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第8章 SCENE I.(1)

Before PAGE'S house. Enter MISTRESS PAGE, with a letter MISTRESS PAGE What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?

Let me see.

Reads 'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor. You are not young, no more am I; go to then, there's sympathy: you are merry, so am I; ha, ha! then there's more sympathy: you love sack, and so do I; would you desire better sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page,--at the least, if the love of soldier can suffice,--that I love thee. I will not say, pity me; 'tis not a soldier-like phrase: but I say, love me.

By me, Thine own true knight, By day or night, Or any kind of light, With all his might For thee to fight, JOHN FALSTAFF'

What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked world! One that is well-nigh worn to pieces with age to show himself a young gallant! What an unweighed behavior hath this Flemish drunkard picked--with the devil's name!--out of my conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me?

Why, he hath not been thrice in my company! What should I say to him? I was then frugal of my mirth: Heaven forgive me! Why, I'll exhibit a bill in the parliament for the putting down of men.

How shall I be revenged on him? for revenged I will be, as sure as his guts are made of puddings.

Enter MISTRESS FORD MISTRESS FORD Mistress Page! trust me, I was going to your house. MISTRESS PAGE And, trust me, I was coming to you. You look very ill. MISTRESS FORD Nay, I'll ne'er believe that; I have to show to the contrary. MISTRESS PAGE Faith, but you do, in my mind. MISTRESS FORD Well, I do then; yet I say I could show you to the contrary. O Mistress Page, give me some counsel! MISTRESS PAGE What's the matter, woman? MISTRESS FORD O woman, if it were not for one trifling respect, Icould come to such honour! MISTRESS PAGE Hang the trifle, woman! take the honour.

What is it? dispense with trifles; what is it? MISTRESS FORD If I would but go to hell for an eternal moment or so, I could be knighted. MISTRESS PAGE What? thou liest! Sir Alice Ford! These knights will hack; and so thou shouldst not alter the article of thy gentry. MISTRESS FORD We burn daylight: here, read, read; perceive how Imight be knighted. I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking: and yet he would not swear; praised women's modesty; and gave such orderly and well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness, that Iwould have sworn his disposition would have gone to the truth of his words; but they do no more adhere and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune of 'Green Sleeves.' What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor? How shall I be revenged on him? I think the best way were to entertain him with hope, till the wicked fire of lust have melted him in his own grease. Did you ever hear the like? MISTRESS PAGE Letter for letter, but that the name of Page and Ford differs! To thy great comfort in this mystery of ill opinions, here's the twin-brother of thy letter: but let thine inherit first; for, Iprotest, mine never shall. I warrant he hath a thousand of these letters, writ with blank space for different names--sure, more,--and these are of the second edition: he will print them, out of doubt;for he cares not what he puts into the press, when he would put us two. I had rather be a giantess, and lie under Mount Pelion. Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. MISTRESS FORD Why, this is the very same; the very hand, the very words. What doth he think of us? MISTRESS PAGE Nay, I know not: it makes me almost ready to wrangle with mine own honesty. I'll entertain myself like one that I am not acquainted withal;for, sure, unless he know some strain in me, that Iknow not myself, he would never have boarded me in this fury. MISTRESS FORD 'Boarding,' call you it? I'll be sure to keep him above deck. MISTRESS PAGE So will I if he come under my hatches, I'll never to sea again. Let's be revenged on him: let's appoint him a meeting; give him a show of comfort in his suit and lead him on with a fine-baited delay, till he hath pawned his horses to mine host of the Garter. MISTRESS FORD Nay, I will consent to act any villany against him, that may not sully the chariness of our honesty.

O, that my husband saw this letter! it would give eternal food to his jealousy. MISTRESS PAGE Why, look where he comes; and my good man too: he's as far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause;and that I hope is an unmeasurable distance. MISTRESS FORD You are the happier woman. MISTRESS PAGE Let's consult together against this greasy knight.

Come hither.

They retire Enter FORD with PISTOL, and PAGE with NYM FORD Well, I hope it be not so. PISTOL Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs:

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