No Fear Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor: Act 5 Scene 1

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Enter SIR JOHN FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY.	Enter SIR JOHN FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY.
FALSTAFF Prithee, no more prattling. Go. I’ll hold. This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away, go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. 5 Away.	FALSTAFF Prithee, no more prattling. Go. I’ll hold. This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away, go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. 5 Away.
MISTRESS QUICKLY I’ll provide you a chain, and I’ll do what I can to get you a pair of horns.	MISTRESS QUICKLY I’ll provide you a chain, and I’ll do what I can to get you a pair of horns.
FALSTAFF Away, I say! Time wears. Hold up your head, and mince. MISTRESS QUICKLY exits. Enter FORD disguised as BROOK. 10 How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight or never. Be you in the park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you shall see wonders.	FALSTAFF Away, I say! Time wears. Hold up your head, and mince. MISTRESS QUICKLY exits. Enter FORD disguised as BROOK. 10 How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight or never. Be you in the park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you shall see wonders.
FORD , as BROOK Went you not to her yesterday, sir, as 15 you told me you had appointed?	FORD , as BROOK Went you not to her yesterday, sir, as 15 you told me you had appointed?
FALSTAFF I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor old man, but I came from her, Master Brook, like a poor old woman. That same knave Ford, her husband, hath the finest mad devil of 20 jealousy in him, Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell you, he beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear not Goliath with a weaver’s beam, because I know also life is a shuttle. I am in 25 haste. Go along with me; I’ll tell you all, Master Brook. Since I plucked geese, played truant, and whipped top, I knew not what ’twas to be beaten till lately. Follow me. I’ll tell you strange things of this knave Ford, on whom tonight I will be revenged, 30 and I will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow. Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow.	FALSTAFF I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor old man, but I came from her, Master Brook, like a poor old woman. That same knave Ford, her husband, hath the finest mad devil of 20 jealousy in him, Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell you, he beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear not Goliath with a weaver’s beam, because I know also life is a shuttle. I am in 25 haste. Go along with me; I’ll tell you all, Master Brook. Since I plucked geese, played truant, and whipped top, I knew not what ’twas to be beaten till lately. Follow me. I’ll tell you strange things of this knave Ford, on whom tonight I will be revenged, 30 and I will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow. Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow.
They exit.	They exit.

Original Text	Modern Text
Enter SIR JOHN FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY.	Enter SIR JOHN FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY.
FALSTAFF Prithee, no more prattling. Go. I’ll hold. This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away, go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. 5 Away.	FALSTAFF Prithee, no more prattling. Go. I’ll hold. This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away, go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. 5 Away.
MISTRESS QUICKLY I’ll provide you a chain, and I’ll do what I can to get you a pair of horns.	MISTRESS QUICKLY I’ll provide you a chain, and I’ll do what I can to get you a pair of horns.
FALSTAFF Away, I say! Time wears. Hold up your head, and mince. MISTRESS QUICKLY exits. Enter FORD disguised as BROOK. 10 How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight or never. Be you in the park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you shall see wonders.	FALSTAFF Away, I say! Time wears. Hold up your head, and mince. MISTRESS QUICKLY exits. Enter FORD disguised as BROOK. 10 How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight or never. Be you in the park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you shall see wonders.
FORD , as BROOK Went you not to her yesterday, sir, as 15 you told me you had appointed?	FORD , as BROOK Went you not to her yesterday, sir, as 15 you told me you had appointed?
FALSTAFF I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor old man, but I came from her, Master Brook, like a poor old woman. That same knave Ford, her husband, hath the finest mad devil of 20 jealousy in him, Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell you, he beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear not Goliath with a weaver’s beam, because I know also life is a shuttle. I am in 25 haste. Go along with me; I’ll tell you all, Master Brook. Since I plucked geese, played truant, and whipped top, I knew not what ’twas to be beaten till lately. Follow me. I’ll tell you strange things of this knave Ford, on whom tonight I will be revenged, 30 and I will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow. Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow.	FALSTAFF I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor old man, but I came from her, Master Brook, like a poor old woman. That same knave Ford, her husband, hath the finest mad devil of 20 jealousy in him, Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell you, he beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear not Goliath with a weaver’s beam, because I know also life is a shuttle. I am in 25 haste. Go along with me; I’ll tell you all, Master Brook. Since I plucked geese, played truant, and whipped top, I knew not what ’twas to be beaten till lately. Follow me. I’ll tell you strange things of this knave Ford, on whom tonight I will be revenged, 30 and I will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow. Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow.
They exit.	They exit.