Speeches (Lines) for Anne Page in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"

Robert Shallow. Here comes fair Mistress Anne.
[Re-enter ANNE PAGE]
Would I were young for your sake, Mistress Anne!

Anne Page. The dinner is on the table; my father desires your
worships' company.

Sir Hugh Evans. Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace.

Anne Page. Will't please your worship to come in, sir?

Slender. No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well.

Anne Page. The dinner attends you, sir.

Slender. I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go,
sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my
cousin Shallow.
[Exit SIMPLE]
A justice of peace sometimes may be beholding to his
friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy
yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? Yet I
live like a poor gentleman born.

Anne Page. I may not go in without your worship: they will not
sit till you come.

Slender. I' faith, I'll eat nothing; I thank you as much as
though I did.

Anne Page. I pray you, sir, walk in.

Slender. I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised
my shin th' other day with playing at sword and
dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a
dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot
abide the smell of hot meat since. Why do your
dogs bark so? be there bears i' the town?

Anne Page. I think there are, sir; I heard them talked of.

Slender. I love the sport well but I shall as soon quarrel at
it as any man in England. You are afraid, if you see
the bear loose, are you not?

Anne Page. Ay, indeed, sir.

Slender. Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first.

Anne Page. Not I, sir; pray you, keep on.

Fenton. I see I cannot get thy father's love;
Therefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan.

Anne Page. Alas, how then?

Fenton. Why, thou must be thyself.
He doth object I am too great of birth--,
And that, my state being gall'd with my expense,
I seek to heal it only by his wealth:
Besides these, other bars he lays before me,
My riots past, my wild societies;
And tells me 'tis a thing impossible
I should love thee but as a property.

Anne Page. May be he tells you true.

Fenton. No, heaven so speed me in my time to come!
Albeit I will confess thy father's wealth
Was the first motive that I woo'd thee, Anne:
Yet, wooing thee, I found thee of more value
Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;
And 'tis the very riches of thyself
That now I aim at.

Anne Page. Gentle Master Fenton,
Yet seek my father's love; still seek it, sir:
If opportunity and humblest suit
Cannot attain it, why, then,--hark you hither!

Mistress Quickly. Hark ye; Master Slender would speak a word with you.

Anne Page. I come to him.
[Aside]
This is my father's choice.
O, what a world of vile ill-favor'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!

Robert Shallow. He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure.

Anne Page. Good Master Shallow, let him woo for himself.

Robert Shallow. Marry, I thank you for it; I thank you for that good
comfort. She calls you, coz: I'll leave you.

Anne Page. Now, Master Slender,--

Slender. Now, good Mistress Anne,--

Anne Page. 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 heaven; I
am not such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise.

Anne Page. I mean, Master Slender, what would you with me?

Fenton. Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter
In such a righteous fashion as I do,
Perforce, against all cheques, rebukes and manners,
I must advance the colours of my love
And not retire: let me have your good will.

Anne Page. Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool.

Mistress Quickly. That's my master, master doctor.

Anne Page. Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth
And bowl'd to death with turnips!

Page. My heart misgives me: here comes Master Fenton.
[Enter FENTON and ANNE PAGE]
How now, Master Fenton!

Anne Page. Pardon, good father! good my mother, pardon!