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Anne. Will't please your worship to come in, sir. Slen. No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily ; I am very well. Anne. The dinner attends you, sir. Slen. I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go, sirrah, for all you are my man, go, wait upon my cousin Shallow : [Exit Simple.'] A justice of peace sometime may be beholden to his friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy yet, till my mother be dead : But what though ? yet I live like a poor gentleman born. Anne. I may not go in without your worship : they will not sit till you come.

Pet. I pray you do, I will attend her here, And woo her with some spirit when she comes. Say, that she rail, why, then I'll tell her plain, She sings as sweetly as a nightingale ; Say, that she frown, I'll say, she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew ; Say, she be mute, and will not speak a word, Then, I'll commend her volubility,