, if you saw him.

_Fal._ Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will
stare him out of his wits; I will awe him with my cudgel: 250
it shall hang like a meteor o'er the cuckold's horns. Master
Brook, thou shalt know I will predominate over the
peasant, and thou shalt lie with his wife. --Come to me
soon at night. Ford's a knave, and I will aggravate his
style; thou, Master Brook, shalt know him for knave and 255
cuckold. Come to me soon at night. [_Exit._

_Ford._ What a damned Epicurean rascal is this! My
heart is ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is
improvident jealousy? my wife hath sent to him; the hour
is fixed; the match is made. Would any man have thought 260
this? See the hell of having a false woman! My bed
shall be abused, my coffers ransacked, my reputation gnawn
at; and I shall not only receive this villanous wrong, but
stand under the adoption of abominable terms, and by him
that does me this wrong. Terms! names!--Amaimon 265
sounds well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are
devils' additions, the names of fiends: but Cuckold!
Wittol!--Cuckold! the devil himself hath not such a name. Page
is an ass, a secure ass: he will trust his wife; he will not
be jealous. I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, 270
Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman
with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling
gelding, than my wife with herself: then she plots, then
she ruminates, then she devises; and what they think in
their hearts they may effect, they will break their hearts 275
but they will effect. God be praised for my jealousy!--Eleven
o'clock the hour. I will prevent this, detect my
wife, be revenged on Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will
about it; better three hours too soon than a minute too
late. Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold! [_Exit._ 280

NOTES: II, 2

SCENE II.] SCENE VII. Pope.
3: _open_] _open. --I will retort the sum in equipage._
Theobald (from Q1 Q2). _open. -- ... equipoize_ Jackson conj.
6: _coach-fellow_] _couch-fellow_ Theobald.
12: _Didst not thou_] F1 Q3 F2. _Didst thou not_ F3 F4.
17: _throng_] (Q1 Q2) Ff Q3. _thong_ Pope.
20: _terms_] _termes_ F1 Q3. _terme_ F2. _term_ F3 F4.
_honour_] _hononor_ F1.
_I, I, I_] _I_ Pope. _I, ay, I_ Grant White.
21: _God_] (Q1 Q2). _heaven_ Ff Q3.
23: _yet you, rogue,_] Pope. _yet, you rogu