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**MISTRESS PAGE** What, have I scaped...

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Mrs. Ford Mrs. Page

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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 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 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 Jewry is this! O wicked

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