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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, 4]

(stage directions)

404

[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, SIMPLE, and RUGBY]

2

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.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

411

Go; and we'll have a posset for't soon at night, in
faith, at the latter end of a sea-coal fire.
[Exit RUGBY]
An honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever servant
shall come in house withal, and, I warrant you, no
tell-tale nor no breed-bate: his worst fault is,
that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish
that way: but nobody but has his fault; but let
that pass. Peter Simple, you say your name is?

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

(stage directions)

437

[Re-enter RUGBY]

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

439

We shall all be shent. Run in here, good young man;
go into this closet: he will not stay long.
[Shuts SIMPLE in the closet]
What, John Rugby! John! what, John, I say!
Go, John, go inquire for my master; I doubt
he be not well, that he comes not home.
[Singing]
And down, down, adown-a, &c.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Doctor Caius

458

Oui; mette le au mon pocket: depeche, quickly. Vere
is dat knave Rugby?

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

460

What, John Rugby! John!

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Doctor Caius

462

You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. Come,
take-a your rapier, and come after my heel to the court.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Doctor Caius

469

O diable, diable! vat is in my closet? Villain! larron!
[Pulling SIMPLE out]
Rugby, my rapier!

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Doctor Caius

488

Sir Hugh send-a you? Rugby, baille me some paper.
Tarry you a little-a while.

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Doctor Caius

525

Rugby, come to the court with me. By gar, if I have
not Anne Page, I shall turn your head out of my
door. Follow my heels, Rugby.

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

(stage directions)

528

[Exeunt DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY]

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

(stage directions)

1101

[Enter DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY]

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Doctor Caius

1102

Jack Rugby!

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Doctor Caius

1106

By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he
has pray his Pible well, dat he is no come: by gar,
Jack Rugby, he is dead already, if he be come.

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Doctor Caius

1188

Come at my heels, Jack Rugby.

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1262

[Enter Host, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY]

18

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?

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2]

Ford

1338

Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath he any
thinking? Sure, they sleep; he hath no use of them.
Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty mile, as
easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve
score. He pieces out his wife's inclination; he
gives her folly motion and advantage: and now she's
going to my wife, and Falstaff's boy with her. A
man may hear this shower sing in the wind. And
Falstaff's boy with her! Good plots, they are laid;
and our revolted wives share damnation together.
Well; I will take him, then torture my wife, pluck
the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming
Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and
wilful Actaeon; and to these violent proceedings all
my neighbours shall cry aim.
[Clock heard]
The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance bids me
search: there I shall find Falstaff: I shall be
rather praised for this than mocked; for it is as
positive as the earth is firm that Falstaff is
there: I will go.
[Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, SLENDER, Host,]
SIR HUGH EVANS, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY]

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2]

Doctor Caius

1394

Go home, John Rugby; I come anon.