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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

33

It is not meet the council hear a riot; there is no
fear of Got in a riot: the council, look you, shall
desire to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a
riot; take your vizaments in that.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Pistol

373

Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become,
And by my side wear steel? then, Lucifer take all!

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Nym

375

I will run no base humour: here, take the
humour-letter: I will keep the havior of reputation.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Page

610

Hang the trifle, woman! take the honour. What is
it? dispense with trifles; what is it?

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Pistol

682

The horn, I say. Farewell.
Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night:
Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing.
Away, Sir Corporal Nym!
Believe it, Page; he speaks sense.

6

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.

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Ford

964

Troth, and I have a bag of money here troubles me:
if you will help to bear it, Sir John, take all, or
half, for easing me of the carriage.

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Doctor Caius

1111

By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him.
Take your rapier, Jack; I vill tell you how I vill kill him.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Doctor Caius

1114

Villany, take your rapier.

10

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]

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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2]

Page

1380

Not by my consent, I promise you. The gentleman is
of no having: he kept company with the wild prince
and Poins; he is of too high a region; he knows too
much. No, he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes
with the finger of my substance: if he take her,
let him take her simply; the wealth I have waits on
my consent, and my consent goes not that way.

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Mistress Ford

1411

Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be
ready here hard by in the brew-house: and when I
suddenly call you, come forth, and without any pause
or staggering take this basket on your shoulders:
that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry
it among the whitsters in Datchet-mead, and there
empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side.

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Mistress Page

1500

Your husband's coming hither, woman, with all the
officers in Windsor, to search for a gentleman that
he says is here now in the house by your consent, to
take an ill advantage of his assence: you are undone.

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Mistress Ford

1535

What, John! Robert! John!
[Exit ROBIN]
[Re-enter Servants]
Go take up these clothes here quickly. Where's the
cowl-staff? look, how you drumble! Carry them to
the laundress in Datchet-meat; quickly, come.

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Falstaff

1773

Take away these chalices. Go brew me a pottle of
sack finely.

16

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.

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Ford

1876

Hum! ha! is this a vision? is this a dream? do I
sleep? Master Ford awake! awake, Master Ford!
there's a hole made in your best coat, Master Ford.
This 'tis to be married! this 'tis to have linen
and buck-baskets! Well, I will proclaim myself
what I am: I will now take the lecher; he is at my
house; he cannot 'scape me; 'tis impossible he
should; he cannot creep into a halfpenny purse,
nor into a pepper-box: but, lest the devil that
guides him should aid him, I will search
impossible places. Though what I am I cannot avoid,
yet to be what I would not shall not make me tame:
if I have horns to make one mad, let the proverb go
with me: I'll be horn-mad.

18

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.

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

First Servant

2071

Come, come, take it up.

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Sir Hugh Evans

2099

'Tis unreasonable! Will you take up your wife's
clothes? Come away.