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If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.

      — King Henry IV. Part I, Act I Scene 2

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Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Doctor Caius

465

By my trot, I tarry too long. Od's me!
Qu'ai-j'oublie! dere is some simples in my closet,
dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind.

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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Falstaff

1486

She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 5]

Bardolph

2358

Run away with the cozeners; for so soon as I came
beyond Eton, they threw me off from behind one of
them, in a slough of mire; and set spurs and away,
like three German devils, three Doctor Faustuses.

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