Page 1035 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

HOSTESS

I’ faith, sweetheart, methinks now you are in an excellent good temperality.
Your pulsidge beats as extraordinarily as heart would desire, and your colour,
I warrant you, is as red as any rose, in good truth, la! But, i’ [25] faith, you

have drunk too much canaries, and that’s a marvellous searching wine, and it
perfumes the blood ere one can say, ‘What’s this?’ How do you now?

DOLL
Better than I was. Hem!

HOSTESS
Why, that’s well said. A good heart ’s worth [30] gold. Lo, here comes Sir
John.

Enter Sir John [Falstaff].

FALSTAFF

[sings]
‘When Arthur first in court’ − Empty the jordan. [Exit 2. Drawer.] − [sings]
‘And was a worthy king.’ − How now, Mistress Doll!

HOSTESS
Sick of a calm, yea, good faith. [35]

FALSTAFF
So is all her sect. An they be once in a calm, they are sick.

DOLL
A pox damn you, you muddy rascal, is that all the comfort you give me?

FALSTAFF
You make fat rascals, Mistress Doll. [40]

DOLL

I make them! Gluttony and diseases make [them]; I make them not.

FALSTAFF