George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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SCENE I.
Before Page's house.
Enter Mistress Page with a letter.
Mrs. Page.
What, have I 'scap'd love-letters in the holy-day-time
of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?
let me see:
Ask me no reason why I love you; for tho' love use reason for
his precisian, he admits him not for his counsellor: you are not
young, no more am I; go to then, there's sympathy: you are
merry, so am I; ha! ha! then there's more sympathy: you love
sack, and so do I; would you desire better sympathy? let it suffice
thee, mistress Page, at the least if the love of a soldier can suffice,
that I love thee. I will not say, pity me, 'tis not a soldier like
phrase; but I say, love me:
By me, thine own true Knight, by day or night,
Or any kind of light, with all his might,
For thee to fight.
John Falstaff.
What a Herod of Jury is this? O wicked, wicked world! one
that is well nigh worn to pieces with age, to show himself a young
gallant? what unweigh'd behaviour hath this Flemish drunkard
pickt, i'th' devil's name, out of my conversation, that he dares
in this manner assay me? why, he hath not been thrice in my
company: what should I say to him? I was then frugal of my
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mirth, heav'n forgive me: why, I'll exhibit a bill in the parliament
for the putting down of men: how shall I be reveng'd
on him? for reveng'd I will be, as sure as his guts are made
of puddings.
George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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