s
A letter may serue for a sentence. _I_ loue you,
And so _I_ leaue you.
_Yours Syr Iohn Falstaffe._

Now Ieshu blesse me, am I methomorphised? 10

I think I knowe not my selfe. Why what a Gods name doth this man
see in me, that thus he shootes at my honestie? Well but that I
knowe my owne heart, I should scarcely perswade my selfe I were
hand. Why what an vnreasonable woolsack is this. He was neuer
twice in my companie, and if then I thought I gaue such assurance 15
with my eies, Ide pull them out, they should neuer see more holie
daies. Well, I shall trust fat men the worse while I liue for his sake.
O God, that I knew how to be reuenged of him. But in good time,
heeres mistresse _Foord_.

_Enter Mistresse _Foord_._

_Mis. For._ How now mistris _Page_, are you are reading Loue 20
letters? How do you woman?

_Mis. Pa._ O woman I am I know not what:
In loue vp to the hard eares. I was neuer in such a case in my life.

_Mis. Ford._ In loue, now in the name of God with whom?

_Mis. Pa._ With one that sweares he loues me, 25
And I must not choose but do the like againe:
I prethie looke on that Letter.

_Mis. For._ He match your letter iust with the like,
Line for line, word for word. Onely the name
Of misteris _Page_, and misteris _Foord_ disagrees: 30
Do me the kindnes to looke vpon this.

_Mis. Pa._ Why this is right my letter.
O most notorious villaine!
Why what a bladder of iniquity is this?
Lets be reuenged what so ere we do. 35

_Mis. For._ Reuenged, if we liue weel be reuenged.
O Lord if my husband should see this Letter,
Ifaith this would euen giue edge to his Iealousie.

_Enter Ford, Page, Pistoll, and Nym._

_Mis. Pa._ See where our husbands are,
Mine's as far from Iealousie, 40
As I am from wronging him.

_Pis._ _Ford_ the words I speake are forst:
Beware, take heed, for _Falstaffe_ loues thy wife:
When _Pistoll_ lies do this.

_Ford._ Why sir my wife is not young. 45

_Pis._ He wooes both yong and old, both rich and poore,
None comes amis. I say he loues thy wife:
Faire warning did I giue, take heed,
For sommer comes, and cuckoo birds appeare;
_Page_ belieue him what he ses. Away sir Corporal _Nym_. 50

_Exit Pistoll:_

_Nym._ Syr the humor of it is, he loues y