Merry wives of Windsor. Much ado about nothingPrinted for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1785 |
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... 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 met by your leave , good mistress . [ Kissing her . Page . Wife , bid these gentlemen ...
... 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 met by your leave , good mistress . [ Kissing her . Page . Wife , bid these gentlemen ...
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... [ Exit SIMP . ] A justice of peace sometime may be beholden to his friend for a man : -I keep but three men and a boy yet , till my mother be dead : But what though : yet I live like a poor gentleman born . Anne . I may not go in without ...
... [ Exit SIMP . ] A justice of peace sometime may be beholden to his friend for a man : -I keep but three men and a boy yet , till my mother be dead : But what though : yet I live like a poor gentleman born . Anne . I may not go in without ...
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... Exit Host . Fal . Bardolph , follow him ; a tapster is a good trade : An old cloak makes a new jerkin ; a wither'd servingman , a fresh tapster : Go , adieu . Bard . Bard . It is a life that I have desir'd Act 1 . 17 MERRY WINES OF ...
... Exit Host . Fal . Bardolph , follow him ; a tapster is a good trade : An old cloak makes a new jerkin ; a wither'd servingman , a fresh tapster : Go , adieu . Bard . Bard . It is a life that I have desir'd Act 1 . 17 MERRY WINES OF ...
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... Exit BARDOLPH . Pist . O base Gongarian wight ! wilt thou the spi❤ got wield ? Nym . He was gotten in drink : Is not the humour conceited ? His mind is not heroic , and there's the humour of it . 342 Fal . I am glad , I am so acquit of ...
... Exit BARDOLPH . Pist . O base Gongarian wight ! wilt thou the spi❤ got wield ? Nym . He was gotten in drink : Is not the humour conceited ? His mind is not heroic , and there's the humour of it . 342 Fal . I am glad , I am so acquit of ...
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... Exit RUGBY . 432 Quic . Go ; and we'll have a posset for't soon at night , in faith , at the latter end of a sea - coal fire . An honest , willing , kind fellow , as ever servant shall come in house withal ; and , I warrant you , no ...
... Exit RUGBY . 432 Quic . Go ; and we'll have a posset for't soon at night , in faith , at the latter end of a sea - coal fire . An honest , willing , kind fellow , as ever servant shall come in house withal ; and , I warrant you , no ...
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Page 45 - Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour ? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
Page 73 - Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Page 27 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 47 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Page 73 - There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Page 74 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 57 - Why then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Page 10 - A parliament member, a justice of peace, At home a poor scarecrow, at London an asse, If lowsie is Lucy, as some volke miscalle it, Then Lucy is lowsie, whatever befall it. He thinks himself great ; Yet an asse in his state, We allow, by his ears, but with asses to mate. If Lucy is lowsie as some volke miscall it, Then sing lowsie Lucy whatever befall it speare did not wait to brave the united puissance of a Knight of the Shire and a country attorney.