Act 3, Scene I

SCENE I. A field near Frogmore.

Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE
SIR HUGH EVANS
I pray you now, good master Slender's serving-man,
and friend Simple by your name, which way have you
looked for Master Caius, that calls himself doctor of physic?

SIMPLE
Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every
way; old Windsor way, and every way but the town
way.

SIR HUGH EVANS
I most fehemently desire you you will also look that
way.

SIMPLE
I will, sir.

Exit

SIR HUGH EVANS
'Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and
trempling of mind! I shall be glad if he have
deceived me. How melancholies I am! I will knog
his urinals about his knave's costard when I have
good opportunities for the ork. 'Pless my soul!

Sings

To shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sings madrigals;
There will we make our peds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies.
To shallow--
Mercy on me! I have a great dispositions to cry.

Sings

Melodious birds sing madrigals--
When as I sat in Pabylon--
And a thousand vagram posies.
To shallow & c.

Re-enter SIMPLE

SIMPLE
Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh.

SIR HUGH EVANS
He's welcome.

Sings

To shallow rivers, to whose falls-
Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he?

SIMPLE
No weapons, sir. There comes my master, Master
Shallow, and another gentleman, from Frogmore, over
the stile, this way.

SIR HUGH EVANS
Pray you, give me my gown; or else keep it in your arms.

Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER

SHALLOW
How now, master Parson! Good morrow, good Sir Hugh.
Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student
from his book, and it is wonderful.

SLENDER
[Aside] Ah, sweet Anne Page!

PAGE
'Save you, good Sir Hugh!

SIR HUGH EVANS
'Pless you from his mercy sake, all of you!

SHALLOW
What, the sword and the word! do you study them
both, master parson?

PAGE
And youthful still! in your doublet and hose this
raw rheumatic day!

SIR HUGH EVANS
There is reasons and causes for it.

PAGE
We are come to you to do a good office, master parson.

SIR HUGH EVANS
Fery well: what is it?

PAGE
Yonder is a most reverend gentleman, who, belike
having received wrong by some person, is at most
odds with his own gravity and patience that ever you
saw.

SHALLOW
I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never
heard a man of his place, gravity and learning, so
wide of his own respect.

SIR HUGH EVANS
What is he?

PAGE
I think