The Merry Wives of Windsor

Act 1, Scene 2

SCENE II. The same.

    Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE

SIR HUGH EVANS

    Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which
    is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly,
    which 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.

SIR HUGH EVANS

    Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it
    is a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance with
    Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire
    and require her to solicit your master's desires to
    Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will
    make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come.

    Exeunt