SIMPLE.
I would I could have spoken with the woman herself. I had other things to have spoken with her too, from him.
FALSTAFF.
What are they? Let us know.
HOST.
Ay, come. Quick.
SIMPLE.
I may not conceal them, sir.
FALSTAFF.
Conceal them, or thou diest.
SIMPLE.
Why, sir, they were nothing but about Mistress Anne Page, to know if it were my master’s fortune to have her or no.
FALSTAFF.
’Tis, ’tis his fortune.
SIMPLE.
What sir?
FALSTAFF.
To have her, or no. Go, say the woman told me so.
SIMPLE.
May I be bold to say so, sir?