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Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
Sir Hugh Evans |
25 |
Yes, py'r lady; if he has a quarter of your coat,
there is but three skirts for yourself, in my
simple conjectures: but that is all one. If Sir
John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto
you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my
benevolence to make atonements and compremises
between you.
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2 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
Slender |
123 |
Where's Simple, my man? Can you tell, cousin?
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3 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
Slender |
182 |
I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of
Songs and Sonnets here.
[Enter SIMPLE]
How now, Simple! where have you been? I must wait
on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles
about you, have you?
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4 |
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.
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5 |
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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6 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 2] |
(stage directions) |
290 |
[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE]
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7 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4] |
(stage directions) |
404 |
[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, SIMPLE, and RUGBY]
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8 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4] |
Hostess Quickly |
411 |
Go; and we'll have a posset for't soon at night, in
faith, at the latter end of a sea-coal fire.
[Exit RUGBY]
An honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever servant
shall come in house withal, and, I warrant you, no
tell-tale nor no breed-bate: his worst fault is,
that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish
that way: but nobody but has his fault; but let
that pass. Peter Simple, you say your name is?
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9 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4] |
Hostess Quickly |
439 |
We shall all be shent. Run in here, good young man;
go into this closet: he will not stay long.
[Shuts SIMPLE in the closet]
What, John Rugby! John! what, John, I say!
Go, John, go inquire for my master; I doubt
he be not well, that he comes not home.
[Singing]
And down, down, adown-a, &c.
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10 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4] |
Doctor Caius |
469 |
O diable, diable! vat is in my closet? Villain! larron!
[Pulling SIMPLE out]
Rugby, my rapier!
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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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12 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4] |
Hostess Quickly |
502 |
[Aside to SIMPLE] Are you avised o' that? you
shall find it a great charge: and to be up early
and down late; but notwithstanding,—to tell you in
your ear; I would have no words of it,—my master
himself is in love with Mistress Anne Page: but
notwithstanding that, I know Anne's mind,—that's
neither here nor there.
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13 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4] |
(stage directions) |
516 |
[Exit SIMPLE]
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14 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
(stage directions) |
1190 |
[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE]
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
Sir Hugh Evans |
1191 |
I pray you now, good master Slender's serving-man,
and friend Simple by your name, which way have you
looked for Master Caius, that calls himself doctor of physic?
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
(stage directions) |
1218 |
[Re-enter SIMPLE]
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3] |
Falstaff |
1467 |
What made me love thee? let that persuade thee
there's something extraordinary in thee. Come, I
cannot cog and say thou art this and that, like a
many of these lisping hawthorn-buds, that come like
women in men's apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury
in simple time; I cannot: but I love thee; none
but thee; and thou deservest it.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5] |
Falstaff |
1776 |
Simple of itself; I'll no pullet-sperm in my brewage.
[Exit BARDOLPH]
How now!
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19 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2] |
Falstaff |
1967 |
Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my
sufferance. I see you are obsequious in your love,
and I profess requital to a hair's breadth; not
only, Mistress Ford, in the simple
office of love, but in all the accoutrement,
complement and ceremony of it. But are you
sure of your husband now?
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2] |
Ford |
2126 |
A witch, a quean, an old cozening quean! Have I not
forbid her my house? She comes of errands, does
she? We are simple men; we do not know what's
brought to pass under the profession of
fortune-telling. She works by charms, by spells,
by the figure, and such daubery as this is, beyond
our element we know nothing. Come down, you witch,
you hag, you; come down, I say!
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