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Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY , with two officers; FANG with her and SNARE following
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Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY , with two officers; FANG with her and SNARE following
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Master Fang, have you entered the action?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Master Fang, have you entered the action?
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FANG It is entered.
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FANG It is entered.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Where’s your yeoman? Is ’t a lusty yeoman? Will a'
stand to ’t?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Where’s your yeoman? Is ’t a lusty yeoman? Will a'
stand to ’t?
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FANG 5 Sirrah! Where’s Snare?
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FANG Sirrah! Where’s Snare?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY O Lord, ay, good Master Snare.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY O Lord, ay, good Master Snare.
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SNARE Here, here.
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SNARE Here, here.
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FANG Snare, we must arrest Sir John Falstaff.
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FANG Snare, we must arrest Sir John Falstaff.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Yea, good Master Snare, I have entered him and all.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Yea, good Master Snare, I have entered him and all.
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SNARE 10 It may chance cost some of us our lives, for he will stab.
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SNARE It may chance cost some of us our lives, for he will stab.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Alas the day, take heed of him. He stabbed me in mine own
house, and that most beastly, in good faith. He cares not what
mischief he does. If his weapon be out, he will foin like any
devil. He will spare neither man, woman, nor child.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Alas the day, take heed of him. He stabbed me in mine own
house, and that most beastly, in good faith. He cares not what
mischief he does. If his weapon be out, he will foin like any
devil. He will spare neither man, woman, nor child.
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FANG 15 If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.
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FANG If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY No, nor I neither. I’ll be at your elbow.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY No, nor I neither. I’ll be at your elbow.
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FANG An I but fist him once, an he come but within my view—
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FANG An I but fist him once, an he come but within my view—
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MISTRESS QUICKLY I am undone by his going. I warrant you, he’s an infinitive
thing upon my score. Good Master Fang, hold him sure.
20 Good Master Snare, let him not ’scape. He comes
continuantly to Pie Corner, saving your manhoods, to buy a
saddle, and he is indited to dinner to the Lubber’s Head in
Lumbert Street, to Master Smooth’s the silkman. I pray you,
since my exion is entered, and my case so openly known to
25 the world, let him be brought in to his answer. A hundred
mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear, and I have
borne, and borne, and borne, and have been fubbed off, and
fubbed off, and fubbed off from this day to that day, that it
is a shame to be thought on. There is no honesty in such
30 dealing, unless a woman should be made an ass and a beast
to bear every knave’s wrong. Yonder he comes, and that
errant malmsey-nose knave, Bardolph, with him. Do your
offices, do your offices, Master Fang and Master Snare, do
me, do me, do me your offices.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY I am undone by his going. I warrant you, he’s an infinitive
thing upon my score. Good Master Fang, hold him sure.
Good Master Snare, let him not ’scape. He comes
continuantly to Pie Corner, saving your manhoods, to buy a
saddle, and he is indited to dinner to the Lubber’s Head in
Lumbert Street, to Master Smooth’s the silkman. I pray you,
since my exion is entered, and my case so openly known to
the world, let him be brought in to his answer. A hundred
mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear, and I have
borne, and borne, and borne, and have been fubbed off, and
fubbed off, and fubbed off from this day to that day, that it
is a shame to be thought on. There is no honesty in such
dealing, unless a woman should be made an ass and a beast
to bear every knave’s wrong. Yonder he comes, and that
errant malmsey-nose knave, Bardolph, with him. Do your
offices, do your offices, Master Fang and Master Snare, do
me, do me, do me your offices.
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Enter FALSTAFF , BARDOLPH , and PAGE
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Enter FALSTAFF , BARDOLPH , and PAGE
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FALSTAFF 35 How now! Whose mare’s dead? What’s the matter?
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FALSTAFF How now! Whose mare’s dead? What’s the matter?
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FANG Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.
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FANG Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.
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FALSTAFF Away, varlets!—Draw, Bardolph. Cut me off the villain’s
head. Throw the quean in the channel.
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FALSTAFF Away, varlets!—Draw, Bardolph. Cut me off the villain’s
head. Throw the quean in the channel.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Throw me in the channel? I’ll throw thee in the channel. Wilt
40 thou, wilt thou, thou bastardly rogue?—Murder, murder!—
Ah, thou honeysuckle villain, wilt thou kill God’s officers
and the King’s? Ah, thou honeyseed rogue, thou art a
honeyseed, a man-queller, and a woman-queller.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Throw me in the channel? I’ll throw thee in the channel. Wilt
thou, wilt thou, thou bastardly rogue?—Murder, murder!—
Ah, thou honeysuckle villain, wilt thou kill God’s officers
and the King’s? Ah, thou honeyseed rogue, thou art a
honeyseed, a man-queller, and a woman-queller.
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FALSTAFF Keep them off, Bardolph.
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FALSTAFF Keep them off, Bardolph.
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FANG 45 A rescue, a rescue!
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FANG A rescue, a rescue!
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Good people, bring a rescue or two.— (to FALSTAFF) Thou
wot, wot thou? Thou wot, wot ta? Do, do, thou rogue. Do,
thou hempseed.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Good people, bring a rescue or two.— (to FALSTAFF) Thou
wot, wot thou? Thou wot, wot ta? Do, do, thou rogue. Do,
thou hempseed.
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FALSTAFF Away, you scullion, you rampallion, you fustilarian! I’ll
50 tickle your catastrophe.
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FALSTAFF Away, you scullion, you rampallion, you fustilarian! I’ll
tickle your catastrophe.
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Enter the Lord CHIEF JUSTICE and his men
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Enter the Lord CHIEF JUSTICE and his men
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CHIEF JUSTICE What is the matter? Keep the peace here, ho!
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CHIEF JUSTICE What is the matter? Keep the peace here, ho!
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Good my lord, be good to me. I beseech you stand to me.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Good my lord, be good to me. I beseech you stand to me.
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CHIEF JUSTICE How now, Sir John? What, are you brawling here?
Doth this become your place, your time, and business?
55 You should have been well on your way to York.—
(to FANG) Stand from him, fellow: wherefore hang’st thou
upon him?
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CHIEF JUSTICE How now, Sir John? What, are you brawling here?
Doth this become your place, your time, and business?
You should have been well on your way to York.—
(to FANG) Stand from him, fellow: wherefore hang’st thou
upon him?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY O my most worshipful lord, an ’t please your Grace, I am a
poor widow of Eastcheap, and he is arrested at my suit.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY O my most worshipful lord, an ’t please your Grace, I am a
poor widow of Eastcheap, and he is arrested at my suit.
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CHIEF JUSTICE For what sum?
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CHIEF JUSTICE For what sum?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY 60 It is more than for some, my lord; it is for all I have. He hath
eaten me out of house and home. He hath put all my substance
into that fat belly of his. (to FALSTAFF) But I will have some of
it out again, or I will ride thee o' nights like the mare.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY It is more than for some, my lord; it is for all I have. He hath
eaten me out of house and home. He hath put all my substance
into that fat belly of his. (to FALSTAFF) But I will have some of
it out again, or I will ride thee o' nights like the mare.
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FALSTAFF I think I am as like to ride the mare if I have any vantage of
65 ground to get up.
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FALSTAFF I think I am as like to ride the mare if I have any vantage of
ground to get up.
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CHIEF JUSTICE How comes this, Sir John? Fie, what man of good temper
would endure this tempest of exclamation? Are you not
ashamed to enforce a poor widow to so rough a course to
come by her own?
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CHIEF JUSTICE How comes this, Sir John? Fie, what man of good temper
would endure this tempest of exclamation? Are you not
ashamed to enforce a poor widow to so rough a course to
come by her own?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Marry, if thou wert an honest man, thyself and the money
too. Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting
in my Dolphin chamber at the round table by a sea-coal fire,
upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the Prince broke
75 thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor,
thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to
marry me and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny
it? Did not goodwife Keech, the butcher’s wife, come in then
and call me Gossip Quickly, coming in to borrow a mess of
80 vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns, whereby
thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were
ill for a green wound? And didst thou not, when she was
gone downstairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity with
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Marry, if thou wert an honest man, thyself and the money
too. Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting
in my Dolphin chamber at the round table by a sea-coal fire,
upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the Prince broke
thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor,
thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to
marry me and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny
it? Did not goodwife Keech, the butcher’s wife, come in then
and call me Gossip Quickly, coming in to borrow a mess of
vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns, whereby
thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were
ill for a green wound? And didst thou not, when she was
gone downstairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity with
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such poor people, saying that ere long they should call me
85 madam? And didst thou not kiss me and bid me fetch thee
thirty shillings? I put thee now to thy book-oath. Deny it if
thou canst.
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such poor people, saying that ere long they should call me
madam? And didst thou not kiss me and bid me fetch thee
thirty shillings? I put thee now to thy book-oath. Deny it if
thou canst.
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FALSTAFF My lord, this is a poor mad soul, and she says up and down
the town that her eldest son is like you. She hath been in good
90 case, and the truth is, poverty hath distracted her. But, for
these foolish officers, I beseech you I may have redress
against them.
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FALSTAFF My lord, this is a poor mad soul, and she says up and down
the town that her eldest son is like you. She hath been in good
case, and the truth is, poverty hath distracted her. But, for
these foolish officers, I beseech you I may have redress
against them.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with your manner
of wrenching the true cause the false way. It is not a
95 confident brow, nor the throng of words that come with such
more than impudent sauciness from you, can thrust me from
a level consideration. You have, as it appears to me,
practiced upon the easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and
made her serve your uses both in purse and in person.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with your manner
of wrenching the true cause the false way. It is not a
confident brow, nor the throng of words that come with such
more than impudent sauciness from you, can thrust me from
a level consideration. You have, as it appears to me,
practiced upon the easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and
made her serve your uses both in purse and in person.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY 100 Yea, in truth, my lord.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Yea, in truth, my lord.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Pray thee, peace.— (to FALSTAFF) Pay her the debt you owe
her, and unpay the villany you have done her. The one you
may do with sterling money, and the other with current
repentance.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Pray thee, peace.— (to FALSTAFF) Pay her the debt you owe
her, and unpay the villany you have done her. The one you
may do with sterling money, and the other with current
repentance.
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FALSTAFF 105 My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply. You call
honorable boldness “impudent sauciness.” If a man will
make curtsy and say nothing, he is virtuous. No, my lord, my
humble duty remembered, I will not be your suitor. I say to
you, I do desire deliverance from these officers, being upon
110 hasty employment in the King’s affairs.
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FALSTAFF My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply. You call
honorable boldness “impudent sauciness.” If a man will
make curtsy and say nothing, he is virtuous. No, my lord, my
humble duty remembered, I will not be your suitor. I say to
you, I do desire deliverance from these officers, being upon
hasty employment in the King’s affairs.
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CHIEF JUSTICE You speak as having power to do wrong; but answer in th'
effect of your reputation, and satisfy this poor woman.
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CHIEF JUSTICE You speak as having power to do wrong; but answer in th'
effect of your reputation, and satisfy this poor woman.
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FALSTAFF Come hither, hostess.
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FALSTAFF Come hither, hostess.
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FALSTAFF takes MISTRESS QUICKLY aside
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FALSTAFF takes MISTRESS QUICKLY aside
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Enter GOWER
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Enter GOWER
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CHIEF JUSTICE Now, Master Gower, what news?
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CHIEF JUSTICE Now, Master Gower, what news?
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GOWER 115 The King, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales
Are near at hand. The rest the paper tells.
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GOWER The King, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales
Are near at hand. The rest the paper tells.
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FALSTAFF As I am a gentleman!
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FALSTAFF As I am a gentleman!
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Faith, you said so before.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Faith, you said so before.
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FALSTAFF As I am a gentleman. Come. No more words of it.
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FALSTAFF As I am a gentleman. Come. No more words of it.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY 120 By this heavenly ground I tread on, I must be fain to pawn
both my plate and the tapestry of my dining chambers.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY By this heavenly ground I tread on, I must be fain to pawn
both my plate and the tapestry of my dining chambers.
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FALSTAFF Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking. And for thy walls, a
pretty slight drollery, or the story of the Prodigal or the
German hunting in waterwork is worth a thousand of these
125 bed-hangers and these fly-bitten tapestries. Let it be ten
pound, if thou canst. Come, an ’twere not for thy humors,
there’s not a better wench in England. Go wash thy face, and
draw the action. Come, thou must not be in this humor with
me. Dost not know me? Come, come, I know thou wast set
130 on to this.
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FALSTAFF Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking. And for thy walls, a
pretty slight drollery, or the story of the Prodigal or the
German hunting in waterwork is worth a thousand of these
bed-hangers and these fly-bitten tapestries. Let it be ten
pound, if thou canst. Come, an ’twere not for thy humors,
there’s not a better wench in England. Go wash thy face, and
draw the action. Come, thou must not be in this humor with
me. Dost not know me? Come, come, I know thou wast set
on to this.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty nobles. I' faith, I am
loath to pawn my plate, so God save me, la.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty nobles. I' faith, I am
loath to pawn my plate, so God save me, la.
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FALSTAFF Let it alone. I’ll make other shift. You’ll be a fool still.
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FALSTAFF Let it alone. I’ll make other shift. You’ll be a fool still.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Well, you shall have it, though I pawn my gown. I hope
135 you’ll come to supper. You’ll pay me all together?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Well, you shall have it, though I pawn my gown. I hope
you’ll come to supper. You’ll pay me all together?
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FALSTAFF Will I live? (to BARDOLPH) Go with her, with her. Hook on,
hook on.
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FALSTAFF Will I live? (to BARDOLPH) Go with her, with her. Hook on,
hook on.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you at supper?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you at supper?
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FALSTAFF No more words. Let’s have her.
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FALSTAFF No more words. Let’s have her.
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Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY , FANG , SNARE , BARDOLPH , and the PAGE
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Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY , FANG , SNARE , BARDOLPH , and the PAGE
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CHIEF JUSTICE 140 I have heard better news.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I have heard better news.
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FALSTAFF What’s the news, my good lord?
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FALSTAFF What’s the news, my good lord?
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CHIEF JUSTICE Where lay the King last night?
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CHIEF JUSTICE Where lay the King last night?
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GOWER At Basingstoke, my lord.
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GOWER At Basingstoke, my lord.
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FALSTAFF I hope, my lord, all’s well. What is the news, my lord?
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FALSTAFF I hope, my lord, all’s well. What is the news, my lord?
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CHIEF JUSTICE 145 Come all his forces back?
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CHIEF JUSTICE Come all his forces back?
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GOWER No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse
Are marched up to my Lord of Lancaster
Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.
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GOWER No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse
Are marched up to my Lord of Lancaster
Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.
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FALSTAFF Comes the King back from Wales, my noble lord?
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FALSTAFF Comes the King back from Wales, my noble lord?
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CHIEF JUSTICE 150 You shall have letters of me presently.
Come. Go along with me, good Master Gower.
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CHIEF JUSTICE You shall have letters of me presently.
Come. Go along with me, good Master Gower.
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FALSTAFF My lord!
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FALSTAFF My lord!
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CHIEF JUSTICE What’s the matter?
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CHIEF JUSTICE What’s the matter?
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FALSTAFF Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to dinner?
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FALSTAFF Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to dinner?
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GOWER 155 I must wait upon my good lord here. I thank you, good Sir
John.
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GOWER I must wait upon my good lord here. I thank you, good Sir
John.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are to take
soldiers up in counties as you go.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are to take
soldiers up in counties as you go.
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FALSTAFF Will you sup with me, Master Gower?
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FALSTAFF Will you sup with me, Master Gower?
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CHIEF JUSTICE 160 What foolish master taught you these manners, Sir John?
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CHIEF JUSTICE What foolish master taught you these manners, Sir John?
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FALSTAFF Master Gower, if they become me not, he was a fool that
taught them me.—This is the right fencing grace, my lord:
tap for tap, and so part fair.
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FALSTAFF Master Gower, if they become me not, he was a fool that
taught them me.—This is the right fencing grace, my lord:
tap for tap, and so part fair.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Now the Lord lighten thee. Thou art a great fool.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Now the Lord lighten thee. Thou art a great fool.
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Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY , with two officers; FANG with her and SNARE following
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Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY , with two officers; FANG with her and SNARE following
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Master Fang, have you entered the action?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Master Fang, have you entered the action?
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FANG It is entered.
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FANG It is entered.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Where’s your yeoman? Is ’t a lusty yeoman? Will a'
stand to ’t?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Where’s your yeoman? Is ’t a lusty yeoman? Will a'
stand to ’t?
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FANG 5 Sirrah! Where’s Snare?
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FANG Sirrah! Where’s Snare?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY O Lord, ay, good Master Snare.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY O Lord, ay, good Master Snare.
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SNARE Here, here.
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SNARE Here, here.
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FANG Snare, we must arrest Sir John Falstaff.
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FANG Snare, we must arrest Sir John Falstaff.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Yea, good Master Snare, I have entered him and all.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Yea, good Master Snare, I have entered him and all.
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SNARE 10 It may chance cost some of us our lives, for he will stab.
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SNARE It may chance cost some of us our lives, for he will stab.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Alas the day, take heed of him. He stabbed me in mine own
house, and that most beastly, in good faith. He cares not what
mischief he does. If his weapon be out, he will foin like any
devil. He will spare neither man, woman, nor child.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Alas the day, take heed of him. He stabbed me in mine own
house, and that most beastly, in good faith. He cares not what
mischief he does. If his weapon be out, he will foin like any
devil. He will spare neither man, woman, nor child.
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FANG 15 If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.
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FANG If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY No, nor I neither. I’ll be at your elbow.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY No, nor I neither. I’ll be at your elbow.
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FANG An I but fist him once, an he come but within my view—
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FANG An I but fist him once, an he come but within my view—
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MISTRESS QUICKLY I am undone by his going. I warrant you, he’s an infinitive
thing upon my score. Good Master Fang, hold him sure.
20 Good Master Snare, let him not ’scape. He comes
continuantly to Pie Corner, saving your manhoods, to buy a
saddle, and he is indited to dinner to the Lubber’s Head in
Lumbert Street, to Master Smooth’s the silkman. I pray you,
since my exion is entered, and my case so openly known to
25 the world, let him be brought in to his answer. A hundred
mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear, and I have
borne, and borne, and borne, and have been fubbed off, and
fubbed off, and fubbed off from this day to that day, that it
is a shame to be thought on. There is no honesty in such
30 dealing, unless a woman should be made an ass and a beast
to bear every knave’s wrong. Yonder he comes, and that
errant malmsey-nose knave, Bardolph, with him. Do your
offices, do your offices, Master Fang and Master Snare, do
me, do me, do me your offices.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY I am undone by his going. I warrant you, he’s an infinitive
thing upon my score. Good Master Fang, hold him sure.
Good Master Snare, let him not ’scape. He comes
continuantly to Pie Corner, saving your manhoods, to buy a
saddle, and he is indited to dinner to the Lubber’s Head in
Lumbert Street, to Master Smooth’s the silkman. I pray you,
since my exion is entered, and my case so openly known to
the world, let him be brought in to his answer. A hundred
mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear, and I have
borne, and borne, and borne, and have been fubbed off, and
fubbed off, and fubbed off from this day to that day, that it
is a shame to be thought on. There is no honesty in such
dealing, unless a woman should be made an ass and a beast
to bear every knave’s wrong. Yonder he comes, and that
errant malmsey-nose knave, Bardolph, with him. Do your
offices, do your offices, Master Fang and Master Snare, do
me, do me, do me your offices.
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Enter FALSTAFF , BARDOLPH , and PAGE
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Enter FALSTAFF , BARDOLPH , and PAGE
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FALSTAFF 35 How now! Whose mare’s dead? What’s the matter?
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FALSTAFF How now! Whose mare’s dead? What’s the matter?
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FANG Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.
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FANG Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.
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FALSTAFF Away, varlets!—Draw, Bardolph. Cut me off the villain’s
head. Throw the quean in the channel.
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FALSTAFF Away, varlets!—Draw, Bardolph. Cut me off the villain’s
head. Throw the quean in the channel.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Throw me in the channel? I’ll throw thee in the channel. Wilt
40 thou, wilt thou, thou bastardly rogue?—Murder, murder!—
Ah, thou honeysuckle villain, wilt thou kill God’s officers
and the King’s? Ah, thou honeyseed rogue, thou art a
honeyseed, a man-queller, and a woman-queller.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Throw me in the channel? I’ll throw thee in the channel. Wilt
thou, wilt thou, thou bastardly rogue?—Murder, murder!—
Ah, thou honeysuckle villain, wilt thou kill God’s officers
and the King’s? Ah, thou honeyseed rogue, thou art a
honeyseed, a man-queller, and a woman-queller.
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FALSTAFF Keep them off, Bardolph.
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FALSTAFF Keep them off, Bardolph.
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FANG 45 A rescue, a rescue!
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FANG A rescue, a rescue!
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Good people, bring a rescue or two.— (to FALSTAFF) Thou
wot, wot thou? Thou wot, wot ta? Do, do, thou rogue. Do,
thou hempseed.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Good people, bring a rescue or two.— (to FALSTAFF) Thou
wot, wot thou? Thou wot, wot ta? Do, do, thou rogue. Do,
thou hempseed.
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FALSTAFF Away, you scullion, you rampallion, you fustilarian! I’ll
50 tickle your catastrophe.
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FALSTAFF Away, you scullion, you rampallion, you fustilarian! I’ll
tickle your catastrophe.
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Enter the Lord CHIEF JUSTICE and his men
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Enter the Lord CHIEF JUSTICE and his men
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CHIEF JUSTICE What is the matter? Keep the peace here, ho!
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CHIEF JUSTICE What is the matter? Keep the peace here, ho!
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Good my lord, be good to me. I beseech you stand to me.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Good my lord, be good to me. I beseech you stand to me.
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CHIEF JUSTICE How now, Sir John? What, are you brawling here?
Doth this become your place, your time, and business?
55 You should have been well on your way to York.—
(to FANG) Stand from him, fellow: wherefore hang’st thou
upon him?
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CHIEF JUSTICE How now, Sir John? What, are you brawling here?
Doth this become your place, your time, and business?
You should have been well on your way to York.—
(to FANG) Stand from him, fellow: wherefore hang’st thou
upon him?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY O my most worshipful lord, an ’t please your Grace, I am a
poor widow of Eastcheap, and he is arrested at my suit.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY O my most worshipful lord, an ’t please your Grace, I am a
poor widow of Eastcheap, and he is arrested at my suit.
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CHIEF JUSTICE For what sum?
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CHIEF JUSTICE For what sum?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY 60 It is more than for some, my lord; it is for all I have. He hath
eaten me out of house and home. He hath put all my substance
into that fat belly of his. (to FALSTAFF) But I will have some of
it out again, or I will ride thee o' nights like the mare.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY It is more than for some, my lord; it is for all I have. He hath
eaten me out of house and home. He hath put all my substance
into that fat belly of his. (to FALSTAFF) But I will have some of
it out again, or I will ride thee o' nights like the mare.
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FALSTAFF I think I am as like to ride the mare if I have any vantage of
65 ground to get up.
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FALSTAFF I think I am as like to ride the mare if I have any vantage of
ground to get up.
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CHIEF JUSTICE How comes this, Sir John? Fie, what man of good temper
would endure this tempest of exclamation? Are you not
ashamed to enforce a poor widow to so rough a course to
come by her own?
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CHIEF JUSTICE How comes this, Sir John? Fie, what man of good temper
would endure this tempest of exclamation? Are you not
ashamed to enforce a poor widow to so rough a course to
come by her own?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Marry, if thou wert an honest man, thyself and the money
too. Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting
in my Dolphin chamber at the round table by a sea-coal fire,
upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the Prince broke
75 thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor,
thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to
marry me and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny
it? Did not goodwife Keech, the butcher’s wife, come in then
and call me Gossip Quickly, coming in to borrow a mess of
80 vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns, whereby
thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were
ill for a green wound? And didst thou not, when she was
gone downstairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity with
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Marry, if thou wert an honest man, thyself and the money
too. Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting
in my Dolphin chamber at the round table by a sea-coal fire,
upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the Prince broke
thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor,
thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to
marry me and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny
it? Did not goodwife Keech, the butcher’s wife, come in then
and call me Gossip Quickly, coming in to borrow a mess of
vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns, whereby
thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were
ill for a green wound? And didst thou not, when she was
gone downstairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity with
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such poor people, saying that ere long they should call me
85 madam? And didst thou not kiss me and bid me fetch thee
thirty shillings? I put thee now to thy book-oath. Deny it if
thou canst.
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such poor people, saying that ere long they should call me
madam? And didst thou not kiss me and bid me fetch thee
thirty shillings? I put thee now to thy book-oath. Deny it if
thou canst.
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FALSTAFF My lord, this is a poor mad soul, and she says up and down
the town that her eldest son is like you. She hath been in good
90 case, and the truth is, poverty hath distracted her. But, for
these foolish officers, I beseech you I may have redress
against them.
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FALSTAFF My lord, this is a poor mad soul, and she says up and down
the town that her eldest son is like you. She hath been in good
case, and the truth is, poverty hath distracted her. But, for
these foolish officers, I beseech you I may have redress
against them.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with your manner
of wrenching the true cause the false way. It is not a
95 confident brow, nor the throng of words that come with such
more than impudent sauciness from you, can thrust me from
a level consideration. You have, as it appears to me,
practiced upon the easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and
made her serve your uses both in purse and in person.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with your manner
of wrenching the true cause the false way. It is not a
confident brow, nor the throng of words that come with such
more than impudent sauciness from you, can thrust me from
a level consideration. You have, as it appears to me,
practiced upon the easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and
made her serve your uses both in purse and in person.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY 100 Yea, in truth, my lord.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Yea, in truth, my lord.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Pray thee, peace.— (to FALSTAFF) Pay her the debt you owe
her, and unpay the villany you have done her. The one you
may do with sterling money, and the other with current
repentance.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Pray thee, peace.— (to FALSTAFF) Pay her the debt you owe
her, and unpay the villany you have done her. The one you
may do with sterling money, and the other with current
repentance.
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FALSTAFF 105 My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply. You call
honorable boldness “impudent sauciness.” If a man will
make curtsy and say nothing, he is virtuous. No, my lord, my
humble duty remembered, I will not be your suitor. I say to
you, I do desire deliverance from these officers, being upon
110 hasty employment in the King’s affairs.
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FALSTAFF My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply. You call
honorable boldness “impudent sauciness.” If a man will
make curtsy and say nothing, he is virtuous. No, my lord, my
humble duty remembered, I will not be your suitor. I say to
you, I do desire deliverance from these officers, being upon
hasty employment in the King’s affairs.
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CHIEF JUSTICE You speak as having power to do wrong; but answer in th'
effect of your reputation, and satisfy this poor woman.
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CHIEF JUSTICE You speak as having power to do wrong; but answer in th'
effect of your reputation, and satisfy this poor woman.
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FALSTAFF Come hither, hostess.
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FALSTAFF Come hither, hostess.
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FALSTAFF takes MISTRESS QUICKLY aside
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FALSTAFF takes MISTRESS QUICKLY aside
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Enter GOWER
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Enter GOWER
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CHIEF JUSTICE Now, Master Gower, what news?
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CHIEF JUSTICE Now, Master Gower, what news?
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GOWER 115 The King, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales
Are near at hand. The rest the paper tells.
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GOWER The King, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales
Are near at hand. The rest the paper tells.
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FALSTAFF As I am a gentleman!
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FALSTAFF As I am a gentleman!
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Faith, you said so before.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Faith, you said so before.
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FALSTAFF As I am a gentleman. Come. No more words of it.
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FALSTAFF As I am a gentleman. Come. No more words of it.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY 120 By this heavenly ground I tread on, I must be fain to pawn
both my plate and the tapestry of my dining chambers.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY By this heavenly ground I tread on, I must be fain to pawn
both my plate and the tapestry of my dining chambers.
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FALSTAFF Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking. And for thy walls, a
pretty slight drollery, or the story of the Prodigal or the
German hunting in waterwork is worth a thousand of these
125 bed-hangers and these fly-bitten tapestries. Let it be ten
pound, if thou canst. Come, an ’twere not for thy humors,
there’s not a better wench in England. Go wash thy face, and
draw the action. Come, thou must not be in this humor with
me. Dost not know me? Come, come, I know thou wast set
130 on to this.
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FALSTAFF Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking. And for thy walls, a
pretty slight drollery, or the story of the Prodigal or the
German hunting in waterwork is worth a thousand of these
bed-hangers and these fly-bitten tapestries. Let it be ten
pound, if thou canst. Come, an ’twere not for thy humors,
there’s not a better wench in England. Go wash thy face, and
draw the action. Come, thou must not be in this humor with
me. Dost not know me? Come, come, I know thou wast set
on to this.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty nobles. I' faith, I am
loath to pawn my plate, so God save me, la.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty nobles. I' faith, I am
loath to pawn my plate, so God save me, la.
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FALSTAFF Let it alone. I’ll make other shift. You’ll be a fool still.
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FALSTAFF Let it alone. I’ll make other shift. You’ll be a fool still.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Well, you shall have it, though I pawn my gown. I hope
135 you’ll come to supper. You’ll pay me all together?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Well, you shall have it, though I pawn my gown. I hope
you’ll come to supper. You’ll pay me all together?
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FALSTAFF Will I live? (to BARDOLPH) Go with her, with her. Hook on,
hook on.
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FALSTAFF Will I live? (to BARDOLPH) Go with her, with her. Hook on,
hook on.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you at supper?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you at supper?
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FALSTAFF No more words. Let’s have her.
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FALSTAFF No more words. Let’s have her.
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Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY , FANG , SNARE , BARDOLPH , and the PAGE
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Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY , FANG , SNARE , BARDOLPH , and the PAGE
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CHIEF JUSTICE 140 I have heard better news.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I have heard better news.
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FALSTAFF What’s the news, my good lord?
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FALSTAFF What’s the news, my good lord?
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CHIEF JUSTICE Where lay the King last night?
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CHIEF JUSTICE Where lay the King last night?
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GOWER At Basingstoke, my lord.
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GOWER At Basingstoke, my lord.
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FALSTAFF I hope, my lord, all’s well. What is the news, my lord?
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FALSTAFF I hope, my lord, all’s well. What is the news, my lord?
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CHIEF JUSTICE 145 Come all his forces back?
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CHIEF JUSTICE Come all his forces back?
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GOWER No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse
Are marched up to my Lord of Lancaster
Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.
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GOWER No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse
Are marched up to my Lord of Lancaster
Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.
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FALSTAFF Comes the King back from Wales, my noble lord?
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FALSTAFF Comes the King back from Wales, my noble lord?
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CHIEF JUSTICE 150 You shall have letters of me presently.
Come. Go along with me, good Master Gower.
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CHIEF JUSTICE You shall have letters of me presently.
Come. Go along with me, good Master Gower.
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FALSTAFF My lord!
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FALSTAFF My lord!
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CHIEF JUSTICE What’s the matter?
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CHIEF JUSTICE What’s the matter?
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FALSTAFF Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to dinner?
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FALSTAFF Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to dinner?
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GOWER 155 I must wait upon my good lord here. I thank you, good Sir
John.
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GOWER I must wait upon my good lord here. I thank you, good Sir
John.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are to take
soldiers up in counties as you go.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are to take
soldiers up in counties as you go.
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FALSTAFF Will you sup with me, Master Gower?
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FALSTAFF Will you sup with me, Master Gower?
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CHIEF JUSTICE 160 What foolish master taught you these manners, Sir John?
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CHIEF JUSTICE What foolish master taught you these manners, Sir John?
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FALSTAFF Master Gower, if they become me not, he was a fool that
taught them me.—This is the right fencing grace, my lord:
tap for tap, and so part fair.
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FALSTAFF Master Gower, if they become me not, he was a fool that
taught them me.—This is the right fencing grace, my lord:
tap for tap, and so part fair.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Now the Lord lighten thee. Thou art a great fool.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Now the Lord lighten thee. Thou art a great fool.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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