DOCTOR CAIUS

Mock-vater! vat is dat?

Host

Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour, bully.

DOCTOR CAIUS

By gar, den, I have as mush mock-vater as de
Englishman. Scurvy jack-dog priest! by gar, me
vill cut his ears.

Host

He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.

DOCTOR CAIUS

Clapper-de-claw! vat is dat?

Host

That is, he will make thee amends.

DOCTOR CAIUS

By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me;
for, by gar, me vill have it.

Host

And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag.

DOCTOR CAIUS

Me tank you for dat.

Host

And, moreover, bully, –but first, master guest, and
Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you
through the town to Frogmore.

Aside to them

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Sir Hugh is there, is he?

Host

He is there: see what humour he is in; and I will
bring the doctor about by the fields. Will it do well?

SHALLOW

We will do it.

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