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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

1

[Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

2

Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-
chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John
Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

68

Here is Got's plessing, and your friend, and Justice
Shallow; and here young Master Slender, that
peradventures shall tell you another tale, if
matters grow to your likings.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Page

72

I am glad to see your worships well.
I thank you for my venison, Master Shallow.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

96

If it be confessed, it is not redress'd: is not that
so, Master Page? He hath wronged me; indeed he
hath, at a word, he hath, believe me: Robert
Shallow, esquire, saith, he is wronged.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Falstaff

102

Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

181

[Exeunt all except SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

201

Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says: I pray
you, pardon me; he's a justice of peace in his
country, simple though I stand here.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

245

[Exeunt SHALLOW and SIR HUGH EVANS]

10

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.

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

752

[Enter SHALLOW]

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

786

[Exeunt Host, SHALLOW, and PAGE]

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

(stage directions)

1116

[Enter Host, SHALLOW, SLENDER, and PAGE]

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Page

1138

Master Shallow, you have yourself been a great
fighter, though now a man of peace.

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Page

1145

'Tis true, Master Shallow.

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Page

1172

[with Shallow and Slender] Adieu, good master doctor.

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

(stage directions)

1173

[Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

1201

'Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and
trempling of mind! I shall be glad if he have
deceived me. How melancholies I am! I will knog
his urinals about his knave's costard when I have
good opportunities for the ork. 'Pless my soul!
[Sings]
To shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sings madrigals;
There will we make our peds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies.
To shallow—
Mercy on me! I have a great dispositions to cry.
[Sings]
Melodious birds sing madrigals—
When as I sat in Pabylon—
And a thousand vagram posies.
To shallow &c.

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

1220

He's welcome.
[Sings]
To shallow rivers, to whose falls-
Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he?

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Simple

1224

No weapons, sir. There comes my master, Master
Shallow, and another gentleman, from Frogmore, over
the stile, this way.