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1

As You Like It
[III, 2]

Touchstone

1211

For a taste:
If a hart do lack a hind,
Let him seek out Rosalinde.
If the cat will after kind,
So be sure will Rosalinde.
Winter garments must be lin'd,
So must slender Rosalinde.
They that reap must sheaf and bind,
Then to cart with Rosalinde.
Sweetest nut hath sourest rind,
Such a nut is Rosalinde.
He that sweetest rose will find
Must find love's prick and Rosalinde.
This is the very false gallop of verses; why do you infect
yourself with them?

2

Hamlet
[III, 2]

Player King

2078

I do believe you think what now you speak;
But what we do determine oft we break.
Purpose is but the slave to memory,
Of violent birth, but poor validity;
Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree,
But fall unshaken when they mellow be.
Most necessary 'tis that we forget
To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.
What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
The violence of either grief or joy
Their own enactures with themselves destroy.
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change;
For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
The great man down, you mark his favourite flies,
The poor advanc'd makes friends of enemies;
And hitherto doth love on fortune tend,
For who not needs shall never lack a friend,
And who in want a hollow friend doth try,
Directly seasons him his enemy.
But, orderly to end where I begun,
Our wills and fates do so contrary run
That our devices still are overthrown;
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
So think thou wilt no second husband wed;
But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.

3

Henry IV, Part II
[I, 2]

Lord Chief Justice

455

Your means are very slender, and your waste is
great.

4

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 1]

Costard

1019

The thickest and the tallest! it is so; truth is truth.
An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit,
One o' these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit.
Are not you the chief woman? you are the thickest here.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

1

[Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

7

Ay, cousin Slender, and 'Custalourum.

7

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.

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Page

80

I am glad to see you, good Master Slender.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Falstaff

113

Good worts! good cabbage. Slender, I broke your
head: what matter have you against me?

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

181

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

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

199

Give ear to his motions, Master Slender: I will
description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

215

Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Page

280

Come, gentle Master Slender, come; we stay for you.

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

(stage directions)

1116

[Enter Host, SHALLOW, SLENDER, and PAGE]

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Host

1164

And, moreover, bully,—but first, master guest, and
Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you
through the town to Frogmore.

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]

(stage directions)

1228

[Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1301

[Exeunt SHALLOW, SLENDER, PAGE, and Host]

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2]

Ford

1338

Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath he any
thinking? Sure, they sleep; he hath no use of them.
Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty mile, as
easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve
score. He pieces out his wife's inclination; he
gives her folly motion and advantage: and now she's
going to my wife, and Falstaff's boy with her. A
man may hear this shower sing in the wind. And
Falstaff's boy with her! Good plots, they are laid;
and our revolted wives share damnation together.
Well; I will take him, then torture my wife, pluck
the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming
Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and
wilful Actaeon; and to these violent proceedings all
my neighbours shall cry aim.
[Clock heard]
The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance bids me
search: there I shall find Falstaff: I shall be
rather praised for this than mocked; for it is as
positive as the earth is firm that Falstaff is
there: I will go.
[Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, SLENDER, Host,]
SIR HUGH EVANS, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY]