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The Merry Wives of Windsor: Act 4 Scene 1
Scene I A street.
- [Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and
- WILLIAM PAGE]
- MISTRESS PAGE
- Is he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou?
- MISTRESS QUICKLY
- Sure he is by this, or will be presently: but,
- truly, he is very courageous mad about his throwing
- into the water. Mistress Ford desires you to come suddenly.
- MISTRESS PAGE
- I'll be with her by and by; I'll but bring my young
- man here to school. Look, where his master comes;
- 'tis a playing-day, I see.
- [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS]
- How now, Sir Hugh! no school to-day?
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- No; Master Slender is let the boys leave to play.
- MISTRESS QUICKLY
- Blessing of his heart!
- MISTRESS PAGE
- Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in
- the world at his book. I pray you, ask him some
- questions in his accidence.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- Come hither, William; hold up your head; come.
- MISTRESS PAGE
- Come on, sirrah; hold up your head; answer your
- master, be not afraid.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- William, how many numbers is in nouns?
- WILLIAM PAGE
- Two.
- MISTRESS QUICKLY
- Truly, I thought there had been one number more,
- because they say, ''Od's nouns.'
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- Peace your tattlings! What is 'fair,' William?
- WILLIAM PAGE
- Pulcher.
- MISTRESS QUICKLY
- Polecats! there are fairer things than polecats, sure.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- You are a very simplicity 'oman: I pray you peace.
- What is 'lapis,' William?
- WILLIAM PAGE
- A stone.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- And what is 'a stone,' William?
- WILLIAM PAGE
- A pebble.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- No, it is 'lapis:' I pray you, remember in your prain.
- WILLIAM PAGE
- Lapis.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- That is a good William. What is he, William, that
- does lend articles?
- WILLIAM PAGE
- Articles are borrowed of the pronoun, and be thus
- declined, Singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- Nominativo, hig, hag, hog; pray you, mark:
- genitivo, hujus. Well, what is your accusative case?
- WILLIAM PAGE
- Accusativo, hinc.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- I pray you, have your remembrance, child,
- accusative, hung, hang, hog.
- MISTRESS QUICKLY
- 'Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I warrant you.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the focative
- case, William?
- WILLIAM PAGE
- O,--vocativo, O.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- Remember, William; focative is caret.
- MISTRESS QUICKLY
- And that's a good root.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- 'Oman, forbear.
- MISTRESS PAGE
- Peace!
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- What is your genitive case plural, William?
- WILLIAM PAGE
- Genitive case!
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- Ay.
- WILLIAM PAGE
- Genitive,--horum, harum, horum.
- MISTRESS QUICKLY
- Vengeance of Jenny's case! fie on her! never name
- her, child, if she be a whore.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- For shame, 'oman.
- MISTRESS QUICKLY
- You do ill to teach the child such words: he
- teaches him to hick and to hack, which they'll do
- fast enough of themselves, and to call 'horum:' fie upon you!
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- 'Oman, art thou lunatics? hast thou no
- understandings for thy cases and the numbers of the
- genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as
- I would desires.
- MISTRESS PAGE
- Prithee, hold thy peace.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- Show me now, William, some declensions of your pronouns.
- WILLIAM PAGE
- Forsooth, I have forgot.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- It is qui, quae, quod: if you forget your 'quies,'
- your 'quaes,' and your 'quods,' you must be
- preeches. Go your ways, and play; go.
- MISTRESS PAGE
- He is a better scholar than I thought he was.
- SIR HUGH EVANS
- He is a good sprag memory. Farewell, Mistress Page.
- MISTRESS PAGE
- Adieu, good Sir Hugh.
- [Exit SIR HUGH EVANS]
- Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long.
- [Exeunt]
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