MISTRESS QUICKLY.
This is all, indeed, la! But I’ll ne’er put my finger in the fire, and need not.
CAIUS.
Sir Hugh send-a you?—Rugby, baille me some paper.—Tarry you a little-a while.
[Writes.]
MISTRESS QUICKLY.
[Aside to Simple.] I am glad he is so quiet. If he had been throughly moved, you should have heard him so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding, man, I’ll do you your master what good I can; and the very yea and the no is, the French doctor, my master—I may call him my master, look you, for I keep his house, and I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds, and do all myself—
SIMPLE.
[Aside to Mistress Quickly.] ’Tis a great charge to come under one body’s hand.
MISTRESS QUICKLY.
[Aside to Simple.] Are you avised o’ that? You shall find it a great charge, and to be up early and down late; but notwithstanding—to tell you in your ear, I would have no words of it—my master himself is in love with Mistress Anne Page; but notwithstanding that, I know Anne’s mind. That’s neither here nor there.
CAIUS.
You jack’nape, give-a dis letter to Sir Hugh. By gar, it is a shallenge. I will cut his troat in de park, and I will teach a scurvy jackanape priest to meddle or make. You may be gone, it is not good you tarry here.—By gar, I will cut all his two stones. By gar, he shall not have a stone to throw at his dog.
[Exit Simple.]
MISTRESS QUICKLY.
Alas, he speaks but for his friend.
CAIUS.
It is no matter-a ver dat. Do not you tell-a me dat I shall have Anne Page for myself? By gar, I vill kill de Jack priest; and I have appointed mine host of de Jarteer to measure our weapon. By gar, I will myself have Anne Page.