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Sir John Falstaff has run out of money--to fill his coffers again, he sends identical love letters to Mrs. Page and Mrs. Ford. His plan is woo them, then weasel money from them so he can continue carousing with his friends. However, he didn’t count on the women being the best of friends and sharing the letters with each other. Insulted but amused, the “merry wives” decide to play pranks on Falstaff to teach him a lesson.
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MISTRESS PAGE What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday- time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?
Let me see.
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'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, 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
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