Page 745 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

So I told him, my lord, and I said I heard your grace say so; and, my lord, he
speaks most vilely of you, [105] like a foulmouthed man as he is, and said he
would cudgel you.

PRINCE
What! he did not?

HOSTESS
There’s neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in me else. [110]

FALSTAFF
There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune, nor no more truth in

thee than in a drawn fox; and for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the
deputy’s wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing, go!

HOSTESS
Say, what thing? what thing? [115]

FALSTAFF
What thing? Why, a thing to thank God on.

HOSTESS
I am no thing to thank God on, I would thou shouldst know it! I am an honest

man’s wife, and, setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to call me so.

FALSTAFF
Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast [120] to say otherwise.

HOSTESS
Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?

FALSTAFF
What beast? Why, an otter.

PRINCE
An otter, Sir John? Why an otter?