The Merry Wives of Windsor: ACT II
Introduction ACT I ACT II SCENE I. Before PAGE'S house. SCENE II. A room in the Garter Inn. SCENE III. A field near Windsor. ACT III ACT IV ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE III. A field near Windsor. Enter DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY DOCTOR CAIUS       Jack Rugby! RUGBY       Sir? DOCTOR CAIUS       Vat is de clock, Jack? RUGBY       'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet. DOCTOR CAIUS 5     By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he       has pray his Pible well, dat he is no come: by gar,       Jack Rugby, he is dead already, if he be come. RUGBY       He is wise, sir; he knew your worship would kill       him, if he came. DOCTOR CAIUS 10    By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him.       Take your rapier, Jack; I vill tell you how I vill kill him. RUGBY       Alas, sir, I cannot fence. DOCTOR CAIUS       Villany, take your rapier. RUGBY       Forbear; here's company. Enter Host, SHALLOW, SLENDER, and PAGE Host 15    Bless thee, bully doctor! SHALLOW       Save you, Master Doctor Caius! PAGE       Now, good master doctor! SLENDER       Give you good morrow, sir. DOCTOR CAIUS       Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for? Host 20    To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee       traverse; to see thee here, to see thee there; to       see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy       distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my Ethiopian? is       he dead, my Francisco? ha, bully! What says my 25    AEsculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder? ha! is       he dead, bully stale? is he dead? DOCTOR CAIUS       By gar, he is de coward Jack priest of de vorld; he       is not show his face. Host       Thou art a Castalion-King-Urinal. Hector of Greece, my boy! DOCTOR CAIUS 30    I pray you, bear vitness that me have stay six or       seven, two, tree hours for him, and he is no come. SHALLOW       He is the wiser man, master doctor: he is a curer of       souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should       fight, you go against the hair of your professions. 35    Is it not true, Master Page? PAGE       Master Shallow, you have yourself been a great       fighter, though now a man of peace. SHALLOW       Bodykins, Master Page, though I now be old and of       the peace, if I see a sword out, my finger itches to 40    make one. Though we are justices and doctors and       churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our       youth in us; we are the sons of women, Master Page. PAGE       'Tis true, Master Shallow. SHALLOW       It will be found so, Master Page. Master Doctor 45    Caius, I am come to fetch you home. I am sworn of       the peace: you have showed yourself a wise       physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise       and patient churchman. You must go with me, master doctor. Host       Pardon, guest-justice. A word, Mounseur Mockwater. DOCTOR CAIUS 50    Mock-vater! vat is dat? Host       Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour, bully. DOCTOR CAIUS       By gar, den, I have as mush mock-vater as de       Englishman. Scurvy jack-dog priest! by gar, me       vill cut his ears. Host 55    He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully. DOCTOR CAIUS       Clapper-de-claw! vat is dat? Host       That is, he will make thee amends. DOCTOR CAIUS       By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me;       for, by gar, me vill have it. Host 60    And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag. DOCTOR CAIUS       Me tank you for dat. Host       And, moreover, bully,--but first, master guest, and       Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you       through the town to Frogmore. Aside to them PAGE 65    Sir Hugh is there, is he? Host       He is there: see what humour he is in; and I will       bring the doctor about by the fields. Will it do well? SHALLOW       We will do it. PAGE SHALLOW SLENDER       Adieu, good master doctor. Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER DOCTOR CAIUS 70    By gar, me vill kill de priest; for he speak for a       jack-an-ape to Anne Page. Host       Let him die: sheathe thy impatience, throw cold       water on thy choler: go about the fields with me       through Frogmore: I will bring thee where Mistress 75    Anne Page is, at a farm-house a-feasting; and thou       shalt woo her. Cried I aim? said I well? DOCTOR CAIUS       By gar, me dank you for dat: by gar, I love you;       and I shall procure-a you de good guest, de earl,       de knight, de lords, de gentlemen, my patients. Host 80    For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne       Page. Said I well? DOCTOR CAIUS       By gar, 'tis good; vell said. Host       Let us wag, then. DOCTOR CAIUS       Come at my heels, Jack Rugby. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene