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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Host

316

I have spoke; let him follow.
[To BARDOLPH]
Let me see thee froth and lime: I am at a word; follow.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Nym

362

I thank thee for that humour.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Pistol

402

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

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

405

What, John Rugby! I pray thee, go to the casement,
and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor
Caius, coming. If he do, i' faith, and find any
body in the house, here will be an old abusing of
God's patience and the king's English.

5

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.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Page

568

What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-
time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?
Let me see.
[Reads]
'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though
Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him
not for his counsellor. You are not young, no more
am I; go to then, there's sympathy: you are merry,
so am I; ha, ha! then there's more sympathy: you
love sack, and so do I; would you desire better
sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page,—at
the least, if the love of soldier can suffice,—
that I love thee. I will not say, pity me; 'tis
not a soldier-like phrase: but I say, love me. By me,
Thine own true knight,
By day or night,
Or any kind of light,
With all his might
For thee to fight, JOHN FALSTAFF'
What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked
world! One that is well-nigh worn to pieces with
age to show himself a young gallant! What an
unweighed behavior hath this Flemish drunkard
picked—with the devil's name!—out of my
conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me?
Why, he hath not been thrice in my company! What
should I say to him? I was then frugal of my
mirth: Heaven forgive me! Why, I'll exhibit a bill
in the parliament for the putting down of men. How
shall I be revenged on him? for revenged I will be,
as sure as his guts are made of puddings.

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

796

I will not lend thee a penny.

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

837

Two thousand, fair woman: and I'll vouchsafe thee
the hearing.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

845

I warrant thee, nobody hears; mine own people, mine
own people.

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

897

Not I, I assure thee: setting the attractions of my
good parts aside I have no other charms.

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

900

But, I pray thee, tell me this: has Ford's wife and
Page's wife acquainted each other how they love me?

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

922

Fare thee well: commend me to them both: there's
my purse; I am yet thy debtor. Boy, go along with
this woman.
[Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY and ROBIN]
This news distracts me!

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

931

Sayest thou so, old Jack? go thy ways; I'll make
more of thy old body than I have done. Will they
yet look after thee? Wilt thou, after the expense
of so much money, be now a gainer? Good body, I
thank thee. Let them say 'tis grossly done; so it be
fairly done, no matter.

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Host

1117

Bless thee, bully doctor!

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Host

1122

To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee
traverse; to see thee here, to see thee there; to
see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy
distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my Ethiopian? is
he dead, my Francisco? ha, bully! What says my
AEsculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder? ha! is
he dead, bully stale? is he dead?

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Host

1157

He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Host

1159

That is, he will make thee amends.

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Host

1176

Let him die: sheathe thy impatience, throw cold
water on thy choler: go about the fields with me
through Frogmore: I will bring thee where Mistress
Anne Page is, at a farm-house a-feasting; and thou
shalt woo her. Cried I aim? said I well?

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Mistress Page

1432

Thou'rt a good boy: this secrecy of thine shall be
a tailor to thee and shall make thee a new doublet
and hose. I'll go hide me.

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Mistress Page

1438

I warrant thee; if I do not act it, hiss me.