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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

85

That he will not. 'Tis your fault, 'tis your fault;
'tis a good dog.

2

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?

3

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:

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Pistol

671

Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs:
Sir John affects thy wife.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Doctor Caius

1271

By gar, you are de coward, de Jack dog, John ape.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Falstaff

1748

Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in't.
[Exit BARDOLPH]
Have I lived to be carried in a basket, like a
barrow of butcher's offal, and to be thrown in the
Thames? Well, if I be served such another trick,
I'll have my brains ta'en out and buttered, and give
them to a dog for a new-year's gift. The rogues
slighted me into the river with as little remorse as
they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies,
fifteen i' the litter: and you may know by my size
that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; if the
bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. I had
been drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and
shallow,—a death that I abhor; for the water swells
a man; and what a thing should I have been when I
had been swelled! I should have been a mountain of mummy.

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Sir Hugh Evans

2084

Why, this is lunatics! this is mad as a mad dog!