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	Act I  Scene I Scene II Scene III Scene IV Act II  Scene I Scene II Scene III Act III  Scene I Scene II Scene III Scene IV Scene V Act IV  Scene I Scene II Scene III Scene IV Scene V Scene VI Act V  Scene I Scene II Scene III Scene IV Scene V	Hide this column MW I.i.1   Enter Justice Shallow, Slender, and Sir Hugh Evans persuade (v.) 1 urge, entreat, beseech     SHALLOW MW I.i.1   Sir Hugh, persuade me not. I will make MW I.i.2   a Star-Chamber matter of it. If he were twenty Sir Star-chamber (n.) supreme court of justice  MW I.i.3   John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, abuse (v.) 2 misuse, maltreat, treat badly, wrong  MW I.i.4   Esquire.    SLENDER MW I.i.5   In the county of Gloucester, justice of peace and MW I.i.6   Coram. Coram (n.) malapropism for ‘quorum’ [part of a legal formula for installing the number of justices needed to constitute a bench]     SHALLOW MW I.i.7   Ay, cousin Slender, and Custalorum.    SLENDER MW I.i.8   Ay, and Ratolorum too. And a gentleman born, Ratolorum (n.) malapropism for ‘rotulorum’ [= of the rolls]  MW I.i.9   master parson, who writes himself Armigero – in any armigero (n.) esquire [entitled to bear heraldic arms]  write (v.) 3 sign, designate, call  MW I.i.10   bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, Armigero. bill (n.) 6 bill of exchange, money order  obligation (n.) bond, agreement, legal document  quittance (n.) 3 document certifying a release from debt, receipt of discharge     SHALLOW MW I.i.11   Ay, that I do, and have done any time these MW I.i.12   three hundred years.    SLENDER MW I.i.13   All his successors gone before him hath done't; MW I.i.14   and all his ancestors that come after him may. They may MW I.i.15   give the dozen white luces in their coat. coat (n.) 1 coat-of-arms  give (v.) 7 display, show, bear arms of  luce (n.) [heraldry] pike [type of fish]     SHALLOW MW I.i.16   It is an old coat.    EVANS MW I.i.17   The dozen white louses do become an old coat well. become (v.) 3 put a good front on, give a pleasing appearance to  MW I.i.18   It agrees well, passant. It is a familiar beast to man, and familiar (adj.) 2 close to a family, domestic  passant (adj.) [heraldry] walking, with three paws on the ground and one raised  MW I.i.19   signifies love.    SHALLOW MW I.i.20   The luce is the fresh fish. The salt fish is an salt (adj.) 1 salt-water, sea  MW I.i.21   old coat.    SLENDER MW I.i.22   I may quarter, coz? quarter (v.) 1 add a coat-of-arms to a [quarter of] a shield     SHALLOW MW I.i.23   You may, by marrying.    EVANS MW I.i.24   It is marring indeed, if he quarter it.    SHALLOW MW I.i.25   Not a whit.    EVANS MW I.i.26   Yes, py'r lady. If he has a quarter of your coat, MW I.i.27   there is but three skirts for yourself, in my simple skirt (n.) 1 one of four pieces of cloth forming the lower part of a long coat  MW I.i.28   conjectures. But that is all one. If Sir John Falstaff MW I.i.29   have committed disparagements unto you, I am of the MW I.i.30   Church, and will be glad to do my benevolence, to make MW I.i.31   atonements and compromises between you. atonement (n.) reconciliation, appeasement, harmony  compromise (n.) settlement, solution, amicable arrangement     SHALLOW MW I.i.32   The Council shall hear it. It is a riot.    EVANS MW I.i.33   It is not meet the Council hear a riot. There is no meet (adj.) 1 fit, suitable, right, proper See Topics: Frequency count  MW I.i.34   fear of Got in a riot. The Council, look you, shall desire MW I.i.35   to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a riot. Take your MW I.i.36   vizaments in that. vizament (n.) malapropism for ‘advisement’ [consideration]     SHALLOW MW I.i.37   Ha! O'my life, if I were young again, the MW I.i.38   sword should end it.    EVANS MW I.i.39   It is petter that friends is the swort, and end it. swort (n.) pronunciation of ‘sword’ or ‘sort’ [= outcome] See Topics: Welsh  MW I.i.40   And there is also another device in my prain, which MW I.i.41   peradventure prings goot discretions with it. There is peradventure (adv.) perhaps, maybe, very likely See Topics: Frequency count  MW I.i.42   Anne Page, which is daughter to Master George Page, MW I.i.43   which is pretty virginity.    SLENDER MW I.i.44   Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and MW I.i.45   speaks small like a woman? small (adj.) 3 high-pitched, fluting, thin     EVANS MW I.i.46   It is that fery person for all the 'orld, as just as you just (adv.) 1 exactly, precisely  MW I.i.47   will desire. And seven hundred pounds of moneys, and MW I.i.48   gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed – MW I.i.49   Got deliver to a joyful resurrections! – give, when she is MW I.i.50   able to overtake seventeen years old. It were a goot MW I.i.51   motion if we leave our pribbles and prabbles, and desire pribbles and prabbles vain chatter and silly quarrelling  MW I.i.52   a marriage between Master Abraham and Mistress Anne MW I.i.53   Page.    SHALLOW MW I.i.54   Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred grandsire (n.) 1 grandfather See Topics: Family  MW I.i.55   pound?    EVANS MW I.i.56   Ay, and her father is make her a petter penny. make (v.) 9 give, provide     SHALLOW MW I.i.57   I know the young gentlewoman. She has good gentlewoman (n.) woman of good breeding, well-born lady See Topics: Address forms  MW I.i.58   gifts. gift (n.) 1 quality, accomplishment, talent     EVANS MW I.i.59   Seven hundred pounds, and possibilities, is goot possibility (n.) 2 (plural) financial prospects  MW I.i.60   gifts.    SHALLOW MW I.i.61   Well, let us see honest Master Page. Is MW I.i.62   Falstaff there?    EVANS MW I.i.63   Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do MW I.i.64   despise one that is false, or as I despise one that is not false (adj.) 1 treacherous, traitorous, perfidious See Topics: Frequency count  MW I.i.65   true. The knight Sir John is there. And I beseech you be MW I.i.66   ruled by your well-willers. I will peat the door for well-willer (n.) well-wisher, one who offers good will  MW I.i.67   Master Page. (He knocks) What, ho! Got pless your MW I.i.68   house here!      PAGE MW I.i.69   (within) MW I.i.69   Who's there?    EVANS MW I.i.70   Here is Got's plessing, and your friend, and MW I.i.71   Justice Shallow; and here young Master Slender, that MW I.i.72   peradventures shall tell you another tale, if matters grow peradventure (adv.) perhaps, maybe, very likely See Topics: Frequency count  MW I.i.73   to your likings. MW I.i.74   Enter Page    PAGE MW I.i.74   I am glad to see your worships well. I thank you MW I.i.75   for my venison, Master Shallow.    SHALLOW MW I.i.76   Master Page, I am glad to see you. Much good MW I.i.77   do it your good heart! I wished your venison better – it MW I.i.78   was ill killed. How doth good Mistress Page? – And I ill (adv.) 1 badly, adversely, unfavourably See Topics: Frequency count  MW I.i.79   thank you always with my heart, la! With my heart.    PAGE MW I.i.80   Sir, I thank you.    SHALLOW MW I.i.81   Sir, I thank you. By yea and no, I do.    PAGE MW I.i.82   I am glad to see you, good Master Slender.    SLENDER MW I.i.83   How does your fallow greyhound, sir? I heard fallow (adj.) 2 fawn-coloured, pale brown  MW I.i.84   say he was outrun on Cotsall.    PAGE MW I.i.85   It could not be judged, sir. judge (v.) 2 establish, determine, decide upon     SLENDER MW I.i.86   You'll not confess. You'll not confess.    SHALLOW MW I.i.87   That he will not. 'Tis your fault, 'tis your fault (n.) 2 mistake, error, blunder  MW I.i.88   fault. 'Tis a good dog.    PAGE MW I.i.89   A cur, sir.    SHALLOW MW I.i.90   Sir, he's a good dog and a fair dog. Can there MW I.i.91   be more said? He is good and fair. Is Sir John Falstaff MW I.i.92   here?    PAGE MW I.i.93   Sir, he is within; and I would I could do a good MW I.i.94   office between you. office (n.) 5 service, sympathy, kindness     EVANS MW I.i.95   It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.    SHALLOW MW I.i.96   He hath wronged me, Master Page.    PAGE MW I.i.97   Sir, he doth in some sort confess it. sort (n.) 3 way, manner     SHALLOW MW I.i.98   If it be confessed, it is not redressed. Is not that MW I.i.99   so, Master Page? He hath wronged me, indeed he hath, MW I.i.100   at a word, he hath. Believe me – Robert Shallow, word, at a 1 in a word, once and for all, in short See Topics: Discourse markers  MW I.i.101   Esquire, saith he is wronged.    PAGE MW I.i.102   Here comes Sir John. MW I.i.103   Enter Sir John Falstaff, Bardolph, Nym, and Pistol    FALSTAFF MW I.i.103   Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me MW I.i.104   to the King?    SHALLOW MW I.i.105   Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my MW I.i.106   deer, and broke open my lodge.    FALSTAFF MW I.i.107   But not kissed your keeper's daughter?    SHALLOW MW I.i.108   Tut, a pin! This shall be answered. answer (v.) 3 satisfy, discharge, requite  pin (n.) 1 trifle, triviality, insignificant amount     FALSTAFF MW I.i.109   I will answer it straight. I have done all this. straight (adv.) straightaway, immediately, at once See Topics: Frequency count  MW I.i.110   That is now answered.    SHALLOW MW I.i.111   The Council shall know this.    FALSTAFF MW I.i.112   'Twere better for you if it were known in MW I.i.113   counsel. You'll be laughed at. counsel (n.) 5 secrecy, confidence, privacy     EVANS MW I.i.114   Pauca verba, Sir John, goot worts. pauca... few words See Topics: Latin     FALSTAFF MW I.i.115   Good worts? Good cabbage! – Slender, I wort (n.) 2 [pun on Evans' pronunciation of ‘word’] cabbage  MW I.i.116   broke your head. What matter have you against me? break (v.) 8 crack, split, beat  matter (n.) 5 reason, cause, ground     SLENDER MW I.i.117   Marry, sir, I have matter in my head against matter (n.) 7 pus, discharge, fluid [from a wound]  MW I.i.118   you, and against your cony-catching rascals, Bardolph, cogging (adj.) deceiving, cheating, double-crossing  cony-catching (adj.) cheating, swindling  MW I.i.119   Nym, and Pistol. They carried me to the tavern, and carry (v.) 6 take, lead, conduct  MW I.i.120   made me drunk, and afterward picked my pocket. afterward (adv.) afterwards     BARDOLPH MW I.i.121   You Banbury cheese!    SLENDER MW I.i.122   Ay, it is no matter.    PISTOL MW I.i.123   How now, Mephostophilus?    SLENDER MW I.i.124   Ay, it is no matter.    NYM MW I.i.125   Slice, I say. Pauca, pauca. Slice! That's my humour. humour (n.) 1 mood, disposition, frame of mind, temperament [as determined by bodily fluids] See Topics: Frequency count     SLENDER MW I.i.126   Where's Simple, my man? Can you tell, MW I.i.127   cousin?    EVANS MW I.i.128   Peace, I pray you. Now let us understand. There is understand (v.) 2 come to an understanding, arrive at agreement  MW I.i.129   three umpires in this matter, as I understand – that is, umpire (n.) arbitrator, mediator, adjudicator  MW I.i.130   Master Page, fidelicet Master Page; and there is myself, MW I.i.131   fidelicet myself; and the three party is, lastly and finally, MW I.i.132   mine host of the Garter.    PAGE MW I.i.133   We three to hear it, and end it between them.    EVANS MW I.i.134   Fery goot. I will make a prief of it in my notebook, brief (n.) 1 summary, short account  MW I.i.135   and we will afterwards 'ork upon the cause with as great MW I.i.136   discreetly as we can.    FALSTAFF MW I.i.137   Pistol!    PISTOL MW I.i.138   He hears with ears.    EVANS MW I.i.139   The tevil and his tam! What phrase is this, ‘He MW I.i.140   hears with ear'? Why, it is affectations.    FALSTAFF MW I.i.141   Pistol, did you pick Master Slender's purse?    SLENDER MW I.i.142   Ay, by these gloves, did he – or I would I MW I.i.143   might never come in mine own great chamber again MW I.i.144   else – of seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Edward mill-sixpence (n.) sixpence made in a coin-making mill  MW I.i.145   shovel-boards, that cost me two shillings and twopence shovel-board (n.) wide coin used as a counter in the game of shovel-board  MW I.i.146   apiece of Yed Miller, by these gloves.    FALSTAFF MW I.i.147   Is this true, Pistol?    EVANS MW I.i.148   No, it is false, if it is a pickpurse. false (adj.) 1 treacherous, traitorous, perfidious See Topics: Frequency count  pickpurse, pick-purse (n.) pickpocket, purse-stealer     PISTOL MW I.i.149   Ha, thou mountain-foreigner! – Sir John and master mine, MW I.i.150   I combat challenge of this latten bilbo. bilbo (n.) sword [from Bilbao, noted for its flexibility] See Topics: Weapons  combat (n.) duel, trial by duel  latten (adj.) made of thin brass, tin-plate  MW I.i.151   Word of denial in thy labras here! MW I.i.152   Word of denial! Froth and scum, thou liest!      SLENDER MW I.i.153   (pointing to Nym) MW I.i.153   By these gloves, then 'twas he.    NYM MW I.i.154   Be advised, sir, and pass good humours. I will say advise, avise (v.) 2 warn, counsel, caution  humour (n.) 1 mood, disposition, frame of mind, temperament [as determined by bodily fluids] See Topics: Frequency count  pass (v.) 12 experience, feel  MW I.i.155   ‘ Marry trap with you,’ if you run the nuthook's humour humour (n.) 3 style, method, way, fashion  nuthook, nut-hook (n.) constable, beadle, officer  run (v.) 1 pass, spread, bring, cause to flow  MW I.i.156   on me. That is the very note of it. note (n.) 3 characteristic, trait, distinctive feature     SLENDER MW I.i.157   By this hat, then he in the red face had it. For MW I.i.158   though I cannot remember what I did when you made MW I.i.159   me drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass.    FALSTAFF MW I.i.160   What say you, Scarlet and John?    BARDOLPH MW I.i.161   Why, sir, for my part, I say the gentleman MW I.i.162   had drunk himself out of his five sentences.    EVANS MW I.i.163   It is his ‘ five senses.’ Fie, what the ignorance is!    BARDOLPH MW I.i.164   And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered. cashier (v.) 1 rob, fleece, relieve of money  fap (adj.) drunk  MW I.i.165   And so conclusions passed the careers. career (n.) 2 racecourse, horse-racing track  conclusion (n.) 1 outcome, upshot, final result  pass (v.) 1 surpass, go beyond, outdo     SLENDER MW I.i.166   Ay, you spake in Latin then too. But 'tis no MW I.i.167   matter. I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again, but in MW I.i.168   honest, civil, godly company, for this trick. If I be MW I.i.169   drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of MW I.i.170   God, and not with drunken knaves. knave (n.) 1 scoundrel, rascal, rogue See Topics: Frequency count     EVANS MW I.i.171   So Got 'udge me, that is a virtuous mind. mind (n.) 2 intention, purpose, intent     FALSTAFF MW I.i.172   You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen. MW I.i.173   You hear it. MW I.i.174.1   Enter Anne Page, with wine, Mistress Ford, and MW I.i.174.2   Mistress Page    PAGE MW I.i.174   Nay, daughter, carry the wine in – we'll drink MW I.i.175   within. MW I.i.175   Exit Anne Page    SLENDER MW I.i.176   O heaven! This is Mistress Anne Page.    PAGE MW I.i.177   How now, Mistress Ford?    FALSTAFF MW I.i.178   Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well MW I.i.179   met. By your leave, good mistress. MW I.i.180   He kisses her    PAGE MW I.i.180   Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we MW I.i.181   have a hot venison pasty to dinner. Come, gentlemen, I to (prep.) 3 for  MW I.i.182   hope we shall drink down all unkindness. MW I.i.182   Exeunt all except Slender    SLENDER MW I.i.183   I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book MW I.i.184   of Songs and Sonnets here. MW I.i.185   Enter Simple MW I.i.185   How now, Simple, where have you been? I must wait MW I.i.186   on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles MW I.i.187   about you, have you?    SIMPLE MW I.i.188   Book of Riddles? Why, did you not lend it to MW I.i.189   Alice Shortcake upon Allhallowmas last, a fortnight MW I.i.190   afore Michaelmas? MW I.i.191   Enter Shallow and Evans    SHALLOW MW I.i.191   Come, coz; come, coz; we stay for you. A word MW I.i.192   with you, coz. Marry, this, coz – there is as 'twere a MW I.i.193   tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh afar off (adv.) indirectly, in a roundabout way  tender (n.) 2 proposal of marriage, offer of betrothal  MW I.i.194   here. Do you understand me?    SLENDER MW I.i.195   Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable. If it be reasonable (adj.) 2 moderate, not excessive, fair-minded  MW I.i.196   so, I shall do that that is reason. reason (n.) 7 reasonable treatment, justified course of action     SHALLOW MW I.i.197   Nay, but understand me.    SLENDER MW I.i.198   So I do, sir.    EVANS MW I.i.199   Give ear to his motions. Master Slender, I will motion (n.) 6 proposal, proposition, suggestion, offer  MW I.i.200   description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.    SLENDER MW I.i.201   Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says. I MW I.i.202   pray you pardon me. He's a justice of peace in his MW I.i.203   country, simple though I stand here. country (n.) district, region, quarter  simple though I stand here as sure as I stand here; or: though who am I to say so     EVANS MW I.i.204   But that is not the question. The question is MW I.i.205   concerning your marriage.    SHALLOW MW I.i.206   Ay, there's the point, sir.    EVANS MW I.i.207   Marry, is it, the very point of it – to Mistress Anne MW I.i.208   Page.    SLENDER MW I.i.209   Why, if it be so, I will marry her upon any MW I.i.210   reasonable demands. demand (n.) 2 condition, request, claim     EVANS MW I.i.211   But can you affection the 'oman? Let us command affection (v.) have affection for, love  MW I.i.212   to know that of your mouth, or of your lips – for divers divers (adj.) different, various, several  MW I.i.213   philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. parcel (n.) 1 part, piece, portion, bit  MW I.i.214   Therefore, precisely, can you carry your good will to will (n.) 1 desire, wish, liking, inclination  MW I.i.215   the maid?    SHALLOW MW I.i.216   Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?    SLENDER MW I.i.217   I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that become (v.) 1 be fitting, befit, be appropriate to See Topics: Frequency count  MW I.i.218   would do reason. reason (n.) 7 reasonable treatment, justified course of action     EVANS MW I.i.219   Nay, Got's lords and his ladies! You must speak MW I.i.220   possitable, if you can carry her your desires towards carry (v.) 6 take, lead, conduct  possitable (adj.) version of ‘positively’  MW I.i.221   her.    SHALLOW MW I.i.222   That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, MW I.i.223   marry her?    SLENDER MW I.i.224   I will do a greater thing than that, upon your MW I.i.225   request, cousin, in any reason.    SHALLOW MW I.i.226   Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz – conceive (v.) 1 understand, comprehend, follow  MW I.i.227   what I do is to pleasure you, coz. Can you love the maid? pleasure (v.) please, gratify, give pleasure to     SLENDER MW I.i.228   I will marry her, sir, at your request. But if MW I.i.229   there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may MW I.i.230   decrease it upon better acquaintance when we are decrease (v.) malapropism for ‘increase’  MW I.i.231   married and have more occasion to know one another. MW I.i.232   I hope upon familiarity will grow more content. But if content (n.) 2 contentment, peace of mind  MW I.i.233   you say ‘ Marry her,’ I will marry her – that I am freely MW I.i.234   dissolved, and dissolutely. dissolutely (adv.) malapropism for ‘resolutely’  dissolved (adj.) 2 malapropism for ‘resolved’     EVANS MW I.i.235   It is a fery discretion answer, save the fall is in the fall (n.) 2 mistake, fault, lapse  MW I.i.236   'ord ‘ dissolutely.’ The 'ort is, according to our meaning, MW I.i.237   ‘ resolutely.’ His meaning is good.    SHALLOW MW I.i.238   Ay, I think my cousin meant well.    SLENDER MW I.i.239   Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la! MW I.i.240   Enter Anne Page    SHALLOW MW I.i.240   Here comes fair Mistress Anne. Would I MW I.i.241   were young for your sake, Mistress Anne!    ANNE MW I.i.242   The dinner is on the table. My father desires your MW I.i.243   worships' company.    SHALLOW MW I.i.244   I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne. wait on / upon (v.) 1 accompany, attend     EVANS MW I.i.245   'Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the MW I.i.246   grace. MW I.i.246   Exeunt Shallow and Evans    ANNE MW I.i.247   Will't please your worship to come in, sir?    SLENDER MW I.i.248   No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily. I am very forsooth (adv.) in truth, certainly, truly, indeed See Topics: Frequency count  MW I.i.249   well.    ANNE MW I.i.250   The dinner attends you, sir. attend (v.) 1 await, wait for, expect See Topics: Frequency count     SLENDER MW I.i.251   I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. MW I.i.252   (To Simple) Go, sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait MW I.i.253   upon my cousin Shallow. MW I.i.253   Exit Simple MW I.i.254   A justice of peace sometime may be beholding to his beholding (adj.) beholden, obliged, indebted  sometime (adv.) 2 sometimes, now and then  MW I.i.255   friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy yet, MW I.i.256   till my mother be dead. But what though? Yet I live what though what of it, never mind See Topics: Discourse markers  MW I.i.257   like a poor gentleman born.    ANNE MW I.i.258   I may not go in without your worship – they will MW I.i.259   not sit till you come.    SLENDER MW I.i.260   I'faith, I'll eat nothing. I thank you as much as MW I.i.261   though I did.    ANNE MW I.i.262   I pray you, sir, walk in. walk in (v.) come in, enter     SLENDER MW I.i.263   I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised my MW I.i.264   shin th'other day with playing at sword and dagger with MW I.i.265   a master of fence – three veneys for a dish of stewed fence (n.) 1 fencing ability, skill at swordplay  veney (n.) [fencing] bout, turn  MW I.i.266   prunes – and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of MW I.i.267   hot meat since. Why do your dogs bark so? Be there MW I.i.268   bears i'th'town?    ANNE MW I.i.269   I think there are, sir. I heard them talked of.    SLENDER MW I.i.270   I love the sport well, but I shall as soon quarrel quarrel at (v.) object to; or: start quarrelling at  sport (n.) 1 recreation, amusement, entertainment See Topics: Frequency count  MW I.i.271   at it as any man in England. You are afraid if you see the MW I.i.272   bear loose, are you not?    ANNE MW I.i.273   Ay, indeed, sir.    SLENDER MW I.i.274   That's meat and drink to me, now. I have seen MW I.i.275   Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by MW I.i.276   the chain. But, I warrant you, the women have so cried warrant (v.) 1 assure, promise, guarantee, confirm See Topics: Frequency count  MW I.i.277   and shrieked at it, that it passed. But women, indeed, pass (v.) 1 surpass, go beyond, outdo  MW I.i.278   cannot abide 'em – they are very ill-favoured rough ill-favoured (adj.) ugly, unattractive, unsightly  MW I.i.279   things. MW I.i.280   Enter Page gentle (adj.) 2 courteous, friendly, kind     PAGE MW I.i.280   Come, gentle Master Slender, come. We stay for MW I.i.281   you.    SLENDER MW I.i.282   I'll eat nothing, I thank you, sir.    PAGE MW I.i.283   By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! Come, MW I.i.284   come.    SLENDER MW I.i.285   Nay, pray you lead the way.    PAGE MW I.i.286   Come on, sir.    SLENDER MW I.i.287   Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first.    ANNE MW I.i.288   Not I, sir. Pray you, keep on. keep on (v.) go ahead, go on, carry on     SLENDER MW I.i.289   Truly, I will not go first, truly, la! I will not do MW I.i.290   you that wrong.    ANNE MW I.i.291   I pray you, sir.    SLENDER MW I.i.292   I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome. MW I.i.293   You do yourself wrong, indeed, la! MW I.i.293   Exeunt
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