The Merry Wives of Windsor

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For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne Page: said I well?†

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Why, it is affectations.†

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Albeit I will confess thy father's wealth Was the first motive that I wooed thee, Anne: Yet, wooing thee, I found thee of more value Than stamps in gold, or sums in sealed bags; And 'tis the very riches of thyself That now I aim at.†

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If I find her honest, I lose not my labour; if she be otherwise, 'tis labour well bestowed.†

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] My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter; but 'tis no matter; better a little chiding than a great deal of heart break.†

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Now thus it rests: Her father means she shall be all in white; And in that habit, when Slender sees his time To take her by the hand and bid her go, She shall go with him: her mother hath intended The better to denote her to the doctor,— For they must all be mask'd and vizarded— That quaint in green she shall be loose enrob'd, With ribands pendent, flaring 'bout her head; And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe, To pinch her by the hand: and, on that token, The maid hath given...†

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She shall not see me; I will ensconce me behind the arras.†

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[Exeunt CAIUS and RUGBY.]

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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.†

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Have you importuned her to such a purpose?

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You jack'nape; give-a dis letter to Sir Hugh; by gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut his troat in de Park; and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make.†

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I shall be rather praised for this than mocked;

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Here, Master Doctor, in perplexity and doubtful dilemma.

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By gar, me tank you for dat: by gar, I love you; and I shall procure-a you de good guest, de earl, de knight, de lords, de gentlemen, my patients.†

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If it be confessed, it is not redressed: is not that so, Master Page?†

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The rogues slighted me into the river with as little remorse as...

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SLENDER
... I will marry her; that
I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.

SIR HUGH EVANS
It is a fery discretion answer; save the fall is in
the ort 'dissolutely:' the ort is, according to our
meaning, 'resolutely.' his meaning is good.

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then she plots, then she ruminates, then she devises;

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Some say that though she appear honest to me, yet in other places she enlargeth her mirth so far that there is shrewd construction made of her.†