'_ Becket conj.
_Dry'd game_ Jackson conj. _Curds and cream_ Collier MS.
89: This line given to _Host_ in F3 F4.

ACT III.

SCENE I. _A field near Frogmore._

_Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE._

_Evans._ I pray you now, good Master Slender's serving-man,
and friend Simple by your name, which way
have you looked for Master Caius, that calls himself doctor
of physic?

_Sim._ Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every 5
way; old Windsor way, and every way but the town way.

_Evans._ I most fehemently desire you you will also
look that way.

_Sim._ I will, sir. [_Exit._

_Evans._ Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and 10
trempling of mind!--I shall be glad if he have deceived
me. --How melancholies I am!--I will knog his urinals
about his knave's costard when I have goot opportunities
for the ork. --Pless my soul!-- [_Sings._

To shallow rivers, to whose falls 15
Melodious birds sings madrigals;
There will we make our peds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies.
To shallow--

Mercy on me! I have a great dispositions to cry. [_Sings._ 20

Melodious birds sing madrigals--
Whenas I sat in Pabylon--
And a thousand vagram posies.
To shallow &c.

_Re-enter SIMPLE._

_Sim._ Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh. 25

_Evans._ He's welcome. -- [_Sings._

To shallow rivers, to whose falls--

Heaven prosper the right!--What weapons is he?

_Sim._ No weapons, sir. There comes my master,
Master Shallow, and another gentleman, from Frogmore, 30
over the stile, this way.

_Evans._ Pray you, give me my gown; or else keep it
in your arms.

_Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER._

_Shal._ How now, master parson! Good morrow, good
Sir Hugh. Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good 35
student from his book, and it is wonderful.

_Slen._ [_Aside_] Ah, sweet Anne Page!

_Page._ Save you, good Sir Hugh!

_Evans._ Pless you from his mercy sake, all of you!

_Shal._ What, the sword and the word! do you study 40
them both, master parson?

_Page._ And youthful still! in your doublet and hose
this raw rheumatic day!

_Evans._ There is reasons and causes for it.

_Page._ We are come to you to do a good office, master 45
parson.

_Evans._ Fery well: what is it?

_Page._ Yonder is a most reverend gentl