our wife,
I should ha borne the humor Letter to her:
I speake and I auouch tis true: My name is _Nym._
Farwell, I loue not the humor of bread and cheese:
And theres the humor of it. 55

_Exit Nym._

_Pa._ The humor of it, quoth you:
Heres a fellow frites humor out of his wits.

_Mis. Pa._ How now sweet hart, how dost thou?

_Enter Mistresse Quickly._

_Pa._ How now man? how do you mistris _Ford_?

_Mis. For._ Well I thanke you good M. _Page_. 60
How now husband, how chaunce thou art so melancholy?

_Ford._ Melancholy, I am not melancholy.
Goe get you in, goe.

_Mis. For._ God saue me, see who yonder is:
Weele set her a worke in this businesse. 65

_Mis Pa._ O sheele serue excellent.
Now you come to see my daughter _An_ I am sure.

_Quic._ I forsooth that is my comming.

_Mis. Pa._ Come go in with me. Come Mis. _Ford_.

_Mis. For._ I follow you Mistresse _Page_. 70

_Exit Mistresse _Ford_, Mis. _Page_, and _Quickly_._

_For._ M. _Page_ did you heare what these fellows said?

_Pa._ Yes M. _Ford_, what of that sir?

_For._ Do you thinke it is true that they told vs?

_Pa._ No by my troth do I not,
I rather take them to be paltry lying knaues, 75
Such as rather speakes of enuie,
Then of any certaine they haue
Of any thing. And for the knight, perhaps
He hath spoke merrily, as the fashion of fat men
Are: But should he loue my wife, 80
Ifaith Ide turne her loose to him:
And what he got more of her,
Then ill lookes, and shrowd words,
Why let me beare the penaltie of it.

_For._ Nay I do not mistrust my wife, 85
Yet Ide be loth to turne them together,
A man may be too confident.

_Enter Host and Shallow._

_Pa._ Here comes my ramping host of the garter,
Ther's either licker in his hed, or mony in his purse,
That he lookes so merily. Now mine Host? 90

_Host._ God blesse you my bully rookes, God blesse you.
Caualera Iustice I say.

_Shal._ At hand mine host, at hand. M. _Ford_. god den to you
God den and twentie good M. _Page_.
I tell you sir we haue sport in hand. 95

_Host._ Tell him cauelira Iustice: tell him bully rooke.

_Ford._ Mine Host a the garter:

_Host._ What ses my bully rooke?

_Ford._ A word with you sir.