Shakespeare, MWW (Acts 2 & 3)

"Mistress Ford? I have had ford enough; I was thrown into the ford; I have my belly full of ford" (III.v.34-35). Good old Billiam Shakespeare is a sly fox.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/02/awwwbilliam_shakespeare_i_do_l.html

Mock-vater + Clapper-de-claw = an irate Frenchman lead on a leash:
"Caius: Mock-vater? What is that?
Host: Mock-wter in our tongue, is valor, bully.
Caius: By gar, den, I have as much mock-vater as de Englishman." (MWW, Shakespeare, Act 2 sc.3, pg. 45)
Here ya go, me hearties! (Excuse me, I just finished a book sporting pirates. Savvy?)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/02/mockvater_clapperdeclaw_an_ira.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KayleyDardano/2008/02/keep_a_gamester_from_his_dice.html
“ Shallow how now, master Parson. Good Morrow, Sir Hugh. Keep a gamester from his dice, and a good student from his book, and it is wonderful.” (Line 35 Acts 3)

Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny
Pistol: Why, then the world’s mine oyster, which I with sword will open.
Falstaff: Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my countenance to pawn. (Act 2 scence 3 pg 33)

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/EL150/2008/shakespeare_mww_acts_2_3.php

"For revenged I will be, as sure as his guts are made of puddings."

Ford: I have long loved her, and, I protest to you, bestowed much on her, followed her with a doting observance…” (II.ii.189-91).
Falstaff: To what purpose have you unfolded this to me? (II.ii.213-4).
Ford: …Use your art of wooing; win her to consent to you. If any man may, you may as soon as any (II.ii.229-30).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/02/do_i_spy_othello_among_those_m.html

"Mrs. Ford. Why, this is the very same: the very hand, the very words. What doth he think of us?...

Mrs. Page. So will I. If he come under my hatches, I'll never to sea again. Let's be revenged on him. Let's appoint him a meeting, give him a show of comfort in his suit, and lead him on with a fine-baited delay till he hath pawned his horses to mine Host of the Garter"

-William Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene i, pages 27-28

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/02/on_creepy_men_and_plotting_wom.html

"For revenged I will be, as sure as his guts are made of puddings."

I think this is showing that he is weak and isn't really going to do anything if he feels intimidated. He's very clear about this, which is strange, because most people who act like they will stand up for themselves or others, won't usually say that is the case. He is saying that he will be revengeful as long as he is "soft" or weak in a sense. So, his whole idea really doesn't make sense.

"Shallow how now, master Parson. Good Morrow, Sir Hugh. Keep a gamester from his dice, and a good student from his book, and it is wonderful.” (MWW Act 3)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AndreaNestler/2008/02/shallow_how_now_mww_act_3.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/TiffanyGilbert/2008/02/windsor_or_wisteria_lane.html

Mrs. Ford: "How shall I be revenged on him? I think the best way ewere to entertain him with hoope till the widcked fire of lust have melted in his own grease. Did you ever hear the like?" (Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene i)

Falstaff: "Of what quality was your love then?"

Ford: "Like a fair house built on another man's ground" (MWW, 2.2, Lines 209-210).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EthanShepley/2008/02/jealousy.html

Mrs Ford. Nay, I will concent to act any villainy against him that may not sully sully the chariness of our honesty. O that my husband saw thia letter! It would eternal food to his jealousy. (Act 2 MMW 95)
Mrs Page. Why, look where he comes, and my goodman too. He's far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause. And I hope, is an unmeasurable distance. She has to hide the letter from her husband . If he finds out he will be jealous for life.

"For revenged I will be, as long as his guts are made of puddings."

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 people.

Quickly: Are they so? God bless them and make them his servants!

(Act II Scene 2 Lines 47-52)

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Mistress Page: What, Sir John Falstaff (Aside to him.) Are these your letters, knight?
Falstaff: (Aside to Mistress Page) I love thee. Help me away.
-MWW Shakespeare Act III Scene III
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/02/falstaff_the_fool.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AllisonHall/2008/02/no_common_sense_for_the_common.html

"Ask me no reason why I love you, for though Love use Reason for his precisian, he admits him not for his counselor. 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 soliderlike phrase; but I will say, love m" (MWW, II.i.4-12)

"Anne: What is your will?

Slender: My will? 'Od's heartlings, that's a pretty jest indeed! I ne'er made my will yet, I thank God. I am not such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise" (Shakespeare 55-58).

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http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/02/will_you_or_wont_you_woo_me.html

Falstaff- Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why now let me die, for I haved lived long enought. This is the period of my ambition. O this blessed hour!

Mrs. Ford- O sweet Sir John!

Falstaff- Mistress For, I cannot cog. I cannot prate, Mistress Ford. Now shall I sin in my wish: I would thy husband were dead. I'll speak it before the best lord; I would make thee my lady.

Spare me Falstaff, you and your pathetic pick up lines don't fool me. Where's Lady Macbeth when I need her?

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StephanieWytovich/2008/02/can_a_dishonest_man_make_a_hon.html

Ford: "Though what I am I cannot avoid, yet to be what I would not shall not make me tame. If I have horns to make one mad, let the proverb go with me-- I'll be horn mad." (Shakespear 73)

what a herod of jewry is this! o wicked, wicked world! one that is well-nigh worn to pieces with age to show himself a young gallant! what an unweighed behaviour hath this Flemish drunkard picked--with the devil's name! out of my conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me? why, he hath not been trice in my company! what should i say to him? i was then frugal of my mirth: heaven forgive me! why, i'll exhibit a bill in the parliament for the putting down of men. how shall i be revenged on him? for revenged i will be, as sure as his guts are made of puddings. (Merry Wives of Windor, Shakespeare)

Mrs. Page: "Let's be revenged on him" (line 89)
Mrs. Ford: "I will consent to act any villainy against him that may sully the chairness of our honesty" (lines94-95).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianaCox/2008/02/mww_and_triffles.html

Ford: ...My heart is ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is improvident jealousy? My wife hath sent to him, the hour is fixed, the match is made. Would any man have thought this? See the hell of having a false woman! My bed shall be abused, my coffers ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not only receive this villainous wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable terns, and by him that does me this wrong....
(Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene 2, lines 276-85)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessieFarine/2008/02/ford_the_elizabethan_emo_kid.html