'He
hears with ear'? why, it is affectations. 135

_Fal._ Pistol, did you pick Master Slender's purse?

_Slen._ Ay, by these gloves, did he, or I would I might
never come in mine own great chamber again else, of
seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Edward shovel-boards,
that cost me two shilling and two pence a-piece of 140
Yead Miller, by these gloves.

_Fal._ Is this true, Pistol?

_Evans._ No; it is false, if it is a pick-purse.

_Pist._ Ha, thou mountain-foreigner! Sir John and master mine, 145
I combat challenge of this latten bilbo.
Word of denial in thy labras here!
Word of denial: froth and scum, thou liest!

_Slen._ By these gloves, then, 'twas he.

_Nym._ Be avised, sir, and pass good humours: I will 150
say 'marry trap' with you, if you run the nuthook's humour
on me; that is the very note of it.

_Slen._ By this hat, then, he in the red face had it; for
though I cannot remember what I did when you made me
drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass. 155

_Fal._ What say you, Scarlet and John?

_Bard._ Why, sir, for my part, I say the gentleman had
drunk himself out of his five sentences.

_Evans._ It is his five senses: fie, what the ignorance is!

_Bard._ And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered; 160
and so conclusions passed the careires.

_Slen._ Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but 'tis no
matter: I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again, but in
honest, civil, godly company, for this trick: if I be drunk,
I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not 165
with drunken knaves.

_Evans._ So Got udge me, that is a virtuous mind.

_Fal._ You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen;
you hear it.

_Enter ANNE PAGE, with wine; MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE,
following._

_Page._ Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we'll drink 170
within. [_Exit Anne Page._

_Slen._ O heaven! this is Mistress Anne Page.

_Page._ How now, Mistress Ford!

_Fal._ Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well
met: by your leave, good mistress. [_Kisses her._ 175

_Page._ Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we
have a hot venison pasty to dinner: come, gentlemen, I
hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

[_Exeunt all except Shal., Slen., and Evans._

_Slen._ I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book
of Songs and Sonnets here.