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FANG
Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.
FALSTAFF
Away, varlets! Draw, Bardolph. Cut me off the [45] villain’s head. Throw the
quean in the channel.
HOSTESS
Throw me in the channel! I’ll throw thee in the channel. Wilt thou? Wilt thou?
Thou bastardly rogue! Murder, murder! Ah, thou honeysuckle villain! Wilt thou
kill God’s officers and the king’s? Ah, thou honeyseed [50] rogue! Thou art a
honeyseed, a man-queller, and a woman-queller.
FALSTAFF
Keep them off, Bardolph.
FANG
A rescue! A rescue!
HOSTESS
Good people, bring a rescue or two. Thou wo’t, [55] wo’t thou? Thou wo’t,
wo’t ta? Do, do, thou rogue! Do, thou hempseed!
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Away, you scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your
catastrophe.
Enter Lord Chief Justice and his Men.
CHIEF JUSTICE
What is the matter? Keep the peace here, ho! [60]
HOSTESS
Good my lord, be good to me. I beseech you, stand to me.
CHIEF JUSTICE
How now, Sir John! What are you brawling here?