Yet seek my father’s love; still seek it, sir:
20 If [opportunity] and humblest suit
Cannot attain it, why, then,—hark you hither!
They converse apart.
[Enter Shallow, Slender, and Mistress Quickly.]
Shal. Break their talk, Mistress Quickly: my kinsman shall speak for himself.
Sle. I’ll make a shaft or a bolt on’t: ’slid, ’tis but III. 4.
25 venturing.
Shal. Be not dismayed.
Slen. No, she shall not dismay me: I care not for that, [but that] I am afeard.
Quick. Hark ye; Master Slender would speak a word 30 with you.