George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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SCENE X.
Ford.
What a damn'd Epicurean rascal is this! my heart is
ready to crack with impatience. Who say's this is improvident
jealousie? my wife hath sent to him, the hour is fixt, the match
is made; would any man have thought this? see the hell of having
a false woman; my bed shall be abus'd, my coffers ransack'd,
my reputation gnawn at, and I shall not only receive this villainous
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wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable terms,
and by him that does me the wrong. Terms, names; Amaimon
sounds well, Lucifer well, Barbason well, yet they are devils
additions, the names of fiends: but cuckold, wittol, cuckold!
the devil himself hath not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure
ass, he will trust his wife; he will not be jealous: I will rather
trust a Fleming with my butter, parson Hugh the Welchman with
my cheese, an Irish-man with my Aqua-vitæ bottle, or a thief
to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with her self: then
she plots, then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they
think in their hearts they may effect, they will break their hearts
but they will effect. Heav'n be prais'd for my jealousie. Eleven
o'clock the hour; I will prevent this, detect my wife, be reveng'd
on Falstaff, and laugh at Page: I will about it: better three
hours too soon than a minute too late. Fie, fie, fie; cuckold,
cuckold, cuckold!
[Exit.
George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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