The Merry Wives of Windsor. Уильям Шекспир

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      I liue like a poore Gentleman borne

      An. I may not goe in without your worship: they

      will not sit till you come

      Sl. I' faith, ile eate nothing: I thanke you as much as

      though I did

      An. I pray you Sir walke in

      Sl. I had rather walke here (I thanke you) I bruiz'd my shin th' other day, with playing at Sword and Dagger with a Master of Fence (three veneys for a dish of stew'd Prunes) and by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meate since. Why doe your dogs barke so? be there Beares ith' Towne? An. I thinke there are, Sir, I heard them talk'd of

      Sl. I loue the sport well, but I shall as soone quarrell

      at it, as any man in England: you are afraid if you see the

      Beare loose, are you not?

      An. I indeede Sir

      Sl. That's meate and drinke to me now: I haue seene Saskerson loose, twenty times, and haue taken him by the Chaine: but (I warrant you) the women haue so cride and shrekt at it, that it past: But women indeede, cannot abide 'em, they are very ill-fauour'd rough things

      Ma.Pa. Come, gentle M[aster]. Slender, come; we stay for you

      Sl. Ile eate nothing, I thanke you Sir

      Ma.Pa. By cocke and pie, you shall not choose, Sir: come, come

      Sl. Nay, pray you lead the way

      Ma.Pa. Come on, Sir

      Sl. Mistris Anne: your selfe shall goe first

      An. Not I Sir, pray you keepe on

      Sl. Truely I will not goe first: truely-la: I will not doe you that wrong

      An. I pray you Sir

      Sl. Ile rather be vnmannerly, then troublesome: you doe your selfe wrong indeede-la.

Exeunt

      Scena Secunda

      Enter Euans, and Simple.

      Eu. Go your waies, and aske of Doctor Caius house, which is the way; and there dwels one Mistris Quickly; which is in the manner of his Nurse; or his dry-Nurse; or his Cooke; or his Laundry; his Washer, and his Ringer

      Si. Well Sir

      Eu. Nay, it is petter yet: giue her this letter; for it is a 'oman that altogeathers acquainta[n]ce with Mistris Anne Page; and the Letter is to desire, and require her to solicite your Masters desires, to Mistris Anne Page: I pray you be gon: I will make an end of my dinner; ther's Pippins and Cheese to come.

Exeunt

      Scena Tertia

      Enter Falstaffe, Host, Bardolfe, Nym, Pistoll, Page.

      Fal. Mine Host of the Garter?

      Ho. What saies my Bully Rooke? speake schollerly, and wisely

      Fal. Truely mine Host; I must turne away some of my

      followers

      Ho. Discard, (bully Hercules) casheere; let them wag;

      trot, trot

      Fal. I sit at ten pounds a weeke

      Ho. Thou'rt an Emperor (Cesar, Keiser and Pheazar)

      I will entertaine Bardolfe: he shall draw; he shall tap; said

      I well (bully Hector?)

      Fa. Doe so (good mine Host.)

      Ho. I haue spoke; let him follow; let me see thee froth, and liue: I am at a word: follow

      Fal. Bardolfe, follow him: a Tapster is a good trade: an old Cloake, makes a new Ierkin: a wither'd Seruingman, a fresh Tapster: goe, adew

      Ba. It is a life that I haue desir'd: I will thriue

      Pist. O base hungarian wight: wilt y the spigot wield

      Ni. He was gotten in drink: is not the humor co[n]ceited?

      Fal. I am glad I am so acquit of this Tinderbox: his

      Thefts were too open: his filching was like an vnskilfull

      Singer, he kept not time

      Ni. The good humor is to steale at a minutes rest

      Pist. Conuay: the wise it call: Steale? foh: a fico for the phrase

      Fal. Well sirs, I am almost out at heeles

      Pist. Why then let Kibes ensue

      Fal. There is no remedy: I must conicatch, I must shift

      Pist. Yong Rauens must haue foode

      Fal. Which of you know Ford of this Towne?

      Pist. 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 Pistoll: (Indeede I am in the waste two yards about: but I am now about no waste: I am about thrift) briefely: I doe meane to make loue to Fords wife: I spie entertainment in her: shee discourses: shee carues: she giues the leere of inuitation: I can construe the action of her familier stile, & the hardest voice of her behauior (to be english'd rightly) is, I am Sir Iohn Falstafs

      Pist. He hath studied her will; and translated her will:

      out of honesty, into English

      Ni. The Anchor is deepe: will that humor passe?

      Fal. Now, the report goes, she has all the rule of her husbands Purse: he hath a legend of Angels

      Pist. As many diuels entertaine: and to her Boy say I

      Ni. The humor rises: it is good: humor me the angels

      Fal. I haue writ me here a letter to her: & here another to Pages wife, who euen now gaue mee good eyes too; examind my parts with most iudicious illiads: sometimes the beame of her view, guilded my foote: sometimes my portly belly

      Pist. Then did the Sun on dung-hill shine

      Ni. I thanke thee for that humour

      Fal. O she did so course o're my exteriors with such a greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye, did seeme to scorch me vp like a burning-glasse: here's another letter to her: She beares the Purse too: She is a Region in Guiana: all gold, and bountie: I will be Cheaters to them both, and they shall be Exchequers to mee: they shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to them both: Goe, beare thou this Letter to Mistris Page; and thou this to Mistris Ford: we will thriue (Lads) we will thriue

      Pist. Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become,

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