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Book of Riddles? why did you not lend it to Alice Short-cake upon Alhallowmas last, a fortnight a before Michaelmas. Marry Sir, the pity-ward, the Parke-ward: every way: old Windsor way, and every way but the Towne-way. I will sir. Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh. No weapons, Sir: there comes my Master, M r . Shallow, and another Gentleman; from Frogmore, over the style, this way. And what says she, I pray Sir? Why sir, they were nothing but about Mistress Anne Page, to know if it were my Master's fortune to have her, or no. What Sir? May I be bold to say so Sir? I thank your worship: I shall make my Master glad with these tidings. Well Sir. I: for fault of a better. I forsooth. No forsooth: he hath but a little we face; with a little yellow Beard: a Cain coloured Beard. I forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands, as any is between this and his head: he hath fought with a Warrener. Yes indeed do's he. I forsooth: to desire her to — To desire this honest Gentlewoman (your Maid) to speak a good word to Mistress Anne Page, for my Ma ster in the way of Marriage. It's a great charge to come under one bodies hand. Marry Sir, I come to speak with Sir John Fall staff from M. Slender. There's and old woman, a fat woman gone up into his chamber: I'll be so bold as stay Sir till she come down: I come to speak with her indeed. Pray you Sir, was't not the Wisewoman of Brainford? My Master (Sir) my master Slender, sent to her seeing her go through the streets, to know (Sir) when there one Nim (Sir) that beguiled him of a chain, had the chain, or no. I would I could have spoken with the Woman her self, I had other things to have spoken with her too, from him.