Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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SCENE V.
Ford.
Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath
he any thinking? sure, they sleep; he hath no use of
them. Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty mile,
as easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve-score;
he pieces out his wife's inclination; he gives her folly
motion and advantage; and now she's going to my
wife, and Falstaff's boy with her. A man may hear
this shower sing in the wind: and Falstaff's boy with
her! good plots; they are laid, and our revolted
wives share damnation together. Well, I will take
him, then torture my wife; pluck the borow'd veil
of modesty from the so seeming mistress Page, divulge
Page himself for a secure and wilful Acteon, and to
these violent proceedings all my neighbours shall
-- 300 --
cry aim. The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance
bids me search; there I shall find Falstaff: I
shall be rather praised for this, than mocked; for it is
as positive as the earth is firm, that Falstaff is there:
I will go.
Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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