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Mistress Ford (Katherine Pearce) and Mistress Page (Emma Pallant) discover they have received identical declarations of love from disreputable knight Sir John Falstaff. There's nothing for it but revenge...

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00:00 MISTRESS FORD If I would but go to hell for an eternal
moment or so, I could be knighted.
MISTRESS PAGE What, thou liest! Sir Alice Ford? These
knights will hack, and so thou shouldst not alter
the article of thy gentry.
MISTRESS FORD We burn daylight. Here, read, read. Perceive
how I might be knighted. I shall think the
worse of fat men as long as I have an eye to make
00:28 difference of men’s liking. And yet he would not
swear; praised women’s modesty; and gave such
orderly and well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness
that I would have sworn his disposition
would have gone to the truth of his words. But
00:44 they do no more adhere and keep place together
than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune of
“Greensleeves.” What tempest, I trow, threw this
whale, with so many tuns of oil in his belly, ashore
at Windsor? How shall I be revenged on him? I
think the best way were to entertain him with hope
till the wicked fire of lust have melted him in his
own grease. Did you ever hear the like?
01:21 MISTRESS PAGE Letter for letter, but that the name of
Page and Ford differs! To thy great comfort in this
mystery of ill opinions, here’s the twin brother of
thy letter. But let thine inherit first, for I protest
mine never shall. I warrant he hath a thousand of
these letters writ with blank space for different
names

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