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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

37

Ha! o' my life, if I were young again, the sword
should end it.

2

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.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

162

Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but 'tis no
matter: I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again,
but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick:
if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have
the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Page

653

So will I. if he come under my hatches, I'll never
to sea again. Let's be revenged on him: let's
appoint him a meeting; give him a show of comfort in
his suit and lead him on with a fine-baited delay,
till he hath pawned his horses to mine host of the Garter.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Page

1987

Why, woman, your husband is in his old lunes again:
he so takes on yonder with my husband; so rails
against all married mankind; so curses all Eve's
daughters, of what complexion soever; and so buffets
himself on the forehead, crying, 'Peer out, peer
out!' that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but
tameness, civility and patience, to this his
distemper he is in now: I am glad the fat knight is not here.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Ford

2008

Which way should be go? how should I bestow him?
Shall I put him into the basket again?

7

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.

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Ford

2067

Go, sirs, take the basket again on your shoulders:
your master is hard at door; if he bid you set it
down, obey him: quickly, dispatch.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Second Servant

2072

Pray heaven it be not full of knight again.

10

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!

11

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.

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Ford

2151

Will you follow, gentlemen? I beseech you, follow;
see but the issue of my jealousy: if I cry out thus
upon no trail, never trust me when I open again.

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Page

2165

The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of
him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with
fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the
way of waste, attempt us again.

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 4]

Page

2205

'Tis well, 'tis well; no more:
Be not as extreme in submission
As in offence.
But let our plot go forward: let our wives
Yet once again, to make us public sport,
Appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow,
Where we may take him and disgrace him for it.

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 4]

Ford

2276

Nay I'll to him again in name of Brook
He'll tell me all his purpose: sure, he'll come.

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5]

Mistress Ford

2691

Sir John, we have had ill luck; we could never meet.
I will never take you for my love again; but I will
always count you my deer.

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5]

Ford

2708

I will never mistrust my wife again till thou art
able to woo her in good English.