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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

46

It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as
you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys,
and gold and silver, is her grandsire upon his
death's-bed—Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!
—give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years
old: it were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles
and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master
Abraham and Mistress Anne Page.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

54

Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound?

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

55

Ay, and her father is make her a petter penny.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

177

[Kisses her]

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

208

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

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

215

Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

218

Nay, Got's lords and his ladies! you must speak
possitable, if you can carry her your desires
towards her.

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

221

That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?

9

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.

10

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.

11

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.'

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Pistol

349

He hath studied her will, and translated her will,
out of honesty into English.

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Falstaff

352

Now, the report goes she has all the rule of her
husband's purse: he hath a legion of angels.

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Pistol

354

As many devils entertain; and 'To her, boy,' say I.

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Falstaff

356

I have writ me here a letter to her: and here
another to Page's wife, who even now gave me good
eyes too, examined my parts with most judicious
oeillades; sometimes the beam of her view gilded my
foot, sometimes my portly belly.

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Falstaff

363

O, she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a
greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye did
seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass! Here's
another letter to her: she bears the purse too; she
is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will
be cheater to them both, and they shall be
exchequers to me; they shall be my East and West
Indies, and I will trade to them both. Go bear thou
this letter to Mistress Page; and thou this to
Mistress Ford: we will thrive, lads, we will thrive.

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Nym

390

By welkin and her star!

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Simple

480

Ay, forsooth; to desire her to—

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

529

You shall have An fool's-head of your own. No, I
know Anne's mind for that: never a woman in Windsor
knows more of Anne's mind than I do; nor can do more
than I do with her, I thank heaven.

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Fenton

554

Well, I shall see her to-day. Hold, there's money
for thee; let me have thy voice in my behalf: if
thou seest her before me, commend me.