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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

25

Yes, py'r lady; if he has a quarter of your coat,
there is but three skirts for yourself, in my
simple conjectures: but that is all one. If Sir
John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto
you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my
benevolence to make atonements and compremises
between you.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

59

Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do
despise one that is false, or as I despise one that
is not true. The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I
beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers. I will
peat the door for Master Page.
[Knocks]
What, hoa! Got pless your house here!

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Page

83

It could not be judged, sir.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

88

Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog: can there be
more said? he is good and fair. Is Sir John
Falstaff here?

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

96

If it be confessed, it is not redress'd: is not that
so, Master Page? He hath wronged me; indeed he
hath, at a word, he hath, believe me: Robert
Shallow, esquire, saith, he is wronged.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

106

Tut, a pin! this shall be answered.

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Falstaff

110

'Twere better for you if it were known in counsel:
you'll be laughed at.

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Nym

150

Be avised, sir, and pass good humours: I will say
'marry trap' with you, if you run the nuthook's
humour on me; that is the very note of it.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

162

Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but 'tis no
matter: I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again,
but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick:
if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have
the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

195

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

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

199

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

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

208

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

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

226

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.

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

237

Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la!

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

244

Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace.

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

249

I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go,
sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my
cousin Shallow.
[Exit SIMPLE]
A justice of peace sometimes may be beholding to his
friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy
yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? Yet I
live like a poor gentleman born.

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

262

I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised
my shin th' other day with playing at sword and
dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a
dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot
abide the smell of hot meat since. Why do your
dogs bark so? be there bears i' the town?

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

287

I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome.
You do yourself wrong, indeed, la!

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 2]

Sir Hugh Evans

297

Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it
is a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance with
Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire
and require her to solicit your master's desires to
Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will
make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come.

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Falstaff

341

No quips now, Pistol! Indeed, I am in the waist two
yards about; but I am now about no waste; I am about
thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford's
wife: I spy entertainment in her; she discourses,
she carves, she gives the leer of invitation: I
can construe the action of her familiar style; and
the hardest voice of her behavior, to be Englished
rightly, is, 'I am Sir John Falstaff's.'