SLENDER.
That’s meat and drink to me now. I have seen Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by the chain. But, I warrant you, the women have so cried and shrieked at it that it passed. But women, indeed, cannot abide ’em; they are very ill-favoured rough things.
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Come, gentle Master Slender, come. We stay for you.
SLENDER.
I’ll eat nothing, I thank you, sir.
PAGE.
By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! Come, come.
SLENDER.
Nay, pray you lead the way.
PAGE.
Come on, sir.
SLENDER.
Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first.
ANNE.
Not I, sir; pray you keep on.
SLENDER.
Truly, I will not go first; truly, la! I will not do you that wrong.