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The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

      — Sonnet XX

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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

13

All his successors gone before him hath done't; and
all his ancestors that come after him may: they may
give the dozen white luces in their coat.

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]

Page

178

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

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

191

Come, coz; come, coz; we stay for you. A word with
you, coz; marry, this, coz: there is, as 'twere, a
tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh
here. Do you understand me?

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Anne Page

246

Will't please your worship to come in, sir?

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Anne Page

257

I may not go in without your worship: they will not
sit till you come.

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Page

280

Come, gentle Master Slender, come; we stay for you.

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Page

282

By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! come, come.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Page

284

Come on, sir.

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 2]

Sir Hugh Evans

297

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.

11

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?

12

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.

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Doctor Caius

475

What shall de honest man do in my closet? dere is
no honest man dat shall come in my closet.

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Simple

500

[Aside to MISTRESS QUICKLY] 'Tis a great charge to
come under one body's hand.

15

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.

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

534

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

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Ford

608

O woman, if it were not for one trifling respect, I
could come to such honour!

18

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.

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Page

666

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

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

708

[MISTRESS PAGE and MISTRESS FORD come forward]

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