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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Page

171

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

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

197

Nay, but understand me.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

201

Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says: I pray
you, pardon me; he's a justice of peace in his
country, simple though I stand here.

4

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.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

224

Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz: what I do
is to pleasure you, coz. Can you love the maid?

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

283

Nay, pray you, lead the way.

7

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.

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Ford

603

Nay, I'll ne'er believe that; I have to show to the contrary.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Page

646

Nay, I know not: it makes me almost ready to
wrangle with mine own honesty. I'll entertain
myself like one that I am not acquainted withal;
for, sure, unless he know some strain in me, that I
know not myself, he would never have boarded me in this fury.

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Ford

658

Nay, I will consent to act any villany against him,
that may not sully the chariness of our honesty. O,
that my husband saw this letter! it would give
eternal food to his jealousy.

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Hostess Quickly

853

Marry, this is the short and the long of it; you
have brought her into such a canaries as 'tis
wonderful. The best courtier of them all, when the
court lay at Windsor, could never have brought her
to such a canary. Yet there has been knights, and
lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches, I warrant
you, coach after coach, letter after letter, gift
after gift; smelling so sweetly, all musk, and so
rushling, I warrant you, in silk and gold; and in
such alligant terms; and in such wine and sugar of
the best and the fairest, that would have won any
woman's heart; and, I warrant you, they could never
get an eye-wink of her: I had myself twenty angels
given me this morning; but I defy all angels, in
any such sort, as they say, but in the way of
honesty: and, I warrant you, they could never get
her so much as sip on a cup with the proudest of
them all: and yet there has been earls, nay, which
is more, pensioners; but, I warrant you, all is one with her.

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Hostess Quickly

915

Nay, but do so, then: and, look you, he may come and
go between you both; and in any case have a
nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and
the boy never need to understand any thing; for
'tis not good that children should know any
wickedness: old folks, you know, have discretion,
as they say, and know the world.

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Page

1263

Nay, good master parson, keep in your weapon.

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2]

Mistress Page

1313

Nay, keep your way, little gallant; you were wont to
be a follower, but now you are a leader. Whether
had you rather lead mine eyes, or eye your master's heels?

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.

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Page

1565

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

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Fenton

1701

Nay, Master Page, be not impatient.

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Hostess Quickly

1728

This is my doing, now: 'Nay,' said I, 'will you cast
away your child on a fool, and a physician? Look on
Master Fenton:' this is my doing.

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Falstaff

1832

Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook, what I have
suffered to bring this woman to evil for your good.
Being thus crammed in the basket, a couple of Ford's
knaves, his hinds, were called forth by their
mistress to carry me in the name of foul clothes to
Datchet-lane: they took me on their shoulders; met
the jealous knave their master in the door, who
asked them once or twice what they had in their
basket: I quaked for fear, lest the lunatic knave
would have searched it; but fate, ordaining he
should be a cuckold, held his hand. Well: on went he
for a search, and away went I for foul clothes. But
mark the sequel, Master Brook: I suffered the pangs
of three several deaths; first, an intolerable
fright, to be detected with a jealous rotten
bell-wether; next, to be compassed, like a good
bilbo, in the circumference of a peck, hilt to
point, heel to head; and then, to be stopped in,
like a strong distillation, with stinking clothes
that fretted in their own grease: think of that,—a
man of my kidney,—think of that,—that am as subject
to heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution
and thaw: it was a miracle to scape suffocation.
And in the height of this bath, when I was more than
half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be
thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot,
in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of
that,—hissing hot,—think of that, Master Brook.

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Page

2055

Nay, but he'll be here presently: let's go dress him
like the witch of Brentford.