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Speeches (Lines) for Simple
in "Merry Wives of Windsor"

Total: 25

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# Act, Scene, Line
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Speech text

1

I,1,188

Book of Riddles! why, did you not lend it to Alice
Shortcake upon All-hallowmas last, a fortnight...

2

I,2,296

Well, sir.

3

I,4,420

Ay, for fault of a better.

4

I,4,422

Ay, forsooth.

5

I,4,425

No, forsooth: he hath but a little wee face, with a
little yellow beard, a Cain-coloured beard.

6

I,4,428

Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands
as any is between this and his head; he hath fought...

7

I,4,433

Yes, indeed, does he.

8

I,4,480

Ay, forsooth; to desire her to—

9

I,4,483

To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to
speak a good word to Mistress Anne Page for my...

10

I,4,500

[Aside to MISTRESS QUICKLY] 'Tis a great charge to
come under one body's hand.

11

III,1,1194

Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every
way; old Windsor way, and every way but the town...

12

III,1,1199

I will, sir.

13

III,1,1219

Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh.

14

III,1,1224

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

15

IV,5,2297

Marry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff
from Master Slender.

16

IV,5,2304

There's an old woman, a fat woman, gone up into his
chamber: I'll be so bold as stay, sir, till she come...

17

IV,5,2319

Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of
Brentford?

18

IV,5,2322

My master, sir, Master Slender, sent to her, seeing
her go through the streets, to know, sir, whether...

19

IV,5,2327

And what says she, I pray, sir?

20

IV,5,2331

I would I could have spoken with the woman herself;
I had other things to have spoken with her too from...

21

IV,5,2336

I may not conceal them, sir.

22

IV,5,2338

Why, sir, they were nothing but about Mistress Anne
Page; to know if it were my master's fortune to...

23

IV,5,2342

What, sir?

24

IV,5,2344

May I be bold to say so, sir?

25

IV,5,2346

I thank your worship: I shall make my master glad
with these tidings.

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