en swelled! I should 15
have been a mountain of mummy.

_Re-enter BARDOLPH with sack._

_Bard._ Here's Mistress Quickly, sir, to speak with you.

_Fal._ Come, let me pour in some sack to the Thames
water; for my belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snow-balls
for pills to cool the reins. Call her in. 20

_Bard._ Come in, woman!

_Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY._

_Quick._ By your leave; I cry you mercy: give your
worship good morrow.

_Fal._ Take away these chalices. Go brew me a pottle
of sack finely. 25

_Bard._ With eggs, sir?

_Fal._ Simple of itself; I'll no pullet-sperm in my brewage.
[_Exit Bardolph._] How now!

_Quick._ Marry, sir, I come to your worship from Mistress
Ford. 30

_Fal._ Mistress Ford! I have had ford enough; I was
thrown into the ford; I have my belly full of ford.

_Quick._ Alas the day! good heart, that was not her
fault: she does so take on with her men; they mistook
their erection. 35

_Fal._ So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman's
promise.

_Quick._ Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn
your heart to see it. Her husband goes this morning
a-birding; she desires you once more to come to her 40
between eight and nine: I must carry her word quickly:
she'll make you amends, I warrant you.

_Fal._ Well, I will visit her: tell her so; and bid her
think what a man is: let her consider his frailty, and then
judge of my merit. 45

_Quick._ I will tell her.

_Fal._ Do so. Between nine and ten, sayest thou?

_Quick._ Eight and nine, sir.

_Fal._ Well, be gone: I will not miss her.

_Quick._ Peace be with you, sir. [_Exit._ 50

_Fal._ I marvel I hear not of Master Brook; he sent me
word to stay within: I like his money well. --O, here he
comes.

_Enter FORD._

_Ford._ Bless you, sir!

_Fal._ Now, Master Brook,--you come to know what 55
hath passed between me and Ford's wife?

_Ford._ That, indeed, Sir John, is my business.

_Fal._ Master Brook, I will not lie to you: I was at her
house the hour she appointed me.

_Ford._ And sped you, sir? 60

_Fal._ Very ill-favouredly, Master Brook.

_Ford._