ive case plural, William?

_Will._ Genitive case!

_Evans._ Ay.

_Will._ Genitive,--horum, harum, horum. 55

_Quick._ Vengeance of Jenny's case! fie on her! never
name her, child, if she be a whore.

_Evans._ For shame, 'oman.

_Quick._ You do ill to teach the child such words:--he
teaches him to hick and to hack, which they'll do fast 60
enough of themselves, and to call 'horum':--fie upon
you!

_Evans._ 'Oman, art thou lunaties? hast thou no understandings
for thy cases, and the numbers of the genders?
Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as I would desires. 65

_Mrs Page._ Prithee, hold thy peace.

_Evans._ Show me now, William, some declensions of
your pronouns.

_Will._ Forsooth, I have forgot.

_Evans._ It is qui, quae, quod: if you forget your 70
'quies,' your 'quaes,' and your 'quods,' you must be preeches.
Go your ways, and play; go.

_Mrs Page._ He is a better scholar than I thought he
was.

_Evans._ He is a good sprag memory. Farewell, Mistress 75
Page.

_Mrs Page._ Adieu, good Sir Hugh. [_Exit Sir Hugh._]
Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long. [_Exeunt._

NOTES: IV, 1

[A Street] Capell. Page's House. Pope.
10: _let_] _get_ Collier MS.
25: _polecats_] _powlcat_ Q3.
41: _Accusativo_] _accusative_ F3 F4.
_hinc_] _hunc_ Halliwell.
43: _hung_] Pope. _hing_ Ff Q3.
56: _Jenny's_] _Ginyes_ Ff Q3.
63: _lunaties_] Ff Q3. _lunacies_ Rowe. _lunaticks_ Capell.
64: _of_] _and_ Collier MS.
65: _desires_] _desire_ Pope.
70, 71: _quae ... quaes_] _que ... ques_ Ff Q3.

SCENE II. _A room in FORD'S house._

_Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS FORD._

_Fal._ Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my
sufferance. I see you are obsequious in your love, and
I profess requital to a hair's breadth; not only, Mistress
Ford, in the simple office of love, but in all the accoutrement,
complement, and ceremony of it. But are you sure 5
of your husband now?

_Mrs Ford._ He's a-birding, sweet Sir John.

_Mrs Page._ [_Within_] What, ho, gossip Ford! what, ho!

_Mrs Ford._ Step into the chamber, Sir John.

[_Exit Falstaff._

_Enter MISTRESS PAGE._

_Mrs Page._ How now, sweetheart! who's at home besides 10
yourself?

_Mrs Ford._ Why, none but mine own people.

_Mrs Page._ Indeed!

_Mrs Ford._ No, certainly. [_Aside to her_] Speak louder.