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Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
Sir Hugh Evans |
59 |
Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do
despise one that is false, or as I despise one that
is not true. The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I
beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers. I will
peat the door for Master Page.
[Knocks]
What, hoa! Got pless your house here!
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2 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
Falstaff |
143 |
Is this true, Pistol?
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3 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3] |
Nym |
398 |
My humour shall not cool: I will incense Page to
deal with poison; I will possess him with
yellowness, for the revolt of mine is dangerous:
that is my true humour.
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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.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1] |
Nym |
689 |
[To PAGE] And this is true; I like not the humour
of lying. He hath wronged me in some humours: I
should have borne the humoured letter to her; but I
have a sword and it shall bite upon my necessity.
He loves your wife; there's the short and the long.
My name is Corporal Nym; I speak and I avouch; 'tis
true: my name is Nym and Falstaff loves your wife.
Adieu. I love not the humour of bread and cheese,
and there's the humour of it. Adieu.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1] |
Page |
704 |
I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest
o' the town commended him for a true man.
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7 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2] |
Hostess Quickly |
843 |
Your worship says very true: I pray your worship,
come a little nearer this ways.
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8 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3] |
Robert Shallow |
1134 |
He is the wiser man, master doctor: he is a curer of
souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should
fight, you go against the hair of your professions.
Is it not true, Master Page?
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3] |
Page |
1145 |
'Tis true, Master Shallow.
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10 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3] |
Mistress Page |
1427 |
You little Jack-a-Lent, have you been true to us?
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3] |
Ford |
1559 |
True, Master Page. Up, gentlemen: you shall see
sport anon: follow me, gentlemen.
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12 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4] |
Anne Page |
1641 |
May be he tells you true.
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13 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2] |
Mistress Page |
2060 |
Hang him, dishonest varlet! we cannot misuse him enough.
We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do,
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too:
We do not act that often jest and laugh;
'Tis old, but true, Still swine eat all the draff.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2] |
Ford |
2075 |
Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any
way then to unfool me again? Set down the basket,
villain! Somebody call my wife. Youth in a basket!
O you panderly rascals! there's a knot, a ging, a
pack, a conspiracy against me: now shall the devil
be shamed. What, wife, I say! Come, come forth!
Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2] |
Ford |
2103 |
Master Page, as I am a man, there was one conveyed
out of my house yesterday in this basket: why may
not he be there again? In my house I am sure he is:
my intelligence is true; my jealousy is reasonable.
Pluck me out all the linen.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5] |
Falstaff |
2583 |
Divide me like a bribe buck, each a haunch: I will
keep my sides to myself, my shoulders for the fellow
of this walk, and my horns I bequeath your husbands.
Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne the hunter?
Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes
restitution. As I am a true spirit, welcome!
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