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FALSTAFF

There’s a merry heart! Good Master Silence, I’ll give you a health for that
anon.

SHALLOW
Give Master Bardolph some wine, Davy. [25]

DAVY
Sweet sir, sit, I’ll be with you anon. Most sweet sir, sit. Master page, good

master page, sit. Proface! What you want in meat, we’ll have in drink. But
you must bear, the heart’s all.
[Exit.]

SHALLOW
Be merry, Master Bardolph, and, my little [30] soldier there, be merry.

SILENCE
[sings]
Be merry, be merry, my wife has all,

For women are shrews, both short and tall.
’Tis merry in hall when beards wags all,
And welcome merry Shrove-tide. [35]

Be merry, be merry.

FALSTAFF

I did not think Master Silence had been a man of this mettle.

SILENCE
Who, I? I have been merry twice and once ere now. [40]

Enter Davy.

DAVY
[to Bardolph]
There’s a dish of leather-coats for you.

SHALLOW