Comparison of William Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor 4.6 to William Shakespeare

Good Master Fenton, come not to my child.

Yet hear me, countrymen, yet hear me speak.

Then as I am a gentleman, believe me,

For as I am a gentleman, no pow’r,

If one would give ye twenty pound in gold. [continues next]

“So it is, besieged with sable-colored melancholy, I did commend the black oppressing humor to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving air; and as I am a gentleman, betook myself to walk: the time When? About the sixt hour, when beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper: so much for the time When. Now for the ground Which? Which, I mean, I walk’d upon: it is ycliped thy ...

Master Brook, I will first make bold with your money; next, give me your hand; and last, as I am a gentleman, you shall, and you will, enjoy Ford’s wife.

Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will.

Good Kate; I am a gentleman — That I’ll try.

I swear I’ll cuff you, if you strike again.

I am a gentleman.” I’ll be sworn thou art;

Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink, and paper. As I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to thee for’t.

As I am a gentleman! Come, no more words of it.

And as I am a gentleman I credit him.

[continues previous] If one would give ye twenty pound in gold.

That now I aim at. Gentle Master Fenton,

Come, trouble not yourself. Good Master Fenton,

I will not be your friend nor enemy.

Nine? Come hither to me, Master Froth. Master Froth, I would not have you acquainted with tapsters; they will draw you. Master Froth, and you will hang them. Get you gone, and let me hear no more of you. [continues next]

[continues previous] Nine? Come hither to me, Master Froth. Master Froth, I would not have you acquainted with tapsters; they will draw you. Master Froth, and you will hang them. Get you gone, and let me hear no more of you.

Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it is a oman that altogether’s acquaintance with Mistress Anne Page; and the letter is to desire and require her to solicit your master’s desires to Mistress Anne Page. I pray you be gone. I will make an end of my dinner; there’s pippins and cheese to come.

I have a letter from Monsieur Berowne to one Lady Rosaline.

I beseech you, sir, pardon me. It is a letter from my brother that I have not all o’er-read; and for so much as I have perus’d, I find it not fit for your o’erlooking.

Which you will wonder at. But wilt thou faithfully?

In deep of night to walk by this Herne’s oak.

To stay for me at church, ’twixt twelve and one,

And in the lawful name of marrying,

How now, Master Brook? Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight, or never. Be you in the park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you shall see wonders.

They are all couch’d in a pit hard by Herne’s oak, with obscur’d lights; which, at the very instant of Falstaff’s and our meeting, they will at once display to the night.

Nay sure, he’s not in hell; he’s in Arthur’s bosom, if ever man went to Arthur’s bosom. ’A made a finer end, and went away and it had been any christom child. ’A parted ev’n just between twelve and one, ev’n at the turning o’ th’ tide; for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his finger’s end, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and ’a babbl’d of green fields. “How now, Sir John?” ...

Give my sweet Nan this ring. There’s for thy pains.

To prison with her; and away with him. [continues next]

[continues previous] To prison with her; and away with him.

I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page, and she’s a great lubberly boy. If it had not been i’ th’ church, I would have swing’d him, or he should have swing’d me. If I did not think it had been Anne Page, would I might never stir! — and ’tis a postmaster’s ... [continues next]

[continues previous] I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page, and she’s a great lubberly boy. If it had not been i’ th’ church, I would have swing’d him, or he should have swing’d me. If I did not think it had been Anne Page, would I might never stir! — and ’tis a postmaster’s boy.

Good George, be not angry. I knew of your purpose; turn’d my daughter into green; and indeed she is now with the Doctor at the dean’ry, and there married.

Is as ’twere born so. Take her by the hand, [continues next]

And tell her she is thine; to whom I promise [continues next]

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; we two must go together.

And take her by the hand, whose worth and honesty

O Regan, will you take her by the hand?

[continues previous] And tell her she is thine; to whom I promise

Your brother he shall go along with me.

I will tell you — he beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear not Goliah with a weaver’s beam, because I know also life is a shuttle. I am in haste, go along with me, I’ll tell you all, Master Brook. Since I pluck’d geese, play’d truant, and whipt top, I knew not what ’twas to be beaten till lately.

You shall have letters of me presently. Come, go along with me, good Master Gower.

Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me. [continues next]

Lending me this acquaintance. I pray you go

To get good guard and go along with me. [continues next]

... of his honorable fortune. If you will watch his going thence (which I will fashion to fall out between twelve and one), you may take him at your pleasure. I will be near to second your attempt, and he shall fall between us. Come, stand not amaz’d at it, but go along with me; I will show you such a necessity in his death that you shall think yourself bound to put it on him. It is now high supper-time, and the night grows to waste. About it.

You, Capulet, shall go along with me, [continues next]

I lead espous’d my bride along with me. [continues next]

And those that you’ll procure from King Leontes?

[continues previous] Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me.

[continues previous] To get good guard and go along with me.

[continues previous] And, Montague, come you this afternoon,

[continues previous] And here in sight of heaven to Rome I swear,

Tonight at Herne’s oak, just ’twixt twelve and one, [continues next]

[continues previous] Tonight at Herne’s oak, just ’twixt twelve and one,