The Merry Wives of Windsor: A Comedy. In Five Acts |
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BARDOLPH basket Boston Brentford buck buck-basket comes cousin Crosses R. H. Crosses to R. H. cuckold daughter Enter CAIUS Enter EVANS Enter FALSTAFF Enter ROBIN Exeunt Exit L. H. fairies Fent Ford's wife forsooth Garter gentleman give goes hath heart heaven heels Herne the hunter honest horns Host humor husband J. H. Hackett Jack Rugby jealous JOHN and ROBERT John Rugby justice of peace knave knight knog laugh letter look maid marry master Brook master Doctor Caius master Fenton master Ford master Page master Shallow master Slender mistress Anne mistress Ford never old English dress oman Page's Pist PISTOL pray Quick rapier sack SCENE Set door Shal Sir Hugh Sir John Falstaff Slen speak sweet Anne sword tell thee there's thou trimmed W. H. Smith warrant Windsor Castle woman worship
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Page 29 - Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my countenance to pawn : I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow, Nym ; or else you had looked through the grate, like a geminy of baboons.
Page 39 - There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. There will I make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
Page 9 - All his successors gone before him have done't, and all his ancestors that come after him may : they may give the dozen white luces in their coat.