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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

451

Ay, forsooth; I'll fetch it you.
[Aside]
I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found
the young man, he would have been horn-mad.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

491

[Aside to SIMPLE] I am glad he is so quiet: if he
had been thoroughly moved, you should have heard him
so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding,
man, I'll do you your master what good I can: and
the very yea and the no is, the French doctor, my
master,—I may call him my master, look you, for I
keep his house; and I wash, wring, brew, bake,
scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds and do
all myself,—

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Simple

500

[Aside to MISTRESS QUICKLY] 'Tis a great charge to
come under one body's hand.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

502

[Aside to SIMPLE] Are you avised o' that? you
shall find it a great charge: and to be up early
and down late; but notwithstanding,—to tell you in
your ear; I would have no words of it,—my master
himself is in love with Mistress Anne Page: but
notwithstanding that, I know Anne's mind,—that's
neither here nor there.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Ford

688

[Aside] I will be patient; I will find out this.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Page

714

Have with you. You'll come to dinner, George.
[Aside to MISTRESS FORD]
Look who comes yonder: she shall be our messenger
to this paltry knight.

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Ford

718

[Aside to MISTRESS PAGE] Trust me, I thought on her:
she'll fit it.

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

760

[Drawing him aside]

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

897

Not I, I assure thee: setting the attractions of my
good parts aside I have no other charms.

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

(stage directions)

1167

[Aside to them]

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Slender

1232

[Aside] Ah, sweet Anne Page!

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Robert Shallow

1259

[Aside] O sweet Anne Page!

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

1269

[Aside to DOCTOR CAIUS] Pray you, use your patience:
in good time.

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

1272

[Aside to DOCTOR CAIUS] Pray you let us not be
laughing-stocks to other men's humours; I desire you
in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.
[Aloud]
I will knog your urinals about your knave's cockscomb
for missing your meetings and appointments.

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Slender

1300

[Aside] O sweet Anne Page!

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2]

Ford

1399

[Aside] I think I shall drink in pipe wine first
with him; I'll make him dance. Will you go, gentles?

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Mistress Page

1591

[Aside to MISTRESS FORD] Heard you that?

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Anne Page

1663

I come to him.
[Aside]
This is my father's choice.
O, what a world of vile ill-favor'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Ford

1982

No, certainly.
[Aside to her]
Speak louder.

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 4]

Page

2271

That silk will I go buy.
[Aside]
And in that time
Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away
And marry her at Eton. Go send to Falstaff straight.