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- $Unique_ID{SSP00858}
- $Title{The Merry Wives of Windsor: Act III, Scene I}
- $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 III
- ................................................................................
-
-
- SCENE I: A field near Frogmore.
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
-
- {Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE.}
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: I pray you now, good master Slender's serving-man,
- and friend Simple by your name, which way have you
- looked for Master Caius, that calls himself doctor
- of physic?
-
- SIMPLE: Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every
- way; old Windsor way, and every way but the town
- way.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: I most fehemently desire you you will also look that
- way.
-
- SIMPLE: I will, sir. 10
-
- [Exit.]
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: 'Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and
- trempling of mind! I shall be glad if he have
- deceived me. How melancholies I am! I will knog
- his urinals about his knave's costard when I have
- good opportunities for the ork. 'Pless my soul!
-
- [Sings.]
-
- To shallow rivers, to whose falls
- Melodious birds sings madrigals;
- There will we make our peds of roses,
- And a thousand fragrant posies.
- To shallow-- 20
-
- Mercy on me! I have a great dispositions to cry.
-
- [Sings.]
-
- Melodious birds sing madrigals--
- When as I sat in Pabylon--
- And a thousand vagram posies.
- To shallow &c.
-
- {Re-enter SIMPLE.}
-
- SIMPLE: Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: He's welcome.
-
- [Sings.]
-
- To shallow rivers, to whose falls-
- Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he?
-
- SIMPLE: No weapons, sir. There comes my master, Master 30
- Shallow, and another gentleman, from Frogmore, over
- the stile, this way.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: Pray you, give me my gown; or else keep it in your
- arms.
-
- {Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER.}
-
- SHALLOW: How now, master Parson! Good morrow, good Sir Hugh.
- Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student
- from his book, and it is wonderful.
-
- SLENDER: [Aside] Ah, sweet Anne Page!
-
- PAGE: 'Save you, good Sir Hugh!
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: 'Pless you from his mercy sake, all of you! 40
-
- SHALLOW: What, the sword and the word! do you study them
- both, master parson?
-
- PAGE: And youthful still! in your doublet and hose this
- raw rheumatic day!
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: There is reasons and causes for it.
-
- PAGE: We are come to you to do a good office, master
- parson.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: Fery well: what is it?
-
- PAGE: Yonder is a most reverend gentleman, who, belike
- having received wrong by some person, is at most 50
- 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.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: What is he?
-
- PAGE: I think you know him; Master Doctor Caius, the
- renowned French physician.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: Got's will, and his passion of my heart! I had as
- lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge. 60
-
- PAGE: Why?
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: He has no more knowledge in Hibocrates and Galen,
- --and he is a knave besides; a cowardly knave as you
- would desires to be acquainted withal.
-
- PAGE: I warrant you, he's the man should fight with him.
-
- SHALLOW: [Aside] O sweet Anne Page!
-
- SHALLOW: It appears so by his weapons. Keep them asunder:
- here comes Doctor Caius.
-
- {Enter Host, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY.}
-
- PAGE: Nay, good master parson, keep in your weapon.
-
- SHALLOW: So do you, good master doctor. 70
-
- Host: Disarm them, and let them question: let them keep
- their limbs whole and hack our English.
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: I pray you, let-a me speak a word with your ear.
- Vherefore vill you not meet-a me?
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: [Aside to DOCTOR CAIUS] Pray you, use your patience:
- in good time.
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: By gar, you are de coward, de Jack dog, John ape.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: [Aside to DOCTOR CAIUS] Pray you let us not be
- laughing-stocks to other men's humors; I desire you
- in friendship, and I will one way or other make you 80
- amends.
-
- [Aloud.]
-
- I will knog your urinals about your knave's cogscomb
- for missing your meetings and appointments.
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: Diable! Jack Rugby,--mine host de Jarteer,--have I
- not stay for him to kill him? have I not, at de place
- I did appoint?
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: As I am a Christians soul now, look you, this is the
- place appointed: I'll be judgement by mine host of
- the Garter.
-
- Host: Peace, I say, Gallia and Gaul, French and Welsh, 90
- soul-curer and body-curer!
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: Ay, dat is very good; excellent.
-
- Host: Peace, I say! hear mine host of the Garter. Am I
- politic? am I subtle? am I a Machiavel? Shall I
- lose my doctor? no; he gives me the potions and the
- motions. Shall I lose my parson, my priest, my Sir
- Hugh? no; he gives me the proverbs and the
- no-verbs. Give me thy hand, terrestrial; so. Give me
- thy hand, celestial; so. Boys of art, I have
- deceived you both; I have directed you to wrong 100
- places: your hearts are mighty, your skins are
- whole, and let burnt sack be the issue. Come, lay
- their swords to pawn. Follow me, lads of peace;
- follow, follow, follow.
-
- SHALLOW: Trust me, a mad host. Follow, gentlemen, follow.
-
- SLENDER: [Aside] O sweet Anne Page!
-
- [Exeunt SHALLOW, SLENDER, PAGE, and Host.]
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: Ha, do I perceive dat? have you make-a de sot of
- us, ha, ha?
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: This is well; he has made us his vlouting-stog. I
- desire you that we may be friends; and let us knog 110
- our prains together to be revenge on this same
- scall, scurvy cogging companion, the host of the
- Garter.
-
- DOCTOR CAIUS: By gar, with all my heart. He promise to bring me
- where is Anne Page; by gar, he deceive me too.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: Well, I will smite his noddles. Pray you, follow.
-
- [Exeunt.]
-