[Exeunt all but shallow, slender, and Evans.]

Slender. 
I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets
here.

[Enter simple.]

How, Simple!  Where have you been?  I must wait on myself, must I?  You have not the Book of Riddles about you, have you?

Simple. 
Book of Riddles! why, did you not lend it to Alice Shortcake upon
Allhallowmas last, a fortnight afore Michaelmas?

Shallow.  Come, coz; come, coz; we stay for you.  A word with you, coz; marry, this, coz:  there is, as ’twere, a tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh here:  do you understand me?

Slender. 
Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable; if it be so, I shall do that
that is reason.

Shallow. 
Nay, but understand me.

Slender. 
So I do, sir.

Evans. 
Give ear to his motions, Master Slender:  I will description the
matter to you, if you pe capacity of it.

Slender. 
Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says; I pray you pardon me; he’s
a justice of peace in his country, simple though I stand here.

Evans. 
But that is not the question; the question is concerning your marriage.

Shallow. 
Ay, there’s the point, sir.

Evans. 
Marry is it; the very point of it; to Mistress Anne Page.

Slender. 
Why, if it be so, I will marry her upon any reasonable demands.

Evans.  But can you affection the ’oman?  Let us command to know that of your mouth or of your lips; for divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth:  therefore, precisely, can you carry your good will to the maid?

Shallow. 
Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?

Slender. 
I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that would do reason.

Evans. 
Nay, Got’s lords and his ladies! you must speak possitable, if you can
carry her your desires towards her.

Shallow. 
That you must.  Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?

Slender. 
I will do a greater thing than that upon your request, cousin, in any
reason.

Shallow. 
Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz; what I do is to pleasure
you, coz.  Can you love the maid?

Slender.  I will marry her, sir, at your request; but if there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another; I hope upon familiarity will grow more contempt.  But if you say ‘Marry her,’ I will marry her; that I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.

Evans. 
It is a fery discretion answer; save, the fall is in the ort
‘dissolutely:’  the ort is, according to our meaning, ‘resolutely.’ 
His meaning is good.