Speeches (Lines) for (stage directions)
in "Merry Wives of Windsor"
Total: 145

1

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]

2

I,1,67

Page. [Within] Who's there?

(stage directions). [Enter PAGE]

3

I,1,101

Page. Here comes Sir John.

(stage directions). [Enter FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, NYM, and PISTOL]

4

I,1,172

Page. Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we'll drink within.

(stage directions). [Exit ANNE PAGE]

5

I,1,177

Falstaff. Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well met:
by your leave, good mistress.

(stage directions). [Kisses her]

6

I,1,181

Page. Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a
hot venison pasty to dinner: come, gentlemen, I hope
we shall drink down all unkindness.

(stage directions). [Exeunt all except SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]

7

I,1,245

Sir Hugh Evans. Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace.

(stage directions). [Exeunt SHALLOW and SIR HUGH EVANS]

8

I,1,279

Slender. That's meat and drink to me, now. I have seen
Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by
the chain; but, I warrant you, the women have so
cried and shrieked at it, that it passed: but women,
indeed, cannot abide 'em; they are very ill-favored
rough things.

(stage directions). [Re-enter PAGE]

9

I,1,289

Slender. I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome.
You do yourself wrong, indeed, la!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

10

I,2,290

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE]

11

I,2,303

Sir Hugh Evans. Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it
is a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance with
Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire
and require her to solicit your master's desires to
Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will
make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

12

I,3,304

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter FALSTAFF, Host, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL,]
and ROBIN]

13

I,3,319

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

(stage directions). [Exit]

14

I,3,325

Pistol. O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?

(stage directions). [Exit BARDOLPH]

15

I,3,383

Falstaff. [To ROBIN] Hold, sirrah, bear you these letters tightly;
Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores.
Rogues, hence, avaunt! vanish like hailstones, go;
Trudge, plod away o' the hoof; seek shelter, pack!
Falstaff will learn the humour of the age,
French thrift, you rogues; myself and skirted page.

(stage directions). [Exeunt FALSTAFF and ROBIN]

16

I,3,403

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

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

17

I,4,404

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, SIMPLE, and RUGBY]

18

I,4,437

Hostess Quickly. Well, heaven send Anne Page no worse fortune! Tell
Master Parson Evans I will do what I can for your
master: Anne is a good girl, and I wish—

(stage directions). [Re-enter RUGBY]

19

I,4,447

Hostess Quickly. 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.

(stage directions). [Enter DOCTOR CAIUS]

20

I,4,490

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

(stage directions). [Writes]

21

I,4,516

Doctor Caius. You jack'nape, give-a this letter to Sir Hugh; by
gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut his troat in dee
park; and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest
to meddle or make. You may be gone; it is not good
you tarry here. By gar, I will cut all his two
stones; by gar, he shall not have a stone to throw
at his dog:

(stage directions). [Exit SIMPLE]

22

I,4,528

Doctor Caius. 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.

(stage directions). [Exeunt DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY]

23

I,4,535

Hostess Quickly. Who's there, I trow! Come near the house, I pray you.

(stage directions). [Enter FENTON]

24

I,4,566

Hostess Quickly. Farewell to your worship.
[Exit FENTON]
Truly, an honest gentleman: but Anne loves him not;
for I know Anne's mind as well as another does. Out
upon't! what have I forgot?

(stage directions). [Exit]

25

II,1,567

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MISTRESS PAGE, with a letter]

26

II,1,599

Mistress Page. 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.

(stage directions). [Enter MISTRESS FORD]

27

II,1,668

Mistress Page. Let's consult together against this greasy knight.
Come hither.

(stage directions). [They retire]

28

II,1,669

(stage directions). [They retire]

(stage directions). [Enter FORD with PISTOL, and PAGE with NYM]

29

II,1,687

Pistol. 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.

(stage directions). [Exit]

30

II,1,698

Nym. [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.

(stage directions). [Exit]

31

II,1,708

Page. How now, Meg!

(stage directions). [MISTRESS PAGE and MISTRESS FORD come forward]

32

II,1,720

Mistress Ford. [Aside to MISTRESS PAGE] Trust me, I thought on her:
she'll fit it.

(stage directions). [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY]

33

II,1,725

Mistress Page. Go in with us and see: we have an hour's talk with
you.

(stage directions). [Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and MISTRESS QUICKLY]

34

II,1,752

Host. How now, bully-rook! thou'rt a gentleman.
Cavaleiro-justice, I say!

(stage directions). [Enter SHALLOW]

35

II,1,760

Ford. Good mine host o' the Garter, a word with you.

(stage directions). [Drawing him aside]

36

II,1,767

Robert Shallow. [To PAGE] Will you go with us to behold it? My
merry host hath had the measuring of their weapons;
and, I think, hath appointed them contrary places;
for, believe me, I hear the parson is no jester.
Hark, I will tell you what our sport shall be.

(stage directions). [They converse apart]

37

II,1,786

Page. Have with you. I would rather hear them scold than fight.

(stage directions). [Exeunt Host, SHALLOW, and PAGE]

38

II,1,794

Ford. Though Page be a secure fool, an stands so firmly
on his wife's frailty, yet I cannot put off my
opinion so easily: she was in his company at Page's
house; and what they made there, I know not. Well,
I will look further into't: and I have a disguise
to sound Falstaff. If I find her honest, I lose not
my labour; if she be otherwise, 'tis labour well bestowed.

(stage directions). [Exit]

39

II,2,795

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter FALSTAFF and PISTOL]

40

II,2,825

Pistol. I do relent: what would thou more of man?

(stage directions). [Enter ROBIN]

41

II,2,828

Falstaff. Let her approach.

(stage directions). [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY]

42

II,2,930

Pistol. This punk is one of Cupid's carriers:
Clap on more sails; pursue; up with your fights:
Give fire: she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!

(stage directions). [Exit]

43

II,2,937

Falstaff. 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.

(stage directions). [Enter BARDOLPH]

44

II,2,948

Falstaff. Call him in.
[Exit BARDOLPH]
Such Brooks are welcome to me, that o'erflow such
liquor. Ah, ha! Mistress Ford and Mistress Page
have I encompassed you? go to; via!

(stage directions). [Re-enter BARDOLPH, with FORD disguised]

45

II,2,954

Falstaff. You're welcome. What's your will? Give us leave, drawer.

(stage directions). [Exit BARDOLPH]

46

II,2,1072

Falstaff. Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will
stare him out of his wits; I will awe him with my
cudgel: it shall hang like a meteor o'er the
cuckold's horns. Master Brook, thou shalt know I
will predominate over the peasant, and thou shalt
lie with his wife. Come to me soon at night.
Ford's a knave, and I will aggravate his style;
thou, Master Brook, shalt know him for knave and
cuckold. Come to me soon at night.

(stage directions). [Exit]

47

II,2,1100

Ford. What a damned Epicurean rascal is this! My heart is
ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is
improvident jealousy? my wife hath sent to him; the
hour is fixed; the match is made. Would any man
have thought this? See the hell of having a false
woman! My bed shall be abused, my coffers
ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not
only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under
the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that
does me this wrong. Terms! names! Amaimon sounds
well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are
devils' additions, the names of fiends: but
Cuckold! Wittol!—Cuckold! the devil himself hath
not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass: he
will trust his wife; he will not be jealous. I will
rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh
the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my
aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling
gelding, than my wife with herself; then she plots,
then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they
think in their hearts they may effect, they will
break their hearts but they will effect. God be
praised for my jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour.
I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on
Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will about it;
better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold!

(stage directions). [Exit]

48

II,3,1101

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY]

49

II,3,1116

Rugby. Forbear; here's company.

(stage directions). [Enter Host, SHALLOW, SLENDER, and PAGE]

50

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Host. And, moreover, bully,—but first, master guest, and
Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you
through the town to Frogmore.

(stage directions). [Aside to them]

51

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Page. [with Shallow and Slender] Adieu, good master doctor.

(stage directions). [Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]

52

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Doctor Caius. Come at my heels, Jack Rugby.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

53

III,1,1190

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE]

54

III,1,1200

Simple. I will, sir.

(stage directions). [Exit]

55

III,1,1218

Sir Hugh Evans. 'Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and
trempling of mind! I shall be glad if he have
deceived me. How melancholies I am! I will knog
his urinals about his knave's costard when I have
good opportunities for the ork. 'Pless my soul!
[Sings]
To shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sings madrigals;
There will we make our peds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies.
To shallow—
Mercy on me! I have a great dispositions to cry.
[Sings]
Melodious birds sing madrigals—
When as I sat in Pabylon—
And a thousand vagram posies.
To shallow &c.

(stage directions). [Re-enter SIMPLE]

56

III,1,1228

Sir Hugh Evans. Pray you, give me my gown; or else keep it in your arms.

(stage directions). [Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]

57

III,1,1262

Robert Shallow. It appears so by his weapons. Keep them asunder:
here comes Doctor Caius.

(stage directions). [Enter Host, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY]

58

III,1,1301

Slender. [Aside] O sweet Anne Page!

(stage directions). [Exeunt SHALLOW, SLENDER, PAGE, and Host]

59

III,1,1311

Sir Hugh Evans. Well, I will smite his noddles. Pray you, follow.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

60

III,2,1312

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN]

61

III,2,1319

Mistress Page. O, you are a flattering boy: now I see you'll be a courtier.

(stage directions). [Enter FORD]

62

III,2,1337

Mistress Page. By your leave, sir: I am sick till I see her.

(stage directions). [Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN]

63

III,2,1393

Robert Shallow. Well, fare you well: we shall have the freer wooing
at Master Page's.

(stage directions). [Exeunt SHALLOW, and SLENDER]

64

III,2,1395

Doctor Caius. Go home, John Rugby; I come anon.

(stage directions). [Exit RUGBY]

65

III,2,1398

Host. Farewell, my hearts: I will to my honest knight
Falstaff, and drink canary with him.

(stage directions). [Exit]

66

III,2,1402

All. Have with you to see this monster.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

67

III,3,1403

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE]

68

III,3,1407

Mistress Ford. I warrant. What, Robin, I say!

(stage directions). [Enter Servants with a basket]

69

III,3,1421

Mistress Ford. I ha' told them over and over; they lack no
direction. Be gone, and come when you are called.

(stage directions). [Exeunt Servants]

70

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Mistress Page. Here comes little Robin.

(stage directions). [Enter ROBIN]

71

III,3,1439

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

(stage directions). [Exit]

72

III,3,1443

Mistress Ford. Go to, then: we'll use this unwholesome humidity,
this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know
turtles from jays.

(stage directions). [Enter FALSTAFF]

73

III,3,1532

Falstaff. I love thee. Help me away. Let me creep in here.
I'll never—

(stage directions). [Gets into the basket; they cover him with foul linen]

74

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Mistress Ford. 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.

(stage directions). [Enter FORD, PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS]

75

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Ford. True, Master Page. Up, gentlemen: you shall see
sport anon: follow me, gentlemen.

(stage directions). [Exit]

76

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Page. Nay, follow him, gentlemen; see the issue of his search.

(stage directions). [Exeunt PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS]

77

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Mistress Page. We will do it: let him be sent for to-morrow,
eight o'clock, to have amends.

(stage directions). [Re-enter FORD, PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS]

78

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Sir Hugh Evans. A lousy knave, to have his gibes and his mockeries!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

79

III,4,1629

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter FENTON and ANNE PAGE]

80

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Anne Page. Gentle Master Fenton,
Yet seek my father's love; still seek it, sir:
If opportunity and humblest suit
Cannot attain it, why, then,—hark you hither!

(stage directions). [They converse apart]

81

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(stage directions). [They converse apart]

(stage directions). [Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and MISTRESS QUICKLY]

82

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Slender. Truly, for mine own part, I would little or nothing
with you. Your father and my uncle hath made
motions: if it be my luck, so; if not, happy man be
his dole! They can tell you how things go better
than I can: you may ask your father; here he comes.

(stage directions). [Enter PAGE and MISTRESS PAGE]

83

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Page. No, good Master Fenton.
Come, Master Shallow; come, son Slender, in.
Knowing my mind, you wrong me, Master Fenton.

(stage directions). [Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]

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Fenton. Farewell, gentle mistress: farewell, Nan.

(stage directions). [Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE and ANNE PAGE]

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Hostess Quickly. Now heaven send thee good fortune!
[Exit FENTON]
A kind heart he hath: a woman would run through
fire and water for such a kind heart. But yet I
would my master had Mistress Anne; or I would
Master Slender had her; or, in sooth, I would Master
Fenton had her; I will do what I can for them all
three; for so I have promised, and I'll be as good
as my word; but speciously for Master Fenton. Well,
I must of another errand to Sir John Falstaff from
my two mistresses: what a beast am I to slack it!

(stage directions). [Exit]

86

III,5,1745

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH]

87

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Falstaff. Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in't.
[Exit BARDOLPH]
Have I lived to be carried in a basket, like a
barrow of butcher's offal, and to be thrown in the
Thames? Well, if I be served such another trick,
I'll have my brains ta'en out and buttered, and give
them to a dog for a new-year's gift. The rogues
slighted me into the river with as little remorse as
they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies,
fifteen i' the litter: and you may know by my size
that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; if the
bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. I had
been drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and
shallow,—a death that I abhor; for the water swells
a man; and what a thing should I have been when I
had been swelled! I should have been a mountain of mummy.

(stage directions). [Re-enter BARDOLPH with sack]

88

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Bardolph. Come in, woman!

(stage directions). [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY]

89

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Hostess Quickly. Peace be with you, sir.

(stage directions). [Exit]

90

III,5,1801

Falstaff. I marvel I hear not of Master Brook; he sent me word
to stay within: I like his money well. O, here he comes.

(stage directions). [Enter FORD]

91

III,5,1875

Falstaff. Is it? I will then address me to my appointment.
Come to me at your convenient leisure, and you shall
know how I speed; and the conclusion shall be
crowned with your enjoying her. Adieu. You shall
have her, Master Brook; Master Brook, you shall
cuckold Ford.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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Ford. 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.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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IV,1,1891

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and WILLIAM PAGE]

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Mistress Page. Adieu, good Sir Hugh.
[Exit SIR HUGH EVANS]
Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

95

IV,2,1966

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS FORD]

96

IV,2,1977

Mistress Ford. Step into the chamber, Sir John.

(stage directions). [Exit FALSTAFF]

97

IV,2,1978

(stage directions). [Exit FALSTAFF]

(stage directions). [Enter MISTRESS PAGE]

98

IV,2,2010

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

(stage directions). [Re-enter FALSTAFF]

99

IV,2,2042

Mistress Page. Quick, quick! we'll come dress you straight: put
on the gown the while.

(stage directions). [Exit FALSTAFF]

100

IV,2,2059

Mistress Ford. I'll first direct my men what they shall do with the
basket. Go up; I'll bring linen for him straight.

(stage directions). [Exit]

101

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Mistress Page. 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.

(stage directions). [Exit]

102

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(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Re-enter MISTRESS FORD with two Servants]

103

IV,2,2070

Mistress Ford. 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.

(stage directions). [Exit]

104

IV,2,2074

First Servant. I hope not; I had as lief bear so much lead.

(stage directions). [Enter FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS]

105

IV,2,2095

Ford. Well said, brazen-face! hold it out. Come forth, sirrah!

(stage directions). [Pulling clothes out of the basket]

106

IV,2,2136

Mistress Ford. Nay, good, sweet husband! Good gentlemen, let him
not strike the old woman.

(stage directions). [Re-enter FALSTAFF in woman's clothes, and MISTRESS PAGE]

107

IV,2,2143

Ford. I'll prat her.
[Beating him]
Out of my door, you witch, you hag, you baggage, you
polecat, you runyon! out, out! I'll conjure you,
I'll fortune-tell you.

(stage directions). [Exit FALSTAFF]

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IV,2,2156

Page. Let's obey his humour a little further: come,
gentlemen.

(stage directions). [Exeunt FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS]

109

IV,2,2180

Mistress Page. Come, to the forge with it then; shape it: I would
not have things cool.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

110

IV,3,2181

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter Host and BARDOLPH]

111

IV,3,2193

Host. They shall have my horses; but I'll make them pay;
I'll sauce them: they have had my house a week at
command; I have turned away my other guests: they
must come off; I'll sauce them. Come.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

112

IV,4,2194

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD,]
and SIR HUGH EVANS]

113

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Sir Hugh Evans. Let us about it: it is admirable pleasures and fery
honest knaveries.

(stage directions). [Exeunt PAGE, FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS]

114

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Mistress Page. Go, Mistress Ford,
Send quickly to Sir John, to know his mind.
[Exit MISTRESS FORD]
I'll to the doctor: he hath my good will,
And none but he, to marry with Nan Page.
That Slender, though well landed, is an idiot;
And he my husband best of all affects.
The doctor is well money'd, and his friends
Potent at court: he, none but he, shall have her,
Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her.

(stage directions). [Exit]

115

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter Host and SIMPLE]

116

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Host. Here's a Bohemian-Tartar tarries the coming down of
thy fat woman. Let her descend, bully, let her
descend; my chambers are honourable: fie! privacy?
fie!

(stage directions). [Enter FALSTAFF]

117

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Simple. I thank your worship: I shall make my master glad
with these tidings.

(stage directions). [Exit]

118

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Falstaff. Ay, that there was, mine host; one that hath taught
me more wit than ever I learned before in my life;
and I paid nothing for it neither, but was paid for
my learning.

(stage directions). [Enter BARDOLPH]

119

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Host. They are gone but to meet the duke, villain: do not
say they be fled; Germans are honest men.

(stage directions). [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS]

120

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Sir Hugh Evans. Have a care of your entertainments: there is a
friend of mine come to town tells me there is three
cozen-germans that has cozened all the hosts of
Readins, of Maidenhead, of Colebrook, of horses and
money. I tell you for good will, look you: you
are wise and full of gibes and vlouting-stocks, and
'tis not convenient you should be cozened. Fare you well.

(stage directions). [Exit]

121

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(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter DOCTOR CAIUS]

122

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Doctor Caius. I cannot tell vat is dat: but it is tell-a me dat
you make grand preparation for a duke de Jamany: by
my trot, dere is no duke dat the court is know to
come. I tell you for good vill: adieu.

(stage directions). [Exit]

123

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Host. Hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me, knight. I am
undone! Fly, run, hue and cry, villain! I am undone!

(stage directions). [Exeunt Host and BARDOLPH]

124

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Falstaff. Come up into my chamber.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

125

IV,6,2422

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter FENTON and Host]

126

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Fenton. So shall I evermore be bound to thee;
Besides, I'll make a present recompense.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

127

V,1,2478

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY]

128

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Falstaff. I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor
old man: but I came from her, Master Brook, like a
poor old woman. That same knave Ford, her husband,
hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him,
Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell
you: he beat me grievously, in the shape of a
woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear
not Goliath with a weaver's beam; because I know
also life is a shuttle. I am in haste; go along
with me: I'll tell you all, Master Brook. Since I
plucked geese, played truant and whipped top, I knew
not what 'twas to be beaten till lately. Follow
me: I'll tell you strange things of this knave
Ford, on whom to-night I will be revenged, and I
will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow.
Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

129

V,2,2511

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]

130

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Page. The night is dark; light and spirits will become it
well. Heaven prosper our sport! No man means evil
but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.
Let's away; follow me.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

131

V,3,2527

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS]

132

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Mistress Ford. The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

133

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised, with others as Fairies]

134

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Sir Hugh Evans. Trib, trib, fairies; come; and remember your parts:
be pold, I pray you; follow me into the pit; and
when I give the watch-'ords, do as I pid you:
come, come; trib, trib.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

135

V,5,2559

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter FALSTAFF disguised as Herne]

136

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Falstaff. The Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute
draws on. Now, the hot-blooded gods assist me!
Remember, Jove, thou wast a bull for thy Europa; love
set on thy horns. O powerful love! that, in some
respects, makes a beast a man, in some other, a man
a beast. You were also, Jupiter, a swan for the love
of Leda. O omnipotent Love! how near the god drew
to the complexion of a goose! A fault done first in
the form of a beast. O Jove, a beastly fault! And
then another fault in the semblance of a fowl; think
on 't, Jove; a foul fault! When gods have hot
backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a
Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i' the
forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can
blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my
doe?

(stage directions). [Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE]

137

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Falstaff. 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!

(stage directions). [Noise within]

138

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Mistress Ford. [with Mistress Page] Away, away!

(stage directions). [They run off]

139

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Falstaff. They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die:
I'll wink and couch: no man their works must eye.

(stage directions). [Lies down upon his face]

140

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Sir Hugh Evans. Come, will this wood take fire?

(stage directions). [They burn him with their tapers]

141

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Hostess Quickly. Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire!
About him, fairies; sing a scornful rhyme;
And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time.
SONG.
Fie on sinful fantasy!
Fie on lust and luxury!
Lust is but a bloody fire,
Kindled with unchaste desire,
Fed in heart, whose flames aspire
As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher.
Pinch him, fairies, mutually;
Pinch him for his villany;
Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about,
Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out.
[During this song they pinch FALSTAFF. DOCTOR CAIUS]
comes one way, and steals away a boy in green;
SLENDER another way, and takes off a boy in white;
and FENTON comes and steals away ANN PAGE.
A noise of hunting is heard within. All the
Fairies run away. FALSTAFF pulls off his buck's
head, and rises]

(stage directions). [Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, and MISTRESS FORD]

142

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Mistress Page. [Aside] Doctors doubt that: if Anne Page be my
daughter, she is, by this, Doctor Caius' wife.

(stage directions). [Enter SLENDER]

143

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Mistress Page. Good George, be not angry: I knew of your purpose;
turned my daughter into green; and, indeed, she is
now with the doctor at the deanery, and there married.

(stage directions). [Enter DOCTOR CAIUS]

144

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Doctor Caius. Ay, by gar, and 'tis a boy: by gar, I'll raise all Windsor.

(stage directions). [Exit]

145

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Ford. Let it be so. Sir John,
To Master Brook you yet shall hold your word
For he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]