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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Windsor. Before PAGE's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>In the county of Gloucester, justice of peace and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>'Coram.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>Ay, cousin Slender, and 'Custalourum.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>Ay, and 'Rato-lorum' too; and a gentleman born,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>master parson; who writes himself 'Armigero,' in any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, 'Armigero.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>Ay, that I do; and have done any time these three</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>hundred years.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>All his successors gone before him hath done't; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>all his ancestors that come after him may: they may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>give the dozen white luces in their coat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>It is an old coat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>The dozen white louses do become an old coat well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>man, and signifies love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>I may quarter, coz.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>You may, by marrying.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>It is marring indeed, if he quarter it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>Not a whit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>Yes, py'r lady; if he has a quarter of your coat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>there is but three skirts for yourself, in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>simple conjectures: but that is all one. If Sir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>benevolence to make atonements and compremises</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>between you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>The council shall bear it; it is a riot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>It is not meet the council hear a riot; there is no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>fear of Got in a riot: the council, look you, shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>desire to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>riot; take your vizaments in that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>Ha! o' my life, if I were young again, the sword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>should end it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>It is petter that friends is the sword, and end it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>and there is also another device in my prain, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>peradventure prings goot discretions with it: there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>is Anne Page, which is daughter to Master Thomas</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>Page, which is pretty virginity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and speaks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>small like a woman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>and gold and silver, is her grandsire upon his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>death's-bed--Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>--give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>old: it were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>Abraham and Mistress Anne Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>Ay, and her father is make her a petter penny.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>I know the young gentlewoman; she has good gifts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>Well, let us see honest Master Page. Is Falstaff there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>despise one that is false, or as I despise one that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>is not true. The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers. I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>peat the door for Master Page.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Knocks</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>What, hoa! Got pless your house here!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>[Within] Who's there?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAGE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>Here is Got's plessing, and your friend, and Justice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>Shallow; and here young Master Slender, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>peradventures shall tell you another tale, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>matters grow to your likings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>I am glad to see your worships well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>I thank you for my venison, Master Shallow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>Master Page, I am glad to see you: much good do it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>your good heart! I wished your venison better; it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>was ill killed. How doth good Mistress Page?--and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>thank you always with my heart, la! with my heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>Sir, I thank you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>Sir, I thank you; by yea and no, I do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>I am glad to see you, good Master Slender.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>How does your fallow greyhound, sir? I heard say he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>was outrun on Cotsall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>It could not be judged, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>You'll not confess, you'll not confess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>That he will not. 'Tis your fault, 'tis your fault;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>'tis a good dog.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>A cur, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog: can there be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>more said? he is good and fair. Is Sir John</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>Falstaff here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>Sir, he is within; and I would I could do a good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>office between you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>He hath wronged me, Master Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>Sir, he doth in some sort confess it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>If it be confessed, it is not redress'd: is not that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>so, Master Page? He hath wronged me; indeed he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>hath, at a word, he hath, believe me: Robert</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>Shallow, esquire, saith, he is wronged.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>Here comes Sir John.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, NYM, and PISTOL</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>broke open my lodge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>But not kissed your keeper's daughter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>Tut, a pin! this shall be answered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>I will answer it straight; I have done all this.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>That is now answered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>The council shall know this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>'Twere better for you if it were known in counsel:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>you'll be laughed at.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>Pauca verba, Sir John; goot worts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>Good worts! good cabbage. Slender, I broke your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>head: what matter have you against me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>Marry, sir, I have matter in my head against you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>and against your cony-catching rascals, Bardolph,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>Nym, and Pistol.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>You Banbury cheese!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>Ay, it is no matter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>How now, Mephostophilus!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>Ay, it is no matter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>Slice, I say! pauca, pauca: slice! that's my humour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>Where's Simple, my man? Can you tell, cousin?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>Peace, I pray you. Now let us understand. There is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>three umpires in this matter, as I understand; that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>is, Master Page, fidelicet Master Page; and there is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>myself, fidelicet myself; and the three party is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>lastly and finally, mine host of the Garter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>We three, to hear it and end it between them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note-</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>book; and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>as great discreetly as we can.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>Pistol!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>He hears with ears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>The tevil and his tam! what phrase is this, 'He</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>hears with ear'? why, it is affectations.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>Pistol, did you pick Master Slender's purse?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>Ay, by these gloves, did he, or I would I might</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>never come in mine own great chamber again else, of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Edward</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>shovel-boards, that cost me two shilling and two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>pence apiece of Yead Miller, by these gloves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>Is this true, Pistol?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>No; it is false, if it is a pick-purse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>Ha, thou mountain-foreigner! Sir John and Master mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>I combat challenge of this latten bilbo.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>Word of denial in thy labras here!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>Word of denial: froth and scum, thou liest!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>By these gloves, then, 'twas he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>Be avised, sir, and pass good humours: I will say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>'marry trap' with you, if you run the nuthook's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>humour on me; that is the very note of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>By this hat, then, he in the red face had it; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>though I cannot remember what I did when you made me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>What say you, Scarlet and John?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>Why, sir, for my part I say the gentleman had drunk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>himself out of his five sentences.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>It is his five senses: fie, what the ignorance is!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>so conclusions passed the careires.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but 'tis no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>matter: I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>So Got udge me, that is a virtuous mind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen; you hear it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ANNE PAGE, with wine; MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE, following</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we'll drink within.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit ANNE PAGE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.166>O heaven! this is Mistress Anne Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.167>How now, Mistress Ford!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.168>Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well met:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.169>by your leave, good mistress.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kisses her</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.170>Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.171>hot venison pasty to dinner: come, gentlemen, I hope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.172>we shall drink down all unkindness.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all except SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.173>I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.174>Songs and Sonnets here.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIMPLE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.175>How now, Simple! where have you been? I must wait</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.176>on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.177>about you, have you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.178>Book of Riddles! why, did you not lend it to Alice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.179>Shortcake upon All-hallowmas last, a fortnight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.180>afore Michaelmas?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.181>Come, coz; come, coz; we stay for you. A word with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.182>you, coz; marry, this, coz: there is, as 'twere, a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.183>tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.184>here. Do you understand me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.185>Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable; if it be so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.186>I shall do that that is reason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.187>Nay, but understand me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.188>So I do, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.189>Give ear to his motions, Master Slender: I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.190>description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.191>Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says: I pray</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.192>you, pardon me; he's a justice of peace in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.193>country, simple though I stand here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.194>But that is not the question: the question is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.195>concerning your marriage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.196>Ay, there's the point, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.197>Marry, is it; the very point of it; to Mistress Anne Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.198>Why, if it be so, I will marry her upon any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.199>reasonable demands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.200>But can you affection the 'oman? Let us command to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.201>know that of your mouth or of your lips; for divers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.202>philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.203>mouth. Therefore, precisely, can you carry your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.204>good will to the maid?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.205>Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.206>I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.207>would do reason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.208>Nay, Got's lords and his ladies! you must speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.209>possitable, if you can carry her your desires</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.210>towards her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.211>That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.212>I will do a greater thing than that, upon your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.213>request, cousin, in any reason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.214>Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz: what I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.215>is to pleasure you, coz. Can you love the maid?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.216>I will marry her, sir, at your request: but if there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.217>be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.218>decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.219>married and have more occasion to know one another;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.220>I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.221>but if you say, 'Marry her,' I will marry her; that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.222>I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.223>It is a fery discretion answer; save the fall is in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.224>the ort 'dissolutely:' the ort is, according to our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.225>meaning, 'resolutely:' his meaning is good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.226>Ay, I think my cousin meant well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.227>Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.228>Here comes fair Mistress Anne.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter ANNE PAGE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.229>Would I were young for your sake, Mistress Anne!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.230>The dinner is on the table; my father desires your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.231>worships' company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.232>I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.233>Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt SHALLOW and SIR HUGH EVANS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.234>Will't please your worship to come in, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.235>No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.236>The dinner attends you, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.237>I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.238>sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.239>cousin Shallow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit SIMPLE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.240>A justice of peace sometimes may be beholding to his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.241>friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.242>yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? Yet I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.243>live like a poor gentleman born.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.244>I may not go in without your worship: they will not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.245>sit till you come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.246>I' faith, I'll eat nothing; I thank you as much as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.247>though I did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.248>I pray you, sir, walk in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.249>I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.250>my shin th' other day with playing at sword and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.251>dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.252>dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.253>abide the smell of hot meat since. Why do your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.254>dogs bark so? be there bears i' the town?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.255>I think there are, sir; I heard them talked of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.256>I love the sport well but I shall as soon quarrel at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.257>it as any man in England. You are afraid, if you see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.258>the bear loose, are you not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.259>Ay, indeed, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech126><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.260>That's meat and drink to me, now. I have seen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.261>Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.262>the chain; but, I warrant you, the women have so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.263>cried and shrieked at it, that it passed: but women,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.264>indeed, cannot abide 'em; they are very ill-favored</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.265>rough things.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter PAGE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech127><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.266>Come, gentle Master Slender, come; we stay for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech128><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.267>I'll eat nothing, I thank you, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech129><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.268>By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! come, come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech130><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.269>Nay, pray you, lead the way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech131><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.270>Come on, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech132><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.271>Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech133><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.272>Not I, sir; pray you, keep on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech134><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.273>I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.274>You do yourself wrong, indeed, la!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>his wringer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>Well, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>is a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>and require her to solicit your master's desires to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A room in the Garter Inn.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FALSTAFF, Host, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, and ROBIN</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.1>Mine host of the Garter!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.2>What says my bully-rook? speak scholarly and wisely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.3>Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.4>followers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.5>Discard, bully Hercules; cashier: let them wag; trot, trot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.6>I sit at ten pounds a week.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.7>Thou'rt an emperor, Caesar, Keisar, and Pheezar. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.8>will entertain Bardolph; he shall draw, he shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.9>tap: said I well, bully Hector?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.10>Do so, good mine host.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.11>I have spoke; let him follow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.12>Let me see thee froth and lime: I am at a word; follow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.13>Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.14>an old cloak makes a new jerkin; a withered</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.15>serving-man a fresh tapster. Go; adieu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.16>It is a life that I have desired: I will thrive.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.17>O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.18>He was gotten in drink: is not the humour conceited?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.19>I am glad I am so acquit of this tinderbox: his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.20>thefts were too open; his filching was like an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.21>unskilful singer; he kept not time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.22>The good humour is to steal at a minute's rest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.23>'Convey,' the wise it call. 'Steal!' foh! a fico</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.24>for the phrase!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.25>Well, sirs, I am almost out at heels.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.26>Why, then, let kibes ensue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.27>There is no remedy; I must cony-catch; I must shift.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.28>Young ravens must have food.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.29>Which of you know Ford of this town?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.30>I ken the wight: he is of substance good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.31>My honest lads, I will tell you what I am about.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.32>Two yards, and more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.33>No quips now, Pistol! Indeed, I am in the waist two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.34>yards about; but I am now about no waste; I am about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.35>thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.36>wife: I spy entertainment in her; she discourses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.37>she carves, she gives the leer of invitation: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.38>can construe the action of her familiar style; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.39>the hardest voice of her behavior, to be Englished</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.40>rightly, is, 'I am Sir John Falstaff's.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.41>He hath studied her will, and translated her will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.42>out of honesty into English.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.43>The anchor is deep: will that humour pass?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.44>Now, the report goes she has all the rule of her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.45>husband's purse: he hath a legion of angels.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.46>As many devils entertain; and 'To her, boy,' say I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.47>The humour rises; it is good: humour me the angels.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.48>I have writ me here a letter to her: and here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.49>another to Page's wife, who even now gave me good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.50>eyes too, examined my parts with most judicious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.51>oeillades; sometimes the beam of her view gilded my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.52>foot, sometimes my portly belly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.53>Then did the sun on dunghill shine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.54>I thank thee for that humour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.55>O, she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.56>greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.57>seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass! Here's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.58>another letter to her: she bears the purse too; she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.59>is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.60>be cheater to them both, and they shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.61>exchequers to me; they shall be my East and West</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.62>Indies, and I will trade to them both. Go bear thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.63>this letter to Mistress Page; and thou this to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.64>Mistress Ford: we will thrive, lads, we will thrive.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.65>Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.66>And by my side wear steel? then, Lucifer take all!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.67>I will run no base humour: here, take the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.68>humour-letter: I will keep the havior of reputation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.69>[To ROBIN] Hold, sirrah, bear you these letters tightly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.70>Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.71>Rogues, hence, avaunt! vanish like hailstones, go;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.72>Trudge, plod away o' the hoof; seek shelter, pack!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.73>Falstaff will learn the humour of the age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.74>French thrift, you rogues; myself and skirted page.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt FALSTAFF and ROBIN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.75>Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd and fullam holds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.76>And high and low beguiles the rich and poor:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.77>Tester I'll have in pouch when thou shalt lack,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.78>Base Phrygian Turk!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.79>I have operations which be humours of revenge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.80>Wilt thou revenge?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.81>By welkin and her star!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.82>With wit or steel?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.83>With both the humours, I:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.84>I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.85> And I to Ford shall eke unfold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.86>How Falstaff, varlet vile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.87>His dove will prove, his gold will hold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.88>And his soft couch defile.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.89>My humour shall not cool: I will incense Page to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.90>deal with poison; I will possess him with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.91>yellowness, for the revolt of mine is dangerous:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.92>that is my true humour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.93>Thou art the Mars of malecontents: I second thee; troop on.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. A room in DOCTOR CAIUS' house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, SIMPLE, and RUGBY</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.1>What, John Rugby! I pray thee, go to the casement,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.2>and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.3>Caius, coming. If he do, i' faith, and find any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.4>body in the house, here will be an old abusing of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.5>God's patience and the king's English.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>RUGBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.6>I'll go watch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.7>Go; and we'll have a posset for't soon at night, in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.8>faith, at the latter end of a sea-coal fire.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit RUGBY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.9>An honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever servant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.10>shall come in house withal, and, I warrant you, no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.11>tell-tale nor no breed-bate: his worst fault is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.12>that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.13>that way: but nobody but has his fault; but let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.14>that pass. Peter Simple, you say your name is?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.15>Ay, for fault of a better.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.16>And Master Slender's your master?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.17>Ay, forsooth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.18>Does he not wear a great round beard, like a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.19>glover's paring-knife?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.20>No, forsooth: he hath but a little wee face, with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.21>little yellow beard, a Cain-coloured beard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.22>A softly-sprighted man, is he not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.23>Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.24>as any is between this and his head; he hath fought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.25>with a warrener.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.26>How say you? O, I should remember him: does he not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.27>hold up his head, as it were, and strut in his gait?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.28>Yes, indeed, does he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.29>Well, heaven send Anne Page no worse fortune! Tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.30>Master Parson Evans I will do what I can for your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.31>master: Anne is a good girl, and I wish--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter RUGBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>RUGBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.32>Out, alas! here comes my master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.33>We shall all be shent. Run in here, good young man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.34>go into this closet: he will not stay long.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Shuts SIMPLE in the closet</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.35>What, John Rugby! John! what, John, I say!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.36>Go, John, go inquire for my master; I doubt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.37>he be not well, that he comes not home.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Singing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.38>And down, down, adown-a, & c.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DOCTOR CAIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.39>Vat is you sing? I do not like des toys. Pray you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.40>go and vetch me in my closet un boitier vert, a box,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.41>a green-a box: do intend vat I speak? a green-a box.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.42>Ay, forsooth; I'll fetch it you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.43>I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.44>the young man, he would have been horn-mad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.45>Fe, fe, fe, fe! ma foi, il fait fort chaud. Je</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.46>m'en vais a la cour--la grande affaire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.47>Is it this, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.48>Oui; mette le au mon pocket: depeche, quickly. Vere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.49>is dat knave Rugby?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.50>What, John Rugby! John!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>RUGBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.51>Here, sir!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.52>You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. Come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.53>take-a your rapier, and come after my heel to the court.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>RUGBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.54>'Tis ready, sir, here in the porch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.55>By my trot, I tarry too long. Od's me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.56>Qu'ai-j'oublie! dere is some simples in my closet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.57>dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.58>Ay me, he'll find the young man here, and be mad!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.59>O diable, diable! vat is in my closet? Villain! larron!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Pulling SIMPLE out</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.60>Rugby, my rapier!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.61>Good master, be content.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.62>Wherefore shall I be content-a?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.63>The young man is an honest man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.64>What shall de honest man do in my closet? dere is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.65>no honest man dat shall come in my closet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.66>I beseech you, be not so phlegmatic. Hear the truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.67>of it: he came of an errand to me from Parson Hugh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.68>Vell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.69>Ay, forsooth; to desire her to--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.70>Peace, I pray you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.71>Peace-a your tongue. Speak-a your tale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.72>To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.73>speak a good word to Mistress Anne Page for my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.74>master in the way of marriage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.75>This is all, indeed, la! but I'll ne'er put my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.76>finger in the fire, and need not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.77>Sir Hugh send-a you? Rugby, baille me some paper.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.78>Tarry you a little-a while.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Writes</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.79>[Aside to SIMPLE] I am glad he is so quiet: if he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.80>had been thoroughly moved, you should have heard him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.81>so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.82>man, I'll do you your master what good I can: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.83>the very yea and the no is, the French doctor, my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.84>master,--I may call him my master, look you, for I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.85>keep his house; and I wash, wring, brew, bake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.86>scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds and do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.87>all myself,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.88>[Aside to MISTRESS QUICKLY] 'Tis a great charge to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.89>come under one body's hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.90>[Aside to SIMPLE] Are you avised o' that? you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.91>shall find it a great charge: and to be up early</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.92>and down late; but notwithstanding,--to tell you in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.93>your ear; I would have no words of it,--my master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.94>himself is in love with Mistress Anne Page: but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.95>notwithstanding that, I know Anne's mind,--that's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.96>neither here nor there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.97>You jack'nape, give-a this letter to Sir Hugh; by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.98>gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut his troat in dee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.99>park; and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.100>to meddle or make. You may be gone; it is not good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.101>you tarry here. By gar, I will cut all his two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.102>stones; by gar, he shall not have a stone to throw</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.103>at his dog:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit SIMPLE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.104>Alas, he speaks but for his friend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.105>It is no matter-a ver dat: do not you tell-a me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.106>dat I shall have Anne Page for myself? By gar, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.107>vill kill de Jack priest; and I have appointed mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.108>host of de Jarteer to measure our weapon. By gar, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.109>will myself have Anne Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.110>Sir, the maid loves you, and all shall be well. We</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.111>must give folks leave to prate: what, the good-jer!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.112>Rugby, come to the court with me. By gar, if I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.113>not Anne Page, I shall turn your head out of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.114>door. Follow my heels, Rugby.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.115>You shall have An fool's-head of your own. No, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.116>know Anne's mind for that: never a woman in Windsor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.117>knows more of Anne's mind than I do; nor can do more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.118>than I do with her, I thank heaven.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.119>[Within] Who's within there? ho!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.120>Who's there, I trow! Come near the house, I pray you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FENTON</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.121>How now, good woman? how dost thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.122>The better that it pleases your good worship to ask.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.123>What news? how does pretty Mistress Anne?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.124>In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and honest, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.125>gentle; and one that is your friend, I can tell you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.126>that by the way; I praise heaven for it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.127>Shall I do any good, thinkest thou? shall I not lose my suit?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.128>Troth, sir, all is in his hands above: but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.129>notwithstanding, Master Fenton, I'll be sworn on a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.130>book, she loves you. Have not your worship a wart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.131>above your eye?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.132>Yes, marry, have I; what of that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.133>Well, thereby hangs a tale: good faith, it is such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.134>another Nan; but, I detest, an honest maid as ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.135>broke bread: we had an hour's talk of that wart. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.136>shall never laugh but in that maid's company! But</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.137>indeed she is given too much to allicholy and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.138>musing: but for you--well, go to.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.139>Well, I shall see her to-day. Hold, there's money</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.140>for thee; let me have thy voice in my behalf: if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.141>thou seest her before me, commend me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.142>Will I? i'faith, that we will; and I will tell your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.143>worship more of the wart the next time we have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.144>confidence; and of other wooers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.145>Well, farewell; I am in great haste now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.146>Farewell to your worship.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit FENTON</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.147>Truly, an honest gentleman: but Anne loves him not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.148>for I know Anne's mind as well as another does. Out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.149>upon't! what have I forgot?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Before PAGE'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MISTRESS PAGE, with a letter</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>Let me see.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>not for his counsellor. You are not young, no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>am I; go to then, there's sympathy: you are merry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>so am I; ha, ha! then there's more sympathy: you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>love sack, and so do I; would you desire better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page,--at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>the least, if the love of soldier can suffice,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>that I love thee. I will not say, pity me; 'tis</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>not a soldier-like phrase: but I say, love me. By me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>Thine own true knight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>By day or night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>Or any kind of light,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>With all his might</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>For thee to fight, JOHN FALSTAFF'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>world! One that is well-nigh worn to pieces with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>age to show himself a young gallant! What an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>unweighed behavior hath this Flemish drunkard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>picked--with the devil's name!--out of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>Why, he hath not been thrice in my company! What</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>should I say to him? I was then frugal of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>mirth: Heaven forgive me! Why, I'll exhibit a bill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>in the parliament for the putting down of men. How</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>shall I be revenged on him? for revenged I will be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>as sure as his guts are made of puddings.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MISTRESS FORD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>Mistress Page! trust me, I was going to your house.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>And, trust me, I was coming to you. You look very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>ill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>Nay, I'll ne'er believe that; I have to show to the contrary.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>Faith, but you do, in my mind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>Well, I do then; yet I say I could show you to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>contrary. O Mistress Page, give me some counsel!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>What's the matter, woman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>O woman, if it were not for one trifling respect, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>could come to such honour!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>Hang the trifle, woman! take the honour. What is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>it? dispense with trifles; what is it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>If I would but go to hell for an eternal moment or so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>I could be knighted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>What? thou liest! Sir Alice Ford! These knights</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>will hack; and so thou shouldst not alter the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>article of thy gentry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>We burn daylight: here, read, read; perceive how I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>might be knighted. I shall think the worse of fat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>men's liking: and yet he would not swear; praised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>women's modesty; and gave such orderly and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness, that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>would have sworn his disposition would have gone to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>the truth of his words; but they do no more adhere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>the tune of 'Green Sleeves.' What tempest, I trow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>belly, ashore at Windsor? How shall I be revenged</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>on him? I think the best way were to entertain him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>with hope, till the wicked fire of lust have melted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>him in his own grease. Did you ever hear the like?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>Letter for letter, but that the name of Page and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>Ford differs! To thy great comfort in this mystery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>of ill opinions, here's the twin-brother of thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>letter: but let thine inherit first; for, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>protest, mine never shall. I warrant he hath a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>thousand of these letters, writ with blank space for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>different names--sure, more,--and these are of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>second edition: he will print them, out of doubt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>for he cares not what he puts into the press, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>he would put us two. I had rather be a giantess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>and lie under Mount Pelion. Well, I will find you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>Why, this is the very same; the very hand, the very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>words. What doth he think of us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>Nay, I know not: it makes me almost ready to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>wrangle with mine own honesty. I'll entertain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>myself like one that I am not acquainted withal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>for, sure, unless he know some strain in me, that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>know not myself, he would never have boarded me in this fury.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>'Boarding,' call you it? I'll be sure to keep him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>above deck.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>So will I if he come under my hatches, I'll never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>to sea again. Let's be revenged on him: let's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>appoint him a meeting; give him a show of comfort in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>his suit and lead him on with a fine-baited delay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>till he hath pawned his horses to mine host of the Garter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>Nay, I will consent to act any villany against him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>that may not sully the chariness of our honesty. O,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>that my husband saw this letter! it would give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>eternal food to his jealousy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>Why, look where he comes; and my good man too: he's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>as far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>and that I hope is an unmeasurable distance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>You are the happier woman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>Let's consult together against this greasy knight.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>Come hither.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They retire</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter FORD with PISTOL, and PAGE with NYM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>Well, I hope it be not so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>Sir John affects thy wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>Why, sir, my wife is not young.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>He wooes both high and low, both rich and poor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>Both young and old, one with another, Ford;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>He loves the gallimaufry: Ford, perpend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>Love my wife!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>With liver burning hot. Prevent, or go thou,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>O, odious is the name!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>What name, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>The horn, I say. Farewell.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>Away, Sir Corporal Nym!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>Believe it, Page; he speaks sense.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>[Aside] I will be patient; I will find out this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>[To PAGE] And this is true; I like not the humour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>of lying. He hath wronged me in some humours: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>should have borne the humoured letter to her; but I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>have a sword and it shall bite upon my necessity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>He loves your wife; there's the short and the long.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122>My name is Corporal Nym; I speak and I avouch; 'tis</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123>true: my name is Nym and Falstaff loves your wife.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>Adieu. I love not the humour of bread and cheese,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>and there's the humour of it. Adieu.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>'The humour of it,' quoth a'! here's a fellow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>frights English out of his wits.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>I will seek out Falstaff.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>I never heard such a drawling, affecting rogue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>If I do find it: well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>o' the town commended him for a true man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>'Twas a good sensible fellow: well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>How now, Meg!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>MISTRESS PAGE and MISTRESS FORD come forward</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135>Whither go you, George? Hark you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>I melancholy! I am not melancholy. Get you home, go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head. Now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>will you go, Mistress Page?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>Have with you. You'll come to dinner, George.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside to MISTRESS FORD</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>Look who comes yonder: she shall be our messenger</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>to this paltry knight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.143>[Aside to MISTRESS PAGE] Trust me, I thought on her:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.144>she'll fit it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.145>You are come to see my daughter Anne?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.146>Ay, forsooth; and, I pray, how does good Mistress Anne?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.147>Go in with us and see: we have an hour's talk with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.148>you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and MISTRESS QUICKLY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.149>How now, Master Ford!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.150>You heard what this knave told me, did you not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.151>Yes: and you heard what the other told me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.152>Do you think there is truth in them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.153>Hang 'em, slaves! I do not think the knight would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.154>offer it: but these that accuse him in his intent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.155>towards our wives are a yoke of his discarded men;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.156>very rogues, now they be out of service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.157>Were they his men?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.158>Marry, were they.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.159>I like it never the better for that. Does he lie at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.160>the Garter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.161>Ay, marry, does he. If he should intend this voyage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.162>towards my wife, I would turn her loose to him; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.163>what he gets more of her than sharp words, let it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.164>lie on my head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.165>I do not misdoubt my wife; but I would be loath to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.166>turn them together. A man may be too confident: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.167>would have nothing lie on my head: I cannot be thus satisfied.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.168>Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.169>there is either liquor in his pate or money in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.170>purse when he looks so merrily.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Host</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.171>How now, mine host!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.172>How now, bully-rook! thou'rt a gentleman.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.173>Cavaleiro-justice, I say!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SHALLOW</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.174>I follow, mine host, I follow. Good even and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.175>twenty, good Master Page! Master Page, will you go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.176>with us? we have sport in hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.177>Tell him, cavaleiro-justice; tell him, bully-rook.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.178>Sir, there is a fray to be fought between Sir Hugh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.179>the Welsh priest and Caius the French doctor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.180>Good mine host o' the Garter, a word with you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drawing him aside</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.181>What sayest thou, my bully-rook?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.182>[To PAGE] Will you go with us to behold it? My</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.183>merry host hath had the measuring of their weapons;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.184>and, I think, hath appointed them contrary places;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.185>for, believe me, I hear the parson is no jester.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.186>Hark, I will tell you what our sport shall be.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They converse apart</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.187>Hast thou no suit against my knight, my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.188>guest-cavaleire?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.189>None, I protest: but I'll give you a pottle of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.190>burnt sack to give me recourse to him and tell him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.191>my name is Brook; only for a jest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.192>My hand, bully; thou shalt have egress and regress;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.193>--said I well?--and thy name shall be Brook. It is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.194>a merry knight. Will you go, An-heires?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.195>Have with you, mine host.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.196>I have heard the Frenchman hath good skill in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.197>his rapier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.198>Tut, sir, I could have told you more. In these times</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.199>you stand on distance, your passes, stoccadoes, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.200>I know not what: 'tis the heart, Master Page; 'tis</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.201>here, 'tis here. I have seen the time, with my long</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.202>sword I would have made you four tall fellows skip like rats.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.203>Here, boys, here, here! shall we wag?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.204>Have with you. I would rather hear them scold than fight.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Host, SHALLOW, and PAGE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.205>Though Page be a secure fool, an stands so firmly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.206>on his wife's frailty, yet I cannot put off my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.207>opinion so easily: she was in his company at Page's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.208>house; and what they made there, I know not. Well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.209>I will look further into't: and I have a disguise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.210>to sound Falstaff. If I find her honest, I lose not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.211>my labour; if she be otherwise, 'tis labour well bestowed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A room in the Garter Inn.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FALSTAFF and PISTOL</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>I will not lend thee a penny.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>Why, then the world's mine oyster.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>Which I with sword will open.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>lay my countenance to pawn; I have grated upon my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>good friends for three reprieves for you and your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>coach-fellow Nym; or else you had looked through</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>the grate, like a geminy of baboons. I am damned in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends, you were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>good soldiers and tall fellows; and when Mistress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took't upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>mine honour thou hadst it not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>Didst not thou share? hadst thou not fifteen pence?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>Reason, you rogue, reason: thinkest thou I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>endanger my soul gratis? At a word, hang no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>about me, I am no gibbet for you. Go. A short knife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>and a throng! To your manor of Pickt-hatch! Go.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>You'll not bear a letter for me, you rogue! you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>stand upon your honour! Why, thou unconfinable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>baseness, it is as much as I can do to keep the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>terms of my honour precise: I, I, I myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>shuffle, to hedge and to lurch; and yet you, rogue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>honour! You will not do it, you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>I do relent: what would thou more of man?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ROBIN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ROBIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>Sir, here's a woman would speak with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>Let her approach.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>Give your worship good morrow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>Good morrow, good wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>Not so, an't please your worship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>Good maid, then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>I'll be sworn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>As my mother was, the first hour I was born.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>I do believe the swearer. What with me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>Two thousand, fair woman: and I'll vouchsafe thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>the hearing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>There is one Mistress Ford, sir:--I pray, come a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>little nearer this ways:--I myself dwell with master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44>Doctor Caius,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>Well, on: Mistress Ford, you say,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>Your worship says very true: I pray your worship,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>come a little nearer this ways.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>I warrant thee, nobody hears; mine own people, mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>own people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>Are they so? God bless them and make them his servants!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.51>Well, Mistress Ford; what of her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.52>Why, sir, she's a good creature. Lord Lord! your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.53>worship's a wanton! Well, heaven forgive you and all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.54>of us, I pray!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.55>Mistress Ford; come, Mistress Ford,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.56>Marry, this is the short and the long of it; you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.57>have brought her into such a canaries as 'tis</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.58>wonderful. The best courtier of them all, when the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.59>court lay at Windsor, could never have brought her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.60>to such a canary. Yet there has been knights, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.61>lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches, I warrant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.62>you, coach after coach, letter after letter, gift</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.63>after gift; smelling so sweetly, all musk, and so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.64>rushling, I warrant you, in silk and gold; and in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.65>such alligant terms; and in such wine and sugar of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.66>the best and the fairest, that would have won any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.67>woman's heart; and, I warrant you, they could never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.68>get an eye-wink of her: I had myself twenty angels</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.69>given me this morning; but I defy all angels, in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.70>any such sort, as they say, but in the way of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.71>honesty: and, I warrant you, they could never get</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.72>her so much as sip on a cup with the proudest of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.73>them all: and yet there has been earls, nay, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.74>is more, pensioners; but, I warrant you, all is one with her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.75>But what says she to me? be brief, my good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.76>she-Mercury.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.77>Marry, she hath received your letter, for the which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.78>she thanks you a thousand times; and she gives you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.79>to notify that her husband will be absence from his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.80>house between ten and eleven.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.81>Ten and eleven?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.82>Ay, forsooth; and then you may come and see the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.83>picture, she says, that you wot of: Master Ford,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.84>her husband, will be from home. Alas! the sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.85>woman leads an ill life with him: he's a very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.86>jealousy man: she leads a very frampold life with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.87>him, good heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.88>Ten and eleven. Woman, commend me to her; I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.89>not fail her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.90>Why, you say well. But I have another messenger to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.91>your worship. Mistress Page hath her hearty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.92>commendations to you too: and let me tell you in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.93>your ear, she's as fartuous a civil modest wife, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.94>one, I tell you, that will not miss you morning nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.95>evening prayer, as any is in Windsor, whoe'er be the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.96>other: and she bade me tell your worship that her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.97>husband is seldom from home; but she hopes there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.98>will come a time. I never knew a woman so dote upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.99>a man: surely I think you have charms, la; yes, in truth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.100>Not I, I assure thee: setting the attractions of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.101>good parts aside I have no other charms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.102>Blessing on your heart for't!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.103>But, I pray thee, tell me this: has Ford's wife and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.104>Page's wife acquainted each other how they love me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.105>That were a jest indeed! they have not so little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.106>grace, I hope: that were a trick indeed! but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.107>Mistress Page would desire you to send her your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.108>little page, of all loves: her husband has a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.109>marvellous infection to the little page; and truly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.110>Master Page is an honest man. Never a wife in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.111>Windsor leads a better life than she does: do what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.112>she will, say what she will, take all, pay all, go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.113>to bed when she list, rise when she list, all is as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.114>she will: and truly she deserves it; for if there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.115>be a kind woman in Windsor, she is one. You must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.116>send her your page; no remedy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.117>Why, I will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.118>Nay, but do so, then: and, look you, he may come and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.119>go between you both; and in any case have a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.120>nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.121>the boy never need to understand any thing; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.122>'tis not good that children should know any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.123>wickedness: old folks, you know, have discretion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.124>as they say, and know the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.125>Fare thee well: commend me to them both: there's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.126>my purse; I am yet thy debtor. Boy, go along with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.127>this woman.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY and ROBIN</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.128>This news distracts me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.129>This punk is one of Cupid's carriers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.130>Clap on more sails; pursue; up with your fights:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.131>Give fire: she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.132>Sayest thou so, old Jack? go thy ways; I'll make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.133>more of thy old body than I have done. Will they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.134>yet look after thee? Wilt thou, after the expense</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.135>of so much money, be now a gainer? Good body, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.136>thank thee. Let them say 'tis grossly done; so it be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.137>fairly done, no matter.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.138>Sir John, there's one Master Brook below would fain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.139>speak with you, and be acquainted with you; and hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.140>sent your worship a morning's draught of sack.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.141>Brook is his name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.142>Ay, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.143>Call him in.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.144>Such Brooks are welcome to me, that o'erflow such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.145>liquor. Ah, ha! Mistress Ford and Mistress Page</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.146>have I encompassed you? go to; via!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BARDOLPH, with FORD disguised</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.147>Bless you, sir!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.148>And you, sir! Would you speak with me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.149>I make bold to press with so little preparation upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.150>you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.151>You're welcome. What's your will? Give us leave, drawer.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.152>Sir, I am a gentleman that have spent much; my name is Brook.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.153>Good Master Brook, I desire more acquaintance of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.154>Good Sir John, I sue for yours: not to charge you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.155>for I must let you understand I think myself in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.156>better plight for a lender than you are: the which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.157>hath something embolden'd me to this unseasoned</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.158>intrusion; for they say, if money go before, all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.159>ways do lie open.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.160>Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.161>Troth, and I have a bag of money here troubles me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.162>if you will help to bear it, Sir John, take all, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.163>half, for easing me of the carriage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.164>Sir, I know not how I may deserve to be your porter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.165>I will tell you, sir, if you will give me the hearing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.166>Speak, good Master Brook: I shall be glad to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.167>your servant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.168>Sir, I hear you are a scholar,--I will be brief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.169>with you,--and you have been a man long known to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.170>though I had never so good means, as desire, to make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.171>myself acquainted with you. I shall discover a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.172>thing to you, wherein I must very much lay open mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.173>own imperfection: but, good Sir John, as you have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.174>one eye upon my follies, as you hear them unfolded,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.175>turn another into the register of your own; that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.176>may pass with a reproof the easier, sith you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.177>yourself know how easy it is to be such an offender.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.178>Very well, sir; proceed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.179>There is a gentlewoman in this town; her husband's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.180>name is Ford.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.181>Well, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.182>I have long loved her, and, I protest to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.183>bestowed much on her; followed her with a doting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.184>observance; engrossed opportunities to meet her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.185>fee'd every slight occasion that could but niggardly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.186>give me sight of her; not only bought many presents</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.187>to give her, but have given largely to many to know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.188>what she would have given; briefly, I have pursued</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.189>her as love hath pursued me; which hath been on the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.190>wing of all occasions. But whatsoever I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.191>merited, either in my mind or, in my means, meed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.192>I am sure, I have received none; unless experience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.193>be a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.194>rate, and that hath taught me to say this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.195>'Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.196>Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.197>Have you received no promise of satisfaction at her hands?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.198>Never.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.199>Have you importuned her to such a purpose?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.200>Never.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.201>Of what quality was your love, then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.202>Like a fair house built on another man's ground; so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.203>that I have lost my edifice by mistaking the place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.204>where I erected it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.205>To what purpose have you unfolded this to me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.206>When I have told you that, I have told you all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.207>Some say, that though she appear honest to me, yet in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.208>other places she enlargeth her mirth so far that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.209>there is shrewd construction made of her. Now, Sir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.210>John, here is the heart of my purpose: you are a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.211>gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.212>discourse, of great admittance, authentic in your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.213>place and person, generally allowed for your many</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.214>war-like, court-like, and learned preparations.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.215>O, sir!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.216>Believe it, for you know it. There is money; spend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.217>it, spend it; spend more; spend all I have; only</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.218>give me so much of your time in exchange of it, as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.219>to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.220>Ford's wife: use your art of wooing; win her to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.221>consent to you: if any man may, you may as soon as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.222>any.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.223>Would it apply well to the vehemency of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.224>affection, that I should win what you would enjoy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.225>Methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.226>O, understand my drift. She dwells so securely on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.227>the excellency of her honour, that the folly of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.228>soul dares not present itself: she is too bright to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.229>be looked against. Now, could I could come to her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.230>with any detection in my hand, my desires had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.231>instance and argument to commend themselves: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.232>could drive her then from the ward of her purity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.233>her reputation, her marriage-vow, and a thousand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.234>other her defences, which now are too too strongly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.235>embattled against me. What say you to't, Sir John?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.236>Master Brook, I will first make bold with your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.237>money; next, give me your hand; and last, as I am a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.238>gentleman, you shall, if you will, enjoy Ford's wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.239>O good sir!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.240>I say you shall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.241>Want no money, Sir John; you shall want none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.242>Want no Mistress Ford, Master Brook; you shall want</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.243>none. I shall be with her, I may tell you, by her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.244>own appointment; even as you came in to me, her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.245>assistant or go-between parted from me: I say I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.246>shall be with her between ten and eleven; for at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.247>that time the jealous rascally knave her husband</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.248>will be forth. Come you to me at night; you shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.249>know how I speed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.250>I am blest in your acquaintance. Do you know Ford,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.251>sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.252>Hang him, poor cuckoldly knave! I know him not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.253>yet I wrong him to call him poor; they say the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.254>jealous wittolly knave hath masses of money; for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.255>which his wife seems to me well-favored. I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.256>use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogue's coffer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.257>and there's my harvest-home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.258>I would you knew Ford, sir, that you might avoid him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.259>if you saw him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.260>Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.261>stare him out of his wits; I will awe him with my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.262>cudgel: it shall hang like a meteor o'er the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.263>cuckold's horns. Master Brook, thou shalt know I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.264>will predominate over the peasant, and thou shalt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.265>lie with his wife. Come to me soon at night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.266>Ford's a knave, and I will aggravate his style;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.267>thou, Master Brook, shalt know him for knave and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.268>cuckold. Come to me soon at night.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.269>What a damned Epicurean rascal is this! My heart is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.270>ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.271>improvident jealousy? my wife hath sent to him; the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.272>hour is fixed; the match is made. Would any man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.273>have thought this? See the hell of having a false</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.274>woman! My bed shall be abused, my coffers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.275>ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.276>only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.277>the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.278>does me this wrong. Terms! names! Amaimon sounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.279>well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.280>devils' additions, the names of fiends: but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.281>Cuckold! Wittol!--Cuckold! the devil himself hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.282>not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.283>will trust his wife; he will not be jealous. I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.284>rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.285>the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.286>aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.287>gelding, than my wife with herself; then she plots,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.288>then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.289>think in their hearts they may effect, they will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.290>break their hearts but they will effect. God be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.291>praised for my jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.292>I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.293>Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will about it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.294>better three hours too soon than a minute too late.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.295>Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A field near Windsor.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>Jack Rugby!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>RUGBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>Sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>Vat is de clock, Jack?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>RUGBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>has pray his Pible well, dat he is no come: by gar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>Jack Rugby, he is dead already, if he be come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>RUGBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>He is wise, sir; he knew your worship would kill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>him, if he came.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>Take your rapier, Jack; I vill tell you how I vill kill him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>RUGBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>Alas, sir, I cannot fence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>Villany, take your rapier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>RUGBY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>Forbear; here's company.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Host, SHALLOW, SLENDER, and PAGE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>Bless thee, bully doctor!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>Save you, Master Doctor Caius!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>Now, good master doctor!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>Give you good morrow, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>traverse; to see thee here, to see thee there; to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my Ethiopian? is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>he dead, my Francisco? ha, bully! What says my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>AEsculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder? ha! is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>he dead, bully stale? is he dead?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>By gar, he is de coward Jack priest of de vorld; he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>is not show his face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>Thou art a Castalion-King-Urinal. Hector of Greece, my boy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>I pray you, bear vitness that me have stay six or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>seven, two, tree hours for him, and he is no come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>He is the wiser man, master doctor: he is a curer of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>fight, you go against the hair of your professions.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>Is it not true, Master Page?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>Master Shallow, you have yourself been a great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>fighter, though now a man of peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>Bodykins, Master Page, though I now be old and of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>the peace, if I see a sword out, my finger itches to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>make one. Though we are justices and doctors and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>youth in us; we are the sons of women, Master Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>'Tis true, Master Shallow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>It will be found so, Master Page. Master Doctor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>Caius, I am come to fetch you home. I am sworn of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>the peace: you have showed yourself a wise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>and patient churchman. You must go with me, master doctor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>Pardon, guest-justice. A word, Mounseur Mockwater.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>Mock-vater! vat is dat?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour, bully.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>By gar, den, I have as mush mock-vater as de</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>Englishman. Scurvy jack-dog priest! by gar, me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>vill cut his ears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>Clapper-de-claw! vat is dat?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>That is, he will make thee amends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>for, by gar, me vill have it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>Me tank you for dat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>And, moreover, bully,--but first, master guest, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63>Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>through the town to Frogmore.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside to them</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>Sir Hugh is there, is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>He is there: see what humour he is in; and I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>bring the doctor about by the fields. Will it do well?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>We will do it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>Adieu, good master doctor.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>By gar, me vill kill de priest; for he speak for a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>jack-an-ape to Anne Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>Let him die: sheathe thy impatience, throw cold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.73>water on thy choler: go about the fields with me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.74>through Frogmore: I will bring thee where Mistress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.75>Anne Page is, at a farm-house a-feasting; and thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.76>shalt woo her. Cried I aim? said I well?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.77>By gar, me dank you for dat: by gar, I love you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.78>and I shall procure-a you de good guest, de earl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.79>de knight, de lords, de gentlemen, my patients.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.80>For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.81>Page. Said I well?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.82>By gar, 'tis good; vell said.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.83>Let us wag, then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.84>Come at my heels, Jack Rugby.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. A field near Frogmore.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>I pray you now, good master Slender's serving-man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>and friend Simple by your name, which way have you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>looked for Master Caius, that calls himself doctor of physic?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>way; old Windsor way, and every way but the town</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>I most fehemently desire you you will also look that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>I will, sir.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>'Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>trempling of mind! I shall be glad if he have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>deceived me. How melancholies I am! I will knog</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>his urinals about his knave's costard when I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>good opportunities for the ork. 'Pless my soul!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>To shallow rivers, to whose falls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>Melodious birds sings madrigals;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>There will we make our peds of roses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>And a thousand fragrant posies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>To shallow--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>Mercy on me! I have a great dispositions to cry.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>Melodious birds sing madrigals--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>When as I sat in Pabylon--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>And a thousand vagram posies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>To shallow & c.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter SIMPLE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>He's welcome.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>To shallow rivers, to whose falls-</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>No weapons, sir. There comes my master, Master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>Shallow, and another gentleman, from Frogmore, over</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>the stile, this way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>Pray you, give me my gown; or else keep it in your arms.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>How now, master Parson! Good morrow, good Sir Hugh.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>from his book, and it is wonderful.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>[Aside] Ah, sweet Anne Page!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>'Save you, good Sir Hugh!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>'Pless you from his mercy sake, all of you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>What, the sword and the word! do you study them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>both, master parson?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>And youthful still! in your doublet and hose this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>raw rheumatic day!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>There is reasons and causes for it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>We are come to you to do a good office, master parson.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>Fery well: what is it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>Yonder is a most reverend gentleman, who, belike</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>having received wrong by some person, is at most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>odds with his own gravity and patience that ever you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>saw.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>heard a man of his place, gravity and learning, so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>wide of his own respect.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>What is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>I think you know him; Master Doctor Caius, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>renowned French physician.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>Got's will, and his passion of my heart! I had as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>Why?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>He has no more knowledge in Hibocrates and Galen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>--and he is a knave besides; a cowardly knave as you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>would desires to be acquainted withal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>I warrant you, he's the man should fight with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>[Aside] O sweet Anne Page!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>It appears so by his weapons. Keep them asunder:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>here comes Doctor Caius.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Host, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>Nay, good master parson, keep in your weapon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>So do you, good master doctor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>Disarm them, and let them question: let them keep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>their limbs whole and hack our English.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>I pray you, let-a me speak a word with your ear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>Vherefore vill you not meet-a me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>[Aside to DOCTOR CAIUS] Pray you, use your patience:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>in good time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>By gar, you are de coward, de Jack dog, John ape.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>[Aside to DOCTOR CAIUS] Pray you let us not be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>laughing-stocks to other men's humours; I desire you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aloud</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>I will knog your urinals about your knave's cockscomb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>for missing your meetings and appointments.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>Diable! Jack Rugby,--mine host de Jarteer,--have I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>not stay for him to kill him? have I not, at de place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82>I did appoint?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>As I am a Christians soul now, look you, this is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>place appointed: I'll be judgement by mine host of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>the Garter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>Peace, I say, Gallia and Gaul, French and Welsh,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>soul-curer and body-curer!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>Ay, dat is very good; excellent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>Peace, I say! hear mine host of the Garter. Am I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>politic? am I subtle? am I a Machiavel? Shall I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>lose my doctor? no; he gives me the potions and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>motions. Shall I lose my parson, my priest, my Sir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93>Hugh? no; he gives me the proverbs and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>no-verbs. Give me thy hand, terrestrial; so. Give me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>thy hand, celestial; so. Boys of art, I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>deceived you both; I have directed you to wrong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>places: your hearts are mighty, your skins are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>whole, and let burnt sack be the issue. Come, lay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>their swords to pawn. Follow me, lads of peace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>follow, follow, follow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>Trust me, a mad host. Follow, gentlemen, follow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102>[Aside] O sweet Anne Page!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt SHALLOW, SLENDER, PAGE, and Host</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>Ha, do I perceive dat? have you make-a de sot of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>us, ha, ha?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105>This is well; he has made us his vlouting-stog. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>desire you that we may be friends; and let us knog</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107>our prains together to be revenge on this same</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>scall, scurvy cogging companion, the host of the Garter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>By gar, with all my heart. He promise to bring me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>where is Anne Page; by gar, he deceive me too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>Well, I will smite his noddles. Pray you, follow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>Nay, keep your way, little gallant; you were wont to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>be a follower, but now you are a leader. Whether</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>had you rather lead mine eyes, or eye your master's heels?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ROBIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>than follow him like a dwarf.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>O, you are a flattering boy: now I see you'll be a courtier.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FORD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>Well met, Mistress Page. Whither go you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>Truly, sir, to see your wife. Is she at home?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>Ay; and as idle as she may hang together, for want</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>of company. I think, if your husbands were dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>you two would marry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>Be sure of that,--two other husbands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>Where had you this pretty weather-cock?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>husband had him of. What do you call your knight's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>name, sirrah?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ROBIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>Sir John Falstaff.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>Sir John Falstaff!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>He, he; I can never hit on's name. There is such a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>league between my good man and he! Is your wife at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>home indeed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>Indeed she is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>By your leave, sir: I am sick till I see her.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath he any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>thinking? Sure, they sleep; he hath no use of them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty mile, as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>score. He pieces out his wife's inclination; he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>gives her folly motion and advantage: and now she's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>going to my wife, and Falstaff's boy with her. A</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>man may hear this shower sing in the wind. And</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>Falstaff's boy with her! Good plots, they are laid;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>and our revolted wives share damnation together.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>Well; I will take him, then torture my wife, pluck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>wilful Actaeon; and to these violent proceedings all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>my neighbours shall cry aim.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Clock heard</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance bids me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>search: there I shall find Falstaff: I shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>rather praised for this than mocked; for it is as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>positive as the earth is firm that Falstaff is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>there: I will go.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, SLENDER, Host, SIR HUGH EVANS, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>& C</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>Well met, Master Ford.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>Trust me, a good knot: I have good cheer at home;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>and I pray you all go with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>I must excuse myself, Master Ford.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>And so must I, sir: we have appointed to dine with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>Mistress Anne, and I would not break with her for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>more money than I'll speak of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>We have lingered about a match between Anne Page and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>my cousin Slender, and this day we shall have our answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>I hope I have your good will, father Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>You have, Master Slender; I stand wholly for you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>but my wife, master doctor, is for you altogether.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>Ay, be-gar; and de maid is love-a me: my nursh-a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>Quickly tell me so mush.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>What say you to young Master Fenton? he capers, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>speaks holiday, he smells April and May: he will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>carry't, he will carry't; 'tis in his buttons; he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>will carry't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>Not by my consent, I promise you. The gentleman is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>of no having: he kept company with the wild prince</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>and Poins; he is of too high a region; he knows too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>much. No, he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>with the finger of my substance: if he take her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>let him take her simply; the wealth I have waits on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>my consent, and my consent goes not that way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>I beseech you heartily, some of you go home with me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>to dinner: besides your cheer, you shall have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>sport; I will show you a monster. Master doctor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>you shall go; so shall you, Master Page; and you, Sir Hugh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>Well, fare you well: we shall have the freer wooing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>at Master Page's.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt SHALLOW, and SLENDER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>Go home, John Rugby; I come anon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit RUGBY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>Farewell, my hearts: I will to my honest knight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>Falstaff, and drink canary with him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>[Aside] I think I shall drink in pipe wine first</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>with him; I'll make him dance. Will you go, gentles?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>Have with you to see this monster.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A room in FORD'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.1>What, John! What, Robert!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>Quickly, quickly! is the buck-basket--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>I warrant. What, Robin, I say!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Servants with a basket</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>Come, come, come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>Here, set it down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>Give your men the charge; we must be brief.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>ready here hard by in the brew-house: and when I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>suddenly call you, come forth, and without any pause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>or staggering take this basket on your shoulders:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>it among the whitsters in Datchet-mead, and there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>You will do it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.15>I ha' told them over and over; they lack no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.16>direction. Be gone, and come when you are called.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Servants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.17>Here comes little Robin.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ROBIN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.18>How now, my eyas-musket! what news with you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ROBIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.19>My master, Sir John, is come in at your back-door,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.20>Mistress Ford, and requests your company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.21>You little Jack-a-Lent, have you been true to us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ROBIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.22>Ay, I'll be sworn. My master knows not of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.23>being here and hath threatened to put me into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.24>everlasting liberty if I tell you of it; for he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.25>swears he'll turn me away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.26>Thou'rt a good boy: this secrecy of thine shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.27>a tailor to thee and shall make thee a new doublet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.28>and hose. I'll go hide me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.29>Do so. Go tell thy master I am alone.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit ROBIN</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.30>Mistress Page, remember you your cue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.31>I warrant thee; if I do not act it, hiss me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.32>Go to, then: we'll use this unwholesome humidity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.33>this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.34>turtles from jays.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.35>Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.36>me die, for I have lived long enough: this is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.37>period of my ambition: O this blessed hour!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.38>O sweet Sir John!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.39>Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.40>Mistress Ford. Now shall I sin in my wish: I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.41>thy husband were dead: I'll speak it before the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.42>best lord; I would make thee my lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.43>I your lady, Sir John! alas, I should be a pitiful lady!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.44>Let the court of France show me such another. I see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.45>how thine eye would emulate the diamond: thou hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.46>the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.47>ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.48>Venetian admittance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.49>A plain kerchief, Sir John: my brows become nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.50>else; nor that well neither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.51>By the Lord, thou art a traitor to say so: thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.52>wouldst make an absolute courtier; and the firm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.53>fixture of thy foot would give an excellent motion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.54>to thy gait in a semi-circled farthingale. I see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.55>what thou wert, if Fortune thy foe were not, Nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.56>thy friend. Come, thou canst not hide it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.57>Believe me, there is no such thing in me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.58>What made me love thee? let that persuade thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.59>there's something extraordinary in thee. Come, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.60>cannot cog and say thou art this and that, like a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.61>many of these lisping hawthorn-buds, that come like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.62>women in men's apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.63>in simple time; I cannot: but I love thee; none</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.64>but thee; and thou deservest it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.65>Do not betray me, sir. I fear you love Mistress Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.66>Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.67>Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.68>of a lime-kiln.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.69>Well, heaven knows how I love you; and you shall one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.70>day find it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.71>Keep in that mind; I'll deserve it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.72>Nay, I must tell you, so you do; or else I could not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.73>be in that mind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ROBIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.74>[Within] Mistress Ford, Mistress Ford! here's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.75>Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.76>looking wildly, and would needs speak with you presently.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.77>She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.78>Pray you, do so: she's a very tattling woman.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>FALSTAFF hides himself</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.79>What's the matter? how now!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.80>O Mistress Ford, what have you done? You're shamed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.81>you're overthrown, you're undone for ever!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.82>What's the matter, good Mistress Page?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.83>O well-a-day, Mistress Ford! having an honest man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.84>to your husband, to give him such cause of suspicion!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.85>What cause of suspicion?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.86>What cause of suspicion! Out pon you! how am I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.87>mistook in you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.88>Why, alas, what's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.89>Your husband's coming hither, woman, with all the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.90>officers in Windsor, to search for a gentleman that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.91>he says is here now in the house by your consent, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.92>take an ill advantage of his assence: you are undone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.93>'Tis not so, I hope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.94>Pray heaven it be not so, that you have such a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.95>here! but 'tis most certain your husband's coming,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.96>with half Windsor at his heels, to search for such a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.97>one. I come before to tell you. If you know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.98>yourself clear, why, I am glad of it; but if you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.99>have a friend here convey, convey him out. Be not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.100>amazed; call all your senses to you; defend your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.101>reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.102>What shall I do? There is a gentleman my dear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.103>friend; and I fear not mine own shame so much as his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.104>peril: I had rather than a thousand pound he were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.105>out of the house.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.106>For shame! never stand 'you had rather' and 'you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.107>had rather:' your husband's here at hand, bethink</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.108>you of some conveyance: in the house you cannot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.109>hide him. O, how have you deceived me! Look, here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.110>is a basket: if he be of any reasonable stature, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.111>may creep in here; and throw foul linen upon him, as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.112>if it were going to bucking: or--it is whiting-time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.113>--send him by your two men to Datchet-mead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.114>He's too big to go in there. What shall I do?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.115>[Coming forward] Let me see't, let me see't, O, let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.116>me see't! I'll in, I'll in. Follow your friend's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.117>counsel. I'll in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.118>What, Sir John Falstaff! Are these your letters, knight?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.119>I love thee. Help me away. Let me creep in here.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.120>I'll never--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Gets into the basket; they cover him with foul linen</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.121>Help to cover your master, boy. Call your men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.122>Mistress Ford. You dissembling knight!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.123>What, John! Robert! John!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit ROBIN</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Servants</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.124>Go take up these clothes here quickly. Where's the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.125>cowl-staff? look, how you drumble! Carry them to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.126>the laundress in Datchet-meat; quickly, come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FORD, PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.127>Pray you, come near: if I suspect without cause,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.128>why then make sport at me; then let me be your jest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.129>I deserve it. How now! whither bear you this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.130>To the laundress, forsooth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.131>Why, what have you to do whither they bear it? You</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.132>were best meddle with buck-washing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.133>Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.134>Buck, buck, buck! Ay, buck; I warrant you, buck;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.135>and of the season too, it shall appear.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Servants with the basket</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.136>Gentlemen, I have dreamed to-night; I'll tell you my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.137>dream. Here, here, here be my keys: ascend my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.138>chambers; search, seek, find out: I'll warrant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.139>we'll unkennel the fox. Let me stop this way first.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Locking the door</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.140>So, now uncape.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.141>Good Master Ford, be contented: you wrong yourself too much.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.142>True, Master Page. Up, gentlemen: you shall see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.143>sport anon: follow me, gentlemen.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.144>This is fery fantastical humours and jealousies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.145>By gar, 'tis no the fashion of France; it is not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.146>jealous in France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.147>Nay, follow him, gentlemen; see the issue of his search.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.148>Is there not a double excellency in this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.149>I know not which pleases me better, that my husband</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.150>is deceived, or Sir John.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.151>What a taking was he in when your husband asked who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.152>was in the basket!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.153>I am half afraid he will have need of washing; so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.154>throwing him into the water will do him a benefit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.155>Hang him, dishonest rascal! I would all of the same</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.156>strain were in the same distress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.157>I think my husband hath some special suspicion of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.158>Falstaff's being here; for I never saw him so gross</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.159>in his jealousy till now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.160>I will lay a plot to try that; and we will yet have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.161>more tricks with Falstaff: his dissolute disease will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.162>scarce obey this medicine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.163>Shall we send that foolish carrion, Mistress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.164>Quickly, to him, and excuse his throwing into the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.165>water; and give him another hope, to betray him to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.166>another punishment?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.167>We will do it: let him be sent for to-morrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.168>eight o'clock, to have amends.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter FORD, PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.169>I cannot find him: may be the knave bragged of that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.170>he could not compass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.171>[Aside to MISTRESS FORD] Heard you that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.172>You use me well, Master Ford, do you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.173>Ay, I do so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.174>Heaven make you better than your thoughts!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.175>Amen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.176>You do yourself mighty wrong, Master Ford.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.177>Ay, ay; I must bear it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.178>If there be any pody in the house, and in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.179>chambers, and in the coffers, and in the presses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.180>heaven forgive my sins at the day of judgment!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.181>By gar, nor I too: there is no bodies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.182>Fie, fie, Master Ford! are you not ashamed? What</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.183>spirit, what devil suggests this imagination? I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.184>would not ha' your distemper in this kind for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.185>wealth of Windsor Castle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.186>'Tis my fault, Master Page: I suffer for it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.187>You suffer for a pad conscience: your wife is as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.188>honest a 'omans as I will desires among five</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.189>thousand, and five hundred too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.190>By gar, I see 'tis an honest woman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.191>Well, I promised you a dinner. Come, come, walk in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.192>the Park: I pray you, pardon me; I will hereafter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.193>make known to you why I have done this. Come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.194>wife; come, Mistress Page. I pray you, pardon me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.195>pray heartily, pardon me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.196>Let's go in, gentlemen; but, trust me, we'll mock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.197>him. I do invite you to-morrow morning to my house</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.198>to breakfast: after, we'll a-birding together; I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.199>have a fine hawk for the bush. Shall it be so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.200>Any thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.201>If there is one, I shall make two in the company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.202>If dere be one or two, I shall make-a the turd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.203>Pray you, go, Master Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.204>I pray you now, remembrance tomorrow on the lousy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.205>knave, mine host.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.206>Dat is good; by gar, with all my heart!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.207>A lousy knave, to have his gibes and his mockeries!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. A room in PAGE'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FENTON and ANNE PAGE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.1>I see I cannot get thy father's love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.2>Therefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.3>Alas, how then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.4> Why, thou must be thyself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.5>He doth object I am too great of birth--,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.6>And that, my state being gall'd with my expense,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.7>I seek to heal it only by his wealth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.8>Besides these, other bars he lays before me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.9>My riots past, my wild societies;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.10>And tells me 'tis a thing impossible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.11>I should love thee but as a property.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.12>May be he tells you true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.13>No, heaven so speed me in my time to come!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.14>Albeit I will confess thy father's wealth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.15>Was the first motive that I woo'd thee, Anne:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.16>Yet, wooing thee, I found thee of more value</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.17>Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.18>And 'tis the very riches of thyself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.19>That now I aim at.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.20> Gentle Master Fenton,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.21>Yet seek my father's love; still seek it, sir:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.22>If opportunity and humblest suit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.23>Cannot attain it, why, then,--hark you hither!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They converse apart</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and MISTRESS QUICKLY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.24>Break their talk, Mistress Quickly: my kinsman shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.25>speak for himself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.26>I'll make a shaft or a bolt on't: 'slid, 'tis but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.27>venturing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.28>Be not dismayed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.29>No, she shall not dismay me: I care not for that,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.30>but that I am afeard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.31>Hark ye; Master Slender would speak a word with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.32>I come to him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.33>This is my father's choice.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.34>O, what a world of vile ill-favor'd faults</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.35>Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.36>And how does good Master Fenton? Pray you, a word with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.37>She's coming; to her, coz. O boy, thou hadst a father!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.38>I had a father, Mistress Anne; my uncle can tell you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.39>good jests of him. Pray you, uncle, tell Mistress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.40>Anne the jest, how my father stole two geese out of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.41>a pen, good uncle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.42>Mistress Anne, my cousin loves you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.43>Ay, that I do; as well as I love any woman in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.44>Gloucestershire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.45>He will maintain you like a gentlewoman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.46>Ay, that I will, come cut and long-tail, under the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.47>degree of a squire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.48>He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.49>Good Master Shallow, let him woo for himself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.50>Marry, I thank you for it; I thank you for that good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.51>comfort. She calls you, coz: I'll leave you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.52>Now, Master Slender,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.53>Now, good Mistress Anne,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.54>What is your will?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.55>My will! 'od's heartlings, that's a pretty jest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.56>indeed! I ne'er made my will yet, I thank heaven; I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.57>am not such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.58>I mean, Master Slender, what would you with me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.59>Truly, for mine own part, I would little or nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.60>with you. Your father and my uncle hath made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.61>motions: if it be my luck, so; if not, happy man be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.62>his dole! They can tell you how things go better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.63>than I can: you may ask your father; here he comes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAGE and MISTRESS PAGE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.64>Now, Master Slender: love him, daughter Anne.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.65>Why, how now! what does Master Fenton here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.66>You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.67>I told you, sir, my daughter is disposed of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.68>Nay, Master Page, be not impatient.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.69>Good Master Fenton, come not to my child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.70>She is no match for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.71>Sir, will you hear me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.72>No, good Master Fenton.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.73>Come, Master Shallow; come, son Slender, in.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.74>Knowing my mind, you wrong me, Master Fenton.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.75>Speak to Mistress Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.76>Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.77>In such a righteous fashion as I do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.78>Perforce, against all cheques, rebukes and manners,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.79>I must advance the colours of my love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.80>And not retire: let me have your good will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.81>Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.82>I mean it not; I seek you a better husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.83>That's my master, master doctor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.84>Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.85>And bowl'd to death with turnips!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.86>Come, trouble not yourself. Good Master Fenton,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.87>I will not be your friend nor enemy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.88>My daughter will I question how she loves you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.89>And as I find her, so am I affected.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.90>Till then farewell, sir: she must needs go in;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.91>Her father will be angry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.92>Farewell, gentle mistress: farewell, Nan.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE and ANNE PAGE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.93>This is my doing, now: 'Nay,' said I, 'will you cast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.94>away your child on a fool, and a physician? Look on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.95>Master Fenton:' this is my doing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.96>I thank thee; and I pray thee, once to-night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.97>Give my sweet Nan this ring: there's for thy pains.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.98>Now heaven send thee good fortune!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit FENTON</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.99>A kind heart he hath: a woman would run through</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.100>fire and water for such a kind heart. But yet I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.101>would my master had Mistress Anne; or I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.102>Master Slender had her; or, in sooth, I would Master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.103>Fenton had her; I will do what I can for them all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.104>three; for so I have promised, and I'll be as good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.105>as my word; but speciously for Master Fenton. Well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.106>I must of another errand to Sir John Falstaff from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.107>my two mistresses: what a beast am I to slack it!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. A room in the Garter Inn.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.1>Bardolph, I say,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.2>Here, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.3>Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in't.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.4>Have I lived to be carried in a basket, like a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.5>barrow of butcher's offal, and to be thrown in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.6>Thames? Well, if I be served such another trick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.7>I'll have my brains ta'en out and buttered, and give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.8>them to a dog for a new-year's gift. The rogues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.9>slighted me into the river with as little remorse as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.10>they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.11>fifteen i' the litter: and you may know by my size</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.12>that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; if the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.13>bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. I had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.14>been drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.15>shallow,--a death that I abhor; for the water swells</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.16>a man; and what a thing should I have been when I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.17>had been swelled! I should have been a mountain of mummy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BARDOLPH with sack</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.18>Here's Mistress Quickly, sir, to speak with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.19>Let me pour in some sack to the Thames water; for my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.20>belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.21>pills to cool the reins. Call her in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.22>Come in, woman!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.23>By your leave; I cry you mercy: give your worship</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.24>good morrow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.25>Take away these chalices. Go brew me a pottle of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.26>sack finely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.27>With eggs, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.28>Simple of itself; I'll no pullet-sperm in my brewage.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.29>How now!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.30>Marry, sir, I come to your worship from Mistress Ford.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.31>Mistress Ford! I have had ford enough; I was thrown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.32>into the ford; I have my belly full of ford.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.33>Alas the day! good heart, that was not her fault:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.34>she does so take on with her men; they mistook their erection.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.35>So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman's promise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.36>Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.37>your heart to see it. Her husband goes this morning</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.38>a-birding; she desires you once more to come to her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.39>between eight and nine: I must carry her word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.40>quickly: she'll make you amends, I warrant you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.41>Well, I will visit her: tell her so; and bid her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.42>think what a man is: let her consider his frailty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.43>and then judge of my merit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.44>I will tell her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.45>Do so. Between nine and ten, sayest thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.46>Eight and nine, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.47>Well, be gone: I will not miss her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.48>Peace be with you, sir.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.49>I marvel I hear not of Master Brook; he sent me word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.50>to stay within: I like his money well. O, here he comes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FORD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.51>Bless you, sir!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.52>Now, master Brook, you come to know what hath passed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.53>between me and Ford's wife?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.54>That, indeed, Sir John, is my business.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.55>Master Brook, I will not lie to you: I was at her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.56>house the hour she appointed me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.57>And sped you, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.58>Very ill-favoredly, Master Brook.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.59>How so, sir? Did she change her determination?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.60>No, Master Brook; but the peaking Cornuto her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.61>husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.62>'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.63>encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.64>and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.65>and at his heels a rabble of his companions, thither</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.66>provoked and instigated by his distemper, and,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.67>forsooth, to search his house for his wife's love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.68>What, while you were there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.69>While I was there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.70>And did he search for you, and could not find you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.71>You shall hear. As good luck would have it, comes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.72>in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Ford's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.73>approach; and, in her invention and Ford's wife's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.74>distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.75>A buck-basket!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.76>By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.77>shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.78>napkins; that, Master Brook, there was the rankest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.79>compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.80>And how long lay you there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.81>Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook, what I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.82>suffered to bring this woman to evil for your good.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.83>Being thus crammed in the basket, a couple of Ford's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.84>knaves, his hinds, were called forth by their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.85>mistress to carry me in the name of foul clothes to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.86>Datchet-lane: they took me on their shoulders; met</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.87>the jealous knave their master in the door, who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.88>asked them once or twice what they had in their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.89>basket: I quaked for fear, lest the lunatic knave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.90>would have searched it; but fate, ordaining he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.91>should be a cuckold, held his hand. Well: on went he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.92>for a search, and away went I for foul clothes. But</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.93>mark the sequel, Master Brook: I suffered the pangs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.94>of three several deaths; first, an intolerable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.95>fright, to be detected with a jealous rotten</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.96>bell-wether; next, to be compassed, like a good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.97>bilbo, in the circumference of a peck, hilt to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.98>point, heel to head; and then, to be stopped in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.99>like a strong distillation, with stinking clothes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.100>that fretted in their own grease: think of that,--a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.101>man of my kidney,--think of that,--that am as subject</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.102>to heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.103>and thaw: it was a miracle to scape suffocation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.104>And in the height of this bath, when I was more than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.105>half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.106>thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.107>in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.108>that,--hissing hot,--think of that, Master Brook.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.109>In good sadness, I am sorry that for my sake you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.110>have sufferd all this. My suit then is desperate;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.111>you'll undertake her no more?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.112>Master Brook, I will be thrown into Etna, as I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.113>been into Thames, ere I will leave her thus. Her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.114>husband is this morning gone a-birding: I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.115>received from her another embassy of meeting; 'twixt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.116>eight and nine is the hour, Master Brook.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.117>'Tis past eight already, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.118>Is it? I will then address me to my appointment.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.119>Come to me at your convenient leisure, and you shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.120>know how I speed; and the conclusion shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.121>crowned with your enjoying her. Adieu. You shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.122>have her, Master Brook; Master Brook, you shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.123>cuckold Ford.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.124>Hum! ha! is this a vision? is this a dream? do I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.125>sleep? Master Ford awake! awake, Master Ford!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.126>there's a hole made in your best coat, Master Ford.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.127>This 'tis to be married! this 'tis to have linen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.128>and buck-baskets! Well, I will proclaim myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.129>what I am: I will now take the lecher; he is at my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.130>house; he cannot 'scape me; 'tis impossible he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.131>should; he cannot creep into a halfpenny purse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.132>nor into a pepper-box: but, lest the devil that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.133>guides him should aid him, I will search</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.134>impossible places. Though what I am I cannot avoid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.135>yet to be what I would not shall not make me tame:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.136>if I have horns to make one mad, let the proverb go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.137>with me: I'll be horn-mad.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and WILLIAM PAGE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>Is he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>Sure he is by this, or will be presently: but,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>truly, he is very courageous mad about his throwing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>into the water. Mistress Ford desires you to come suddenly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>I'll be with her by and by; I'll but bring my young</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>man here to school. Look, where his master comes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>'tis a playing-day, I see.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR HUGH EVANS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>How now, Sir Hugh! no school to-day?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>No; Master Slender is let the boys leave to play.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>Blessing of his heart!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>the world at his book. I pray you, ask him some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>questions in his accidence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>Come hither, William; hold up your head; come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>Come on, sirrah; hold up your head; answer your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>master, be not afraid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>William, how many numbers is in nouns?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>WILLIAM PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>Two.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>Truly, I thought there had been one number more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>because they say, ''Od's nouns.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>Peace your tattlings! What is 'fair,' William?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>WILLIAM PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>Pulcher.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>Polecats! there are fairer things than polecats, sure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>You are a very simplicity 'oman: I pray you peace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>What is 'lapis,' William?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>WILLIAM PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>A stone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>And what is 'a stone,' William?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>WILLIAM PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>A pebble.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>No, it is 'lapis:' I pray you, remember in your prain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>WILLIAM PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>Lapis.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>That is a good William. What is he, William, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>does lend articles?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>WILLIAM PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>Articles are borrowed of the pronoun, and be thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>declined, Singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>Nominativo, hig, hag, hog; pray you, mark:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>genitivo, hujus. Well, what is your accusative case?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>WILLIAM PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>Accusativo, hinc.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>I pray you, have your remembrance, child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>accusative, hung, hang, hog.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>'Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I warrant you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the focative</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>case, William?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>WILLIAM PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>O,--vocativo, O.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>Remember, William; focative is caret.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>And that's a good root.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>'Oman, forbear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>Peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>What is your genitive case plural, William?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>WILLIAM PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>Genitive case!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>Ay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>WILLIAM PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>Genitive,--horum, harum, horum.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>Vengeance of Jenny's case! fie on her! never name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>her, child, if she be a whore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>For shame, 'oman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>You do ill to teach the child such words: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>teaches him to hick and to hack, which they'll do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>fast enough of themselves, and to call 'horum:' fie upon you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>'Oman, art thou lunatics? hast thou no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>understandings for thy cases and the numbers of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>I would desires.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>Prithee, hold thy peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>Show me now, William, some declensions of your pronouns.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>WILLIAM PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>Forsooth, I have forgot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>It is qui, quae, quod: if you forget your 'quies,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>your 'quaes,' and your 'quods,' you must be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>preeches. Go your ways, and play; go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>He is a better scholar than I thought he was.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>He is a good sprag memory. Farewell, Mistress Page.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>Adieu, good Sir Hugh.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit SIR HUGH EVANS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A room in FORD'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS FORD</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>sufferance. I see you are obsequious in your love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>and I profess requital to a hair's breadth; not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>only, Mistress Ford, in the simple</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>office of love, but in all the accoutrement,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>complement and ceremony of it. But are you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>sure of your husband now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>He's a-birding, sweet Sir John.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>[Within] What, ho, gossip Ford! what, ho!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>Step into the chamber, Sir John.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter MISTRESS PAGE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>How now, sweetheart! who's at home besides yourself?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>Why, none but mine own people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>Indeed!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>No, certainly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside to her</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>Speak louder.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>Truly, I am so glad you have nobody here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>Why?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>Why, woman, your husband is in his old lunes again:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>he so takes on yonder with my husband; so rails</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>against all married mankind; so curses all Eve's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>daughters, of what complexion soever; and so buffets</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>himself on the forehead, crying, 'Peer out, peer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>out!' that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>tameness, civility and patience, to this his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>distemper he is in now: I am glad the fat knight is not here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>Why, does he talk of him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>Of none but him; and swears he was carried out, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>last time he searched for him, in a basket; protests</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>to my husband he is now here, and hath drawn him and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>the rest of their company from their sport, to make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>another experiment of his suspicion: but I am glad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>the knight is not here; now he shall see his own foolery.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>How near is he, Mistress Page?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>Hard by; at street end; he will be here anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>I am undone! The knight is here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>Why then you are utterly shamed, and he's but a dead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>man. What a woman are you!--Away with him, away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>with him! better shame than murder.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>Which way should be go? how should I bestow him?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>Shall I put him into the basket again?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>No, I'll come no more i' the basket. May I not go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>out ere he come?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>Alas, three of Master Ford's brothers watch the door</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>with pistols, that none shall issue out; otherwise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>you might slip away ere he came. But what make you here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>What shall I do? I'll creep up into the chimney.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>There they always use to discharge their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>birding-pieces. Creep into the kiln-hole.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>Where is it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>He will seek there, on my word. Neither press,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>coffer, chest, trunk, well, vault, but he hath an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>abstract for the remembrance of such places, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>goes to them by his note: there is no hiding you in the house.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>I'll go out then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>If you go out in your own semblance, you die, Sir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>John. Unless you go out disguised--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>How might we disguise him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>Alas the day, I know not! There is no woman's gown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>big enough for him otherwise he might put on a hat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>a muffler and a kerchief, and so escape.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>Good hearts, devise something: any extremity rather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>than a mischief.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>My maid's aunt, the fat woman of Brentford, has a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.64>gown above.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.65>On my word, it will serve him; she's as big as he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.66>is: and there's her thrummed hat and her muffler</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.67>too. Run up, Sir John.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.68>Go, go, sweet Sir John: Mistress Page and I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.69>look some linen for your head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.70>Quick, quick! we'll come dress you straight: put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.71>on the gown the while.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.72>I would my husband would meet him in this shape: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.73>cannot abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.74>she's a witch; forbade her my house and hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.75>threatened to beat her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.76>Heaven guide him to thy husband's cudgel, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.77>devil guide his cudgel afterwards!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.78>But is my husband coming?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.79>Ah, in good sadness, is he; and talks of the basket</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.80>too, howsoever he hath had intelligence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.81>We'll try that; for I'll appoint my men to carry the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.82>basket again, to meet him at the door with it, as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.83>they did last time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.84>Nay, but he'll be here presently: let's go dress him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.85>like the witch of Brentford.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.86>I'll first direct my men what they shall do with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.87>basket. Go up; I'll bring linen for him straight.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.88>Hang him, dishonest varlet! we cannot misuse him enough.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.89>We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.90>Wives may be merry, and yet honest too:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.91>We do not act that often jest and laugh;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.92>'Tis old, but true, Still swine eat all the draff.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MISTRESS FORD with two Servants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.93>Go, sirs, take the basket again on your shoulders:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.94>your master is hard at door; if he bid you set it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.95>down, obey him: quickly, dispatch.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>First Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.96>Come, come, take it up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>Second Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.97>Pray heaven it be not full of knight again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>First Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.98>I hope not; I had as lief bear so much lead.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.99>Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.100>way then to unfool me again? Set down the basket,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.101>villain! Somebody call my wife. Youth in a basket!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.102>O you panderly rascals! there's a knot, a ging, a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.103>pack, a conspiracy against me: now shall the devil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.104>be shamed. What, wife, I say! Come, come forth!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.105>Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.106>Why, this passes, Master Ford; you are not to go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.107>loose any longer; you must be pinioned.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.108>Why, this is lunatics! this is mad as a mad dog!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.109>Indeed, Master Ford, this is not well, indeed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.110>So say I too, sir.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MISTRESS FORD</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.111>Come hither, Mistress Ford; Mistress Ford the honest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.112>woman, the modest wife, the virtuous creature, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.113>hath the jealous fool to her husband! I suspect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.114>without cause, mistress, do I?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.115>Heaven be my witness you do, if you suspect me in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.116>any dishonesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.117>Well said, brazen-face! hold it out. Come forth, sirrah!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Pulling clothes out of the basket</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.118>This passes!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.119>Are you not ashamed? let the clothes alone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.120>I shall find you anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.121>'Tis unreasonable! Will you take up your wife's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.122>clothes? Come away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.123>Empty the basket, I say!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.124>Why, man, why?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.125>Master Page, as I am a man, there was one conveyed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.126>out of my house yesterday in this basket: why may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.127>not he be there again? In my house I am sure he is:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.128>my intelligence is true; my jealousy is reasonable.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.129>Pluck me out all the linen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.130>If you find a man there, he shall die a flea's death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.131>Here's no man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.132>By my fidelity, this is not well, Master Ford; this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.133>wrongs you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.134>Master Ford, you must pray, and not follow the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.135>imaginations of your own heart: this is jealousies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.136>Well, he's not here I seek for.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.137>No, nor nowhere else but in your brain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.138>Help to search my house this one time. If I find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.139>not what I seek, show no colour for my extremity; let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.140>me for ever be your table-sport; let them say of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.141>me, 'As jealous as Ford, Chat searched a hollow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.142>walnut for his wife's leman.' Satisfy me once more;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.143>once more search with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.144>What, ho, Mistress Page! come you and the old woman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.145>down; my husband will come into the chamber.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.146>Old woman! what old woman's that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.147>Nay, it is my maid's aunt of Brentford.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.148>A witch, a quean, an old cozening quean! Have I not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.149>forbid her my house? She comes of errands, does</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.150>she? We are simple men; we do not know what's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.151>brought to pass under the profession of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.152>fortune-telling. She works by charms, by spells,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.153>by the figure, and such daubery as this is, beyond</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.154>our element we know nothing. Come down, you witch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.155>you hag, you; come down, I say!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.156>Nay, good, sweet husband! Good gentlemen, let him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.157>not strike the old woman.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter FALSTAFF in woman's clothes, and MISTRESS PAGE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.158>Come, Mother Prat; come, give me your hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.159>I'll prat her.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Beating him</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.160>Out of my door, you witch, you hag, you baggage, you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.161>polecat, you runyon! out, out! I'll conjure you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.162>I'll fortune-tell you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.163>Are you not ashamed? I think you have killed the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.164>poor woman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.165>Nay, he will do it. 'Tis a goodly credit for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.166>Hang her, witch!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.167>By the yea and no, I think the 'oman is a witch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.168>indeed: I like not when a 'oman has a great peard;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.169>I spy a great peard under his muffler.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.170>Will you follow, gentlemen? I beseech you, follow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.171>see but the issue of my jealousy: if I cry out thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.172>upon no trail, never trust me when I open again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.173>Let's obey his humour a little further: come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.174>gentlemen.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.175>Trust me, he beat him most pitifully.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.176>Nay, by the mass, that he did not; he beat him most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.177>unpitifully, methought.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.178>I'll have the cudgel hallowed and hung o'er the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.179>altar; it hath done meritorious service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.180>What think you? may we, with the warrant of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.181>womanhood and the witness of a good conscience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.182>pursue him with any further revenge?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.183>The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.184>him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.185>fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.186>way of waste, attempt us again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.187>Shall we tell our husbands how we have served him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.188>Yes, by all means; if it be but to scrape the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.189>figures out of your husband's brains. If they can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.190>find in their hearts the poor unvirtuous fat knight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.191>shall be any further afflicted, we two will still be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.192>the ministers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.193>I'll warrant they'll have him publicly shamed: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.194>methinks there would be no period to the jest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.195>should he not be publicly shamed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.196>Come, to the forge with it then; shape it: I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.197>not have things cool.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A room in the Garter Inn.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Host and BARDOLPH</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>Sir, the Germans desire to have three of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>horses: the duke himself will be to-morrow at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>court, and they are going to meet him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>What duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>not of him in the court. Let me speak with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>gentlemen: they speak English?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>Ay, sir; I'll call them to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>They shall have my horses; but I'll make them pay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>I'll sauce them: they have had my house a week at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>command; I have turned away my other guests: they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>must come off; I'll sauce them. Come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. A room in FORD'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.1>'Tis one of the best discretions of a 'oman as ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.2>I did look upon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.3>And did he send you both these letters at an instant?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.4>Within a quarter of an hour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.5>Pardon me, wife. Henceforth do what thou wilt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.6>I rather will suspect the sun with cold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.7>Than thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.8>In him that was of late an heretic,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.9>As firm as faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.10>'Tis well, 'tis well; no more:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.11>Be not as extreme in submission</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.12>As in offence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.13>But let our plot go forward: let our wives</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.14>Yet once again, to make us public sport,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.15>Appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.16>Where we may take him and disgrace him for it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.17>There is no better way than that they spoke of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.18>How? to send him word they'll meet him in the park</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.19>at midnight? Fie, fie! he'll never come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.20>You say he has been thrown in the rivers and has</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.21>been grievously peaten as an old 'oman: methinks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.22>there should be terrors in him that he should not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.23>come; methinks his flesh is punished, he shall have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.24>no desires.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.25>So think I too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.26>Devise but how you'll use him when he comes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.27>And let us two devise to bring him thither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.28>There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.29>Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.30>Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.31>Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.32>And there he blasts the tree and takes the cattle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.33>And makes milch-kine yield blood and shakes a chain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.34>In a most hideous and dreadful manner:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.35>You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.36>The superstitious idle-headed eld</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.37>Received and did deliver to our age</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.38>This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.39>Why, yet there want not many that do fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.40>In deep of night to walk by this Herne's oak:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.41>But what of this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.42> Marry, this is our device;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.43>That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.44>Well, let it not be doubted but he'll come:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.45>And in this shape when you have brought him thither,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.46>What shall be done with him? what is your plot?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.47>That likewise have we thought upon, and thus:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.48>Nan Page my daughter and my little son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.49>And three or four more of their growth we'll dress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.50>Like urchins, ouphes and fairies, green and white,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.51>With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.52>And rattles in their hands: upon a sudden,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.53>As Falstaff, she and I, are newly met,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.54>Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.55>With some diffused song: upon their sight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.56>We two in great amazedness will fly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.57>Then let them all encircle him about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.58>And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.59>And ask him why, that hour of fairy revel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.60>In their so sacred paths he dares to tread</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.61>In shape profane.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.62> And till he tell the truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.63>Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.64>And burn him with their tapers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.65>The truth being known,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.66>We'll all present ourselves, dis-horn the spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.67>And mock him home to Windsor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.68>The children must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.69>Be practised well to this, or they'll ne'er do't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.70>I will teach the children their behaviors; and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.71>will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.72>knight with my taber.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.73>That will be excellent. I'll go and buy them vizards.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.74>My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.75>Finely attired in a robe of white.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.76>That silk will I go buy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.77>And in that time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.78>Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.79>And marry her at Eton. Go send to Falstaff straight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.80>Nay I'll to him again in name of Brook</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.81>He'll tell me all his purpose: sure, he'll come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.82>Fear not you that. Go get us properties</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.83>And tricking for our fairies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.84>Let us about it: it is admirable pleasures and fery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.85>honest knaveries.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PAGE, FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.86>Go, Mistress Ford,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.87>Send quickly to Sir John, to know his mind.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit MISTRESS FORD</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.88>I'll to the doctor: he hath my good will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.89>And none but he, to marry with Nan Page.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.90>That Slender, though well landed, is an idiot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.91>And he my husband best of all affects.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.92>The doctor is well money'd, and his friends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.93>Potent at court: he, none but he, shall have her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.94>Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. A room in the Garter Inn.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Host and SIMPLE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.1>What wouldst thou have, boor? what: thick-skin?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.2>speak, breathe, discuss; brief, short, quick, snap.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.3>Marry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.4>from Master Slender.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.5>There's his chamber, his house, his castle, his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.6>standing-bed and truckle-bed; 'tis painted about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.7>with the story of the Prodigal, fresh and new. Go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.8>knock and call; hell speak like an Anthropophaginian</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.9>unto thee: knock, I say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.10>There's an old woman, a fat woman, gone up into his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.11>chamber: I'll be so bold as stay, sir, till she come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.12>down; I come to speak with her, indeed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.13>Ha! a fat woman! the knight may be robbed: I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.14>call. Bully knight! bully Sir John! speak from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.15>thy lungs military: art thou there? it is thine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.16>host, thine Ephesian, calls.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.17>[Above] How now, mine host!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.18>Here's a Bohemian-Tartar tarries the coming down of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.19>thy fat woman. Let her descend, bully, let her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.20>descend; my chambers are honourable: fie! privacy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.21>fie!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.22>There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.23>me; but she's gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.24>Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.25>Brentford?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.26>Ay, marry, was it, mussel-shell: what would you with her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.27>My master, sir, Master Slender, sent to her, seeing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.28>her go through the streets, to know, sir, whether</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.29>one Nym, sir, that beguiled him of a chain, had the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.30>chain or no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.31>I spake with the old woman about it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.32>And what says she, I pray, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.33>Marry, she says that the very same man that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.34>beguiled Master Slender of his chain cozened him of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.35>it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.36>I would I could have spoken with the woman herself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.37>I had other things to have spoken with her too from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.38>him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.39>What are they? let us know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.40>Ay, come; quick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.41>I may not conceal them, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.42>Conceal them, or thou diest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.43>Why, sir, they were nothing but about Mistress Anne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.44>Page; to know if it were my master's fortune to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.45>have her or no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.46>'Tis, 'tis his fortune.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.47>What, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.48>To have her, or no. Go; say the woman told me so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.49>May I be bold to say so, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.50>Ay, sir; like who more bold.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SIMPLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.51>I thank your worship: I shall make my master glad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.52>with these tidings.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.53>Thou art clerkly, thou art clerkly, Sir John. Was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.54>there a wise woman with thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.55>Ay, that there was, mine host; one that hath taught</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.56>me more wit than ever I learned before in my life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.57>and I paid nothing for it neither, but was paid for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.58>my learning.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.59>Out, alas, sir! cozenage, mere cozenage!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.60>Where be my horses? speak well of them, varletto.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.61>Run away with the cozeners; for so soon as I came</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.62>beyond Eton, they threw me off from behind one of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.63>them, in a slough of mire; and set spurs and away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.64>like three German devils, three Doctor Faustuses.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.65>They are gone but to meet the duke, villain: do not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.66>say they be fled; Germans are honest men.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR HUGH EVANS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.67>Where is mine host?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.68>What is the matter, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.69>Have a care of your entertainments: there is a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.70>friend of mine come to town tells me there is three</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.71>cozen-germans that has cozened all the hosts of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.72>Readins, of Maidenhead, of Colebrook, of horses and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.73>money. I tell you for good will, look you: you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.74>are wise and full of gibes and vlouting-stocks, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.75>'tis not convenient you should be cozened. Fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter DOCTOR CAIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.76>Vere is mine host de Jarteer?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.77>Here, master doctor, in perplexity and doubtful dilemma.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.78>I cannot tell vat is dat: but it is tell-a me dat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.79>you make grand preparation for a duke de Jamany: by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.80>my trot, dere is no duke dat the court is know to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.81>come. I tell you for good vill: adieu.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.82>Hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me, knight. I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.83>undone! Fly, run, hue and cry, villain! I am undone!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Host and BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.84>I would all the world might be cozened; for I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.85>been cozened and beaten too. If it should come to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.86>the ear of the court, how I have been transformed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.87>and how my transformation hath been washed and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.88>cudgelled, they would melt me out of my fat drop by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.89>drop and liquor fishermen's boots with me; I warrant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.90>they would whip me with their fine wits till I were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.91>as crest-fallen as a dried pear. I never prospered</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.92>since I forswore myself at primero. Well, if my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.93>wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.94>Now, whence come you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.95>From the two parties, forsooth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.96>The devil take one party and his dam the other! and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.97>so they shall be both bestowed. I have suffered more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.98>for their sakes, more than the villanous inconstancy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.99>of man's disposition is able to bear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.100>And have not they suffered? Yes, I warrant;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.101>speciously one of them; Mistress Ford, good heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.102>is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.103>white spot about her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.104>What tellest thou me of black and blue? I was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.105>beaten myself into all the colours of the rainbow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.106>and I was like to be apprehended for the witch of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.107>Brentford: but that my admirable dexterity of wit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.108>my counterfeiting the action of an old woman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.109>delivered me, the knave constable had set me i' the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.110>stocks, i' the common stocks, for a witch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.111>Sir, let me speak with you in your chamber: you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.112>shall hear how things go; and, I warrant, to your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.113>content. Here is a letter will say somewhat. Good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.114>hearts, what ado here is to bring you together!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.115>Sure, one of you does not serve heaven well, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.116>you are so crossed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.117>Come up into my chamber.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. Another room in the Garter Inn.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FENTON and Host</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.1>Master Fenton, talk not to me; my mind is heavy: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.2>will give over all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.3>Yet hear me speak. Assist me in my purpose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.4>And, as I am a gentleman, I'll give thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.5>A hundred pound in gold more than your loss.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.6>I will hear you, Master Fenton; and I will at the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.7>least keep your counsel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.8>From time to time I have acquainted you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.9>With the dear love I bear to fair Anne Page;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.10>Who mutually hath answer'd my affection,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.11>So far forth as herself might be her chooser,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.12>Even to my wish: I have a letter from her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.13>Of such contents as you will wonder at;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.14>The mirth whereof so larded with my matter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.15>That neither singly can be manifested,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.16>Without the show of both; fat Falstaff</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.17>Hath a great scene: the image of the jest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.18>I'll show you here at large. Hark, good mine host.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.19>To-night at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.20>Must my sweet Nan present the Fairy Queen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.21>The purpose why, is here: in which disguise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.22>While other jests are something rank on foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.23>Her father hath commanded her to slip</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.24>Away with Slender and with him at Eton</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.25>Immediately to marry: she hath consented: Now, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.26>Her mother, ever strong against that match</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.27>And firm for Doctor Caius, hath appointed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.28>That he shall likewise shuffle her away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.29>While other sports are tasking of their minds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.30>And at the deanery, where a priest attends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.31>Straight marry her: to this her mother's plot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.32>She seemingly obedient likewise hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.33>Made promise to the doctor. Now, thus it rests:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.34>Her father means she shall be all in white,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.35>And in that habit, when Slender sees his time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.36>To take her by the hand and bid her go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.37>She shall go with him: her mother hath intended,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.38>The better to denote her to the doctor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.39>For they must all be mask'd and vizarded,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.40>That quaint in green she shall be loose enrobed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.41>With ribands pendent, flaring 'bout her head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.42>And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.43>To pinch her by the hand, and, on that token,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.44>The maid hath given consent to go with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.45>Which means she to deceive, father or mother?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.46>Both, my good host, to go along with me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.47>And here it rests, that you'll procure the vicar</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.48>To stay for me at church 'twixt twelve and one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.49>And, in the lawful name of marrying,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.50>To give our hearts united ceremony.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Host</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.51>Well, husband your device; I'll to the vicar:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.52>Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a priest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.53>So shall I evermore be bound to thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.54>Besides, I'll make a present recompense.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. A room in the Garter Inn.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>Prithee, no more prattling; go. I'll hold. This is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>numbers. Away I go. They say there is divinity in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>I'll provide you a chain; and I'll do what I can to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>get you a pair of horns.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>Away, I say; time wears: hold up your head, and mince.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit MISTRESS QUICKLY</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter FORD</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>will be known to-night, or never. Be you in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>Park about midnight, at Herne's oak, and you shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>see wonders.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>Went you not to her yesterday, sir, as you told me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>you had appointed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>old man: but I came from her, Master Brook, like a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>poor old woman. That same knave Ford, her husband,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>you: he beat me grievously, in the shape of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>not Goliath with a weaver's beam; because I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>also life is a shuttle. I am in haste; go along</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>with me: I'll tell you all, Master Brook. Since I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>plucked geese, played truant and whipped top, I knew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>not what 'twas to be beaten till lately. Follow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>me: I'll tell you strange things of this knave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>Ford, on whom to-night I will be revenged, and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Windsor Park.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>Come, come; we'll couch i' the castle-ditch till we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>see the light of our fairies. Remember, son Slender,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>my daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her and we have a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>nay-word how to know one another: I come to her in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>white, and cry 'mum;' she cries 'budget;' and by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>that we know one another.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SHALLOW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>That's good too: but what needs either your 'mum'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>or her 'budget?' the white will decipher her well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>enough. It hath struck ten o'clock.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>The night is dark; light and spirits will become it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>well. Heaven prosper our sport! No man means evil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>Let's away; follow me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A street leading to the Park.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>Master doctor, my daughter is in green: when you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>see your time, take her by the band, away with her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>into the Park: we two must go together.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>I know vat I have to do. Adieu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>Fare you well, sir.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit DOCTOR CAIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor's marrying</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>my daughter: but 'tis no matter; better a little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>chiding than a great deal of heart-break.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>Welsh devil Hugh?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>with obscured lights; which, at the very instant of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>Falstaff's and our meeting, they will at once</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>display to the night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>That cannot choose but amaze him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>If he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>amazed, he will every way be mocked.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>We'll betray him finely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>Against such lewdsters and their lechery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>Those that betray them do no treachery.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Windsor Park.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised, with others as Fairies</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.1>Trib, trib, fairies; come; and remember your parts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.2>be pold, I pray you; follow me into the pit; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.3>when I give the watch-'ords, do as I pid you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.4>come, come; trib, trib.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Another part of the Park.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FALSTAFF disguised as Herne</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.1>The Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.2>draws on. Now, the hot-blooded gods assist me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.3>Remember, Jove, thou wast a bull for thy Europa; love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.4>set on thy horns. O powerful love! that, in some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.5>respects, makes a beast a man, in some other, a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.6>a beast. You were also, Jupiter, a swan for the love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.7>of Leda. O omnipotent Love! how near the god drew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.8>to the complexion of a goose! A fault done first in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.9>the form of a beast. O Jove, a beastly fault! And</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.10>then another fault in the semblance of a fowl; think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.11>on 't, Jove; a foul fault! When gods have hot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.12>backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.13>Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i' the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.14>forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.15>blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.16>doe?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.17>Sir John! art thou there, my deer? my male deer?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.18>My doe with the black scut! Let the sky rain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.19>potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of Green</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.20>Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.21>there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.22>Mistress Page is come with me, sweetheart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.23>Divide me like a bribe buck, each a haunch: I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.24>keep my sides to myself, my shoulders for the fellow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.25>of this walk, and my horns I bequeath your husbands.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.26>Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne the hunter?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.27>Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.28>restitution. As I am a true spirit, welcome!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Noise within</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.29>Alas, what noise?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.30>Heaven forgive our sins</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.31>What should this be?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.32>Away, away!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They run off</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.33>I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.34>oil that's in me should set hell on fire; he would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.35>never else cross me thus.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised as before; PISTOL, as Hobgoblin; MISTRESS QUICKLY, ANNE PAGE, and others, as Fairies, with tapers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.36>Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.37>You moonshine revellers and shades of night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.38>You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.39>Attend your office and your quality.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.40>Crier Hobgoblin, make the fairy oyes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.41>Elves, list your names; silence, you airy toys.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.42>Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.43>Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.44>There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.45>Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.46>They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.47>I'll wink and couch: no man their works must eye.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Lies down upon his face</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.48>Where's Bede? Go you, and where you find a maid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.49>That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers said,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.50>Raise up the organs of her fantasy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.51>Sleep she as sound as careless infancy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.52>But those as sleep and think not on their sins,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.53>Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides and shins.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.54>About, about;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.55>Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.56>Strew good luck, ouphes, on every sacred room:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.57>That it may stand till the perpetual doom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.58>In state as wholesome as in state 'tis fit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.59>Worthy the owner, and the owner it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.60>The several chairs of order look you scour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.61>With juice of balm and every precious flower:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.62>Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.63>With loyal blazon, evermore be blest!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.64>And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.65>Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.66>The expressure that it bears, green let it be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.67>More fertile-fresh than all the field to see;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.68>And 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' write</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.69>In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.70>Let sapphire, pearl and rich embroidery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.71>Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.72>Fairies use flowers for their charactery.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.73>Away; disperse: but till 'tis one o'clock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.74>Our dance of custom round about the oak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.75>Of Herne the hunter, let us not forget.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.76>Pray you, lock hand in hand; yourselves in order set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.77>And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.78>To guide our measure round about the tree.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.79>But, stay; I smell a man of middle-earth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.80>Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.81>transform me to a piece of cheese!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.82>Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.83>With trial-fire touch me his finger-end:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.84>If he be chaste, the flame will back descend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.85>And turn him to no pain; but if he start,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.86>It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.87>A trial, come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.88>Come, will this wood take fire?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They burn him with their tapers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.89>Oh, Oh, Oh!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MISTRESS QUICKLY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.90>Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.91>About him, fairies; sing a scornful rhyme;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.92>And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.93>SONG.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.94>Fie on sinful fantasy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.95>Fie on lust and luxury!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.96>Lust is but a bloody fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.97>Kindled with unchaste desire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.98>Fed in heart, whose flames aspire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.99>As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.100>Pinch him, fairies, mutually;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.101>Pinch him for his villany;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.102>Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.103>Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>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</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, and MISTRESS FORD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.104>Nay, do not fly; I think we have watch'd you now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.105>Will none but Herne the hunter serve your turn?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.106>I pray you, come, hold up the jest no higher</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.107>Now, good Sir John, how like you Windsor wives?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.108>See you these, husband? do not these fair yokes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.109>Become the forest better than the town?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.110>Now, sir, who's a cuckold now? Master Brook,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.111>Falstaff's a knave, a cuckoldly knave; here are his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.112>horns, Master Brook: and, Master Brook, he hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.113>enjoyed nothing of Ford's but his buck-basket, his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.114>cudgel, and twenty pounds of money, which must be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.115>paid to Master Brook; his horses are arrested for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.116>it, Master Brook.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MISTRESS FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.117>Sir John, we have had ill luck; we could never meet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.118>I will never take you for my love again; but I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.119>always count you my deer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.120>I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.121>Ay, and an ox too: both the proofs are extant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.122>And these are not fairies? I was three or four</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.123>times in the thought they were not fairies: and yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.124>the guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.125>powers, drove the grossness of the foppery into a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.126>received belief, in despite of the teeth of all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.127>rhyme and reason, that they were fairies. See now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.128>how wit may be made a Jack-a-Lent, when 'tis upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.129>ill employment!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.130>Sir John Falstaff, serve Got, and leave your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.131>desires, and fairies will not pinse you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.132>Well said, fairy Hugh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.133>And leave your jealousies too, I pray you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.134>I will never mistrust my wife again till thou art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.135>able to woo her in good English.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.136>Have I laid my brain in the sun and dried it, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.137>it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.138>this? Am I ridden with a Welsh goat too? shall I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.139>have a coxcomb of frize? 'Tis time I were choked</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.140>with a piece of toasted cheese.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.141>Seese is not good to give putter; your belly is all putter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.142>'Seese' and 'putter'! have I lived to stand at the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.143>taunt of one that makes fritters of English? This</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.144>is enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.145>through the realm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.146>Why Sir John, do you think, though we would have the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.147>virtue out of our hearts by the head and shoulders</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.148>and have given ourselves without scruple to hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.149>that ever the devil could have made you our delight?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.150>What, a hodge-pudding? a bag of flax?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.151>A puffed man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.152>Old, cold, withered and of intolerable entrails?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.153>And one that is as slanderous as Satan?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.154>And as poor as Job?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.155>And as wicked as his wife?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>SIR HUGH EVANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.156>And given to fornications, and to taverns and sack</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.157>and wine and metheglins, and to drinkings and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.158>swearings and starings, pribbles and prabbles?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.159>Well, I am your theme: you have the start of me; I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.160>am dejected; I am not able to answer the Welsh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.161>flannel; ignorance itself is a plummet o'er me: use</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.162>me as you will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.163>Marry, sir, we'll bring you to Windsor, to one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.164>Master Brook, that you have cozened of money, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.165>whom you should have been a pander: over and above</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.166>that you have suffered, I think to repay that money</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.167>will be a biting affliction.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.168>Yet be cheerful, knight: thou shalt eat a posset</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.169>to-night at my house; where I will desire thee to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.170>laugh at my wife, that now laughs at thee: tell her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.171>Master Slender hath married her daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.172>[Aside] Doctors doubt that: if Anne Page be my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.173>daughter, she is, by this, Doctor Caius' wife.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SLENDER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.174>Whoa ho! ho, father Page!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.175>Son, how now! how now, son! have you dispatched?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.176>Dispatched! I'll make the best in Gloucestershire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.177>know on't; would I were hanged, la, else.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.178>Of what, son?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.179>I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.180>and she's a great lubberly boy. If it had not been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.181>i' the church, I would have swinged him, or he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.182>should have swinged me. If I did not think it had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.183>been Anne Page, would I might never stir!--and 'tis</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.184>a postmaster's boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.185>Upon my life, then, you took the wrong.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.186>What need you tell me that? I think so, when I took</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.187>a boy for a girl. If I had been married to him, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.188>all he was in woman's apparel, I would not have had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.189>him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.190>Why, this is your own folly. Did not I tell you how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.191>you should know my daughter by her garments?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>SLENDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.192>I went to her in white, and cried 'mum,' and she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.193>cried 'budget,' as Anne and I had appointed; and yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.194>it was not Anne, but a postmaster's boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.195>Good George, be not angry: I knew of your purpose;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.196>turned my daughter into green; and, indeed, she is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.197>now with the doctor at the deanery, and there married.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DOCTOR CAIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.198>Vere is Mistress Page? By gar, I am cozened: I ha'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.199>married un garcon, a boy; un paysan, by gar, a boy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.200>it is not Anne Page: by gar, I am cozened.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.201>Why, did you take her in green?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>DOCTOR CAIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.202>Ay, by gar, and 'tis a boy: by gar, I'll raise all Windsor.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.203>This is strange. Who hath got the right Anne?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.204>My heart misgives me: here comes Master Fenton.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FENTON and ANNE PAGE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.205>How now, Master Fenton!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>ANNE PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.206>Pardon, good father! good my mother, pardon!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.207>Now, mistress, how chance you went not with Master Slender?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.208>Why went you not with master doctor, maid?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>FENTON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.209>You do amaze her: hear the truth of it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.210>You would have married her most shamefully,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.211>Where there was no proportion held in love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.212>The truth is, she and I, long since contracted,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.213>Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.214>The offence is holy that she hath committed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.215>And this deceit loses the name of craft,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.216>Of disobedience, or unduteous title,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.217>Since therein she doth evitate and shun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.218>A thousand irreligious cursed hours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.219>Which forced marriage would have brought upon her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.220>Stand not amazed; here is no remedy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.221>In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.222>Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.223>I am glad, though you have ta'en a special stand to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.224>strike at me, that your arrow hath glanced.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.225>Well, what remedy? Fenton, heaven give thee joy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.226>What cannot be eschew'd must be embraced.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.227>When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>MISTRESS PAGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.228>Well, I will muse no further. Master Fenton,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.229>Heaven give you many, many merry days!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.230>Good husband, let us every one go home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.231>And laugh this sport o'er by a country fire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.232>Sir John and all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>FORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.233> Let it be so. Sir John,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.234>To Master Brook you yet shall hold your word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.235>For he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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