as fast as they can.

_Sir Hu._ Then it is verie necessary _I_ put vp my sword, 15
Pray give me my cowne too, marke you.

_Enter Page, shallow, and Slender._

_Pa._ God saue you sir _Hugh_.

_Shal._ God saue you M. parson.

_Sir Hu._ God plesse you all from his mercies sake now.

_Pa._ What the word and the sword, doth that agree well? 20

_Sir Hu._ There is reasons and causes in all things,
_I_ warrant you now.

_Pa._ Well sir _Hugh_, we are come to crane
Your helpe and furtherance in a matter.

_Sir Hu._ What is _I_ pray you? 25

_Pa._ {I}faith tis this sir _Hugh_. There is an auncient friend of
ours, a man of verie good sort, so at oddes with one patience, that _I_
am sure you would hartily grieue to see him. Now sir _Hugh_, you are
a scholler well red, and verie perswasiue, we would intreate you to see
if you could intreat him to patience. 30

_Sir Hu._ _I_ pray you who is it? Let vs know that.

_Pa._ I am shure you know him, tis Doctor _Cayus_.

_Sir Hu._ _I_ had as leeue you should tel me of a messe of poredge,
He is an arant lowsie beggerly knaue: 35
And he is a coward beside.

_Pa._ Why Ile laie my life tis the man
That he should fight withall.

_Enter Doctor and the Host, they offer to fight._

_Shal._ Keep them asunder, take away their weapons.

_Host._ Disarme, let them question. 40

_Shal._ Let them keepe their limbs hole, and hack our English.

_Doct._ Harke van vrd in your eare. You be vn daga
And de {I}ack, coward preest.

_Sir Hu._ Harke you, let vs not be laughing stockes to other mens
humors. By Ieshu _I_ will knock your vrinalls about your knaues
cock-comes, for missing your meetings and appointments. 45

_Doct._ O Ieshu mine host of de garter, _Iohn Rogoby_,
Haue _I_ not met him at de place he make apoint,
Haue I not?

_Sir Hu._ So kad vdge me, this is the pointment place, 50
Witnes by my Host of the garter.

_Host._ Peace I say gawle and gawlia, French and Wealch,
Soule curer and bodie curer.

_Doc._ This be verie braue, excellent.

_Host._ Peace _I_ say, heare mine host of the garter, 55
Am _I_ wise? am I polliticke? am _I_ Matchauil?
Shal _I_ lose my doctor? No, he giues me the motions
And the potions. Shal _I_ lose my parson, my sir _Hu_?
No, he giues me the prouerbes, and