Anne. Will’t please your worship to come in, sir?
Slen. No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well.
245 Anne. The dinner attends you, sir.
Slen. I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go, sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my cousin Shallow. [Exit Simple.] A justice of peace sometimes may be [beholding] to his friend for a man. I keep but I. 1.
250 three men and a boy yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? yet I live [like] a poor gentleman born.
Anne. I may not go in without your worship: they will not sit till you come.
Slen. I’ faith, I’ll eat nothing; I thank you as much as 255 though I did.
Anne. I pray you, sir, walk in.
Slen. I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed 260 prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meat since. Why do your dogs bark so? be there bears i’ the town?
Anne. I think there are, sir; I heard them talked of.
Slen. I love the sport well; but I shall as soon quarrel 265 at it as any man in England. You are afraid, if you see the bear loose, are you not?