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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.
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2 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3] |
Pistol |
354 |
As many devils entertain; and 'To her, boy,' say I.
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3 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2] |
Hostess Quickly |
915 |
Nay, but do so, then: and, look you, he may come and
go between you both; and in any case have a
nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and
the boy never need to understand any thing; for
'tis not good that children should know any
wickedness: old folks, you know, have discretion,
as they say, and know the world.
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4 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2] |
Falstaff |
922 |
Fare thee well: commend me to them both: there's
my purse; I am yet thy debtor. Boy, go along with
this woman.
[Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY and ROBIN]
This news distracts me!
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5 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3] |
Host |
1131 |
Thou art a Castalion-King-Urinal. Hector of Greece, my boy!
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6 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2] |
Mistress Page |
1318 |
O, you are a flattering boy: now I see you'll be a courtier.
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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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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3] |
Mistress Page |
1432 |
Thou'rt a good boy: this secrecy of thine shall be
a tailor to thee and shall make thee a new doublet
and hose. I'll go hide me.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3] |
Mistress Page |
1533 |
Help to cover your master, boy. Call your men,
Mistress Ford. You dissembling knight!
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10 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4] |
Robert Shallow |
1669 |
She's coming; to her, coz. O boy, thou hadst a father!
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11 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 1] |
Mistress Page |
1962 |
Adieu, good Sir Hugh.
[Exit SIR HUGH EVANS]
Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long.
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12 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5] |
Hostess Quickly |
2656 |
Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire!
About him, fairies; sing a scornful rhyme;
And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time.
SONG.
Fie on sinful fantasy!
Fie on lust and luxury!
Lust is but a bloody fire,
Kindled with unchaste desire,
Fed in heart, whose flames aspire
As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher.
Pinch him, fairies, mutually;
Pinch him for his villany;
Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about,
Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out.
[During this song they pinch FALSTAFF. DOCTOR CAIUS]
comes one way, and steals away a boy in green;
SLENDER another way, and takes off a boy in white;
and FENTON comes and steals away ANN PAGE.
A noise of hunting is heard within. All the
Fairies run away. FALSTAFF pulls off his buck's
head, and rises]
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5] |
Slender |
2754 |
I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page,
and she's a great lubberly boy. If it had not been
i' the church, I would have swinged him, or he
should have swinged me. If I did not think it had
been Anne Page, would I might never stir!—and 'tis
a postmaster's boy.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5] |
Slender |
2761 |
What need you tell me that? I think so, when I took
a boy for a girl. If I had been married to him, for
all he was in woman's apparel, I would not have had
him.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5] |
Slender |
2767 |
I went to her in white, and cried 'mum,' and she
cried 'budget,' as Anne and I had appointed; and yet
it was not Anne, but a postmaster's boy.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5] |
Doctor Caius |
2774 |
Vere is Mistress Page? By gar, I am cozened: I ha'
married un garcon, a boy; un paysan, by gar, a boy;
it is not Anne Page: by gar, I am cozened.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5] |
Doctor Caius |
2778 |
Ay, by gar, and 'tis a boy: by gar, I'll raise all Windsor.
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