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- $Unique_ID{SSP02863}
- $Title{The Merry Wives of Windsor: Act IV, Scene I}
- $Author{Shakespeare, William}
- $Subject{}
- $Log{Dramatis Personae*02850.txt}
-
- Portions copyright (c) CMC ReSearch, Inc., 1989
-
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
-
- THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
-
-
- ACT IV
- ................................................................................
-
-
- SCENE I: A street.
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
-
- {Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and
- WILLIAM PAGE.}
-
- MISTRESS PAGE: Is he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou?
-
- MISTRESS QUICKLY: Sure he is by this, or will be presently: but,
- truly, he is very courageous mad about his throwing
- into the water. Mistress Ford desires you to come
- suddenly.
-
- MISTRESS PAGE: I'll be with her by and by; I'll but bring my young
- man here to school. Look, where his master comes;
- 'tis a playing-day, I see.
-
- {Enter SIR HUGH EVANS.}
-
- How now, Sir Hugh! no school to-day?
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: No; Master Slender is let the boys leave to play. 10
-
- MISTRESS QUICKLY: Blessing of his heart!
-
- MISTRESS PAGE: Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in
- the world at his book. I pray you, ask him some
- questions in his accidence.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: Come hither, William; hold up your head; come.
-
- MISTRESS PAGE: Come on, sirrah; hold up your head; answer your
- master, be not afraid.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: William, how many numbers is in nouns?
-
- WILLIAM PAGE: Two.
-
- MISTRESS QUICKLY: Truly, I thought there had been one number more, 20
- because they say, ''Od's nouns.'
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: Peace your tattlings! What is 'fair,' William?
-
- WILLIAM PAGE: Pulcher.
-
- MISTRESS QUICKLY: Polecats! there are fairer things than polecats,
- sure.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: You are a very simplicity 'oman: I pray you peace.
- What is 'lapis,' William?
-
- WILLIAM PAGE: A stone.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: And what is 'a stone,' William?
-
- WILLIAM PAGE: A pebble. 30
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: No, it is 'lapis:' I pray you, remember in your
- prain.
-
- WILLIAM PAGE: Lapis.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: That is a good William. What is he, William, that
- does lend articles?
-
- WILLIAM PAGE: Articles are borrowed of the pronoun, and be thus
- declined, Singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: Nominativo, hig, hag, hog; pray you, mark:
- genitivo, hujus. Well, what is your accusative case?
-
- WILLIAM PAGE: Accusativo, hinc. 40
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: I pray you, have your remembrance, child,
- accusative, hung, hang, hog.
-
- MISTRESS QUICKLY: 'Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I warrant you.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the focative
- case, William?
-
- WILLIAM PAGE: O,--vocativo, O.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: Remember, William; focative is caret.
-
- MISTRESS QUICKLY: And that's a good root.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: 'Oman, forbear.
-
- MISTRESS PAGE: Peace! 50
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: What is your genitive case plural, William?
-
- WILLIAM PAGE: Genitive case!
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: Ay.
-
- WILLIAM PAGE: Genitive,--horum, harum, horum.
-
- MISTRESS QUICKLY: Vengeance of Jenny's case! fie on her! never name
- her, child, if she be a whore.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: For shame, 'oman.
-
- MISTRESS QUICKLY: You do ill to teach the child such words: he
- teaches him to hick and to hack, which they'll do
- fast enough of themselves, and to call 'horum:' fie 60
- upon you!
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: 'Oman, art thou lunatics? hast thou no
- understandings for thy cases and the numbers of the
- genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as
- I would desires.
-
- MISTRESS PAGE: Prithee, hold thy peace.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: Show me now, William, some declensions of your
- pronouns.
-
- WILLIAM PAGE: Forsooth, I have forgot.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: It is qui, quae, quod: if you forget your 'quies,' 70
- your 'quaes,' and your 'quods,' you must be
- preeches. Go your ways, and play; go.
-
- MISTRESS PAGE: He is a better scholar than I thought he was.
-
- SIR HUGH EVANS: He is a good sprag memory. Farewell, Mistress Page.
-
- MISTRESS PAGE: Adieu, good Sir Hugh.
-
- [Exit SIR HUGH EVANS.]
-
- Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long.
-
- [Exeunt.]
-