WIFE.
Most true, forsooth; and many time and oft
Myself have heard a voice to call him so.
CARDINAL.
What, art thou lame?
SIMPCOX.
Ay, God Almighty help me!
SUFFOLK.
How cam’st thou so?
SIMPCOX.
A fall off of a tree.
WIFE.
A plum-tree, master.
GLOUCESTER.
How long hast thou been blind?
SIMPCOX.
O, born so, master.
GLOUCESTER.
What, and wouldst climb a tree?
SIMPCOX.
But that in all my life, when I was a youth.