190 Mrs Ford. Shall we tell our husbands how we have served him?
Mrs Page. Yes, by all means; if it be but to scrape the figures out of your husband’s [brains]. If they can find in their hearts the poor unvirtuous fat knight shall be any 195 further afflicted, we two will still be the ministers.
Mrs Ford. I’ll warrant they’ll have him publicly shamed: and methinks there would be no [period] to [the jest], should he not be publicly shamed.
Mrs Page. Come, to the forge with [it, then; shape it:] IV. 2.
200 I would not have things cool.
Exeunt.
[ IV. 3 Scene III.] A room in the Garter Inn.
Enter Host and Bardolph.
Bard. Sir, the [Germans desire] to have three of your horses: the duke himself will be to-morrow at court, and they are going to meet him.
Host. What duke should that be comes so secretly? I 5 hear not of him in the court. Let me speak with the gentlemen: they speak English?
Bard. [Ay], sir; I’ll call them to you.