ACT 1
Scene 1
...he is wronged.
Enter Sir John Falstaff, Bardolph, Nym, and Pistol.
...is no matter.
How now, Mephostophilus?
...we can. Pistol.
He hears with ears.
...is a pickpurse.
Ha, thou mountain foreigner!—Sir John and
master mine, I combat challenge of this latten
bilbo.—Word of denial in thy labras here! Word of
denial! Froth and scum, thou liest.
...down all unkindness.
All but Slender, Shallow, and Sir Hugh exit.
Scene 3
...cheese to come.
Enter Sir John Falstaff, Host, Bardolph, Nym, Pistol, and Robin, Falstaff’s Page.
...I will thrive.
O base Hungarian wight, wilt thou the spigot
wield?
...a minute’s rest.
“Convey,” the wise it call. “Steal”? Foh, a fico
for the phrase!
...out at heels.
Why, then, let kibes ensue.
...I must shift.
Young ravens must have food.
...of this town?
I ken the wight. He is of substance good.
...I am about.
Two yards and more.
...Sir John Falstaff’s.”
aside to Nym
He hath studied her will and
translated her will—out of honesty into English.
...legion of angels.
aside to Nym
As many devils entertain, and
“To her, boy,” say I.
...my portly belly.
aside to Nym
Then did the sun on dunghill
shine.
...we will thrive.
Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become,
And by my side wear steel? Then Lucifer take all!
...and skirted page.
Let vultures gripe thy guts! For gourd and fullam holds,
And high and low beguiles the rich and poor.
Tester I’ll have in pouch when thou shalt lack,
Base Phrygian Turk!
...humors of revenge.
Wilt thou revenge?
...and her star!
With wit or steel?
...love to Ford.
And I to Page shall eke unfold
How Falstaff, varlet vile,
His dove will prove, his gold will hold,
And his soft couch defile.
...my true humor.
Thou art the Mars of malcontents. I second
thee. Troop on.
They exit.
ACT 2
Scene 1
...hither.They talk aside.
Enter Ford with Pistol, and Page with Nym.
...be not so.
Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs.
Sir John affects thy wife.
...is not young.
He woos both high and low, both rich and poor,
Both young and old, one with another, Ford.
He loves the gallimaufry. Ford, perpend.
...Love my wife?
With liver burning hot. Prevent,
Or go thou like Sir Acteon, he,
With Ringwood at thy heels.
O, odious is the name!
...What name, sir?
The horn, I say. Farewell.
Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night.
Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo birds do sing.—
Away, Sir Corporal Nym.—Believe it, Page. He
speaks sense.
He exits.
Scene 2
...labor well bestowed.
Enter Sir John Falstaff and Pistol.
...thee a penny.
Why then, the world’s mine oyster, which I
with sword will open.
...hadst it not.
Didst not thou share? Hadst thou not fifteen
pence?
...do it? You?
I do relent. What would thou more of man?
...news distracts me.
aside
This punk is one of Cupid’s carriers.
Clap on more sails, pursue; up with your fights;
Give fire! She is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!
He exits.
ACT 5
Scene 5
...cross me thus.
Enter Mistress Quickly, Pistol, Sir Hugh Evans, Anne Page and boys, all disguised as Fairies and carrying tapers.
...the fairy oyes.
as Hobgoblin
Elves, list your names. Silence, you airy toys!—
Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap,
Where fires thou find’st unraked and hearths unswept.
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.
Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery.
...piece of cheese.
as Hobgoblin, to Falstaff
Vile worm, thou wast o’erlooked even in thy birth.
...a corrupted heart.
as Hobgoblin
A trial, come!
...to your time.
Here they pinch him and sing about him, and Doctor Caius comes one way and steals away a boy in white. And Slender comes another way; he takes a boy in green. And Fenton steals Mistress Anne Page.
sing
Fie on sinful fantasy!
Fie on lust and luxury!
Lust is but a bloody fire
Kindled with unchaste desire,
Fed in heart whose flames aspire
As thoughts do blow them higher and higher.
Pinch him, fairies, mutually;
Pinch him for his villainy.
Pinch him and burn him and turn him about,
Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out.
A noise of hunting is made within, and all the fairies run away from Falstaff, who pulls off his buck’s head and rises up. Enter Page, Mistress Page, Mistress Ford and Ford.
...with Mistress Ford.
They exit.