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- $Unique_ID{SSP00857}
- $Title{The Merry Wives of Windsor: Act II, Scene III}
- $Author{Shakespeare, William}
- $Subject{}
- $Log{Dramatis Personae*00850.txt}
-
- Portions copyright (c) CMC ReSearch, Inc., 1989
-
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
-
- THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
-
-
- ACT II
- ................................................................................
-
-
- SCENE III: A field near Windsor.
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
-
- {Enter DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY.}
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: Jack Rugby!
-
- RUGBY: Sir?
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: Vat is de clock, Jack?
-
- RUGBY: 'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to
- meet.
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he
- has pray his Pible well, dat he is no come: by gar,
- Jack Rugby, he is dead already, if he be come.
-
- RUGBY: He is wise, sir; he knew your worship would kill
- him, if he came. 10
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him.
- Take your rapier, Jack; I vill tell you how I vill
- kill him.
-
- RUGBY: Alas, sir, I cannot fence.
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: Villany, take your rapier.
-
- RUGBY: Forbear; here's company.
-
- {Enter Host, SHALLOW, SLENDER, and PAGE.}
-
- Host: Bless thee, bully doctor!
-
- SHALLOW: Save you, Master Doctor Caius!
-
- PAGE: Now, good master doctor!
-
- SLENDER: Give you good morrow, sir. 20
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for?
-
- Host: To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee
- traverse; to see thee here, to see thee there; to
- see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy
- distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my Ethiopian? is
- he dead, my Francisco? ha, bully! What says my
- AEsculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder? ha! is
- he dead, bully stale? is he dead?
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: By gar, he is de coward Jack priest of de vorld; he
- is not show his face. 30
-
- Host: Thou art a Castalion-King-Urinal. Hector of Greece,
- my boy!
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: I pray you, bear vitness that me have stay six or
- seven, two, tree hours for him, and he is no come.
-
- SHALLOW: He is the wiser man, master doctor: he is a curer of
- souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should
- fight, you go against the hair of your professions.
- Is it not true, Master Page?
-
- PAGE: Master Shallow, you have yourself been a great
- fighter, though now a man of peace. 40
-
- SHALLOW: Bodykins, Master Page, though I now be old and of
- the peace, if I see a sword out, my finger itches to
- make one. Though we are justices and doctors and
- churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our
- youth in us; we are the sons of women, Master Page.
-
- PAGE: 'Tis true, Master Shallow.
-
- SHALLOW: It will be found so, Master Page. Master Doctor
- Caius, I am come to fetch you home. I am sworn of
- the peace: you have showed yourself a wise
- physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise 50
- and patient churchman. You must go with me, master
- doctor.
-
- Host: Pardon, guest-justice. A word, Mounseur Mockwater.
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: Mock-vater! vat is dat?
-
- Host: Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valor, bully.
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: By gar, den, I have as mush mock-vater as de
- Englishman. Scurvy jack-dog priest! by gar, me
- vill cut his ears.
-
- Host: He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: Clapper-de-claw! vat is dat? 60
-
- Host: That is, he will make thee amends.
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me;
- for, by gar, me vill have it.
-
- Host: And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag.
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: Me tank you for dat.
-
- Host: And, moreover, bully,--but first, master guest, and
- Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you
- through the town to Frogmore.
-
- [Aside to them.]
-
- PAGE: Sir Hugh is there, is he?
-
- Host: He is there: see what humor he is in; and I will 70
- bring the doctor about by the fields. Will it do
- well?
-
- SHALLOW: We will do it.
-
-
- PAGE: \
- \
- SHALLOW: } Adieu, good master doctor.
- /
- SLENDER: /
-
-
- [Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER.]
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: By gar, me vill kill de priest; for he speak for a
- jack-an-ape to Anne Page.
-
- Host: Let him die: sheathe thy impatience, throw cold
- water on thy choler: go about the fields with me
- through Frogmore: I will bring thee where Mistress
- Anne Page is, at a farm-house a-feasting; and thou
- shalt woo her. Cried I aim? said I well? 80
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: By gar, me dank you for dat: by gar, I love you;
- and I shall procure-a you de good guest, de earl,
- de knight, de lords, de gentlemen, my patients.
-
- Host: For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne
- Page. Said I well?
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: By gar, 'tis good; vell said.
-
- Host: Let us wag, then.
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: Come at my heels, Jack Rugby.
-
- [Exeunt.]
-