INDUCTION
Scene 2

...lose by it.
Enter Page as Lady, with Attendants.
as Lady
How fares my noble lord?

...is my wife?
as Lady
Here, noble lord. What is thy will with her?

...am your goodman.
as Lady
My husband and my lord, my lord and husband,
I am your wife in all obedience.

...year or more.
as Lady
Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me,
Being all this time abandoned from your bed.

...now to bed.
as Lady
Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of you
To pardon me yet for a night or two;
Or if not so, until the sun be set.
For your physicians have expressly charged,
In peril to incur your former malady,
That I should yet absent me from your bed.
I hope this reason stands for my excuse.

...a tumbling trick?
as Lady
No, my good lord, it is more pleasing stuff.

...What, household stuff?
as Lady
It is a kind of history.

...ne’er be younger.
They sit.

ACT 1
Scene 1

...more of it?
as Lady
My lord, ’tis but begun.

...Would ’twere done.
They sit and mark.