Act 2, Scene III - Page 2

Mock-vater! vat is dat?

Host
Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour, bully.

DOCTOR CAIUS
By gar, den, I have as mush mock-vater as de
Englishman. Scurvy jack-dog priest! by gar, me
vill cut his ears.

Host
He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.

DOCTOR CAIUS
Clapper-de-claw! vat is dat?

Host
That is, he will make thee amends.

DOCTOR CAIUS
By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me;
for, by gar, me vill have it.

Host
And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag.

DOCTOR CAIUS
Me tank you for dat.

Host
And, moreover, bully,--but first, master guest, and
Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you
through the town to Frogmore.

Aside to them

PAGE
Sir Hugh is there, is he?

Host
He is there: see what humour he is in; and I will
bring the doctor about by the fields. Will it do well?

SHALLOW
We will do it.

PAGE SHALLOW SLENDER
Adieu, good master doctor.

Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER

DOCTOR CAIUS
By gar, me vill kill de priest; for he speak for a
jack-an-ape to Anne Page.

Host
Let him die: sheathe thy impatience, throw cold
water on thy choler: go about the fields with me
through Frogmore: I will bring thee where Mistress
Anne Page is, at a farm-house a-feasting; and thou
shalt woo her. Cried I aim? said I well?

DOCTOR CAIUS
By gar, me dank you for dat: by gar, I love you;
and I shall procure-a you de good guest, de earl,
de knight, de lords, de gentlemen, my patients.

Host
For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne
Page. Said I well?

DOCTOR CAIUS
By gar, 'tis good; vell said.

Host
Let us wag, then.

DOCTOR CAIUS
Come at my heels, Jack Rugby.

Exeunt