John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my What, hoa! pless your house here! Shal. The Council shall hear it; it is a riot. A title formerly appropriated to chaplains. Enter PAGE. Page. Who's there? Eva. Here is Got's plessing, and your friend, 4 Advisement. Shal. SIR HUGH, persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it; if he were twenty Eva. It is not meet the Council hear a riot; there is no fear of Got in a riot; the Council, look you, shall desire to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a riot; take your vizaments in that. Shal. Ha! o' my life, if I were young again, the sword should end it. Eva. It is petter that friends is the sword, and sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shal-end it: and there is also another device in my prain, low, esquire. Slen. In the county of Gloster, justice of peace, and corum. an old coat. Slen. I may quarter, coz? Shal. You may, by marrying. Eva. It is marring indeed, if he quarter it. Eva. Yes, py'r lady; if he has a quarter of your coat, there is but three skirts for yourself, in my simple conjectures: but this is all one: if Sir John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my benevolence, to make atonements and compromises between you. Shal. The Council shall hear it; it is a riot. it: There is Anne Page, which is daughter to which, peradventure, prings goot discretions with master George Page, which is pretty virginity. and speaks small like a woman. Slen. Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, just as you will desire: and seven hundred pounds Eva. It is that fery person for all the 'orld, as of monies, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire, upon his death's bed (Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!) give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years old: it were a goot motion, if we leave our pribbles and prabbles, and desire a marriage between master Abraham and mistress Anne Page. Shal. Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pounds? Eva. Ay,and her father is make her a petter penny. Shal. I know the young gentlewoman; she has good gifts. Eva. Seven hundred pounds, and possibilities, is good gifts. Shal. Well, let us see honest master Page: Is Falstaff there? Eva. Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar, as I do despise one that is false; or as I despise one that is not true. The knight, sir John, is there;" and, I beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers. I will peat the door [knocks] for master Page. What, hoa! pless your house here! |