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    The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor
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    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    By William Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare is almost universally considered the English language's most famous and greatest writer. In fact, the only people who might dispute that are those who think he didn't write the surviving 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems still attributed to him. Even people who never get around to reading his works in class are instantly familiar with titles like King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Shakespeare.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2016
    ISBN9781518355967
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

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      The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare

      THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

      ..................

      William Shakespeare

      YURITA PRESS

      Thank you for reading. In the event that you appreciate this book, please consider sharing the good word(s) by leaving a review, or connect with the author.

      This book is a work of fiction; its contents are wholly imagined.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by William Shakespeare

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      SCENE:  Windsor  and  the  neighbourhood: ACT I: SCENE I.   Windsor.  Before Page’s house

      SCENE II.   The same

      SCENE  III.   A room in the Garter Inn

      SCENE  IV.   A room in Doctor Caius’s house

      ACT  II: SCENE  I.   Before Page’s house

      SCENE  II.   A room in the Garter Inn

      SCENE  III.   A field near Windsor

      ACT  III: SCENE  I.   A field near Frogmore

      SCENE  II.    A street in Windsor

      SCENE  III.   A room in Ford’s house

      SCENE  IV.    A room in Page’s house

      SCENE  V.   A room in the Garter Inn

      ACT  IV: SCENE  I.   The street

      SCENE  II.   A room in Ford’s house

      SCENE  III.   A room in the Garter Inn

      SCENE  IV.   A room in Ford’s house

      SCENE  V.   A room in the Garter Inn

      SCENE  VI.   Another room in the Garter Inn

      ACT  V: SCENE  I.   A room in the Garter Inn

      SCENE  II.    Windsor Park

      SCENE  III.    The street in Windsor

      SCENE  IV.    Windsor Park

      SCENE  V.    Another part of the Park

      The Merry Wives of Windsor

      By

      William Shakespeare

      The Merry Wives of Windsor

      Published by Yurita Press

      New York City, NY

      First published circa 1616

      Copyright © Yurita Press, 2015

      All rights reserved

      Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      About YURITA Press

      Yurita Press is a boutique publishing company run by people who are passionate about history’s greatest works. We strive to republish the best books ever written across every conceivable genre and making them easily and cheaply available to readers across the world.

      SCENE:  WINDSOR  AND  THE  NEIGHBOURHOOD: ACT I: SCENE I.   WINDSOR.  BEFORE PAGE’S HOUSE

      ..................

      SHALLOW

      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.

      SHALLOW

      Ay, cousin Slender, and cust-alorum.

      SLENDER

      Ay, and rato-lorum too; and a gentleman born, Master Parson, who writes himself armigero in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation — armigero.

      SHALLOW

      Ay, that I do; and have done any time these three hundred years.

      SLENDER

      All his successors, gone before him, hath done’t; and all his ancestors, that come after him, may: they may give the dozen white luces in their coat.

      SHALLOW

      It is an old coat.

      EVANS

      The dozen white louses do become an old coat well; it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

      SHALLOW

      The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat.

      SLENDER

      I may quarter, coz?

      SHALLOW

      You may, by marrying.

      EVANS

      It is marring indeed, if he quarter it.

      SHALLOW

      Not a whit.

      EVANS

      Yes, py’r lady!  If he has a quarter of your coat, there is but three skirts for yourself, in my simple conjectures; but that is all one.  If Sir John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my benevolence to make atonements and compremises between you.

      SHALLOW

      The Council shall hear it; it is a riot.

      EVANS

      It is not meet the Council hear a riot; there is no fear of Got in a riot; the Council, look you, shall desire to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a riot; take your vizaments in that.

      SHALLOW

      Ha!  o’ my life, if I were young again, the sword should end it.

      EVANS

      It is petter that friends is the sword and end it; and there is also another device in my prain, which peradventure prings goot discretions with it.  There is Anne Page, which is daughter to Master George Page, which is pretty virginity.

      SLENDER

      Mistress Anne Page?  She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

      EVANS

      It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death’s-bed — Got deliver to a joyful resurrections! — give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years old.  It were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master Abraham and Mistress Anne Page.

      SHALLOW

      Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound?

      EVANS

      Ay, and her father is make her a petter penny.

      SHALLOW

      I know the young gentlewoman; she has good gifts.

      EVANS

      Seven hundred pounds, and possibilities, is goot gifts.

      SHALLOW

      Well, let us see honest Master Page.  Is Falstaff there?

      EVANS

      Shall I tell you a lie?  I do despise a liar as I do despise one that is false; or as I despise one that is not true.  The knight Sir John is there; and, I beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers.  I will peat the door for Master Page.

      What, hoa!  Got pless your house here!

      PAGE

      [Within]   Who’s there?

      EVANS

      Here is Got’s plessing, and your friend, and Justice Shallow; and here young Master Slender, that peradventures shall tell you another tale, if matters grow to your likings.

      PAGE

      I am glad to see your worships well.  I thank you for my venison, Master Shallow.

      SHALLOW

      Master Page, I am glad to see you; much good do it your good heart!  I wished your venison better; it was ill killed.  How doth good Mistress Page? — and I thank you always with my heart, la!  with my heart.

      PAGE

      Sir, I thank you.

      SHALLOW

      Sir, I thank you; by yea and no, I do.

      PAGE

      I am glad to see you, good Master Slender.

      SLENDER

      How does your fallow greyhound, sir?  I heard say

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