The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare (best books to read ever .txt) 📗
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Mount Pelion. Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
Mistress Ford
Taking Mistress Page’s letter. Why, this is the very same; the very hand, the very words. What doth he think of us?
Mistress Page
Nay, I know not; it makes me almost ready to wrangle with mine own honesty. I’ll entertain myself like one that I am not acquainted withal; for, sure, unless he know some strain in me that I know not myself, he would never have boarded me in this fury.
Mistress Ford
“Boarding” call you it? I’ll be sure to keep him above deck.
Mistress Page
So will I; if he come under my hatches, I’ll never to sea again. Let’s be revenged on him; let’s appoint him a meeting, give him a show of comfort in his suit, and lead him on with a fine-baited delay, till he hath pawned his horses to mine host of the Garter.
Mistress Ford
Nay, I will consent to act any villainy against him that may not sully the chariness of our honesty. O, that my husband saw this letter! It would give eternal food to his jealousy.
Mistress Page
Why, look where he comes; and my good man too: he’s as far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause; and that, I hope, is an unmeasurable distance.
Mistress Ford
You are the happier woman.
Mistress Page
Let’s consult together against this greasy knight. Come hither.
They retire.
Enter Fordand Pistol, and Page and Nym in pairs.
Ford
Well, I hope it be not so.
Pistol
Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs:
Sir John affects thy wife.
He woos both high and low, both rich and poor,
Both young and old, one with another, Ford;
He loves the gallimaufry. Ford, perpend.
With liver burning hot: prevent, or go thou,
Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels.—
O! odious is the name!
Take heed; have open eye, for thieves do foot by night;
Take heed, ere summer comes, or cuckoo birds do sing.
Away, Sir Corporal Nym.
To Page. Believe it, Page; he speaks sense.
My name is Corporal Nym; I speak, and I avouch ’tis true.
My name is Nym, and Falstaff loves your wife. Adieu.
I love not the humour of bread and cheese;
and there’s the humour of it. Adieu.
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