Page 744 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

How now, lad? Is the wind in that door, i’ faith? Must we all march?

BARDOLPH
Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.

HOSTESS
My lord, I pray you hear me. [90]

PRINCE
What say’st thou, Mistress Quickly? How doth thy husband? I love him well;
he is an honest man.

HOSTESS
Good my lord, hear me.

FALSTAFF
Prithee let her alone and list to me.

PRINCE
What say’st thou, Jack? [95]

FALSTAFF
The other night I fell asleep here behind the arras and had my pocket picked.
This house is turned bawdy house; they pick pockets.

PRINCE
What didst thou lose, Jack?

FALSTAFF
Wilt thou believe me, Hal, three or four bonds [100] of forty pound apiece

and a seal-ring of my grandfather’s.

PRINCE

A trifle, some eightpenny matter.

HOSTESS