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King Henry the Fourth, II. i

Fang. An I but fist him once; an a' come but

within my vice,—

Host. I am undone by his going; I warrant

you, he's an infinitive thing upon my score.

Good Master Fang, hold him sure: good Master

Snare, let him not 'scape. A' comes continuantly

to Pie-corner—saving your manhoods—to buy

a saddle; and he's indited to dinner to the Lub-

ber's Head in Lumbert Street, to Master Smooth's

the silkman: I pray ye, since my exion is entered,

and my case so openly known to the world, let

him be brought in to his answer. A hundred

mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to

bear; and I have borne, and borne, and borne;

and have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and

fubbed off, from this day to that day, that it is a

shame to be thought on. There is no honesty in

such dealing; unless a woman should be made

an ass, and a beast, to bear every knave's wrong.

Yonder he comes; and that arrant malmsey-

nose knave, Bardolph, with him. Do your offices,

do your offices, Master Fang and Master Snare;

do me, do me, do me your offices.

Fal. How now! whose mare's dead? what's

the matter?

Fang. Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of

Mistress Quickly.

Fal. Away, varlets! Draw, Bardolph: cut

 26 vice: figuratively, grip

28 infinitive: infinite (Dame Quickly's more obvious errors in speech are not, hereafter, glossed)

upon my score: in my debt

32, 33 Lubber's Street: Libbard's, i.e., Leopard's, Head Inn, in Lombard Street

34 exion: Dame Quickly's error for 'action'

37 one; cf. n.

39 fubbed: fobbed, i.e., put off deceitfully

44, 45 malmsey-nose: red-nosed 