u unconfinable baseness, it is as much as
I can do to keep the terms of my honour precise: I, I, I 20
myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand,
and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle,
to hedge, and to lurch; and yet you, rogue, will ensconce
your rags, your cat-a-mountain looks, your red-lattice
phrases, and your bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of 25
your honour! You will not do it, you!

_Pist._ I do relent: what would thou more of man?

_Enter ROBIN._

_Rob._ Sir, here's a woman would speak with you.

_Fal._ Let her approach.

_Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY._

_Quick._ Give your worship good morrow. 30

_Fal._ Good morrow, good wife.

_Quick._ Not so, an't please your worship.

_Fal._ Good maid, then.

_Quick._ I'll be sworn;
As my mother was, the first hour I was born. 35

_Fal._ I do believe the swearer. What with me?

_Quick._ Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?

_Fal._ Two thousand, fair woman: and I'll vouchsafe
thee the hearing.

_Quick._ There is one Mistress Ford, sir:--I pray, come 40
a little nearer this ways:--I myself dwell with Master
Doctor Caius,--

_Fal._ Well, on: Mistress Ford, you say,--

_Quick._ Your worship says very true:--I pray your
worship, come a little nearer this ways. 45

_Fal._ I warrant thee, nobody hears;--mine own people,
mine own people.

_Quick._ Are they so? God bless them, and make them
his servants!

_Fal._ Well, Mistress Ford;--what of her? 50

_Quick._ Why, sir, she's a good creature. --Lord, Lord!
your worship's a wanton! Well, heaven forgive you and
all of us, I pray!

_Fal._ Mistress Ford;--come, Mistress Ford,--

_Quick._ Marry, this is the short and the long of it; you 55
have brought her into such a canaries as 'tis wonderful.
The best courtier of them all, when the court lay at Windsor,
could never have brought her to such a canary. Yet
there has been knights, and lords, and gentlemen, with their
coaches; I warrant you, coach after coach, letter after letter, 60
gift after gift; smelling so sweetly, all musk, and so
rushling, I warrant you, in silk and gold; and in such alligant
terms; and in such wine and sugar of the best and the
fairest, that would have won any woman's heart; and, I
warrant you, they could never get an eye-wink of her: I