Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...through the Realme. Mist. Page. Why Sir John, do you thinke though wee would have thrust vertue out of our hearts by the head and shoulders, and have given our selves without scruple to hell, that ever the devill could have made you our delight? Ford. What, a hodge-pudding? A bag of flax? Mist. Page. A puft man? Page. Old, cold, wither'd, and of intolerable entrailes? Ford. And one that is as slanderous as Sathan? Page. And as poore as Job? Ford. And as wicked as his wife? Evan. And given to Fornications, and to Tavernes, and Sacke, and Wine, and Metheglins, and to drinkings and swearings, and starings Pribles and prables? Fal. Well, I am your Theame: you have the start of me, I am dejected: I am not able to answer the Welch Flannell, Ignorance it selfe is a plummet ore me, use me as you will. Ford. Marry Sir, wee'l bring you to Windsor to one Mr Broome, that you have cozon'd of money, to whom you should have bin a Pander: over and above that you have suffer'd, I thinke, to repay that money will be a biting affliction. Page. Yet be cheerefull Knight: thou shalt eat a posset to night at my house, wher I will desire thee to laugh at my wife, that now laughes at thee: Tell her Mr Slender hath married her daughter. Mist. Page. Doctors doubt that; If Anne Page be my daughter, she is (by this) Doctour Caius wife. Slen. Whoa hoe, hoe, Father Page. Page. Sonne? How now i How now Sonne, Have you dispatch'd? Slen. Dispatch'd? He make the best in Glostershire know on't: would I were hang'd la, else. Page. Of what sonne? Slen. I came yonder at Eaton to marry Mistris Anne Page, and she's a great lubberly boy. If it had not bene i'th Church, I would have swing'd him, or hee should have swing'd me. If I did not thinke it had beene Anne Page, would I might never stirre, an...
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