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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

81

How does your fallow greyhound, sir? I heard say he
was outrun on Cotsall.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

423

Does he not wear a great round beard, like a
glover's paring-knife?

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

431

How say you? O, I should remember him: does he not
hold up his head, as it were, and strut in his gait?

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Simple

433

Yes, indeed, does he.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Fenton

538

What news? how does pretty Mistress Anne?

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

561

Farewell to your worship.
[Exit FENTON]
Truly, an honest gentleman: but Anne loves him not;
for I know Anne's mind as well as another does. Out
upon't! what have I forgot?

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Hostess Quickly

722

Ay, forsooth; and, I pray, how does good Mistress Anne?

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Ford

736

I like it never the better for that. Does he lie at
the Garter?

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Page

738

Ay, marry, does he. If he should intend this voyage
towards my wife, I would turn her loose to him; and
what he gets more of her than sharp words, let it
lie on my head.

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Hostess Quickly

902

That were a jest indeed! they have not so little
grace, I hope: that were a trick indeed! but
Mistress Page would desire you to send her your
little page, of all loves: her husband has a
marvellous infection to the little page; and truly
Master Page is an honest man. Never a wife in
Windsor leads a better life than she does: do what
she will, say what she will, take all, pay all, go
to bed when she list, rise when she list, all is as
she will: and truly she deserves it; for if there
be a kind woman in Windsor, she is one. You must
send her your page; no remedy.

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Ford

1073

What a damned Epicurean rascal is this! My heart is
ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is
improvident jealousy? my wife hath sent to him; the
hour is fixed; the match is made. Would any man
have thought this? See the hell of having a false
woman! My bed shall be abused, my coffers
ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not
only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under
the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that
does me this wrong. Terms! names! Amaimon sounds
well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are
devils' additions, the names of fiends: but
Cuckold! Wittol!—Cuckold! the devil himself hath
not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass: he
will trust his wife; he will not be jealous. I will
rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh
the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my
aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling
gelding, than my wife with herself; then she plots,
then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they
think in their hearts they may effect, they will
break their hearts but they will effect. God be
praised for my jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour.
I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on
Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will about it;
better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold!

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Hostess Quickly

1668

And how does good Master Fenton? Pray you, a word with you.

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Page

1697

Now, Master Slender: love him, daughter Anne.
Why, how now! what does Master Fenton here?
You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house:
I told you, sir, my daughter is disposed of.

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Hostess Quickly

1782

Alas the day! good heart, that was not her fault:
she does so take on with her men; they mistook their erection.

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

1923

That is a good William. What is he, William, that
does lend articles?

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Ford

1995

Why, does he talk of him?

17

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!

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 5]

Hostess Quickly

2414

Sir, let me speak with you in your chamber: you
shall hear how things go; and, I warrant, to your
content. Here is a letter will say somewhat. Good
hearts, what ado here is to bring you together!
Sure, one of you does not serve heaven well, that
you are so crossed.