I am your wife in all obedience.
Sly. I know it well. What must I call her?
Lord. Madam.
Sly. [Al'ce] madam, or Joan madam?
Lord. 'Madam,' and nothing else: so lords call ladies.
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Sly. [Madam] wife, they say that I have dream'd
And slept [above] some fifteen year or [more.]
Page. Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me,
Being all this time abandon'd from your bed.