Merry Wives of Windsor
Written: c. 1597-98; Texts: Quarto 1602, First Folio 1623 (Comedy)
Source: Perhaps: Fiorentino, Ser Giovanni Il Pecorone (The Simpleton) (1558); Ovid (43 BC- AD18). Metamorphoses (Arthur Golding's English translation in 1567); Lyly, John (c.1554-1606). Endimion (1588)
Characters: Mistress Margaret Page, Sir John Falstaff, Mistress Quickly, Francis Ford, Sir Hugh Evans, George Page, Mistress Alice Ford, Fenton
Setting: Windsor
Time: c. 1590
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Quotes from Merry Wives of Windsor
Sir Hugh, persuade me not
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Sir Hugh, persuade me not. I will make a
Star-Chamber matter of it. If he were twenty Sir
John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, Esquire.
Slender
In the county of Gloucester, Justice of Peace
and Coram.
Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I
do despise one that is false,
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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late
Read the QuoteBetter three hours too soon than a minute too late.
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Yonder is a most reverend gentleman
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Yonder is a most reverend gentleman who, belike
having received wrong by some person, is at
most odds with his own gravity and patience that
ever you saw.
Shallow
I have lived fourscore years and upward. I never
heard a man of his place, gravity, and learning
so wide of his own respect.
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With trial-fire touch me his finger-end
Read the QuoteMistress Quickly, as Fairy Queen, to Sir Hugh
With trial-fire touch me his finger-end.
If he be chaste, the flame will back descend
And turn him to no pain. But if he start,
It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.
Pistol, as Hobgoblin
A trial, come!
Sir Hugh,
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