Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
Act 3 - Scene 5
A room in the Garter Inn.
Bardolph : Here, sir.
Bardolph : Here's Mistress Quickly, sir, to speak with you.
Bardolph : Come in, woman!
Bardolph : With eggs, sir?
Ford : Bless you, sir!
Ford : That, indeed, Sir John, is my business.
Ford : And sped you, sir?
Ford : How so, sir? Did she change her determination?
Ford : What, while you were there?
Ford : And did he search for you, and could not find you?
Ford : A buck-basket!
Ford : And how long lay you there?
Ford : In good sadness, I am sorry that for my sake you
[p]have sufferd all
this. My suit then is desperate;
[p]you'll undertake her no more?
Ford : 'Tis past eight already, sir.
Ford : Hum! ha! is this a vision? is this a dream? do I
[p]sleep? Master Ford
awake! awake, Master Ford!
[p]there's a hole made in your best coat,
Master Ford.
[p]This 'tis to be married! this 'tis to have
linen
[p]and buck-baskets! Well, I will proclaim myself
[p]what I am:
I will now take the lecher; he is at my
[p]house; he cannot 'scape me;
'tis impossible he
[p]should; he cannot creep into a halfpenny
purse,
[p]nor into a pepper-box: but, lest the devil that
[p]guides
him should aid him, I will search
[p]impossible places. Though what I
am I cannot avoid,
[p]yet to be what I would not shall not make me
tame:
[p]if I have horns to make one mad, let the proverb go
[p]with
me: I'll be horn-mad.
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