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Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
1 |
[Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
Robert Shallow |
2 |
Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-
chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John
Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.
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3 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
181 |
[Exeunt all except SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]
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4 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
Robert Shallow |
191 |
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?
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5 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
245 |
[Exeunt SHALLOW and SIR HUGH EVANS]
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6 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 2] |
(stage directions) |
290 |
[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE]
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7 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4] |
Hostess Quickly |
477 |
I beseech you, be not so phlegmatic. Hear the truth
of it: he came of an errand to me from Parson Hugh.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4] |
Doctor Caius |
488 |
Sir Hugh send-a you? Rugby, baille me some paper.
Tarry you a little-a while.
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9 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4] |
Doctor Caius |
509 |
You jack'nape, give-a this letter to Sir Hugh; by
gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut his troat in dee
park; and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest
to meddle or make. You may be gone; it is not good
you tarry here. By gar, I will cut all his two
stones; by gar, he shall not have a stone to throw
at his dog:
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1] |
Robert Shallow |
757 |
Sir, there is a fray to be fought between Sir Hugh
the Welsh priest and Caius the French doctor.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2] |
Ford |
1073 |
What a damned Epicurean rascal is this! My heart is
ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is
improvident jealousy? my wife hath sent to him; the
hour is fixed; the match is made. Would any man
have thought this? See the hell of having a false
woman! My bed shall be abused, my coffers
ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not
only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under
the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that
does me this wrong. Terms! names! Amaimon sounds
well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are
devils' additions, the names of fiends: but
Cuckold! Wittol!—Cuckold! the devil himself hath
not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass: he
will trust his wife; he will not be jealous. I will
rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh
the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my
aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling
gelding, than my wife with herself; then she plots,
then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they
think in their hearts they may effect, they will
break their hearts but they will effect. God be
praised for my jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour.
I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on
Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will about it;
better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold!
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3] |
Rugby |
1105 |
'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3] |
Robert Shallow |
1146 |
It will be found so, Master Page. Master Doctor
Caius, I am come to fetch you home. I am sworn of
the peace: you have showed yourself a wise
physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise
and patient churchman. You must go with me, master doctor.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3] |
Page |
1168 |
Sir Hugh is there, is he?
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
(stage directions) |
1190 |
[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE]
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
Simple |
1219 |
Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
Robert Shallow |
1229 |
How now, master Parson! Good morrow, good Sir Hugh.
Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student
from his book, and it is wonderful.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
Page |
1233 |
'Save you, good Sir Hugh!
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
Host |
1287 |
Peace, I say! hear mine host of the Garter. Am I
politic? am I subtle? am I a Machiavel? Shall I
lose my doctor? no; he gives me the potions and the
motions. Shall I lose my parson, my priest, my Sir
Hugh? no; he gives me the proverbs and the
no-verbs. Give me thy hand, terrestrial; so. Give me
thy hand, celestial; so. Boys of art, I have
deceived you both; I have directed you to wrong
places: your hearts are mighty, your skins are
whole, and let burnt sack be the issue. Come, lay
their swords to pawn. Follow me, lads of peace;
follow, follow, follow.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2] |
Ford |
1338 |
Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath he any
thinking? Sure, they sleep; he hath no use of them.
Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty mile, as
easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve
score. He pieces out his wife's inclination; he
gives her folly motion and advantage: and now she's
going to my wife, and Falstaff's boy with her. A
man may hear this shower sing in the wind. And
Falstaff's boy with her! Good plots, they are laid;
and our revolted wives share damnation together.
Well; I will take him, then torture my wife, pluck
the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming
Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and
wilful Actaeon; and to these violent proceedings all
my neighbours shall cry aim.
[Clock heard]
The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance bids me
search: there I shall find Falstaff: I shall be
rather praised for this than mocked; for it is as
positive as the earth is firm that Falstaff is
there: I will go.
[Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, SLENDER, Host,]
SIR HUGH EVANS, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY]
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