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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

173

O heaven! this is Mistress Anne Page.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Pistol

324

O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Falstaff

363

O, she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a
greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye did
seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass! Here's
another letter to her: she bears the purse too; she
is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will
be cheater to them both, and they shall be
exchequers to me; they shall be my East and West
Indies, and I will trade to them both. Go bear thou
this letter to Mistress Page; and thou this to
Mistress Ford: we will thrive, lads, we will thrive.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

431

How say you? O, I should remember him: does he not
hold up his head, as it were, and strut in his gait?

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Doctor Caius

469

O diable, diable! vat is in my closet? Villain! larron!
[Pulling SIMPLE out]
Rugby, my rapier!

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Page

568

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.

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Ford

605

Well, I do then; yet I say I could show you to the
contrary. O Mistress Page, give me some counsel!

8

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!

9

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.

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Pistol

678

With liver burning hot. Prevent, or go thou,
Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels:
O, odious is the name!

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

1018

O, sir!

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Ford

1029

O, understand my drift. She dwells so securely on
the excellency of her honour, that the folly of my
soul dares not present itself: she is too bright to
be looked against. Now, could I could come to her
with any detection in my hand, my desires had
instance and argument to commend themselves: I
could drive her then from the ward of her purity,
her reputation, her marriage-vow, and a thousand
other her defences, which now are too too strongly
embattled against me. What say you to't, Sir John?

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Ford

1042

O good sir!

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Robert Shallow

1259

[Aside] O sweet Anne Page!

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Slender

1300

[Aside] O sweet Anne Page!

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2]

Mistress Page

1318

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

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Falstaff

1444

Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let
me die, for I have lived long enough: this is the
period of my ambition: O this blessed hour!

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Mistress Ford

1447

O sweet Sir John!

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Mistress Page

1491

O Mistress Ford, what have you done? You're shamed,
you're overthrown, you're undone for ever!

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Mistress Page

1494

O well-a-day, Mistress Ford! having an honest man
to your husband, to give him such cause of suspicion!