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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

54

Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound?

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Falstaff

137

Pistol, did you pick Master Slender's purse?

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

138

Ay, by these gloves, did he, or I would I might
never come in mine own great chamber again else, of
seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Edward
shovel-boards, that cost me two shilling and two
pence apiece of Yead Miller, by these gloves.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

153

By this hat, then, he in the red face had it; for
though I cannot remember what I did when you made me
drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Simple

188

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

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

259

I' faith, I'll eat nothing; I thank you as much as
though I did.

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Pistol

361

Then did the sun on dunghill shine.

8

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.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Ford

617

We burn daylight: here, read, read; perceive how I
might be knighted. I shall think the worse of fat
men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of
men's liking: and yet he would not swear; praised
women's modesty; and gave such orderly and
well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness, that I
would have sworn his disposition would have gone to
the truth of his words; but they do no more adhere
and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to
the tune of 'Green Sleeves.' What tempest, I trow,
threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his
belly, ashore at Windsor? How shall I be revenged
on him? I think the best way were to entertain him
with hope, till the wicked fire of lust have melted
him in his own grease. Did you ever hear the like?

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Ford

727

You heard what this knave told me, did you not?

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Doctor Caius

1278

Diable! Jack Rugby,—mine host de Jarteer,—have I
not stay for him to kill him? have I not, at de place
I did appoint?

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Falstaff

1784

So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman's promise.

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Ford

1810

How so, sir? Did she change her determination?

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Ford

1821

And did he search for you, and could not find you?

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Ford

2052

We'll try that; for I'll appoint my men to carry the
basket again, to meet him at the door with it, as
they did last time.

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Ford

2158

Nay, by the mass, that he did not; he beat him most
unpitifully, methought.

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 4]

Sir Hugh Evans

2196

'Tis one of the best discretions of a 'oman as ever
I did look upon.

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 4]

Page

2198

And did he send you both these letters at an instant?

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 4]

Mistress Page

2223

There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter,
Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest,
Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight,
Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns;
And there he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
And makes milch-kine yield blood and shakes a chain
In a most hideous and dreadful manner:
You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know
The superstitious idle-headed eld
Received and did deliver to our age
This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth.

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5]

Slender

2754

I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page,
and she's a great lubberly boy. If it had not been
i' the church, I would have swinged him, or he
should have swinged me. If I did not think it had
been Anne Page, would I might never stir!—and 'tis
a postmaster's boy.