I'll give you a pottle of
burnt sack to give me recourse to him, and tell him my
name is Brook; only for a jest.

_Host._ My hand, bully; thou shalt have egress and 195
regress;--said I well?--and thy name shall be Brook. It is
a merry knight. Will you go, An-heires?

_Shal._ Have with you, mine host.

_Page._ I have heard the Frenchman hath good skill in
his rapier. 200

_Shal._ Tut, sir, I could have told you more. In these
times you stand on distance, your passes, stoccadoes, and
I know not what: 'tis the heart, Master Page; 'tis here, 'tis
here. I have seen the time, with my long sword I would
have made you four tall fellows skip like rats. 205

_Host._ Here, boys, here, here! shall we wag?

_Page._ Have with you. I had rather hear them scold
than fight. [_Exeunt Host, Shal., and Page._

_Ford._ Though Page be a secure fool, and stands so
firmly on his wife's frailty, yet I cannot put off my opinion 210
so easily: she was in his company at Page's house; and
what they made there, I know not. Well, I will look
further into't: and I have a disguise to sound Falstaff. If
I find her honest, I lose not my labour; if she be otherwise,
'tis labour well bestowed. [_Exit._ 215

NOTES: II, 1

1: _I_] om. F1.
5: _physician_] Dyce (Johnson conj.). _precisian_ Ff Q3.
See note (V).
8: _you_] F1 F3 F4. _yout_ Q3. _your_ F2.
9: _at the least_] _at the last_ F4.
_soldier_] F1 Q3 F2. _a soldier_ F3 F4.
19: _an_] om. F3 F4.
20: _with the_] _i' th'_] F3 F4.
25: _putting_] _pulling_ Jackson conj.
_men_] _fat men_ Theobald. _mum_ Hanmer.
28: SCENE II. Pope.
30: _coming_] _going_ Q3.
45: _What? thou liest!_] _What thou liest?_ F1 Q3 F2 F3.
_What, thou liest!_ F4.
46: _will hack_] _will lack_ Warburton. _we'll hack_ Johnson conj.
51: _praised_] Theobald. _praise_ Ff Q3.
55: _place_] _pace_ Capell conj.
55, 56: _Hundredth Psalm_] Rowe. _hundred Psalms_ Ff Q3.
57: _tuns_] Ff Q3. _tun_ Rowe. _tons_ Dyce.
67: _sure_] F1 Q3. _sue_ F2 F3 F4. _nay_ Rowe.
78: _know_] _knew_ F4.
_strain_] _stain_ Pope.
97: [They retire] Theobald.
98: SCENE III. Pope.
102-104: Printed as prose in Ff Q3.
103: _one_] _and one_ F4.
104: _the_] F1 Q3. _thy_ F2 F3 F4. _a_ Anon. (N. & Q.) conj.
107: _he_] om. F3 F4.
113, 114: _Away_ ... _sense_] _Away Sir