Chapter 48

“_P. Hen._ Sup any women with him?

_Page._ None, my lord, but old mistress Quickly, and mistress Doll Tear-sheet.

_P. Hen._ This Doll Tear-sheet should be some road.”

I am sometimes disposed to think that this respectable young lady’s name is a very old corruption for Tear-street—street-walker, _terere stratam_ (_viam_). Does not the Prince’s question rather show this?—

“This Doll Tear-street should be some road?”