Category: Humour
_Evans._ Yes, py’r lady; if he has a quarter of your 25 coat, there is but three skirts for yourself, in my simple conjectures: but that is all one. If Sir John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my benevolence to make a...
Enter F...] Enter Sir John with a Buck’s head upon him (Q1 Q2). 22: _bribe_] Theobald. _brib’d_ Ff Q3. 32-34: Printed as verse in Ff Q3. 34: Enter ... tapers] See note (X). 35:...
1. SCENE I. _Windsor. Before PAGE’S house._Evans._ Yes, py’r lady; if he has a quarter of your 25 coat, there is but three skirts for yourself, in my simple conjectures: but that is all one. If Sir John Falstaff have co...
10. SCENE II. _A room in the Garter Inn._Fal._ Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my countenance to pawn: I have grated upon 5 my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow Nym;...
8. SCENE I. _Before PAGE’S house.‘Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor. You are 5 not young, no more am I; go to, then, there’s sym...
39. SCENE V. _Another part of the Park._Fal._ The Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute draws on. Now, the hot-blooded gods assist me! Remember, Jove, thou wast a bull for thy Europa; love set on thy horns. O p...
24. SCENE II. _A room in FORD’S house._Fal._ Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my sufferance. I see you are obsequious in your love, and I profess requital to a hair’s breadth; not only, Mistress Ford, in the...
17. SCENE III. _A room in FORD’S house._Mrs Ford._ Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be ready here hard by in the brew-house; and when I suddenly call you, come forth, and, without any pause or staggering...
6. SCENE IV. _A room in DOCTOR CAIUS’S house._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, he...
21. SCENE V. _A room in the Garter Inn._Fal._ Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in’t. [_Exit Bard._] Have I lived to be carried in a basket, like a barrow of butcher’s offal, and to be thrown in the Thames? We...
14. SCENE I. _A field near Frogmore._Evans._ Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and 10 trempling of mind!--I shall be glad if he have deceived me. --How melancholies I am!--I will knog his urinals about his...
29. SCENE V. _A room in the Garter Inn._Host._ There’s his chamber, his house, his castle, his 5 standing-bed, and truckle-bed; ’tis painted about with the story of the Prodigal, fresh and new. Go knock and call; he’...
19. SCENE IV. _A room in PAGE’S house._Fent._ Why, thou must be thyself. He doth object I am too great of birth; And that, my state being gall’d with my expense, 5 I seek to heal it only by his wealth: Besides these...
4. SCENE III. _A room in the Garter Inn._Fal._ No quips now, Pistol! Indeed, I am in the waist two yards about; but I am now about no waste; I am about thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford’s 40 wife: I spy...
27. SCENE IV. _A room in FORD’S house._Ford._ Pardon me, wife. Henceforth do what thou wilt; I rather will suspect the sun with cold Than thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand, In him that was of late an h...
15. SCENE II. _The street, in Windsor._Mrs Page._ Nay, keep your way, little gallant; you were wont to be a follower, but now you are a leader. Whether had you rather lead mine eyes, or eye your master’s heels?
12. SCENE III. _A field near Windsor._Caius._ By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he has pray his Pible well, dat he is no come: by gar, Jack Rugby, he is dead already, if he be come.
23. SCENE I. _A street._Quick._ Sure he is by this, or will be presently: but, truly, he is very courageous mad about his throwing into the water. Mistress Ford desires you to come suddenly. 5
31. SCENE VI. _The same. Another room in the Garter Inn._Fent._ From time to time I have acquainted you With the dear love I bear to fair Anne Page; Who mutually hath answer’d my affection, 10 So far forth as herself might be her cho...
18. SCENE III.] SCENE VII. Pope.7, 8: Mrs Ford. _Marry ... Robert_] omitted in Q3. 20: _your_] _the_ Q3. 36: SCENE VIII. Pope. _thee_] Ff Q3 om. (Q1 Q2) Dyce. 38: _my_] om. Q3. 41: _Mistress_] _Master_ Q3. 49:...
33. SCENE I. _A room in the Garter Inn._Fal._ 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 na...
11. SCENE II.] SCENE VII. Pope.3: _open_] _open. --I will retort the sum in equipage._ Theobald (from Q1 Q2). _open. -- ... equipoize_ Jackson conj. 6: _coach-fellow_] _couch-fellow_ Theobald. 12: _Didst not...
5. SCENE III.] SCENE VII. Pope.2: _bully-rook_] _Bully Rock_ Rowe, passim. 10: _shall ... shall_] F1 Q3. _will ... will_ F2 F3 F4. 14: _see thee froth_] _see thee, froth_ Staunton. _lime_] Steevens. _lyme_ (Q...
36. SCENE III. _A street leading to the Park._Mrs Page._ Master doctor, my daughter is in green: when you see your time, take her by the hand, away with her to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go before into the Park:...
7. SCENE IV.] SCENE IX. Pope.4: _an_] om. Pope. 19: _wee_] _whey_ Capell. 20: _Cain_] F3 F4. _Kane_ (Q1 Q2). _Caine_ F1 Q3 F2. _cane_ Pope. 31: [Exit. Grant White. 34: [Shuts S. in the closet] Rowe. 38: SCE...
34. SCENE II. _Windsor Park._Slen._ Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her, and we have a nay-word how to know one another: I come to her 5 in white, and cry, ‘mum;’ she cries ‘budget;’ and by that we know on...
28. SCENE IV.] SCENE VII. Pope.1: _’oman_] _o’mans_ Q3. 7: _cold_] Rowe. _gold_ Ff Q3. 9: _as faith_] F1 Q3. _of faith_ F2 F3 F4. 11: _as extreme_] F1 Q3. om. _as_ F2 F3 F4. 11, 12: Printed in one line in Ff...
13. SCENE III.] SCENE XI. Pope.3: _de_] F3 F4. _the_ F1 Q3 F2. 11: _is no dead so as I vill kill him_] Ff Q3. _is not so dead as me vill make him_ Pope. _be not so dead as I shall make him_ (Q1 Q2). 21: _tree...
30. SCENE V.] SCENE VIII. Pope.2: _snap_] _nap_ Q3. 17: [Above] Theobald. Enter Falstaff. Rowe. om. Ff Q3. 27: _Master Slender_] Steevens. _my master Slender,_ Ff Q3. 28: _thorough_] F1 Q3. _through_ F2 F3 F4...
2. SCENE II. _The same._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 his dry nurse, or his cook...
25. SCENE III. _A room in the Garter Inn._Host._ They shall have my horses; but I’ll make them pay; I’ll sauce them: they have had my house a week at command; I have turned away my other guests: they must 10 come off;...
9. SCENE IV. Page and Ford meeting their wives. Pope.140: _head. Now,_] _head, Now:_ F1. _head, Now,_ Q3. _head. Now:_ F2 F3 F4. _head now_. Johnson. 149: _have_] _would have_ S. Walker conj. 151: SCENE V. Pope. 163: _this_] _his_...
22. SCENE V.] SCENE XV. Pope.5: _in_] _into_ Rowe. 9: _blind bitch’s_] _bitch’s blind_ Hanmer. 16: _mummy_] _mummy. Now, is the sack brewed?_ Theobald (from Q1 Q2). 22: SCENE XVI. Pope. 24: _pottle_] _posse...
20. SCENE IV.] SCENE XII. Pope.7: _Besides these, other_] Ff Q3. _Besides, these other_ S. Walker conj. 12: _my_] _the_ Capell (altered to _my_ in his own hand). 20: _opportunity_] _importunity_ Hanmer. 22: S...
16. SCENE II.] SCENE IV. Pope.11: _company_] _your company_ Collier MS. 19: Ford. _Sir John Falstaff!_] omitted in F3 F4 and Rowe. 20: _on’s_] _on his_ Rowe. 25: SCENE V. Pope. 37: [Clock heard] Capell. 39:...
32. SCENE VI.] Ff Q3. SCENE XI. Pope. Theobald continues Sc. 5.The same] Another room. Capell. 14: _whereof_] _whereof’s_ Pope. 16: _fat Falstaff_] F1 Q3. _wherein fat Falstaff_ (Q1 Q2) Malone. _fat sir John Falstaffe_ F2 F3 F4. _fat Falsta...
38. SCENE IV. _Windsor Park._Evans._ Trib, trib, fairies; come; and remember your parts: be pold, I pray you; follow me into the pit; and when I give the watch-’ords, do as I pid you: come, come; trib, tri...
37. SCENE III.] SCENE II. Pope.3. SCENE II.] SCENE VI. Pope.26. SCENE III.] SCENE VI. Pope.35. SCENE II.] ACT V. SCENE I. Pope.