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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, 1] |
Anne Page |
286 |
Not I, sir; pray you, keep on.
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3 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3] |
Nym |
375 |
I will run no base humour: here, take the
humour-letter: I will keep the havior of reputation.
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4 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4] |
Hostess Quickly |
491 |
[Aside to SIMPLE] I am glad he is so quiet: if he
had been thoroughly moved, you should have heard him
so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding,
man, I'll do you your master what good I can: and
the very yea and the no is, the French doctor, my
master,—I may call him my master, look you, for I
keep his house; and I wash, wring, brew, bake,
scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds and do
all myself,—
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1] |
Mistress Ford |
617 |
We burn daylight: here, read, read; perceive how I
might be knighted. I shall think the worse of fat
men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of
men's liking: and yet he would not swear; praised
women's modesty; and gave such orderly and
well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness, that I
would have sworn his disposition would have gone to
the truth of his words; but they do no more adhere
and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to
the tune of 'Green Sleeves.' What tempest, I trow,
threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his
belly, ashore at Windsor? How shall I be revenged
on him? I think the best way were to entertain him
with hope, till the wicked fire of lust have melted
him in his own grease. Did you ever hear the like?
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6 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1] |
Mistress Ford |
651 |
'Boarding,' call you it? I'll be sure to keep him
above deck.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2] |
Falstaff |
809 |
Reason, you rogue, reason: thinkest thou I'll
endanger my soul gratis? At a word, hang no more
about me, I am no gibbet for you. Go. A short knife
and a throng! To your manor of Pickt-hatch! Go.
You'll not bear a letter for me, you rogue! you
stand upon your honour! Why, thou unconfinable
baseness, it is as much as I can do to keep the
terms of my honour precise: I, I, I myself
sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand
and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to
shuffle, to hedge and to lurch; and yet you, rogue,
will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain
looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your
bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your
honour! You will not do it, you!
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8 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
Sir Hugh Evans |
1227 |
Pray you, give me my gown; or else keep it in your arms.
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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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10 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
Robert Shallow |
1260 |
It appears so by his weapons. Keep them asunder:
here comes Doctor Caius.
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11 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
Page |
1263 |
Nay, good master parson, keep in your weapon.
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12 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
Host |
1265 |
Disarm them, and let them question: let them keep
their limbs whole and hack our English.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2] |
Mistress Page |
1313 |
Nay, keep your way, little gallant; you were wont to
be a follower, but now you are a leader. Whether
had you rather lead mine eyes, or eye your master's heels?
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3] |
Falstaff |
1480 |
Keep in that mind; I'll deserve it.
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15 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 6] |
Host |
2428 |
I will hear you, Master Fenton; and I will at the
least keep your counsel.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5] |
Falstaff |
2583 |
Divide me like a bribe buck, each a haunch: I will
keep my sides to myself, my shoulders for the fellow
of this walk, and my horns I bequeath your husbands.
Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne the hunter?
Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes
restitution. As I am a true spirit, welcome!
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