Slender.
Host.
Bless thee, bully doctor.
Shal.
Save you, master doctor Caius.
Page.
Now, good master doctor!
Slen.
Give you good-morrow, sir.
D. Cai.
Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for?
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Host.
To see thee fight, to see thee foign, to see
thee traverse, to see here, note to see thee there; to see thee
pass thy puncto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance,
thy montant: Is he dead, my Ethiopian? is he dead,
my Francisco? note ha, bully? What says my Esculapius? my
Galen note? my heart of elder? ha? is he dead, bully stale note?
is he dead?
D. Cai.
By gar, he is de coward jack priest of de
varld; he is not show his face.
Host.
Thou art a Castillian, note note14Q0064 king urinal note; Hector of
Greece, my boy.
D. Cai.
I pray you, bear vitness dat me have stay six
or seven, two, tree hours for him, and he is no come.
Shal.
He is the wiser man, master doctor: he is a
curer of souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should
fight, you go against the hair of your professions:—Is
it not true, master Page?
Page.
Master Shallow, you have yourself been a
great fighter, though now a man of peace.
Shal.
Bodykins, master Page, though I now be old,
and of the peace, note if I see a sword out, my finger itches
to make one: though we are justices, and doctors,
and churchmen, master Page, we have some salt of our
youth in us; we are the sons of women, master Page.
Page.
'Tis true, master Shallow.
Shal.
It will be found so, master Page.—Master
doctor Caius, I am come to fetch you home; I am sworn
of the peace: you have show'd yourself a wise physician,
and sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise and patient
churchman: you must go with me, master doctor.
Host.
Pardon, guest justice:—A word, mounsieur note
mock-water.
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D. Cai.
Mock-vater! vat is dat?
Host.
Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour,
bully.
D. Cai.
By gar, den I have as much mock-vater as
de Englishman:—Scurvy, jack-dog, priest! by gar, me
vill cut his note ears.
Host.
He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.
D. Cai.
Clapper-de-claw! vat is dat?
Host.
That is, he will make thee amends.
D. Cai.
By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw
me; for, by gar, me vill have it.
Host.
And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag.
D. Cai.
Me tank you for dat.
Host.
And moreover, bully,—&clquo;but first, master
guest, and master Page, and eke cavalero Slender, go
you through the town to Frogmore.&crquo;
Page.
&clquo;Sir Hugh is there, is he?&crquo;
&clquo;Host.
&clquo;He is there: see what humour he is in;
and I will bring the doctor about by the fields:
Will it do well?&crquo;
&clquo;Shal.
&clquo;We will do it.&crquo;—Adieu, good master doctor.
Page. Slen.
Adieu, good master doctor.
[Exeunt Page, Shallow, and Slender.
D. Cai.
By gar, me vill kill de priest; for he speak
for a jackanape to Anne Page.
Host.
Let him dye: Sheath thy impatience; throw
cold water on thy choler: go about the fields with me
through Frogmore, I will bring thee where mistress Anne
Page is, at a farm house a feasting; and thou shalt woo
her, try'd game, note Said I well? note14Q0065
D. Cai.
By gar, me tank you for dat: by gar, I love
you; and I shall procure-a you de good guest, de earl,
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de knight, de lords, de gentlemen, my patients.
Host.
For the which, I will be thy adversary toward
Anne Page; Said I well?
D. Cai.
By gar, 'tis good; vell said.
Host.
Let us wag then.
D. Cai.
Come at my heels, Jack Rugby.
[Exeunt.
Edward Capell [1767], Mr William Shakespeare his comedies, histories, and tragedies, set out by himself in quarto, or by the Players his Fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish'd from those Editions in ten Volumes octavo; with an introduction: Whereunto will be added, in some other Volumes, notes, critical and explanatory, and a Body of Various Readings entire (Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], London) [word count] [S10601].
