Page 1055 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2
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Scene II IT
Enter Justice Shallow and Justice Silence [with Mouldy, Shadow, Wart,
Feeble, Bullcalf].
SHALLOW
Come on, come on, come on, sir. Give me your hand, sir, give me your hand,
sir; an early stirrer, by the rood! And how doth my good cousin Silence?
SILENCE
Good morrow, good cousin Shallow.
SHALLOW
And how doth my cousin, your bedfellow? And [5] your fairest daughter and
mine, my god-daughter Ellen?
SILENCE
Alas, a black woosel, cousin Shallow!
SHALLOW
By yea and no, sir, I dare say my cousin William is become a good scholar.
He is at Oxford still, is he not?
SILENCE
Indeed, sir, to my cost. [10]
SHALLOW
’A must, then, to the Inns o’ Court shortly. I was once of Clement’s Inn, where
I think they will talk of mad Shallow yet.
SILENCE
You were called ‘lusty Shallow’ then, cousin.
SHALLOW
By the mass, I was called anything. And I would [15] have done anything
