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Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
Slender |
182 |
I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of
Songs and Sonnets here.
[Enter SIMPLE]
How now, Simple! where have you been? I must wait
on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles
about you, have you?
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2 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
Sir Hugh Evans |
218 |
Nay, Got's lords and his ladies! you must speak
possitable, if you can carry her your desires
towards her.
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3 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
Robert Shallow |
221 |
That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?
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4 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3] |
Falstaff |
308 |
Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my
followers.
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5 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3] |
Falstaff |
335 |
There is no remedy; I must cony-catch; I must shift.
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6 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3] |
Pistol |
336 |
Young ravens must have food.
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7 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4] |
Hostess Quickly |
523 |
Sir, the maid loves you, and all shall be well. We
must give folks leave to prate: what, the good-jer!
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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.
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9 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2] |
Ford |
957 |
Good Sir John, I sue for yours: not to charge you;
for I must let you understand I think myself in
better plight for a lender than you are: the which
hath something embolden'd me to this unseasoned
intrusion; for they say, if money go before, all
ways do lie open.
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10 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2] |
Ford |
971 |
Sir, I hear you are a scholar,—I will be brief
with you,—and you have been a man long known to me,
though I had never so good means, as desire, to make
myself acquainted with you. I shall discover a
thing to you, wherein I must very much lay open mine
own imperfection: but, good Sir John, as you have
one eye upon my follies, as you hear them unfolded,
turn another into the register of your own; that I
may pass with a reproof the easier, sith you
yourself know how easy it is to be such an offender.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3] |
Robert Shallow |
1146 |
It will be found so, Master Page. Master Doctor
Caius, I am come to fetch you home. I am sworn of
the peace: you have showed yourself a wise
physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise
and patient churchman. You must go with me, master doctor.
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12 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2] |
Robert Shallow |
1364 |
I must excuse myself, Master Ford.
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13 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2] |
Slender |
1365 |
And so must I, sir: we have appointed to dine with
Mistress Anne, and I would not break with her for
more money than I'll speak of.
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14 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3] |
Mistress Page |
1410 |
Give your men the charge; we must be brief.
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15 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3] |
Mistress Ford |
1481 |
Nay, I must tell you, so you do; or else I could not
be in that mind.
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16 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3] |
Ford |
1597 |
Ay, ay; I must bear it.
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17 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4] |
Fenton |
1633 |
Why, thou must be thyself.
He doth object I am too great of birth—,
And that, my state being gall'd with my expense,
I seek to heal it only by his wealth:
Besides these, other bars he lays before me,
My riots past, my wild societies;
And tells me 'tis a thing impossible
I should love thee but as a property.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4] |
Fenton |
1710 |
Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter
In such a righteous fashion as I do,
Perforce, against all cheques, rebukes and manners,
I must advance the colours of my love
And not retire: let me have your good will.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4] |
Mistress Page |
1720 |
Come, trouble not yourself. Good Master Fenton,
I will not be your friend nor enemy:
My daughter will I question how she loves you,
And as I find her, so am I affected.
Till then farewell, sir: she must needs go in;
Her father will be angry.
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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4] |
Hostess Quickly |
1733 |
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!
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