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Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, with two officers; FANG with her and SNARE following
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MISTRESS QUICKLY enters with Sheriff FANG. Deputy SNARE follows.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Master Fang, have you entered the action?
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MISTRESS QUICKLY Master Fang, have you filed the lawsuit?
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FANG It is entered.
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FANG It’s filed.
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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 deputy? Is he a strong deputy? Will he rise to the occasion?
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FANG
5Sirrah! 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 Oh my goodness! 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’ve got to 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 Yes, good Master Snare. I’ve filed the suit against him and everything.
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SNARE
10It may chance cost some of us our lives, for he will stab.
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SNARE It could cost some of us our lives: he’ll 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 Oh my goodness! Watch out for him: he stabbed me in my own house, and it was nasty. I swear, he doesn’t care what trouble he causes. Once he’s got his weapon out, he’ll thrust it like the devil. He won’t spare man, woman, or child.
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FANG
15If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.
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FANG If I can get close to him, I won’t worry about his thrusting.
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