The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
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Your worship says very true;--I pray your worship come a little nearer this ways. FALSTAFF. I warrant thee nobody hears--mine own people, mine own people. QUICKLY. Are they so? God bless them, and make them His servants! FALSTAFF. Well: Mistress Ford, what of her? QUICKLY. Why, sir, she's a good creature. Lord, Lord! your worship's a wanton! Well, heaven forgive you, and all of us, I pray. FALSTAFF. Mistress Ford; come, Mistress Ford-- QUICKLY. Marry, this is the short and the long of it. You have brought her into such a canaries as 'tis wonderful: the best courtier of them all, when the court lay at Windsor, could never have brought her to such a canary; yet there has been knights, and lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches; I warrant you, coach after coach, letter after letter, gift after gift; smelling so sweetly,--all musk, and so rushling, I warrant you, in silk and gold; and in such alligant terms; and in such wine and sugar of the best and the fairest, that would have won any woman's heart; and I warrant you, they could |
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