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The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest.

      — The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2

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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Pistol

145

Ha, thou mountain-foreigner! Sir John and Master mine,
I combat challenge of this latten bilbo.
Word of denial in thy labras here!
Word of denial: froth and scum, thou liest!

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Pistol

324

O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?

3

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.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Pistol

384

Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd and fullam holds,
And high and low beguiles the rich and poor:
Tester I'll have in pouch when thou shalt lack,
Base Phrygian Turk!

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Pistol

389

Wilt thou revenge?

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Pistol

402

Thou art the Mars of malecontents: I second thee; troop on.

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Fenton

536

How now, good woman? how dost thou?

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Fenton

542

Shall I do any good, thinkest thou? shall I not lose my suit?

9

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.

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Page

614

What? thou liest! Sir Alice Ford! These knights
will hack; and so thou shouldst not alter the
article of thy gentry.

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Pistol

678

With liver burning hot. Prevent, or go thou,
Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels:
O, odious is the name!

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Ford

710

How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Ford

712

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head. Now,
will you go, Mistress Page?

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Host

761

What sayest thou, my bully-rook?

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Host

768

Hast thou no suit against my knight, my
guest-cavaleire?

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Host

773

My hand, bully; thou shalt have egress and regress;
—said I well?—and thy name shall be Brook. It is
a merry knight. Will you go, An-heires?

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

799

Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should
lay my countenance to pawn; I have grated upon my
good friends for three reprieves for you and your
coach-fellow Nym; or else you had looked through
the grate, like a geminy of baboons. I am damned in
hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends, you were
good soldiers and tall fellows; and when Mistress
Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took't upon
mine honour thou hadst it not.

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Pistol

808

Didst not thou share? hadst thou not fifteen pence?

19

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!

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Pistol

824

I do relent: what would thou more of man?

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