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Mistress Anne Page, her daughter
Mistress Quickly, servant to Doctor Caius
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Servants to Page, Ford, etc.
Scene: Windsor, and the neighborhood]
ACT I
Scene I
Enter Justice Shallow, Slender, Sir Hugh Evans.
Shal. Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star Chamber matter of it. If he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.
Slen. In the county of Gloucester, Justice of Peace and Coram.
Shal. Ay, cousin Slender, and Custa-lorum.
Slen. Ay, and Rato-lorum too; and a gentleman born, Master Parson, who writes himself Armigero, in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, Armigero.
Shal. Ay, that I do, and have done any time these three hundred years.
Slen. All his successors (gone before him) hath done’t; and all his ancestors (that come after him) may. They may give the dozen white luces in their coat.
Shal. It is an old coat.
Evans. The dozen white louses do become an old coat well; it agrees well, passant. It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.