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Hostess Quickly

What is the gross sum that I owe thee?

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Falstaff
What is the gross sum that I owe thee?
Hostess
Marry, if thou wert an honest man, thyself
and the money too. Thou didst swear to me upon a
parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber at
the round table by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday
in Wheeson week, when the Prince broke thy head
for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor,
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Source:
Act 2
Scene 1
Line 87

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Bardolph, be blithe

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Pistol
Bardolph,
be blithe.—Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins.— Boy,
bristle thy courage up. For Falstaff, he is dead, and
we must earn therefore.
Bardolph
Would I were with him, wheresome’er he
is, either in heaven or in hell.

Trust none, for oaths are straws,
men’s faiths are wafer-cakes

Hostess
Nay,
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Act 2
Scene 3
Line 3

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Sir, Ancient Pistol’s below and would speak with you

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Drawer
Sir, Ancient Pistol’s below and would speak
with you.
Doll
Hang him, swaggering rascal! Let him not come
hither. It is the foul-mouthed’st rogue in England.

You may stroke him as gently as a puppy
greyhound. He’ll not swagger with a Barbary hen if
her feathers turn back in any show of resistance.—

Hostess
If he swagger,
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Act 2
Scene 4
Line 70

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God save you, Sir John

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Pistol
God save you, Sir John.
Falstaff
Welcome, Ancient Pistol. Here, Pistol, I
charge you with a cup of sack. Do you discharge
upon mine hostess.
Pistol
I will discharge upon her, Sir John, with two bullets.
Falstaff
She is pistol-proof. Sir, you shall not hardly
offend her.
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Source:
Act 2
Scene 4
Line 111

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And here is my speech

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Falstaff
And here is my speech.  As King.  Stand
aside, nobility.
Hostess
O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i’ faith!
Falstaff, as King
Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.
Hostess
O the Father, how he holds his countenance!
Falstaff,
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Act 2
Scene 4
Line 401

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