**MISTRESS QUICKLY** Give your worship...

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Sir John Falstaff Mistress Quickly

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MISTRESS QUICKLY Give your worship good morrow.

FALSTAFF Good morrow, good wife.

MISTRESS QUICKLY Not so, an't please your worship.

FALSTAFF Good maid, then.

MISTRESS QUICKLY I'll be sworn, As my mother was, the first hour I was born.

FALSTAFF I do believe the swearer. What with me?

MISTRESS QUICKLY Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?

FALSTAFF Two thousand, fair woman: and I'll vouchsafe thee the hearing.

MISTRESS QUICKLY There is one Mistress Ford, sir:--I pray, come a little nearer this ways:--I myself dwell with master Doctor Caius,--

FALSTAFF Well, on: Mistress Ford, you say,--

MISTRESS QUICKLY Your worship says very true: I pray your worship, come a little nearer this ways.

FALSTAFF I warrant thee, nobody hears; mine own people, mine own

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