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  • Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Modern, Folio)
  • Editor: Helen Ostovich
  • Markup editor: Maxwell Terpstra
  • Coordinating editor: Janelle Jenstad

  • Copyright Helen Ostovich. This text may be freely used for educational, non-profit purposes; for all other uses contact the Editor.
    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: Helen Ostovich
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    The Merry Wives of Windsor (Modern, Folio)

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    Enter Evans and Simple.
    Evans
    Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which is the way. And there dwells one Mistress Quickly, 290which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry-nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his wringer.
    Simple
    Well, sir.
    Evans
    Nay, it is petter yet! Give her this letter, for it is a 'oman that altogethers acquaintance with Mistress Anne 295Page, and the letter is to desire and require her to solicit your master's desires to Mistress Anne Page. I pray you. begone. I will make an end of my dinner. There's pippins and cheese to come. Exeunt.