Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
Act 2 - Scene 3
A field near Windsor.
Doctor Caius : Jack Rugby!
Rugby : Sir?
Doctor Caius : Vat is de clock, Jack?
Rugby : 'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet.
Doctor Caius : By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he
[p]has pray his
Pible well, dat he is no come: by gar,
[p]Jack Rugby, he is dead
already, if he be come.
Rugby : He is wise, sir; he knew your worship would kill
[p]him, if he came.
Doctor Caius : By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him.
[p]Take your
rapier, Jack; I vill tell you how I vill kill him.
Rugby : Alas, sir, I cannot fence.
Doctor Caius : Villany, take your rapier.
Rugby : Forbear; here's company.
Host : Bless thee, bully doctor!
Page : Now, good master doctor!
Slender : Give you good morrow, sir.
Doctor Caius : Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for?
Host : To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee
[p]traverse; to see
thee here, to see thee there; to
[p]see thee pass thy punto, thy
stock, thy reverse, thy
[p]distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my
Ethiopian? is
[p]he dead, my Francisco? ha, bully! What says
my
[p]AEsculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder? ha! is
[p]he dead,
bully stale? is he dead?
Doctor Caius : By gar, he is de coward Jack priest of de vorld; he
[p]is not show his
face.
Host : Thou art a Castalion-King-Urinal. Hector of Greece, my boy!
Doctor Caius : I pray you, bear vitness that me have stay six or
[p]seven, two, tree
hours for him, and he is no come.
Page : Master Shallow, you have yourself been a great
[p]fighter, though now
a man of peace.
Page : 'Tis true, Master Shallow.
Host : Pardon, guest-justice. A word, Mounseur Mockwater.
Doctor Caius : Mock-vater! vat is dat?
Host : Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour, bully.
Doctor Caius : By gar, den, I have as mush mock-vater as de
[p]Englishman. Scurvy
jack-dog priest! by gar, me
[p]vill cut his ears.
Host : He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.
Doctor Caius : Clapper-de-claw! vat is dat?
Host : That is, he will make thee amends.
Doctor Caius : By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me;
[p]for, by gar, me
vill have it.
Host : And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag.
Doctor Caius : Me tank you for dat.
Host : And, moreover, bully,--but first, master guest, and
[p]Master Page,
and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you
[p]through the town to Frogmore.
Page : Sir Hugh is there, is he?
Host : He is there: see what humour he is in; and I will
[p]bring the doctor
about by the fields. Will it do well?
Page : [with Shallow and Slender] Adieu, good master doctor.
Doctor Caius : By gar, me vill kill de priest; for he speak for a
[p]jack-an-ape to
Anne Page.
Host : Let him die: sheathe thy impatience, throw cold
[p]water on thy
choler: go about the fields with me
[p]through Frogmore: I will bring
thee where Mistress
[p]Anne Page is, at a farm-house a-feasting; and
thou
[p]shalt woo her. Cried I aim? said I well?
Doctor Caius : By gar, me dank you for dat: by gar, I love you;
[p]and I shall
procure-a you de good guest, de earl,
[p]de knight, de lords, de
gentlemen, my patients.
Host : For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne
[p]Page. Said I
well?
Doctor Caius : By gar, 'tis good; vell said.
Host : Let us wag, then.
Doctor Caius : Come at my heels, Jack Rugby.
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