The Merry Wives of Windsor E-Book

William Shakespeare

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I. 1 Scene I. Windsor. Before Page's house. Enter Justice Shallow, Slender, and Sir Hugh Evans. Shal. Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire. Slen. In the county of Gloucester, justice of peace 5 and "Coram." Shal. Ay, cousin Slender, and "Custalorum." Slen. Ay, and "Rato-lorum" too; and a gentleman born, master parson; who writes himself "Armigero," in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, "Armigero." Shal. Ay, that I do; and have done any time these three hundred years. Slen. All his successors gone before him hath done't; and all his ancestors that come after him may: they may 15 give the dozen white luces in their coat. Shal. It is an old coat. Evans. The dozen white louses do become an old coat well; it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. Shal. The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat. Slen. I may quarter, coz. Shal. You may, by marrying. Evans. It is marring indeed, if he quarter it. Shal. Not a whit.

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of WindsorDRAMATIS PERSONÆ.1ACT I.ACT II.ACT III.ACT IV.ACT V.NOTES.CRITICAL APPARATUS(“Linenotes”).Act I: Scene 2Act IV: Scene 4A Pleasant Conceited Comedie, of Syr Iohn Falstaffe, and the merry Wiues of VVindsor.Enter Mistresse Quickly.Sc. xvii. Enter sir Iohn with a Bucks head upon him.Copyright

The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.1

Sir John Falstaff.Fenton, a gentleman.Shallow, a country justice.Slender, cousin to Shallow.Ford,two gentlemen dwelling at Windsor.Page,William Page, a boy, son to Page.Sir Hugh Evans, a Welsh parson.Doctor Caius, a French physician.Host of the Garter Inn.Bardolph,sharpers attending on Falstaff.Pistol,Nym,Robin, page to Falstaff.Simple, servant to Slender.Rugby, servant to Doctor Caius.Mistress Ford.Mistress Page.Anne Page, her daughter.Mistress Quickly, servant to Doctor Caius.Servants to Page, Ford, &c.Scene—Windsor, and the neighbourhood.

ACT I.

I. 1Scene I.Windsor. BeforePage’shouse.EnterJustice Shallow, Slender, andSir Hugh Evans.Shal.Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.Slen.In the county of Gloucester, justice of peace 5 and ‘Coram.’Shal.Ay, cousin Slender, and ‘Custalorum.’Slen.Ay, and ‘Rato-lorum’ too; and a gentleman born, master parson; who writes himself ‘Armigero,’ in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, ‘Armigero.’10Shal.Ay, thatIdo; and have done any time these three hundred years.Slen.All his successors gone before himhathdone’t; and all his ancestors that come after him may: they may 15 give the dozen white luces in their coat.Shal.It is an old coat.Evans.The dozen white louses do become an old coat well; it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.Shal.The luce isthe fresh fish; the salt fish is an 20 old coat.Slen.I may quarter, coz.Shal.You may, by marrying.Evans.It ismarringindeed, if he quarter it.Shal.Not a whit.I. 1.25Evans.Yes,py’r lady; if he has a quarter of your coat, there is but threeskirtsfor yourself, in my simple conjectures: but that is all one. If Sir John Falstaff have committed disparagementsuntoyou, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my benevolence to make atonements and 30compremisesbetween you.Shal.The council shall hear it; it is a riot.Evans.It is not meet the councilheara riot; there is no fear of Got in a riot: the council, look you, shall desire to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a riot;take your35 vizaments in that.Shal.Ha! o’ my life, if I were young again, the sword should end it.Evans.It is petter that friends is the sword,andend it: and there is also another device in my prain, which peradventure 40 pringsgootdiscretions with it:—there is Anne Page, which is daughter to MasterThomasPage, which is pretty virginity.Slen.Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and speakssmalllike a woman.45Evans.It is that fery person for all theorld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold and silver, is her grandsire upon his death’s-bed (Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!) give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years old: it were agootmotion if we I. 1.50 leave our pribbles and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master Abraham and Mistress Anne Page.Slen.Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound?Evans.Ay, andher fatheris make her a petter penny.Slen.I know the young gentlewoman; she has good 55 gifts.Evans.Seven hundred pounds andpossibilitiesis goot gifts.Shal.Well, let us see honest Master Page. Is Falstaff there?60Evans.Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do despise one that is false, or as I despise one that is not true. The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I beseech you, be ruled by yourwell-willers. I will peat the door for Master Page. [Knocks] What, hoa! Got pless your house here!65Page.[Within] Who’s there?EnterPage.Evans.Here is Got’s plessing, and your friend, and Justice Shallow; andhereyoung Master Slender, that peradventures shall tell you another tale, if matters grow to your likings.70Page.I am glad to see yourworshipswell. I thank you for my venison, Master Shallow.Shal.Master Page, I am glad to see you: much good do it your good heart! I wished your venison better; it was ill killed. How doth good Mistress Page?—and I I. 1.75thankyou always with my heart, la! with my heart.Page.Sir, I thank you.Shal.Sir, Ithankyou; by yea and no, I do.Page.I am glad to see you, good Master Slender.Slen.How does your fallow greyhound, sir? I heard 80 say he was outrun onCotsall.Page.It could not be judged, sir.Slen.You’ll not confess, you’ll not confess.Shal.That he will not. ’Tis your fault, ’tis your fault; ’tis a good dog.85Page.A cur, sir.Shal.Sir, he’s a good dog, and a fair dog: can there be more said? he is good and fair. Is Sir John Falstaff here?Page.Sir, he is within; and I would I could do a good office between you.90Evans.It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.Shal.He hath wronged me, Master Page.Page.Sir, he doth in some sort confess it.Shal.If it be confessed, it is not redressed: is not that so, Master Page? He hath wronged me; indeed he hath; 95 at a word, he hath, believe me: Robert Shallow, esquire, saith, he is wronged.Page.Here comes Sir John.EnterSir John Falstaff, Bardolph, Nym, andPistol.Fal.Now, Master Shallow, you’ll complain of me to theking?I. 1.100Shal.Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and broke open my lodge.Fal.But not kissed your keeper’sdaughter?Shal.Tut, a pin! this shall be answered.Fal.I will answer it straight; I have done all this.105 That is now answered.Shal.Thecouncilshall know this.Fal.’Twere better for you if it wereknownincounsel: you’ll be laughed at.Evans.Pauca verba, Sir John; goot worts.110Fal.Good worts! good cabbage. Slender, I broke your head: what matter have you against me?Slen.Marry, sir, I have matter in my head against you; and against your cony-catching rascals, Bardolph, Nym, andPistol.115Bard.You Banbury cheese!Slen.Ay, it is no matter.Pist.How now, Mephostophilus!Slen.Ay, it is no matter.Nym.Slice, I say! pauca, pauca: slice! that’s my 120 humour.Slen.Where’s Simple, my man? Can you tell, cousin?Evans.Peace, I pray you. Now let us understand. There is three umpires in this matter, as I understand; I. 1.125 that is, Master Page, fidelicet Master Page; and there is myself, fidelicet myself; and thethreeparty is, lastly and finally, mine host of theGarter.Page.We three, to hear it and end it between them.Evans.Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my 130 note-book; and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with as greatdiscreetlyas we can.Fal.Pistol!Pist.He hears with ears.Evans.The tevil and his tam! what phrase is this, ’He 135 hears with ear’? why, it is affectations.Fal.Pistol, did you pick Master Slender’s purse?Slen.Ay, by these gloves, did he, or I would I might never come in mine own great chamber again else, of seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Edward shovel-boards, 140 that cost me two shilling and two pence a-piece of Yead Miller, by these gloves.Fal.Is this true, Pistol?Evans.No; it is false, if it is a pick-purse.145Pist.Ha, thou mountain-foreigner! Sir John and master mine,I combat challenge of thislatten bilbo.Word of denial inthy labras here!Word of denial: froth and scum, thou liest!Slen.By these gloves, then, ’twas he.I. 1.150Nym.Beavised, sir, and pass good humours: I will say ‘marry trap’ with you, if you runthe nuthook’s humouron me; that is the very note of it.Slen.By this hat, then, he in the red face had it; for though I cannot remember what I did when you made me 155 drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass.Fal.What say you, Scarlet and John?Bard.Why, sir, for my part, I say the gentleman had drunk himself out of his five sentences.Evans.It is his five senses: fie, what the ignorance is!160Bard.And beingfap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered; and so conclusions passed thecareires.Slen.Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but ’tis no matter: I’ll ne’er be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick: if I be drunk, 165 I’ll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.Evans.So Got udge me, that is a virtuous mind.Fal.You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen; you hear it.EnterAnne Page, with wine;Mistress FordandMistress Page, following.170Page.Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we’ll drink within.Exit Anne Page.Slen.O heaven! this is Mistress Anne Page.Page.How now, Mistress Ford!Fal.Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well I. 1.175 met: by your leave, good mistress.Kisses her.Page.Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner: come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.Exeunt all except Shal., Slen., and Evans.Slen.I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book 180 of Songs and Sonnets here.EnterSimple.How now, Simple! where have you been? I must wait on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles about you, have you?Sim.Book of Riddles! why, did you not lend it to 185 Alice Shortcake upon All-hallowmas last, a fortnight aforeMichaelmas?Shal.Come, coz; come, coz; we stay for you. A word with you, coz; marry,this, coz: there is, as ’twere, a tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh here. Do 190 you understand me?Slen.Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable; if it be so, I shall dothat thatis reason.Shal.Nay, but understand me.Slen.So I do, sir.195Evans.Give ear to his motions, Master Slender: I will description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.Slen.Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says: I pray you, pardon me; he’s a justice of peace in his country, simple though I stand here.I. 1.200Evans.But that is not the question: the question is concerning your marriage.Shal.Ay, there’s the point, sir.Evans.Marry, is it; the very point of it; to Mistress Anne Page.205Slen.Why, if it be so, I will marry her upon any reasonable demands.Evans.But can you affection the ’oman? Let us command to know that of your mouth or of your lips; for divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of themouth. 210 Therefore, precisely, can youcarryyour good will to the maid?Shal.Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?Slen.I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that would do reason.215Evans.Nay, Got’s lords and his ladies! you must speak possitable, if you cancarry heryour desires towards her.Shal.That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?220Slen.I will do a greater thing than that, upon your request, cousin, in any reason.Shal.Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz: what I do is to pleasure you, coz. Can you love the maid?Slen.I will marry her, sir, at your request: but if there I. 1.225 be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another; I hope, upon familiarity will grow morecontempt: but if you say, ‘Marry her,’ I will marry her; that I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.230Evans.It is a fery discretion answer; save thefallis in the ort ‘dissolutely:’ the ort is, according to our meaning, ‘resolutely:’ his meaning is good.Shal.Ay, I think my cousin meant well.Slen.Ay, or else I would I might behanged, la!235Shal.Here comes fair Mistress Anne.Re-enterAnne Page.Would I were young for your sake, Mistress Anne!Anne.The dinner is on the table; my father desires your worships’ company.Shal.I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne.240Evans.Od’s plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace.Exeunt Shallow and Evans.Anne.Will’t please your worship to come in, sir?Slen.No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well.245Anne.The dinner attends you, sir.Slen.I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go, sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my cousin Shallow. [Exit Simple.] A justice of peace sometimes may bebeholdingto his friend for a man. I keep but I. 1.250 three men and a boy yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? yet I livelikea poor gentleman born.Anne.I may not go in without your worship: they will not sit till you come.Slen.I’ faith, I’ll eat nothing; I thank you as much as 255 though I did.Anne.I pray you, sir, walk in.Slen.I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed 260 prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meat since. Why do your dogs bark so? be there bears i’ the town?Anne.I think there are, sir; I heard them talked of.Slen.I love the sport well; but I shall as soon quarrel 265 at it as any man in England. You are afraid, if you see the bear loose, are you not?Anne.Ay, indeed, sir.Slen.That’s meat and drink to me, now. I have seen Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by the 270 chain; but, I warrant you, the women have so cried and shrieked at it, that it passed: but women, indeed, cannot abide ’em; they are very ill-favoured rough things.Re-enterPage.Page.Come, gentle Master Slender, come; we stay for you.I. 1.275Slen.I’ll eatnothing, I thank you, sir.Page.By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! come, come.Slen.Nay, pray you, lead the way.Page.Come on, sir.280Slen.Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first.Anne.Not I, sir; pray you, keep on.Slen.Truly, I will not go first; truly, la! I will not do you that wrong.Anne.I pray you, sir.285Slen.I’ll rather be unmannerly than troublesome. You do yourself wrong, indeed, la!Exeunt.I. 2Scene II.The same.EnterSir Hugh EvansandSimple.Evans.Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius’ house which is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly, which is in the manner of his nurse, or hisdrynurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and hiswringer.5Sim.Well, sir.Evans.Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it is a ’oman that altogether’s acquaintance with Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire and require her to solicit your master’s desires to Mistress Anne Page. I 10 pray you, be gone: I will make an end of my dinner; there’s pippins andcheeseto come.Exeunt.I. 3Scene III.A room in the Garter Inn.EnterFalstaff, Host,Bardolph, Nym, Pistol, andRobin.Fal.Mine host of the Garter!Host.What says mybully-rook? speak scholarly and wisely.Fal.Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my 5 followers.Host.Discard, bully Hercules; cashier: let them wag; trot, trot.Fal.I sit at ten pounds a week.Host.Thou’rt an emperor, Cæsar, Keisar, and Pheezar. 10 I will entertain Bardolph;he shall draw, he shall tap: said I well, bully Hector?Fal.Do so, good mine host.Host.I have spoke; let him follow. [To Bard.] Let mesee thee frothandlime: I am at a word; follow.Exit.15Fal.Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade: an old cloak makes a new jerkin; a withered serving-man a fresh tapster. Go; adieu.Bard.It is a life that I have desired: I will thrive.Pist.O baseHungarianwight! wilt thou the spigot 20 wield?Exit Bardolph.Nym.He was gotten in drink: is not the humourconceited?Fal.I am glad I am soacquitof this tinder-box: his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskilful I. 3.25 singer; he kept not time.Nym.The good humour is to steal at aminute’srest.Pist.‘Convey,’ the wise it call. ‘Steal!’ foh! a fico for the phrase!Fal.Well, sirs, I am almost out at heels.30Pist.Why, then, let kibes ensue.Fal.There is no remedy; I must cony-catch; I must shift.Pist.Young ravens must have food.Fal.Which of you know Ford of this town?35Pist.I ken the wight: he is of substance good.Fal.My honest lads, I will tell you what I am about.Pist.Two yards, and more.Fal.No quips now, Pistol! Indeed, I am in the waist two yards about; but I am now about no waste; I am 40 about thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford’s wife: I spy entertainment in her; she discourses, shecarves, she gives the leer of invitation: I can construe the action of her familiar style; and the hardest voice of her behaviour, to be Englished rightly, is, ‘I am Sir John Falstaff’s.’45Pist.He hathstudied her will, andtranslated her will, out of honesty into English.Nym.Theanchoris deep: will that humour pass?Fal.Now, the report goes she has all the rule of her husband’s purse:hehatha legionof angels.I. 3.50Pist.As many devilsentertain; and ‘To her, boy,’ say I.Nym.The humour rises; it is good: humour me the angels.Fal.I have writ me here a letter to her: and here another to Page’s wife, who even now gave me good eyes 55 too, examined my parts with most judiciousœillades; sometimes the beam of her viewgildedmy foot, sometimes my portly belly.Pist.Then did the sun on dunghill shine.Nym.I thank thee for that humour.60Fal.O, she did so course o’er my exteriors with such a greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye did seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass! Here’s another letter to her: she bears the purse too; she is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will becheatersto them both, and 65 they shall be exchequers to me; they shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to them both. Go bear thou this letter to Mistress Page; and thou this to Mistress Ford: we will thrive, lads, we will thrive.Pist.Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become,70 And by my side wear steel? then, Lucifer take all!Nym.I will run no base humour: here, take the humour-letter: I will keep the haviour of reputation.Fal.[To Robin] Hold, sirrah, bear you these letterstightly;Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. I. 3.75 Rogues, hence, avaunt! vanish like hailstones, go;Trudge, plod awayo’ thehoof; seek shelter, pack!Falstaff willlearnthehumouroftheage,French thrift, you rogues; myself and skirted page.Exeunt Falstaff and Robin.Pist.Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd andfullam holds,80 And high and lowbeguilesthe rich and poor:Tester I’ll have in pouch when thou shalt lack,Base Phrygian Turk!Nym.I haveoperationswhich be humours of revenge.Pist.Wilt thou revenge?85Nym.By welkin and herstar!Pist.With wit or steel?Nym.With both the humours, I:I willdiscussthe humour of this love toPage.Pist.And I toFordshall eke unfold90 How Falstaff, varlet vile,His dove will prove, his gold will hold,And his soft couch defile.Nym.My humour shall not cool: I will incensePageto deal with poison; I will possess him withyellowness, for 95therevolt ofmineis dangerous: that is my true humour.Pist.Thou art the Mars of malecontents: I second thee; troop on.Exeunt.I. 4Scene IV.A room inDoctor Caius’shouse.EnterMistress Quickly, Simple, andRugby.Quick.What, John Rugby! I pray thee, go to the casement, and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor Caius, coming. If he do, i’ faith, and find any body in the house, here will beanold abusing of God’s 5 patience and the king’s English.Rug.I’ll go watch.Quick.Go; and we’ll have a posset for’t soon at night, in faith, at the latter end of a sea-coal fire. [Exit Rugby.] An honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever servant shall come 10 in house withal; and, I warrant you, no tell-tale nor no breed-bate: his worst fault is, that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish that way: but nobody but has his fault; but let that pass. Peter Simple, you say your name is?Sim.Ay, for fault of a better.15Quick.And Master Slender’s your master?Sim.Ay, forsooth.Quick.Does he not wear a great round beard, like a glover’s paring-knife?Sim.No, forsooth: he hath but a littleweeface, with 20 a little yellow beard,—aCain-coloured beard.Quick.A softly-sprighted man, is he not?Sim.Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.I. 4.25Quick.How say you?—O, I should remember him: does he not hold up his head, as it were, and strut in his gait?Sim.Yes, indeed, does he.Quick.Well, heaven send Anne Page no worse fortune! Tell Master Parson Evans I will do what I can 30 for your master: Anne is a good girl, and I wish—Re-enterRugby.Rug.Out, alas! here comes my master. Quick.We shall all be shent. Run in here, good young man; go into this closet: he will not stay long. [Shuts Simple in the closet.] What, John Rugby! John! 35 what, John, I say! Go, John, go inquire for my master; I doubt he be not well, that he comes not home.[Singing] And down, down, adown-a, &c.EnterDoctor Caius.Caius.Vat is you sing? I do not likedes toys. Pray you, go and vetch me in my closetun boitiervert,—a box, 40 a green-a box: do intend vat I speak? a green-a box.Quick.Ay, forsooth; I’ll fetch it you. [Aside] I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found the young man, he would have been horn-mad.Caius.Fe, fe, fe, fe! ma foi, il fait fort chaud. Je 45 m’en vais à la cour,—la grande affaire.Quick.Is it this, sir?Caius.Oui; mette le au mon pocket:dépêche, quickly. Vere is dat knave Rugby?Quick.What, John Rugby! John!I. 4.50Rug.Here, sir!Caius.You are John Rugby, and you areJack Rugby. Come,take-ayour rapier, and come after my heel to the court.Rug.’Tis ready, sir, here in the porch.55Caius.By my trot, I tarry too long. —Od’s me! Qu’ai-j’oublié! dere is some simples in my closet, dat Ivillnot for the varld I shall leave behind.Quick.Ay me, he’ll find the young man there, and be mad!60Caius.O diable, diable! vat is in my closet?Villain!larron! [Pulling Simple out.] Rugby, my rapier!Quick.Good master, be content.Caius.WhereforeshallI be content-a?Quick.The young man is an honest man.65Caius.What shall de honest man do in my closet? dere is no honest man datshallcome in my closet.Quick.I beseech you, be not so phlegmatic. Hear the truth of it: he came of an errand to me from Parson Hugh.Caius.Vell.70Sim.Ay, forsooth; to desire her to—Quick.Peace, I pray you.Caius.Peace-a your tongue. Speak-a your tale.Sim.To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to speak a good word to Mistress Anne Page for my I. 4.75 master in the way of marriage.Quick.This is all, indeed, la! but I’ll ne’er put my finger in the fire, and need not.Caius.Sir Hugh send-a you? Rugby,bailleme some paper. Tarry you a little-a while.Writes.80Quick.[Aside to Simple] I am glad he is so quiet: if he had been throughly moved, you should have heard him so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding, man, I’ll doyouyour master what good I can: and the very yea and the no is,the Frenchdoctor, my master,—I 85 may call him my master, look you, for I keep his house; and I wash,wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds, and do all myself,—Sim.[Aside to Quickly] ’Tis a great charge to come under one body’s hand.90Quick.[Aside to Simple] Are you avised o’ that? you shall find it a great charge: and to be up early and down late;—but notwithstanding,—to tell you in your ear; I would have no words of it,—my master himself is in love with Mistress Anne Page: but notwithstanding that, I know 95 Anne’s mind,—that’s neither here nor there.Caius.You jack’nape,give-athis letter to Sir Hugh; by gar, it is a shallenge: I willcut his troat in de park; and Iwillteach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make. You may be gone; it is not good you tarry here. —By I. 4.100 gar, I willcut all his two stones; by gar, he shall not have a stone tothrowat his dog.Exit Simple.Quick.Alas, he speaks but for his friend.Caius.It is no matter-averdat:—do not you tell-a me dat I shall have Anne Page for myself?—By gar, I vill 105 kill de Jack priest; and I have appointed mine host of deJarteerto measure our weapon:—By gar, I will myself have Anne Page.Quick.Sir, the maid loves you, and all shall be well. We must give folks leave to prate: what, thegood-jer!110Caius.Rugby, come to the court with me. By gar, if I have not Anne Page, I shall turn your head out of my door. Follow my heels, Rugby.Exeunt Caius and Rugby.Quick.You shall have An fool’s-head of your own. No, I know Anne’s mind for that: never a woman in 115 Windsor knows more of Anne’s mind than I do; nor can do more than I do with her, I thank heaven.Fent.[Within] Who’s within there? ho!Quick.Who’s there, I trow? Come near the house, I pray you.EnterFenton.120Fent.How now, good woman! how dost thou?Quick.The better that it pleases your good worship to ask.Fen.What news? how does pretty Mistress Anne?Quick.In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and honest, and I. 4.125 gentle; and one that is your friend, I can tell you that by the way; I praise heaven for it.Fent.Shall I do any good, thinkest thou? shall I not lose my suit?Quick.