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drudgery. You need not to have pricked me. There are other men fitter to go
out than I.
FALSTAFF
Go to. Peace, Mouldy, you shall go. Mouldy, it is time you were spent. [115]
MOULDY
Spent!
SHALLOW
Peace, fellow, peace. Stand aside. Know you where you are? For the other,
Sir John, let me see. Simon Shadow!
FALSTAFF
Yea, marry, let me have him to sit under. He’s [120] like to be a cold soldier.
SHALLOW
Where’s Shadow?
SHADOW
Here, sir.
FALSTAFF
Shadow, whose son art thou?
SHADOW
My mother’s son, sir. [125]
FALSTAFF
Thy mother’s son! Like enough, and thy father’s shadow. So the son of the
female is the shadow of the male. It is often so, indeed, but much of the
father’s substance!
SHALLOW
Do you like him, Sir John? [130]
FALSTAFF
