SCENE I. A street.
Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and WILLIAM PAGE
Sure he is by this, or will be presently: but,
truly, he is very courageous mad about his throwing
into the water. Mistress Ford desires you to come suddenly.
I’ll be with her by and by; I’ll but bring my young
man here to school. Look, where his master comes;
’tis a playing-day, I see.Enter SIR HUGH EVANS
Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in
the world at his book. I pray you, ask him some
questions in his accidence.
Come on, sirrah; hold up your head; answer your
master, be not afraid.
Truly, I thought there had been one number more,
because they say, ”Od’s nouns.’
You are a very simplicity ‘oman: I pray you peace.
What is ‘lapis,’ William?
That is a good William. What is he, William, that
does lend articles?
Articles are borrowed of the pronoun, and be thus
declined, Singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc.
Nominativo, hig, hag, hog; pray you, mark:
genitivo, hujus. Well, what is your accusative case?
I pray you, have your remembrance, child,
accusative, hung, hang, hog.
Leave your prabbles, ‘oman. What is the focative
case, William?
Vengeance of Jenny’s case! fie on her! never name
her, child, if she be a wh*re.
You do ill to teach the child such words: he
teaches him to hick and to hack, which they’ll do
fast enough of themselves, and to call ‘horum:’ fie upon you!
‘Oman, art thou lunatics? hast thou no
understandings for thy cases and the numbers of the
genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as
I would desires.
It is qui, quae, quod: if you forget your ‘quies,’
your ‘quaes,’ and your ‘quods,’ you must be
preeches. Go your ways, and play; go.
Exit SIR HUGH EVANS
Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long.
Exeunt