mummy.
Enter Bardolph.
Now, is the Sack brew'd?
Bard.
Here's Mrs. Quickly, Sir, to speak with you.
Fal.
Come, let me pour in some sack to the Thames-water;
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for my belly's as cold as if I had swallow'd
snow-balls, for pills to cool the reins. Call her in.
Bard.
Come in, woman.
Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
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