The Merry Wives of Windsor (Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition)

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR WEBSTER'S SPANISH THESAURUS EDITION

for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test Preparation

William Shakespeare

TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.

The Merry Wives of Windsor Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition

for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test Preparation

William Shakespeare

TOEFL®, TOEIC®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.

ii ICON CLASSICS Published by ICON Group International, Inc. 7404 Trade Street San Diego, CA 92121 USA www.icongrouponline.com The Merry Wives of Windsor: Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test Preparation This edition published by ICON Classics in 2005 Printed in the United States of America. Copyright ©2005 by ICON Group International, Inc. Edited by Philip M. Parker, Ph.D. (INSEAD); Copyright ©2005, all rights reserved. All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Copying our publications in whole or in part, for whatever reason, is a violation of copyright laws and can lead to penalties and fines. Should you want to copy tables, graphs, or other materials, please contact us to request permission (E-mail: [email protected]). ICON Group often grants permission for very limited reproduction of our publications for internal use, press releases, and academic research. Such reproduction requires confirmed permission from ICON Group International, Inc. TOEFL®, TOEIC®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved. ISBN 0-497-26204-5

iii

Contents PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR ........................................................................................ 1 PERSONS REPRESENTED .............................................................................................. 2 ACT I .............................................................................................................................. 3 ACT II ........................................................................................................................... 29 ACT III .......................................................................................................................... 54 ACT IV .......................................................................................................................... 85 ACT V ......................................................................................................................... 112 GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................. 127

William Shakespeare

1

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Spanish thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare was edited for three audiences. The first includes Spanish-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL® or TOEIC® preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Spanish speakers enrolled in English speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Spanish in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement® (AP®)1 or similar examinations. By using the Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Spanish or English. Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to “difficult, yet commonly used” words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Spanish, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not translated on a page, chances are that it has been translated on a previous page. A more complete glossary of translations is supplied at the end of the book; translations are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary. Definitions of remaining terms as well as translations can be found at www.websters-onlinedictionary.org. Please send suggestions to [email protected] The Editor Webster’s Online Dictionary www.websters-online-dictionary.org

TOEFL®, TOEIC®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved. 1

2

The Merry Wives of Windsor

PERSONS

%REPRESENTED

SIR JOHN FALSTAFF FENTON, a young gentleman SHALLOW, a country justice SLENDER, cousin to Shallow FORD, Gentleman dwelling at Windsor PAGE, Gentleman dwelling at Windsor WILLIAM PAGE, a boy, son to Page SIR HUGH EVANS, a Welsh parson DOCTOR CAIUS, a French physician HOST of the Garter Inn BARDOLPH, PISTOL, NYM,

}

followers of Falstaff

ROBIN, page to Falstaff SIMPLE, servant to Slender RUGBY, servant to Doctor Caius MISTRESS FORD MISTRESS PAGE MISTRESS ANNE PAGE, her daughter, in love with Fenton MISTRESS QUICKLY, servant to Doctor Caius SERVANTS to Page, Ford, etc.

Spanish boy: chico, muchacho, niño, el servant: criado, criada, sirviente, muchacho, criado, chamaco. servidor. cousin: primo, prima, el primo. son: hijo, el hijo. daughter: hija, la hija, Nina. dwelling: morando, vivienda, morada. etc: etcétera, y de este modo adelante. gentleman: caballero, señor, gentilhombre. justice: justicia. page: página, paje, botones. parson: sacerdote, cura, párroco. physician: médico, doctor.

William Shakespeare

3

ACT I

SCENE 1. WINDSOR. BEFORE PAGE'S HOUSE.% [Enter JUSTICE SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS.] SHALLOW. 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. SLENDER. In the county of Gloucester, Justice of Peace, and 'coram.' SHALLOW. Ay, cousin Slender, and 'cust-alorum.' SLENDER. Ay, and 'rato-lorum' too; and a gentleman born, Master Parson, who writes himself 'armigero' in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation--'armigero.' SHALLOW. Ay, that I do; and have done any time these three hundred years. SLENDER. 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.

Spanish abuse: abuso, injuriar, insulto, insultar, ofender, ofensa, injuria, abusar, ultrajar. ancestors: ascendientes, antepasados. bill: cuenta, billete, pico, factura, proyecto de ley, podadera, efecto, letra de cambio, nota, facturar. born: nacido, nato. coat: abrigo, chaqueta, capa. county: condado, provincia. cousin: primo, prima, el primo. dozen: docena, la docena.

esquire: señor don. finiquito, recibo, descargo. gentleman: caballero, señor, twenty: veinte. gentilhombre. warrant: garantía, orden, orden por gone: ido, marchado. escrito, certificado, autorizar, hundred: ciento, cien, centenar. autorización. matter: materia, asunto, particular, writes: escribe. caso, importar. persuade: convencer, convences, convence, convenzan, convenzo, convenza, convencemos, convenced, convencéis, convencen, persuadir. quittance: quitanza, compensación,

4

The Merry Wives of Windsor

SHALLOW. 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. SHALLOW. The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat. SLENDER. I may quarter, coz? SHALLOW. You may, by marrying. EVANS. It is marring indeed, if he quarter it. SHALLOW. Not a whit. EVANS. Yes, py'r lady! If he has a quarter of your coat, there is but three skirts for yourself, in my simple conjectures; but that is all one. If Sir John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my benevolence to make atonements and compremises between you. SHALLOW. The Council shall hear it; it is a riot. EVANS. It is not meet the Council hear a riot; there is no fear of Got in a riot; the Council, look you, shall desire to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a riot; take your vizaments in that. SHALLOW. Ha! o' my life, if I were young again, the sword should end it.

Spanish agrees: acuerda, conviene, asiente, concuerda. beast: bestia, animal. benevolence: benevolencia. committed: cometido, comprometido. conjectures: supone. desire: desear, deseo, tener, querer, gana, codiciar. disparagements: menosprecios. familiar: conocido. fear: temer, miedo, temor, angustia, recelar.

fish: pez, pescado, pescar, el pescado, pescados, peces, el pez. fresh: fresco. glad: alegre, contento. hear: oír, oigan, oyes, oyen, oye, oís, oigo, oíd, oímos, oiga. lady: dama, señora. marring: estropeando. marrying: casándose. meet: encontrar, encontrad, encuentro, encuentren, encuentre, encuentras, encuentran, encontramos, encontráis,

encuentra, quedar. o: oxígeno. passant: pasante, transiente. quarter: barrio, cuarto, trimestre. riot: disturbio, alboroto, ruido. salt: sal, la sal, salar, salado. signifies: significa. skirts: afueras. sword: espada. unto: hacia. whit: pizca. yourself: tú mismo, se.

William Shakespeare

5

EVANS. It is petter that friends is the sword and end it; and there is also another device in my prain, which peradventure prings goot discretions with it. There is Anne Page, which is daughter to Master George Page, which is pretty virginity.% SLENDER. Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman. EVANS. It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed--Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!--give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years old. It were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master Abraham and Mistress Anne Page. SHALLOW. Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound? EVANS. Ay, and her father is make her a petter penny. SHALLOW. I know the young gentlewoman; she has good gifts. EVANS. Seven hundred pounds, and possibilities, is goot gifts. SHALLOW. Well, let us see honest Master Page. Is Falstaff there? EVANS. Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do despise one that is false; or as I despise one that is not true. The knight Sir John is there; and, I beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers. I will peat the door for Master Page. [Knocks.] What, hoa! Got pless your house here!

Spanish beseech: supliquen, rogáis, rogamos, ruega, ruegan, ruegas, ruegue, rueguen, suplica, suplicamos, rogad. deliver: entregar, entregas, entrego, entregan, entregamos, entregáis, entregad, entreguen, entrega, entregue. despise: despreciar, desprecia, desprecien, desprecias, desprecian, despreciamos, despreciáis, despreciad, desprecio, desprecie. device: aparato, dispositivo, artefacto,

mecanismo. false: falso. gentlewoman: dama. gifts: regalos. gold: oro, el oro, de oro. grandsire: estimado. honest: honrado, sincero, honesto. joyful: alegre. knight: caballero, caballo. liar: mentiroso, embustero, el mentiroso. moneys: fondos, capitales.

overtake: adelantar, adelantas, adelantad, adelanto, adelanten, adelante, adelanta, adelantáis, adelantamos, adelantan, alcanzar. peat: turba. penny: penique. peradventure: por casualidad, quizás. possibilities: posibilidades. ruled: reglado. seventeen: diecisiete, diez y siete. silver: plata, la plata, plateado. speaks: habla.

6

The Merry Wives of Windsor

PAGE. [Within.] Who's there? EVANS. Here is Got's plessing, and your friend, and Justice Shallow; and here young Master Slender, that peradventures shall tell you another tale, if matters grow to your likings.% [Enter PAGE.] PAGE. I am glad to see your worships well. I thank you for my venison, Master Shallow. SHALLOW. Master Page, I am glad to see you; much good do it your good heart! I wished your venison better; it was ill killed. How doth good Mistress Page?-and I thank you always with my heart, la! with my heart. PAGE. Sir, I thank you. SHALLOW. Sir, I thank you; by yea and no, I do. PAGE. I am glad to see you, good Master Slender. SLENDER. How does your fallow greyhound, sir? I heard say he was outrun on Cotsall. PAGE. It could not be judged, sir. SLENDER. You'll not confess, you'll not confess. SHALLOW. That he will not: 'tis your fault; 'tis your fault. 'Tis a good dog.

Spanish confess: confesar, confiesan, confiesen, confieso, confiesas, confesamos, confesad, confesáis, confiesa, confiese, declarar. dog: perro, el perro, la perra, can. fallow: barbecho. fault: culpa, defecto, avería, falla, falta, fallo, error, imperfección. friend: amigo, amiga, el amigo. glad: alegre, contento. greyhound: galgo. grow: crecer, crecen, crezco, crece,

creced, crecemos, crezcan, crecéis, creces, crezca, cultivar. heard: oído. heart: corazón, cogollo. ill: enfermo, malo, doliente. judged: juzgado. killed: matado. la: la, Loisiana. outrun: rebasar, pasar los límites de, correr más que, exceder. sir: señor. tale: cuento.

thank: agradecer, agradezco, agradeces, agradezcan, agradece, agradezca, agradecemos, agradeced, agradecen, agradecéis, dar gracias. venison: venado. wished: deseado. yea: ciertamente, sin duda, sí, voto afirmativo, además.

William Shakespeare

7

PAGE. A cur, sir.% SHALLOW. Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog; can there be more said? he is good, and fair. Is Sir John Falstaff here? PAGE. Sir, he is within; and I would I could do a good office between you. EVANS. It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak. SHALLOW. He hath wronged me, Master Page. PAGE. Sir, he doth in some sort confess it. SHALLOW. If it be confessed, it is not redressed: is not that so, Master Page? He hath wronged me; indeed he hath;--at a word, he hath, --believe me; Robert Shallow, esquire, saith he is wronged. PAGE. Here comes Sir John. [Enter SIR JOHN FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, NYM, and PISTOL.] FALSTAFF. Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the King? SHALLOW. Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and broke open my lodge. FALSTAFF. But not kiss'd your keeper's daughter? SHALLOW. Tut, a pin! this shall be answered.

Spanish answered: contesta, Contestado. beaten: vencido. broke: bollado, rotura, rompió, romper, pret de break, interrupción, fracturar, sin blanca, comienzo, pelado, descanso. comes: Viene. complain: quejarse. confess: confesar, confiesan, confiesen, confieso, confiesas, confesamos, confesad, confesáis, confiesa, confiese, declarar.

confessed: confesado, reconocido. cur: perro chusco o de mala casta, perro, hombre vil, de mala raza, chucho, canalla, vil. deer: ciervo, venado. esquire: señor don. fair: justo, rubio, mercado, feria, verbena, bazar, equitativo, hermoso. lodge: alojar, hospedar, la casa del guarda. ought: haber que, deba, deber, haber de.

pin: alfiler, patilla, perno, el alfiler, clavija, pasador. redressed: desagravió. speak: hablar, hablamos, hablo, hablas, habláis, hablad, hablen, habla, hablan, hable. spoke: decir, radio, rayo, raya, radioactivo, rayo de rueda, hablar, pret de speak, expresar. wronged: explotado.

8

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FALSTAFF. I will answer it straight: I have done all this. That is now answered.% SHALLOW. The Council shall know this. FALSTAFF. 'Twere better for you if it were known in counsel: you'll be laughed at. EVANS. Pauca verba, Sir John; goot worts. FALSTAFF. Good worts! good cabbage! Slender, I broke your head; what matter have you against me? SLENDER. Marry, sir, I have matter in my head against you; and against your conycatching rascals, Bardolph, Nym, and Pistol. They carried me to the tavern, and made me drunk, and afterwards picked my pocket. BARDOLPH. You Banbury cheese! SLENDER. Ay, it is no matter. PISTOL. How now, Mephostophilus! SLENDER. Ay, it is no matter. NYM. Slice, I say! pauca, pauca; slice! That's my humour. SLENDER. Where's Simple, my man? Can you tell, cousin? EVANS. Peace, I pray you. Now let us understand. There is three umpires in this

Spanish afterwards: después, luego, más adelante. answer: respuesta, responder, contestar, contestación, responder a, corresponder al, contestar a, la respuesta, réplica. broke: bollado, rotura, rompió, romper, pret de break, interrupción, fracturar, sin blanca, comienzo, pelado, descanso. cabbage: col, repollo, la col, berza. carried: Llevado, cargado,

transportado. cheese: queso, el queso. counsel: consejo, aconsejar, abogado, anunciar. cousin: primo, prima, el primo. drunk: borracho, bebido, ebrio. humour: humor. laughed: Reído. picked: picado. pocket: bolsillo, el bolsillo, bolsa, casilla. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos,

rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. slender: fino, esbelto. slice: rebanar, tajada, cortar, trozo, rodaja, rebanada, filete, corte, loncha. straight: derecho, recto, directamente, recta. tavern: taberna. understand: entender, entiendes, entienda, entiendan, entendemos, entendéis, entended, entienden, entiendo, entiende, comprender.

William Shakespeare

9

matter, as I understand: that is--Master Page, fidelicet Master Page; and there is myself, fidelicet myself; and the three party is, lastly and finally, mine host of the Garter.% PAGE. We three to hear it and end it between them. EVANS. Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note-book; and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with as great discreetly as we can. FALSTAFF. Pistol! PISTOL. He hears with ears. EVANS. The tevil and his tam! what phrase is this, 'He hears with ear'? Why, it is affectations. FALSTAFF. Pistol, did you pick Master Slender's purse? SLENDER. Ay, by these gloves, did he--or I would I might never come in mine own great chamber again else!--of seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Edward shovel-boards that cost me two shilling and two pence a-piece of Yead Miller, by these gloves. FALSTAFF. Is this true, Pistol? EVANS. No, it is false, if it is a pick-purse. PISTOL. Ha, thou mountain-foreigner!--Sir John and master mine, I combat challenge of this latten bilbo.

Spanish cause: causa, causar, ocasionar, dar lugar a, instigar, producir, maquinar, provocar. challenge: reto, desafiar, desafío, retar, recusación, impugnar. chamber: cámara, habitación, cuarto. combat: combate, combatir. cost: costar, costo, coste, gastos. discreetly: discreta, discretamente, recatadamente. ears: orejas, las orejas, oídos. false: falso.

finally: finalmente, al fin, por fin. gloves: guantes, los guantes. groats: avena, cebada pelada, sémola. hears: oye. host: anfitrión, huésped, posadero, hostia. lastly: finalmente, pasadamente, por último, postreramente, últimamente. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister. mine: mina, mío, minar. myself: yo mismo.

note-book: cuaderno. pence: peniques, céntimos. phrase: frase, expresar, expresión. pick: picar, piquen, pican, picamos, picáis, picad, picas, pique, pica, pico, arrancar. purse: portamonedas, monedero, colecta, bolsa, bolso, la bolsa, cartera. seven: siete. shilling: chelín. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. true: verdadero, cierto.

10

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Word of denial in thy labras here! Word of denial! Froth and scum, thou liest.% SLENDER. By these gloves, then, 'twas he. NYM. Be avised, sir, and pass good humours; I will say 'marry trap' with you, if you run the nuthook's humour on me; that is the very note of it. SLENDER. By this hat, then, he in the red face had it; for though I cannot remember what I did when you made me drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass. FALSTAFF. What say you, Scarlet and John? BARDOLPH. Why, sir, for my part, I say the gentleman had drunk himself out of his five sentences. EVANS. It is his 'five senses'; fie, what the ignorance is! BARDOLPH. And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashier'd; and so conclusions passed the careires. SLENDER. Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but 'tis no matter; I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick; if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves. EVANS. So Got udge me, that is a virtuous mind. FALSTAFF. You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen; you hear it. [Enter ANNE PAGE with wine; MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE.]

Spanish altogether: todo, en conjunto. ass: burro, asno, culo. cannot: presente de no poder. civil: civil. denial: negación, denegación. denied: negado, desmentido. drunken: borracho, ebrio. froth: espuma. gentlemen: señores. godly: piadoso. hat: sombrero, el sombrero. ignorance: ignorancia.

knaves: valets. live: vivir, viven, vive, vivo, vivan, vivís, vivimos, vives, viva, vivid, habitar. ne'er: nunca. note: nota, apuntar, billete, anotar, apunte, anotación, notar. pass: pasar, adelantar, paso, pase, desfiladero, entregar, pasada, aprobar, alargar, paso de montaña, llegar. passed: pasado.

red: rojo, tinto, encarnado. scum: escoria, espumar, espuma. thy: tu. trap: trampa, atrapar. trick: engañar, truco, resabio, mala costumbre. virtuous: virtuoso. whilst: mientras. wine: vino, el vino.

William Shakespeare

11

PAGE. Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we'll drink within.% [Exit ANNE PAGE.] SLENDER. O heaven! this is Mistress Anne Page. PAGE. How now, Mistress Ford! FALSTAFF. Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well met; by your leave, good mistress. [Kissing her.] PAGE. Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner; come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. [Exeunt all but SHALLOW, SLENDER, and EVANS.] SLENDER. I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. [Enter SIMPLE.] How, Simple! Where have you been? I must wait on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles about you, have you? SIMPLE. Book of Riddles! why, did you not lend it to Alice Shortcake upon Allhallowmas last, a fortnight afore Michaelmas? SHALLOW. Come, coz; come, coz; we stay for you. A word with you, coz; marry, this, coz: there is, as 'twere, a tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh here: do you understand me? SLENDER. Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable; if it be so, I shall do that that is reason.

Spanish afar: lejos. afore: a proa. bid: ofrecer, licitación, postura, oferta, solicitar, licitar, pedir, demandar, rogar, puja. dinner: cena, comida, banquete. drink: beber, bebida, tomar, el refresco, trago, copa. fortnight: quincena, quince días. forty: cuarenta. heaven: cielo. hot: caliente, picante, caluroso.

kissing: besar. lend: prestar, presto, preste, presten, prestas, prestan, prestamos, prestáis, prestad, presta. marry: casarse, casar, cásese, se casan, se casa, nos casamos, me caso, te casas, cásense, cásate, cásados. met: encontrado, hallado. mistress: señora. pasty: pastoso. reasonable: razonable, prudencial. tender: tierno, oferta, dulce, subasta,

proposición, ofrecer, destajo, licitación, presentar, reproducir, retratar. troth: fidelidad, fe. wait: esperar, espera, espere, esperad, espero, esperen, esperas, esperan, esperamos, esperáis, aguardar. welcome: dar la bienvenida, bienvenida, bienvenido, acoger, grato, agradable, acogida, acogen, acojan, acojo, acoges. we'll: Haremos.

12

The Merry Wives of Windsor

SHALLOW. Nay, but understand me.% SLENDER. So I do, sir. EVANS. Give ear to his motions, Master Slender: I will description the matter to you, if you pe capacity of it. SLENDER. Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says; I pray you pardon me; he's a justice of peace in his country, simple though I stand here. EVANS. But that is not the question; the question is concerning your marriage. SHALLOW. Ay, there's the point, sir. EVANS. Marry is it; the very point of it; to Mistress Anne Page. SLENDER. Why, if it be so, I will marry her upon any reasonable demands. EVANS. But can you affection the 'oman? Let us command to know that of your mouth or of your lips; for divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth: therefore, precisely, can you carry your good will to the maid? SHALLOW. Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her? SLENDER. I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that would do reason. EVANS. Nay, Got's lords and his ladies! you must speak possitable, if you can carry her your desires towards her.

Spanish affection: afecto, cariño, afectuosidad, amor. capacity: capacidad. carry: llevar, llevamos, lleváis, llevad, lleva, lleven, llevo, llevan, llevas, lleve, cargar. command: mando, orden, mandato, comando, instrucción, capitanear, acaudillar. concerning: en cuanto a, acerca de, por lo tocante a, respecto de. description: descripción.

divers: varios, diversos. ear: oreja, espiga, la oreja, oído. hold: tener, sujetar, continuar, retención, sostener, contener, mantener, retenido, presa, bodega. ladies: damas, señoras. lips: labios, los labios. maid: criada, sirvienta, doncella, la criada. marriage: matrimonio, casamiento, enlace. motions: movimientos.

mouth: boca, desembocadura, la boca. parcel: paquete, parcela. pardon: perdón, perdonar, indulto, indultar. pe: educación física, gimnasia. peace: paz, la paz. precisely: precisamente. simple: sencillo, simple. stand: estar de pie, puesto, levantarse, granero, posición, cabina, soporte, base, estante, caseta, pararse.

William Shakespeare

13

SHALLOW. That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her? SLENDER. I will do a greater thing than that upon your request, cousin, in any reason.% SHALLOW. Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz; what I do is to pleasure you, coz. Can you love the maid? SLENDER. I will marry her, sir, at your request; but if there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another; I hope upon familiarity will grow more contempt. But if you say 'Marry her,' I will marry her; that I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely. EVANS. It is a fery discretion answer; save, the fall is in the ort 'dissolutely:' the ort is, according to our meaning, 'resolutely.' His meaning is good. SHALLOW. Ay, I think my cousin meant well. SLENDER. Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la! SHALLOW. Here comes fair Mistress Anne. [Re-enter ANNE PAGE.] Would I were young for your sake, Mistress Anne! ANNE. The dinner is on the table; my father desires your worships' company. SHALLOW. I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne!

Spanish according: conforme, de acuerdo con. acquaintance: conocido, conocimiento, notoriedad. conceive: concebir, conciban, concibo, concibes, concibe, concebís, concebimos, concebid, conciben, conciba. contempt: desprecio, menosprecio. decrease: disminuir, decrecer, bajar, disminución, menguar, amainar. discretion: discreción. dissolutely: disolutamente, en

disolución. dissolved: disuelto. dowry: dote. familiarity: familiaridad, notoriedad. freely: libremente. hanged: colgar, ahorcado, continuar, caída, colgó. meaning: intención, significado, sentido, significación. meant: pret de mean. occasion: motivo, ocasión, lugar, oportunidad.

pleasure: placer, agrado, gusto, complacencia, el gusto. request: petición, pedir, solicitar, solicitud, demandar, solicitación, requerimiento, ruego, rogar, demanda. sake: motivo, fin, bien, causa. save: guardar, guarda, guardan, guardáis, guardamos, guardas, guarde, guardo, guardad, guarden, salvar. sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre.

14

The Merry Wives of Windsor

EVANS. Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace.% [Exeunt SHALLOW and EVANS.] ANNE. Will't please your worship to come in, sir? SLENDER. No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well. ANNE. 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 sometime 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. 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. 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. I think there are, sir; I heard them talked of.

Spanish abide: esperar, tolerar, tolere, esperamos, esperan, esperáis, esperas, esperad, espere, tolera, esperen. absence: ausencia, falta. attends: asiste. bark: ladrar, corteza, ladrido, barco, cáscara. beholding: advirtiendo, considerando, contemplando, mirando, observando, viendo, percibir. bruised: magullado, amoratado,

contuso. dagger: daga, puñal. dish: plato, el plato, guiso. dogs: los perros, las perras. eat: comer, comemos, comes, coméis, comed, coman, como, comen, coma, Come. faith: fe, la fe. fence: reja, valla, cerca, vallado, obstrucción, la cerca, cercado. forsooth: en verdad. heartily: sinceramente.

meat: carne, la carne, carnes. shin: espinilla. sit: sentarse, estar sentado, sentar. smell: oler, olor, apestar, oler mal, olfatear, olfato. sometime: algún día. stewed: estofado. talked: Hablado, charlado. th: cabecera de transmisión. till: caja, hasta que, hasta, a que. worship: adorar, adoración, culto, veneración.

William Shakespeare

15

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. Ay, indeed, sir.% SLENDER. That's meat and drink to me now. I have seen Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by the chain; but I warrant you, the women have so cried and shrieked at it that it passed; but women, indeed, cannot abide 'em; they are very ill-favoured rough things. [Re-enter PAGE.] PAGE. Come, gentle Master Slender, come; we stay for you. SLENDER. I'll eat nothing, I thank you, sir. PAGE. By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! come, come. SLENDER. Nay, pray you lead the way. PAGE. Come on, sir. SLENDER. Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first. ANNE. Not I, sir; pray you keep on. SLENDER. Truly, I will not go first; truly, la! I will not do you that wrong. ANNE. I pray you, sir.

Spanish afraid: miedoso, temeroso, asustado, medroso, miedo, encogido, angustioso, tímido, be - tener miedo. bear: oso, llevar, el oso, bajista, producir, dar a luz, parir, portar, soportar. chain: cadena, la cadena, encadenar. choose: escoger, escojan, escoges, escogen, escogemos, escogéis, escoged, escojo, escoge, escoja, elegir. cock: gallo, grifo, pene, pija. cried: Lloró.

gentle: dulce, suave, manso, apacible. ill-favoured: feo, mal parecido, considerado mal. indeed: verdaderamente, en efecto, de veras, en realidad, efectivamente. lead: plomo, guiar, guía, conducir, guiáis, guiamos, guían, guías, guíe, guíen, guío. loose: suelto, flojo. pie: pastel, el pastel, torta, tarta, empanada. quarrel: disputar, reñir, riña, pelear.

rough: áspero, crudo, desigual, bronco, brusco, grosero. shrieked: chillado. soon: pronto, luego. sport: deporte. stay: quedarse, quedar, queden, quede, quedas, quedan, quedamos, quedáis, quedad, queda, quedo. truly: verdaderamente, de veras, en realidad, en efecto, realmente. wrong: malo, mal, falso, incorrecto, entuerto, agravio, impropio, erróneo.

16

The Merry Wives of Windsor

SLENDER. I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome. You do yourself wrong indeed, la! [Exeunt.]

SCENE II. THE SAME.% [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE.] 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. 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.]

SCENE III. A ROOM IN THE GARTER INN. [Enter FALSTAFF, HOST, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, and ROBIN.]

Spanish acquaintance: conocido, conocimiento, notoriedad. cheese: queso, el queso. cook: cocinar, cocinero, cocinera, cocer, el cocinero, guisar. desire: desear, deseo, tener, querer, gana, codiciar. dry: seco, secar, enjugar. dwells: mora. la: la, Loisiana. laundry: lavadero, lavandería, colada, lavado.

letter: carta, letra, la carta. manner: manera. nurse: enfermera, cuidar, comadrona, enfermero, la enfermera, niñera, nodriza, amamantar. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. require: necesitar, necesita, necesiten, necesite, necesitas, necesito, necesitan, necesitamos, necesitáis, necesitad, exigir.

solicit: solicitar, solicita, solicitad, solicito, soliciten, solicitas, solicitan, solicitamos, solicitáis, solicite. troublesome: molesto. unmannerly: mal educado. washer: arandela, lavadora, lavandera. ways: maneras. wringer: retorcedera, exprimidor, escurridor.

William Shakespeare

17

FALSTAFF. Mine host of the Garter! HOST. What says my bully rook? Speak scholarly and wisely.% FALSTAFF. Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my followers. HOST. Discard, bully Hercules; cashier; let them wag; trot, trot. FALSTAFF. I sit at ten pounds a week. HOST. Thou'rt an emperor, Caesar, Keiser, and Pheazar. I will entertain Bardolph; he shall draw, he shall tap; said I well, bully Hector? FALSTAFF. Do so, good mine host. HOST. I have spoke; let him follow. [To BARDOLPH] Let me see thee froth and lime. I am at a word; follow. [Exit.] FALSTAFF. Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade; an old cloak makes a new jerkin; a withered serving-man a fresh tapster. Go; adieu. BARDOLPH. It is a life that I have desired; I will thrive. PISTOL. O base Hungarian wight! Wilt thou the spigot wield? [Exit BARDOLPH.] NYM. He was gotten in drink. Is not the humour conceited?

Spanish adieu: adiós. bully: matón. cashier: cajero, el cajero. cloak: abrigo, capa. conceited: presumido, hueco. desired: deseado. draw: dibujar, dibujáis, dibujad, dibujen, dibuje, dibujas, dibujamos, dibuja, dibujan, dibujo, tirar. emperor: emperador. entertain: entretener, entretenemos, entreten, entretened, entretenéis,

entretengan, entretengo, entretiene, entretienes, entretienen, entretenga. followers: partido. gotten: obtenido. jerkin: justillo. lime: cal, lima, la lima, uni. rook: grajo, torre, graja. scholarly: erudito, docto. spigot: guía. tap: grifo, palmadita, toma, llave, espita, derivación. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú.

thrive: prosperar, prospera, prosperen, prosperas, prospero, prosperan, prosperamos, prosperáis, prosperad, prospere. trot: trote, trotar. wag: menear, meneo, mover. wield: ejercer, esgrima, esgrimir, empuñar, manejar, ejerzan, esgrime, esgrimen, esgrimes, esgrimid, esgrimimos. wilt: marchitarse, marchitar. withered: marchito, marchitado.

18

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FALSTAFF. I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder-box: his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskilful singer--he kept not time.% NYM. The good humour is to steal at a minim's rest. PISTOL. 'Convey' the wise it call. 'Steal!' foh! A fico for the phrase! FALSTAFF. Well, sirs, I am almost out at heels. PISTOL. Why, then, let kibes ensue. FALSTAFF. There is no remedy; I must cony-catch; I must shift. PISTOL. Young ravens must have food. FALSTAFF. Which of you know Ford of this town? PISTOL. I ken the wight; he is of substance good. FALSTAFF. My honest lads, I will tell you what I am about. PISTOL. Two yards, and more. FALSTAFF. No quips now, Pistol. Indeed, I am in the waist two yards about; but I am now about no waste; I am about thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford's wife; I spy entertainment in her; she discourses, she carves, she gives the leer of invitation; I can construe the action of her familiar style; and the

Spanish acquit: absolver, absuelvan, absuelve, absuelvo, absuelves, absolvemos, absuelven, absolvéis, absolved, absuelva, pagar. briefly: brevemente. carves: talla, labra. construe: interpretar. ensue: suceder, suceda, sucedes, suceden, sucedemos, sucedéis, suceded, sucede, sucedan, sucedo. entertainment: recreación, entretenimiento, diversión, función.

filching: birlando, hurtando, rapiñando, rateando, sisando. heels: taco, tacón. invitation: invitación, convite. ken: Conocer, Conocido, conocimiento, vista. lads: chicos, muchachos. leer: mirada de soslayo. quips: occurrencias. ravens: cuervos. remedy: curar, remedio, recurso, medio, remediar.

shift: turno, desplazamiento, desplazar, cambiar, jornada, tanda, cambio. sirs: señor. spy: espiar, espía, acechar. steal: robar, hurtar, tomar. substance: sustancia, substancia. thefts: hurtos. thrift: ahorro, economía. unskilful: inexperto. waist: cintura, la cintura, talle. wise: sabio, sensato, guisa.

William Shakespeare

19

hardest voice of her behaviour, to be Englished rightly, is 'I am Sir John Falstaff's.' PISTOL. He hath studied her will, and translated her will out of honesty into English.% NYM. The anchor is deep; will that humour pass? FALSTAFF. Now, the report goes she has all the rule of her husband's purse; he hath a legion of angels. PISTOL. As many devils entertain; and 'To her, boy,' say I. NYM. The humour rises; it is good; humour me the angels. FALSTAFF. I have writ me here a letter to her; and here another to Page's wife, who even now gave me good eyes too, examined my parts with most judicious oeillades; sometimes the beam of her view gilded my foot, sometimes my portly belly. PISTOL. Then did the sun on dunghill shine. NYM. I thank thee for that humour. FALSTAFF. O! she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a greedy intention that the appetite of her eye did seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass. Here's another letter to her: she bears the purse too; she is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will be cheator to them both, and they shall be exchequers to me; they shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to them both.

Spanish anchor: ancla, anclar, fondear, anclaje, áncora, el ancla. angels: los ángeles. appetite: apetito, el apetito. beam: viga, rayo, haz, plegador, radio, haz de luz. belly: vientre, barriga, panza. bounty: liberalidad, generosidad. deep: profundo, hondo. devils: diablo. dunghill: muladar. examined: examinado, registrado.

foot: pie, pata, el pie, pujamen. gilded: dorado. greedy: codicioso, ávido, goloso. hardest: duramente. honesty: honestidad, honradez. intention: intención. judicious: juicioso. legion: legión. o'er: sobre. portly: gordo, puerto, portuariamente, corpulento. region: región, comarca.

rightly: debidamente. rule: regla, gobernar, la regla, norma, fallar, refrenar, dominio, subyugar, reprimir, regir, contener. scorch: quemadura, quemar, chamuscar. shine: brillar, brillo, lucir. studied: estudiado. sun: sol, el sol. translated: traducido. writ: escritura, orden, escrito, orden por escrito.

20

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Go, bear thou this letter to Mistress Page; and thou this to Mistress Ford. We will thrive, lads, we will thrive. PISTOL. Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become, And by my side wear steel? then Lucifer take all! NYM. I will run no base humour. Here, take the humour-letter; I will keep the haviour of reputation.% FALSTAFF. [To ROBIN] Hold, sirrah; bear you these letters tightly; Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. Rogues, hence, avaunt! vanish like hailstones, go; Trudge, plod away o' hoof; seek shelter, pack! Falstaff will learn the humour of this age; French thrift, you rogues; myself, and skirted page. [Exeunt FALSTAFF and ROBIN.] PISTOL. Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd and fullam holds, And high and low beguile the rich and poor; Tester I'll have in pouch when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk! NYM. I have operations in my head which be humours of revenge. PISTOL. Wilt thou revenge? NYM. By welkin and her star! PISTOL. With wit or steel?

Spanish beguile: engañar, engañad, engaño, engañen, engañas, engañan, engañáis, engaña, engañamos, engañe. golden: dorado, áureo, de oro. gourd: calabaza. gripe: queja. guts: intestinos. hence: de aquí a, por tanto. hoof: pezuña, casco. operations: operaciones. pinnace: pinaza.

plod: trabajan, trabajo, trabajen, trabajas, trabajáis, trabajad, trabaja, trabajamos, trabaje, andar pesadamente, trabajar laboriosamente. pouch: valija, bolsa. revenge: venganza, revancha. rich: rico. rogues: pícaros. shalt: irá, verbo auxiliar inglés para especificar futuro. shelter: guardar, abrigo, albergue,

refugio, amparo, albergar, abrigar. skirted: ladeado. star: estrella, la estrella, astro. steel: acero, ballena, el acero, acerar. vanish: desaparecer, desaparezca, desaparezcan, desapareces, desaparecen, desaparecemos, desaparecéis, desapareced, desaparece, desaparezco. wear: llevar, desgaste, usar, tener puesto, vestir, uso, llevar puesto. wit: ingenio.

William Shakespeare

21

NYM. With both the humours, I: I will discuss the humour of this love to Page. PISTOL. And I to Ford shall eke unfold How Falstaff, varlet vile, His dove will prove, his gold will hold, And his soft couch defile.% NYM. My humour shall not cool: I will incense Page to deal with poison; I will possess him with yellowness, for the revolt of mine is dangerous: that is my true humour. PISTOL. Thou art the Mars of malcontents; I second thee; troop on. [Exeunt.]

SCENE 4. A ROOM IN DOCTOR CAIUS'S HOUSE. [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, and SIMPLE.] QUICKLY. What, John Rugby! [Enter RUGBY.] I pray thee go to the casement, and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor Caius, coming: if he do, i' faith, and find anybody in the house, here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the King's English. RUGBY. I'll go watch. QUICKLY. Go; and we'll have a posset for't soon at night, in faith, at the latter end of a sea-coal fire.

Spanish abusing: abusando. anybody: alguien, alguno, cierto, cualquiera. casement: marco. cool: fresco, enfriar, frío, chido, chilero, chévere. couch: canapé, dyschatell, cama, sofá, sofá cama. dangerous: peligroso. discuss: discutir, discutan, discutimos, discutid, discutes, discuten, discute, discuto, discutís, discuta, debatir.

dove: pichón, paloma, la palomita. eke: aumentas, aumento, aumente, aumentan, aumentamos, aumentáis, aumentad, aumenta, aumenten, escatime, suplir las deficiencias. incense: incienso, encolerizar. patience: paciencia. poison: veneno, envenenar, intoxicar. possess: poseer, poseen, posees, poseo, posean, poseéis, posee, poseed, poseemos, posea, tener. prove: probar, probad, prueban,

pruebas, pruebo, probamos, probáis, prueben, prueba, pruebe, verificar. revolt: revuelta, sublevarse, rebelarse. soft: blando, suave, tierno, dulce. troop: tropa. unfold: desplegar, despliegue, desplegáis, desplegamos, despliega, despliegan, despliegas, desplieguen, desplegad, despliego, desdoblar. varlet: truhán. yellowness: amarillez, abundancia del color amarillo.

22

The Merry Wives of Windsor

[Exit RUGBY.] An honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever servant shall come in house withal; and, I warrant you, no tell-tale nor no breed-bate; his worst fault is that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish that way; but nobody but has his fault; but let that pass. Peter Simple you say your name is? SIMPLE. Ay, for fault of a better.% QUICKLY. And Master Slender's your master? SIMPLE. Ay, forsooth. QUICKLY. Does he not wear a great round beard, like a glover's paring-knife? SIMPLE. No, forsooth; he hath but a little whey face, with a little yellow beard--a canecoloured beard. QUICKLY. A softly-sprighted man, is he not? SIMPLE. Ay, forsooth; but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener. QUICKLY. How say you?--O! I should remember him. Does he not hold up his head, as it were, and strut in his gait? SIMPLE. Yes, indeed, does he. QUICKLY. Well, heaven send Anne Page no worse fortune! Tell Master Parson Evans I will do what I can for your master: Anne is a good girl, and I wish--

Spanish beard: barba, la barba, arista. fellow: compañero, hombre, socio, tipo, becario. forsooth: en verdad. fortune: suerte, fortuna. fought: luchado. gait: paso. girl: muchacha, chica, niña, la muchacha. hands: las manos. nobody: nadie, ninguno. nor: ni, tampoco.

peevish: malhumorado. prayer: oración, rezo, ruego, plegaria, súplica. remember: recordar, recuerde, recuerdo, recuerdan, recuerdas, recuerden, recordamos, recordad, recordáis, recuerda, acordarse de. send: enviar, envío, envía, envíe, enviad, enviáis, enviamos, envían, envías, envíen, mandar. servant: criado, criada, sirviente, servidor.

strut: puntal, pavoneo. tall: alto. tell-tale: indicador. warrant: garantía, orden, orden por escrito, certificado, autorizar, autorización. whey: suero. willing: dispuesto, deseoso. withal: además. worse: peor. worst: peor. yellow: amarillo.

William Shakespeare

23

[Re-enter RUGBY.] RUGBY. Out, alas! here comes my master.% QUICKLY. We shall all be shent. Run in here, good young man; go into this closet. [Shuts SIMPLE in the closet.] He will not stay long. What, John Rugby! John! what, John, I say! Go, John, go inquire for my master; I doubt he be not well that he comes not home. [Exit RUGBY.] [Sings.] And down, down, adown-a, etc. [Enter DOCTOR CAIUS.] CAIUS. Vat is you sing? I do not like des toys. Pray you, go and vetch me in my closet une boitine verde--a box, a green-a box: do intend vat I speak? a greena box. QUICKLY. Ay, forsooth, I'll fetch it you. [Aside] I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found the young man, he would have been horn-mad. CAIUS. Fe, fe, fe fe! ma foi, il fait fort chaud. Je m'en vais a la cour-- la grande affaire. QUICKLY. Is it this, sir? CAIUS. Oui; mettez le au mon pocket: depechez, quickly-Vere is dat knave, Rugby? QUICKLY. What, John Rugby? John!

Spanish alas: ay, es una lástima. au: unidad administrativa. box: caja, estuche, arca, casilla, boxear, la caja, jarro, recuadro, olla, palco, cajetín. closet: armario, gabinete, el armario, el clóset. doubt: dudar, duda. fetch: traer, traemos, traed, trae, traéis, traes, traigo, traigan, traen, traiga, coger. forsooth: en verdad.

fort: fuerte. glad: alegre, contento. inquire: preguntar, inquirís, inquieran, inquiere, inquieren, inquieres, inquiero, inquirid, inquirimos, inquiera, inquirir. intend: querer decir, tener el propósito. knave: bribón. la: la, Loisiana. ma: Título Universitario, Massachusetts, Mamá.

mon: lun, lunes. pocket: bolsillo, el bolsillo, bolsa, casilla. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. sing: cantar, cantan, cantas, canten, cantamos, cantáis, canta, cantad, canto, cante. toys: juguetes. vat: IVA, tina. vetch: arveja, vicia.

24

The Merry Wives of Windsor

[Re-enter RUGBY.] RUGBY. Here, sir.% CAIUS. You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby: come, take-a your rapier, and come after my heel to de court. RUGBY. 'Tis ready, sir, here in the porch. CAIUS. By my trot, I tarry too long--Od's me! Qu'ay j'oublie? Dere is some simples in my closet dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind. QUICKLY. [Aside.] Ay me, he'll find the young man there, and be mad! CAIUS. O diable, diable! vat is in my closet?--Villainy! larron! [Pulling SIMPLE out.] Rugby, my rapier! QUICKLY. Good master, be content. CAIUS. Verefore shall I be content-a? QUICKLY. The young man is an honest man. CAIUS. What shall de honest man do in my closet? dere is no honest man dat shall come in my closet. QUICKLY. I beseech you, be not so phlegmatic. Hear the truth of it: he came of an errand to me from Parson Hugh.

Spanish beseech: supliquen, rogáis, rogamos, ruega, ruegan, ruegas, ruegue, rueguen, suplica, suplicamos, rogad. closet: armario, gabinete, el armario, el clóset. content: contenido, contento, satisfecho. errand: recado, mensaje, mandado, encargo. hear: oír, oigan, oyes, oyen, oye, oís, oigo, oíd, oímos, oiga. heel: talón, tacón, calcañal, escorar,

calcañar. honest: honrado, sincero, honesto. leave: salir, sal, sale, salís, salimos, salgo, salgan, salga, sales, salen, saled. mad: loco, enojado, chiflado, majara, majareta, demente, enfadado. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister. phlegmatic: flemático. porch: porche, el porche. rapier: estoque.

ready: listo, preparado, propenso, disponible. sir: señor. tarry: quedarse atrás, alquitranado. trot: trote, trotar. truth: verdad, veras, la verdad. vat: IVA, tina.

William Shakespeare

25

CAIUS. Vell.% SIMPLE. Ay, forsooth, to desire her to-QUICKLY. Peace, I pray you. CAIUS. Peace-a your tongue!--Speak-a your tale. SIMPLE. To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to speak a good word to Mistress Anne Page for my master, in the way of marriage. QUICKLY. This is all, indeed, la! but I'll ne'er put my finger in the fire, and need not. CAIUS. Sir Hugh send-a you?--Rugby, baillez me some paper: tarry you a little-a while. [Writes.] QUICKLY. I am glad he is so quiet: if he had been throughly moved, you should have heard him so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding, man, I'll do you your master what good I can; and the very yea and the no is, the French doctor, my master--I may call him my master, look you, for I keep his house; and I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds, and do all myself-SIMPLE. 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. QUICKLY. Are you avis'd o' that? You shall find it a great charge; and to be up early and down late; but notwithstanding,--to tell you in your ear,--I would have no words of it--my master himself is in love with Mistress Anne Page; but notwithstanding that, I know Anne's mind, that's neither here nor there.

Spanish bake: hornear, cocer, hacer al horno. beds: las camas. brew: infusión. charge: carga, cargo, acusación, gastos, cargar, cobro, cobrar, imputación. doctor: médico, doctor. dress: vestido, vestir, vendar, vestirse, el vestido, ponerse, revestir. finger: dedo, el dedo, tocar, manga. fire: fuego, incendio, despedir, disparar, el fuego, tirar, animar, incitar, lumbre, hacer fuego,

encender. late: tarde, tardío, tardo. loud: alto, fuerte, ruidoso, chillón. melancholy: melancolía, melancólico. moved: emotiva, movido, emocionado, afectado. neither: tampoco, ninguno, nadie, ni. notwithstanding: sin embargo, a pesar de, no obstante. paper: papel, documento, el papel, papel pintado, ponencia, tapizar, periódico.

quiet: quieto, silencio, tranquilo, calmar, silencioso, sosegar, callado. scour: restregar. throughly: directamente, Pormente. wash: lavar, lave, lavo, lava, lavad, laváis, lavamos, lavas, laven, lavan, lavarse. wring: arrancar, retorcer, arrancáis, arrancas, arranquen, arranco, arrancan, arrancamos, arranca, arrancad, arranque.

26

The Merry Wives of Windsor

CAIUS. You jack'nape; give-a dis letter to Sir Hugh; by gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut his troat in de Park; and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make. You may be gone; it is not good you tarry here: by gar, I will cut all his two stones; by gar, he shall not have a stone to throw at his dog.% [Exit SIMPLE.] QUICKLY. Alas, he speaks but for his friend. CAIUS. It is no matter-a ver dat:--do not you tell-a me dat I shall have Anne Page for myself? By gar, I vill kill de Jack priest; and I have appointed mine host of de Jartiere to measure our weapon. By gar, I vill myself have Anne Page. QUICKLY. Sir, the maid loves you, and all shall be well. We must give folks leave to prate: what, the good-jer! CAIUS. Rugby, come to the court vit me. By gar, if I have not Anne Page, I shall turn your head out of my door. Follow my heels, Rugby. [Exeunt CAIUS and RUGBY.] QUICKLY. You shall have An fool's-head of your own. No, I know Anne's mind for that: never a woman in Windsor knows more of Anne's mind than I do; nor can do more than I do with her, I thank heaven. FENTON. [Within.] Who's within there? ho! QUICKLY. Who's there, I trow? Come near the house, I pray you. [Enter FENTON.]

Spanish appointed: nombrado, designado. cut: cortar, corte, cortado, cortadura. folks: gente. follow: seguir, seguid, sigues, siguen, sigue, sigo, sigan, seguís, seguimos, siga, venir después. heaven: cielo. heels: taco, tacón. host: anfitrión, huésped, posadero, hostia. kill: matar. knows: sabe, conoce.

loves: amor. maid: criada, sirvienta, doncella, la criada. measure: medida, medir. meddle: entrometerse. near: cerca, próximo, cerca de, cercano, entrante, casi. prate: parlotear, parlotee, charlar, charla, parloteo. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar.

priest: sacerdote, cura, preste. scurvy: escorbuto. speaks: habla. stone: piedra, la piedra, cálculo. tarry: quedarse atrás, alquitranado. teach: enseñar, enseñáis, enseñamos, enseñad, enseñan, enseñas, enseñen, enseño, Enseñe, enseña, instruir. throw: lanzar, echar, tirar, tirada, arrojar, lanzamiento. weapon: arma.

William Shakespeare

27

FENTON. How now, good woman! how dost thou? QUICKLY. The better, that it pleases your good worship to ask.% FENTON. What news? how does pretty Mistress Anne? QUICKLY. In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and honest, and gentle; and one that is your friend, I can tell you that by the way; I praise heaven for it. FENTON. Shall I do any good, thinkest thou? Shall I not lose my suit? QUICKLY. Troth, sir, all is in His hands above; but notwithstanding, Master Fenton, I'll be sworn on a book she loves you. Have not your worship a wart above your eye? FENTON. Yes, marry, have I; what of that? QUICKLY. Well, thereby hangs a tale; good faith, it is such another Nan; but, I detest, an honest maid as ever broke bread. We had an hour's talk of that wart; I shall never laugh but in that maid's company;--but, indeed, she is given too much to allicholy and musing. But for you --well, go to. FENTON. Well, I shall see her to-day. Hold, there's money for thee; let me have thy voice in my behalf: if thou seest her before me, commend me. QUICKLY. Will I? i' faith, that we will; and I will tell your worship more of the wart the next time we have confidence; and of other wooers.

Spanish behalf: nombre. bread: pan, el pan. commend: alabar, alabo, alaben, alabe, alabas, alaban, alabamos, alabáis, alaba, alabad, recomendar. confidence: confianza, confidencia. detest: detestar, detesto, detesta, detestad, detestáis, detestamos, detestan, detestas, detesten, deteste, aborrecer. eye: ojo, el ojo, ojear, mirar. hangs: continúa, cuelga.

laugh: reír, reírse, risa, carcajada. lose: perder, pierda, pierdo, perdéis, perdemos, pierdan, pierde, pierden, pierdes, perded, adelgazar. musing: meditación, meditar, meditativo, musa, reflexionar. news: noticias, noticia, nueva, las noticias. pleases: complace. praise: alabar, alabanza, elogio, elogiar. pretty: bonito, lindo, majo, amable,

guapo, bastante, guapa. suit: traje, convenir, el traje, pleito. sworn: jurado. talk: hablar, hablas, hablan, hablad, habláis, hablamos, hablo, hable, hablen, habla, charla. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. thereby: en consecuencia de esto, por lo tanto. thy: tu. to-day: hoy. wart: verruga.

28

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FENTON. Well, farewell; I am in great haste now.% QUICKLY. Farewell to your worship.--[Exit FENTON.] Truly, an honest gentleman; but Anne loves him not; for I know Anne's mind as well as another does. Out upon 't, what have I forgot? [Exit.]

Spanish farewell: adiós, despedida. gentleman: caballero, señor, gentilhombre. haste: prisa, precipitación. honest: honrado, sincero, honesto. loves: amor.

William Shakespeare

ACT

29

%II

SCENE I. BEFORE PAGE'S HOUSE [Enter MISTRESS PAGE, with a letter.] MRS. PAGE. What! have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them? Let me see. [Reads.] 'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his precisian, he admits him not for his counsellor. 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 soldier-like phrase; but I say, Love me. By me, Thine own true knight, By day or night, Or any kind of light, With all his might,

Spanish admits: confiesa, admite. beauty: belleza, la belleza. counsellor: consejero, asesor. desire: desear, deseo, tener, querer, gana, codiciar. ha: ah, decir ah, ja. knight: caballero, caballo. least: menos, mínimo, menor. light: luz, claro, ligero, encender, alumbrar, débil, liviano, la luz, radiación visible, lámpara, iluminar. merry: alegre.

phrase: frase, expresar, expresión. sympathy: simpatía. pity: dolerse por, piedad, compadecer thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. a, lástima, compasión. true: verdadero, cierto. precisian: rigorista. reason: motivo, causa, razón, lugar, razonar. sack: saco, despedir, bolso. soldier: soldado, el soldado. subject: asunto, tema, asignatura, someter, sujeto, cuestión, materia. suffice: bastar, baste, basten, bastan, basta.

30

The Merry Wives of Windsor

For thee to fight, JOHN FALSTAFF.' What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked, wicked world! One that is wellnigh 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 thrice 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.% [Enter MISTRESS FORD.] MRS. FORD. Mistress Page! trust me, I was going to your house. MRS. PAGE. And, trust me, I was coming to you. You look very ill. MRS. FORD. Nay, I'll ne'er believe that; I have to show to the contrary. MRS. PAGE. Faith, but you do, in my mind. MRS. FORD. Well, I do, then; yet, I say, I could show you to the contrary. O, Mistress Page! give me some counsel. MRS. PAGE. What's the matter, woman? MRS. FORD. O woman, if it were not for one trifling respect, I could come to such honour! MRS. PAGE. Hang the trifle, woman; take the honour. What is it?--Dispense with trifles;-what is it?

Spanish assay: ensayo, ensayar, prueba. behaviour: comportamiento, conducta. coming: viniendo, proveniente, próximo, originario, natural. contrary: contrario. conversation: conversación. dares: aventura, desafía, osa, se arriesga, se atreve. drunkard: borrachín, borracho. exhibit: exhibir, exponer, documento, prueba.

forgive: perdonar, perdona, perdonad, perdono, perdonen, perdonas, perdonan, perdonamos, perdonáis, perdone. frugal: mísero, frugal. gallant: galante, galán, valeroso. honour: honor, homenaje. mrs: Sra., señorita. ne'er: nunca. parliament: parlamento. pieces: material de artillería. putting: poniendo, metiendo,

colocando. respect: respetar, respeto, estima, estimación. sure: seguro, cierto. thrice: tres veces. trifle: bagatela, friolera, nadería. trifling: fútil. trust: confiar, fideicomiso, confianza, fiduciario. well-nigh: casi. wicked: malo, malvado. worn: gastado, usado.

William Shakespeare

31

MRS. FORD. If I would but go to hell for an eternal moment or so, I could be knighted.% MRS. PAGE. What? thou liest. Sir Alice Ford! These knights will hack; and so thou shouldst not alter the article of thy gentry. MRS. 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 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 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? MRS. 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, sure, more, and these are of the second edition. He will print them, out of doubt; for he cares not what he puts into the press, when he would put us two: I had rather be a giantess and lie under Mount Pelion. Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. MRS. FORD. Why, this is the very same; the very hand, the very words. What doth he think of us? MRS. PAGE. Nay, I know not; it makes me almost ready to wrangle with mine own honesty. I'll entertain myself like one that I am not acquainted withal; for,

Spanish acquainted: informado, enterado. adhere: adherir, adherid, adherimos, adherís, adhieran, adhiere, adhieren, adhieres, adhiero, adhiera, adherirse. ashore: en tierra. chaste: casto. differs: difiere. disposition: disposición, talento, capacidad. ere: antes de. gentry: señorío. giantess: giganta.

grease: grasa, engrasar, la grasa. hack: cortar, cortas, cortan, cortamos, cortáis, cortad, corta, corto, corten, corte, tajar. inherit: heredar, heredad, herede, heredamos, hereden, heredo, heredáis, hereda, heredan, heredas. lascivious: lascivo. liking: afición, gusto. lust: lujuria. melted: derretido, fundido. men's: varonil.

modesty: modestia, pudor. orderly: ordenanza, ordenado. praised: alabado. reproof: reparo, censura, reprobación. swear: jurar, jura, jurad, juráis, juramos, juran, juras, juren, juro, jure, maldecir. tempest: tormenta, tempestad. thine: tuyo, tuyos, tuyas, tuya, tus. well-behaved: de buenos ademanes. whale: ballena, la ballena. wrangle: disputa, disputar, reñir.

32

The Merry Wives of Windsor

sure, unless he know some strain in me that I know not myself, he would never have boarded me in this fury.% MRS. FORD. 'Boarding' call you it? I'll be sure to keep him above deck. 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. MRS. FORD. Nay, I will consent to act any villainy against him that may not sully the chariness of our honesty. O, that my husband saw this letter! It would give eternal food to his jealousy. MRS. PAGE. Why, look where he comes; and my good man too: he's as far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause; and that, I hope, is an unmeasurable distance. MRS. FORD. You are the happier woman. MRS. PAGE. Let's consult together against this greasy knight. Come hither. [They retire.] [Enter FORD, PISTOL, and PAGE and NYM.] FORD. Well, I hope it be not so. PISTOL. Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs: Sir John affects thy wife. FORD. Why, sir, my wife is not young.

Spanish affects: afecta, conmueve. appoint: nombrar, nombro, nombrad, nombráis, nombramos, nombran, nombras, nombren, nombra, nombre, designar. boarded: Abordar. chariness: atención. comfort: comodidad, consolar, anchas, consuelo, confort. consent: aprobación, acordar, declaración, declarar, consentimiento, autorización.

consult: consultar, consultas, consultan, consultamos, consultáis, consultad, consulto, consulten, consulta, consulte. deck: cubierta. delay: retraso, retardo, demora, retrasar, demorar, retardar. distance: distancia, alejamiento. eternal: eterno. giving: dando. greasy: grasiento, gordo, grueso, untuoso.

hither: acá. horses: los caballos. husband: marido, esposo, el esposo. jealousy: celos. pawned: empeñado. sea: mar, el mar. strain: colar, esfuerzo, deformación, cepa, tensión, torcedura. sully: tachar a, manchar, mancharse, mancillar, mancille. unless: a menos que, a no ser que. villainy: villanía.

William Shakespeare

33

PISTOL. He woos both high and low, both rich and poor, Both young and old, one with another, Ford; He loves the gallimaufry. Ford, perpend.% FORD. Love my wife! PISTOL. With liver burning hot: prevent, or go thou, Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels.-O! odious is the name! FORD. What name, sir? PISTOL. The horn, I say. Farewell: Take heed; have open eye, for thieves do foot by night; Take heed, ere summer comes, or cuckoo birds do sing. Away, Sir Corporal Nym. Believe it, Page; he speaks sense. [Exit PISTOL.] FORD. [Aside] I will be patient: I will find out this. NYM. [To PAGE] And this is true; I like not the humour of lying. He hath wronged me in some humours: I should have borne the humoured letter to her; but I have a sword, and it shall bite upon my necessity. He loves your wife; there's the short and the long. My name is Corporal Nym; I speak, and I avouch 'tis true. My name is Nym, and Falstaff loves your wife. Adieu. I love not the humour of bread and cheese; and there's the humour of it. Adieu.

Spanish adieu: adiós. avouch: declarar, reconocer, afirmar, garantir, garantizar. birds: aves. bite: morder, mordisco, mordedura, bocado, picar, mordida, picadura, picada. borne: Soportado, pp de bear, pagado. burning: quemadura, ardiente. cuckoo: cuco, cuclillo, cucú. ere: antes de. ford: vado.

gallimaufry: baturrillo. heed: atención. horn: cuerno, bocina, claxon, trompa. humour: humor. liver: hígado. loves: amor. low: bajo, depresión. lying: mentiroso. necessity: necesidad. odious: odioso. patient: paciente. prevent: impedir, impedid, impido,

impides, impiden, impide, impidan, impida, impedimos, impedís, prevenir. short: corto, bajo, breve. speaks: habla. summer: verano, el verano, estival. sword: espada. thieves: ladrones, roba. thy: tu. wife: esposa, mujer, la esposa. woos: corteja. wronged: explotado.

34

The Merry Wives of Windsor

[Exit NYM.] PAGE. [Aside.] 'The humour of it,' quoth 'a! Here's a fellow frights English out of his wits.% FORD. I will seek out Falstaff. PAGE. I never heard such a drawling, affecting rogue. FORD. If I do find it: well. PAGE. I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest o' the town commended him for a true man. FORD. 'Twas a good sensible fellow: well. PAGE. How now, Meg! MRS. PAGE. Whither go you, George?--Hark you. MRS. FORD. How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy? FORD. I melancholy! I am not melancholy. Get you home, go. MRS. FORD. Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. Will you go, Mistress Page?

Spanish affecting: afectando, conmovedor, conmoviendo. art: arte, el arte. commended: alabado. fellow: compañero, hombre, socio, tipo, becario. hast: haya. heard: oído. humour: humor. melancholy: melancolía, melancólico. mrs: Sra., señorita. o: oxígeno.

priest: sacerdote, cura, preste. true: verdadero, cierto. quoth: dicho de una cosa. rogue: pícaro. seek: buscar, busque, busca, buscan, buscamos, busquen, buscas, buscáis, buscad, busco. sensible: sensato, razonable. sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. thy: tu. town: ciudad, pueblo, población, el pueblo.

William Shakespeare

35

MRS. PAGE. Have with you. You'll come to dinner, George? [Aside to MRS. FORD] Look who comes yonder: she shall be our messenger to this paltry knight.% MRS. FORD. [Aside to MRS. PAGE] Trust me, I thought on her: she'll fit it. [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY.] MRS. PAGE. You are come to see my daughter Anne? QUICKLY. Ay, forsooth; and, I pray, how does good Mistress Anne? MRS. PAGE. Go in with us and see; we'd have an hour's talk with you. [Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and MISTRESS QUICKLY.] PAGE. How now, Master Ford! FORD. You heard what this knave told me, did you not? PAGE. Yes; and you heard what the other told me? FORD. Do you think there is truth in them? PAGE. Hang 'em, slaves! I do not think the knight would offer it; but these that accuse him in his intent towards our wives are a yoke of his discarded men; very rogues, now they be out of service. FORD. Were they his men?

Spanish accuse: acusar, acusamos, acuso, acusen, acusan, acusáis, acusad, acusa, acusas, acuse, denunciar. aside: aparte, al lado. daughter: hija, la hija, Nina. dinner: cena, comida, banquete. discarded: desechar, eliminar, roto, desecho, suprimir, tirado, dejado de llevar a cabo, realizado descartado, descartado de, descartado, renunciado a. fit: adaptar, acomodar, ajustar,

apoplejía, ajuste, caber, ataque, en forma, encajar. ford: vado. forsooth: en verdad. intent: intento, intención, propósito. knave: bribón. knight: caballero, caballo. messenger: mensajero, embajador, ordenanza. offer: oferta, ofrecer, ofrecimiento, proposición, presentar, proponer, pretensión, retratar, reproducir.

page: página, paje, botones. paltry: vil, mezquino, ínfimo, despreciable, ruin, miserable. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. rogues: pícaros. truth: verdad, veras, la verdad. we'd: hacemos. yoke: yugo, yunta, uncir, culata, sojuzgar, horquilla. yonder: allí, ahí, aquel.

36

The Merry Wives of Windsor

PAGE. Marry, were they.% FORD. I like it never the better for that. Does he lie at the Garter? PAGE. Ay, marry, does he. If he should intend this voyage toward my wife, I would turn her loose to him; and what he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head. FORD. I do not misdoubt my wife; but I would be loath to turn them together. A man may be too confident. I would have nothing 'lie on my head': I cannot be thus satisfied. PAGE. Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes. There is either liquor in his pate or money in his purse when he looks so merrily. [Enter HOST and SHALLOW.] How now, mine host! HOST. How now, bully-rook! Thou'rt a gentleman. Cavaliero-justice, I say! SHALLOW. I follow, mine host, I follow. Good even and twenty, good Master Page! Master Page, will you go with us? We have sport in hand. HOST. Tell him, cavaliero-justice; tell him, bully-rook. SHALLOW. Sir, there is a fray to be fought between Sir Hugh the Welsh priest and Caius the French doctor. FORD. Good mine host o' the Garter, a word with you.

Spanish cannot: presente de no poder. confident: seguro. fought: luchado. fray: riña. gets: obtiene. host: anfitrión, huésped, posadero, hostia. intend: querer decir, tener el propósito. lie: mentir, mentira, yacer, estar tendido, embuste, echarse. liquor: alcohol, licor, el licor.

loath: renuente. looks: mira. loose: suelto, flojo. marry: casarse, casar, cásese, se casan, se casa, nos casamos, me caso, te casas, cásense, cásate, cásados. merrily: alegremente. misdoubt: dudas grandes. pate: cabeza. priest: sacerdote, cura, preste. purse: portamonedas, monedero, colecta, bolsa, bolso, la bolsa, cartera.

ranting: despotricar, estrepitoso. satisfied: satisfecho, contento, complacido. sharp: agudo, afilado, sostenido, justamente, acre, cortante, áspero. sport: deporte. toward: hacia, a. turn: girar, gira, giro, giráis, giramos, giran, giras, gire, giren, girad, vuelta. voyage: viaje. word: palabra, la palabra, vocablo, término, formular.

William Shakespeare

37

HOST. What say'st thou, my bully-rook? [They go aside.] SHALLOW. [To PAGE.] Will you go with us to behold it? My merry host hath had the measuring of their weapons; and, I think, hath appointed them contrary places; for, believe me, I hear the parson is no jester. Hark, I will tell you what our sport shall be. [They converse apart.] HOST. Hast thou no suit against my knight, my guest-cavaliero? FORD. None, I protest: but I'll give you a pottle of burnt sack to give me recourse to him, and tell him my name is Brook, only for a jest.% HOST. My hand, bully; thou shalt have egress and regress; said I well? and thy name shall be Brook. It is a merry knight. Will you go, mynheers? SHALLOW. Have with you, mine host. PAGE. I have heard the Frenchman hath good skill in his rapier. SHALLOW. Tut, sir! I could have told you more. In these times you stand on distance, your passes, stoccadoes, and I know not what: 'tis the heart, Master Page; 'tis here, 'tis here. I have seen the time with my long sword I would have made you four tall fellows skip like rats. HOST. Here, boys, here, here! Shall we wag?

Spanish behold: tenga. boys: los muchachos. bully: matón. burnt: quemado. contrary: contrario. converse: conversar, opuesto. egress: salida. hark: escuchar con atención, prestar oído a, escuche, escuchar, escucha, oye. host: anfitrión, huésped, posadero, hostia.

jester: bromista. knight: caballero, caballo. measuring: medida, medición. merry: alegre. parson: sacerdote, cura, párroco. protest: protestar, protesta. rapier: estoque. rats: rata. recourse: recurso. regress: retroceso. sack: saco, despedir, bolso. shalt: irá, verbo auxiliar inglés para

especificar futuro. skill: destreza, habilidad, arte, agilidad. skip: saltarse, omitir, brincar, brinco, salto. sport: deporte. sword: espada. tall: alto. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. thy: tu. wag: menear, meneo, mover. weapons: armas.

38

The Merry Wives of Windsor

PAGE. Have with you. I had rather hear them scold than fight.% [Exeunt HOST, SHALLOW, and PAGE.] FORD. Though Page be a secure fool, and stands so firmly on his wife's frailty, yet I cannot put off my opinion so easily. She was in his company at Page's house, and what they made there I know not. Well, I will look further into 't; and I have a disguise to sound Falstaff. If I find her honest, I lose not my labour; if she be otherwise, 'tis labour well bestowed. [Exit.] SCENE 2. A ROOM IN THE GARTER INN. [Enter FALSTAFF and PISTOL.] FALSTAFF. I will not lend thee a penny. PISTOL. Why then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. I will retort the sum in equipage. FALSTAFF. Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my countenance to pawn; I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow, Nym; or else you had looked through the grate, like a geminy of baboons. I am damned in hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends you were good soldiers and tall fellows; and when Mistress Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took 't upon mine honour thou hadst it not. PISTOL. Didst not thou share? Hadst thou not fifteen pence?

Spanish countenance: semblante. damned: condenado, maldito. disguise: disfraz, disfrazar. easily: fácilmente. equipage: equipaje, equipo. fan: ventilador, abanico, animar, entusiasta, incitar, el ventilador, hincha, aficionado, admirador. fifteen: quince. firmly: firmemente. fool: engañar, necio, tonto. frailty: debilidad, flaqueza, cosa débil,

fragilidad. grate: parrilla, reja, rallar. grated: rallado. handle: asa, mango, manija, tratar, manejar, tacto, manivela, empuñadura, asidero, manubrio, palanca. hell: infierno. opinion: opinión, dictamen, juicio, parecer. otherwise: de otra manera, de lo contrario.

pawn: empeñar, peón, prenda, pignorar. reprieves: indultos. retort: replicar, retorta. scold: exhortar, requerir, reprender, censurar, reprobar, reñir, desaprobar. secure: seguro, fijar, fija, fijen, fije, fijas, fijan, fijamos, fijo, fijad, fijáis. soldiers: largueros, soldados. stands: tenderetes, jaulas. sum: suma, importe, cantidad. swearing: jurando.

William Shakespeare

39

FALSTAFF. Reason, you rogue, reason. Thinkest thou I'll endanger my soul gratis? At a word, hang no more about me, I am no gibbet for you: go: a short knife and a throng!--to your manor of Picht-hatch! go. You'll not bear a letter for me, you rogue!--you stand upon your honour!--Why, thou unconfinable baseness, it is as much as I can do to keep the terms of my honour precise. I, I, I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand, and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch; and yet you, rogue, will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain looks, your redlattice phrases, and your bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your honour! You will not do it, you! PISTOL. I do relent; what wouldst thou more of man? [Enter ROBIN.] ROBIN. Sir, here's a woman would speak with you.% FALSTAFF. Let her approach. [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY.] QUICKLY. Give your worship good morrow. FALSTAFF. Good morrow, good wife. QUICKLY. Not so, an't please your worship. FALSTAFF. Good maid, then. QUICKLY. I'll be sworn; As my mother was, the first hour I was born.

Spanish baseness: bajeza. endanger: poner en peligro. ensconce: acomodarse, instalarse en, esconder, acomódese, hallarse. fain: dispuesto. gibbet: horca. gratis: Sin cargo, franco, gratuito, Sin costo, Libre. hang: colgar. hedge: seto vivo, seto, cobertura. hiding: ocultando, escondiendo, ocultamiento.

hour: hora, la hora. knife: cuchillo, el cuchillo, cuchilla, la navaja, acuchillar. leaving: saliendo, dejando. lurch: sacudida, bandazo. manor: feudo, casa solariega, finca. morrow: día siguiente. oaths: juramentos. phrases: batería libre de mantenimiento -- menor tiempo de respuesta de servicio. please: por favor, agradar, gustar,

complacer, haz el favor, contentar, haz favor. precise: preciso. rags: los trapos. relent: ceda, aplacar, apiadarse, ceder, aflojar, ablandarse, ablandar, enternecerse, cedemos, aplacáis, aplacamos. rogue: pícaro. shuffle: barajar, barajada. soul: alma, espíritu, ánimo. terms: condiciones, condición.

40

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FALSTAFF. I do believe the swearer. What with me? QUICKLY. Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two? FALSTAFF. Two thousand, fair woman; and I'll vouchsafe thee the hearing.% QUICKLY. There is one Mistress Ford, sir,--I pray, come a little nearer this ways:--I myself dwell with Master Doctor Caius. FALSTAFF. Well, on: Mistress Ford, you say,-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! FALSTAFF. Well: Mistress Ford, what of her? QUICKLY. Why, sir, she's a good creature. Lord, Lord! your worship's a wanton! Well, heaven forgive you, and all of us, I pray. FALSTAFF. Mistress Ford; come, Mistress Ford-QUICKLY. Marry, this is the short and the long of it. You have brought her into such a canaries as 'tis wonderful: the best courtier of them all, when the court lay at Windsor, could never have brought her to such a canary; yet there has been

Spanish bless: bendecir, bendecimos, bendigo, bendigan, bendices, bendicen, bendecís, bendecid, bendice, bendiga. brought: Traído. canary: canario. courtier: cortesano, palaciego. creature: criatura. dwell: morar, morad, moren, moras, moráis, moran, moramos, mora, more, moro, habitar. forgive: perdonar, perdona, perdonad, perdono, perdonen, perdonas,

perdonan, perdonamos, perdonáis, perdone. god: Dios. heaven: cielo. lay: poner, colocar, coloque, colocamos, pongan, ponga, pones, ponen, ponemos, ponéis, poned. lord: señor, caballero. nobody: nadie, ninguno. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar.

servants: servicio. swearer: maldiciente. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. thousand: mil. vouchsafe: conceda, conceder, condescender a dar algo. warrant: garantía, orden, orden por escrito, certificado, autorizar, autorización. wonderful: maravilloso. worship: adorar, adoración, culto, veneración.

William Shakespeare

41

knights, and lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches; I warrant you, coach after coach, letter after letter, gift after gift; smelling so sweetly,--all musk, and so rushling, I warrant you, in silk and gold; and in such alligant terms; and in such wine and sugar of the best and the fairest, that would have won any woman's heart; and I warrant you, they could never get an eye-wink of her. I had myself twenty angels given me this morning; but I defy all angels, in any such sort, as they say, but in the way of honesty: and, I warrant you, they could never get her so much as sip on a cup with the proudest of them all; and yet there has been earls, nay, which is more, pensioners; but, I warrant you, all is one with her.% FALSTAFF. But what says she to me? be brief, my good she-Mercury. QUICKLY. Marry, she hath received your letter; for the which she thanks you a thousand times; and she gives you to notify that her husband will be absence from his house between ten and eleven. FALSTAFF. Ten and eleven? QUICKLY. Ay, forsooth; and then you may come and see the picture, she says, that you wot of: Master Ford, her husband, will be from home. Alas! the sweet woman leads an ill life with him; he's a very jealousy man; she leads a very frampold life with him, good heart. FALSTAFF. Ten and eleven. Woman, commend me to her; I will not fail her. QUICKLY. Why, you say well. But I have another messenger to your worship: Mistress Page hath her hearty commendations to you too; and let me tell you in your ear, she's as fartuous a civil modest wife, and one, I tell you, that will not miss you morning nor evening prayer, as any is in Windsor, whoe'er be the

Spanish brief: breve, corto, informe, conciso. coach: coche, autocar, entrenar, carroza. cup: taza, la taza, copa. defy: desafiar, desafiáis, desafío, desafíen, desafías, desafiamos, desafiad, desafía, desafían, desafíe. eleven: once. fail: fallar, fracasar, faltar. gift: regalo, donación, el regalo, don, talento. gives: da.

hearty: cordial. knights: caballeros. leads: guía, conduce, conductores, dirige. modest: modesto. musk: almizcle. nay: más aún, más bien, voto negativo, voto en contra, no, negativa, mejor dicho. notify: notificar, notificas, notifican, notifiquen, notifica, notificáis, notifico, notificad, notificamos,

notifique, anunciar. pensioners: jubilados, clases pasivas. picture: imagen, cuadro, grabado, pintura, retrato, el cuadro, reproducción, ilustración, foto. received: recibido. silk: seda, la seda. sip: sorber, sorbo. smelling: oler. sugar: azúcar, azucarar. thanks: gracias, agradece. won: Ganado.

42

The Merry Wives of Windsor

other; and she bade me tell your worship that her husband is seldom from home, but she hopes there will come a time. I never knew a woman so dote upon a man: surely I think you have charms, la! yes, in truth.% FALSTAFF. Not I, I assure thee; setting the attraction of my good parts aside, I have no other charms. QUICKLY. Blessing on your heart for 't! FALSTAFF. But, I pray thee, tell me this: has Ford's wife and Page's wife acquainted each other how they love me? QUICKLY. That were a jest indeed! They have not so little grace, I hope: that were a trick indeed! But Mistress Page would desire you to send her your little page, of all loves: her husband has a marvellous infection to the little page; and, truly, Master Page is an honest man. Never a wife in Windsor leads a better life than she does; do what she will, say what she will, take all, pay all, go to bed when she list, rise when she list, all is as she will; and truly she deserves it; for if there be a kind woman in Windsor, she is one. You must send her your page; no remedy. FALSTAFF. Why, I will. QUICKLY. Nay, but do so then; and, look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand any thing; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness: old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world. FALSTAFF. Fare thee well; commend me to them both. There's my purse; I am yet thy

Spanish acquainted: informado, enterado. assure: asegurar, asegura, aseguren, aseguras, aseguran, aseguramos, aseguráis, asegurad, aseguro, asegure, garantizar. attraction: atracción. bade: pret de bid, Mandó. bed: cama, lecho, cauce, la cama, bancada, cuadro, madre. charms: amuletos. commend: alabar, alabo, alaben, alabe, alabas, alaban, alabamos, alabáis,

alaba, alabad, recomendar. deserves: merece. dote: chochear, chochean, chochee, chocheen, chocheas, chocheáis, chochea, chochead, chocheo, chocheamos. grace: gracia, garbo, honrar. hope: esperanza, esperar, espera, espere, esperen, esperas, esperan, esperamos, esperáis, esperad, espero. hopes: espera. infection: infección.

jest: bromear, broma. list: lista, listar, la lista, listado, minuta. marvellous: maravilloso. parts: talento, regiones, piezas, partes. rise: subir, levantarse, aumento, levantamiento, alza, subida. seldom: raramente. setting: puesta, ajuste, escena, configuración, cuajado, escenario. surely: seguramente, ciertamente. wickedness: maldad.

William Shakespeare

43

debtor. Boy, go along with this woman.-[Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY and ROBIN.] This news distracts me.% PISTOL. This punk is one of Cupid's carriers; Clap on more sails; pursue; up with your fights; Give fire; she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all! [Exit.] FALSTAFF. Say'st thou so, old Jack? go thy ways; I'll make more of thy old body than I have done. Will they yet look after thee? Wilt thou, after the expense of so much money, be now a gainer? Good body, I thank thee. Let them say 'tis grossly done; so it be fairly done, no matter. [Enter BARDOLPH, with a cup of sack.] BARDOLPH. Sir John, there's one Master Brook below would fain speak with you and be acquainted with you: and hath sent your worship a morning's draught of sack. FALSTAFF. Brook is his name? BARDOLPH. Ay, sir. FALSTAFF. Call him in. [Exit BARDOLPH.] Such Brooks are welcome to me, that o'erflow such liquor. Ah, ha! Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, have I encompassed you? Go to; via! [Re-enter BARDOLPH, with FORD disguised.] FORD. Bless you, sir!

Spanish acquainted: informado, enterado. debtor: deudor. distracts: distrae. draught: calado, trago. encompassed: rodeado. expense: gasto, gastos, expensas. fain: dispuesto. fairly: bastante, con justicia. gainer: ganador. grossly: groseramente. ha: ah, decir ah, ja. liquor: alcohol, licor, el licor.

mistress: señora. ocean: océano. prize: premio, el premio. punk: yesca. pursue: perseguir, perseguid, persiguen, persigue, persigo, persigan, persiga, perseguís, perseguimos, persigues. sack: saco, despedir, bolso. sails: paño. sent: enviado, mandado, despachado. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú.

thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. thy: tu. via: vía. welcome: dar la bienvenida, bienvenida, bienvenido, acoger, grato, agradable, acogida, acogen, acojan, acojo, acoges. whelm: sumerja. wilt: marchitarse, marchitar. worship: adorar, adoración, culto, veneración.

44

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FALSTAFF. And you, sir; would you speak with me? FORD. I make bold to press with so little preparation upon you.% FALSTAFF. You're welcome. What's your will?--Give us leave, drawer. [Exit BARDOLPH.] FORD. Sir, I am a gentleman that have spent much: my name is Brook. FALSTAFF. Good Master Brook, I desire more acquaintance of you. FORD. Good Sir John, I sue for yours: not to charge you; for I must let you understand I think myself in better plight for a lender than you are: the which hath something embold'ned me to this unseasoned intrusion; for they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open. FALSTAFF. Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on. FORD. Troth, and I have a bag of money here troubles me; if you will help to bear it, Sir John, take all, or half, for easing me of the carriage. FALSTAFF. Sir, I know not how I may deserve to be your porter. FORD. I will tell you, sir, if you will give me the hearing. FALSTAFF. Speak, good Master Brook; I shall be glad to be your servant. FORD. Sir, I hear you are a scholar,--I will be brief with you, and you have been a

Spanish acquaintance: conocido, conocimiento, notoriedad. bag: bolso, bolsa, saco. bold: grueso, negrita, audaz. carriage: coche, carro, cureña. deserve: merecer, merecemos, merezcan, merezco, merecen, mereced, merece, mereces, merecéis, merezca. drawer: cajón, librador, la gaveta, gaveta. easing: relajación, aliviar,

aligeramiento. glad: alegre, contento. hearing: oyendo, oído, audiencia, vista, audición. intrusion: intrusión. lender: prestamista, prestador. lie: mentir, mentira, yacer, estar tendido, embuste, echarse. plight: situación. porter: portero, mozo, conserje. preparation: preparación, preparado, preparativo.

press: prensa, apretar, presionar, prensar, pulsar, oprimir. servant: criado, criada, sirviente, servidor. soldier: soldado, el soldado. spent: gastado, pasado. sue: poner pleito a, demandar, demandad, demandas, demanden, demando, demandáis, demandamos, demandan, demanda, demande. troubles: nubes. yours: vuestro, suyo, el tuyo.

William Shakespeare

45

man long known to me, though I had never so good means, as desire, to make myself acquainted with you. I shall discover a thing to you, wherein I must very much lay open mine own imperfection; but, good Sir John, as you have one eye upon my follies, as you hear them unfolded, turn another into the register of your own, that I may pass with a reproof the easier, sith you yourself know how easy is it to be such an offender.% FALSTAFF. Very well, sir; proceed. FORD. There is a gentlewoman in this town, her husband's name is Ford. FALSTAFF. Well, sir. FORD. I have long loved her, and, I protest to you, bestowed much on her; followed her with a doting observance; engrossed opportunities to meet her; fee'd every slight occasion that could but niggardly give me sight of her; not only bought many presents to give her, but have given largely to many to know what she would have given; briefly, I have pursued her as love hath pursued me; which hath been on the wing of all occasions. But whatsoever I have merited, either in my mind or in my means, meed, I am sure, I have received none, unless experience be a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite rate, and that hath taught me to say this, Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. FALSTAFF. Have you received no promise of satisfaction at her hands? FORD. Never. FALSTAFF. Have you importuned her to such a purpose?

Spanish bestowed: conferido, otorgado, concedido. doting: chocheando. engrossed: acaparado, copiado, absorbido, absorto. flies: vuela. flying: volando, volante. imperfection: imperfección. importuned: importunado. infinite: infinito. jewel: joya, la joya. meed: gratificación, prima.

merited: merecido. niggardly: mezquino, ávido, cicatero, ávidamente, tacaño, avariento. observance: cumplimiento, acatamiento, observancia. presents: presenta, la presente. proceed: proceder, actuar. purchased: comprado, adquirido. pursued: perseguido. pursues: persigue. register: registro, registrar, certificar, inscribir, recomendar, ensalzar, hacer

inscribir, registrarse, registrador, encarecer, matricular. satisfaction: satisfacción. shadow: sombra, sombreado. slight: leve, desaire. taught: enseñado, instruido, desacostumbrado. unfolded: desplegado. whatsoever: lo que, en absoluto, todo lo que, cualquier cosa, cualquier. wherein: en qué. wing: ala, el ala, guardabarros, la ala.

46

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FORD. Never.% FALSTAFF. Of what quality was your love, then? FORD. Like a fair house built on another man's ground; so that I have lost my edifice by mistaking the place where I erected it. FALSTAFF. To what purpose have you unfolded this to me? FORD. When I have told you that, I have told you all. Some say that though she appear honest to me, yet in other places she enlargeth her mirth so far that there is shrewd construction made of her. Now, Sir John, here is the heart of my purpose: you are a gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great admittance, authentic in your place and person, generally allowed for your many war-like, court-like, and learned preparations. FALSTAFF. O, sir! FORD. Believe it, for you know it. There is money; spend it, spend it; spend more; spend all I have; only give me so much of your time in exchange of it as to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife: use your art of wooing, win her to consent to you; if any man may, you may as soon as any. FALSTAFF. Would it apply well to the vehemency of your affection, that I should win what you would enjoy? Methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously. FORD. O, understand my drift. She dwells so securely on the excellency of her honour that the folly of my soul dares not present itself; she is too bright to

Spanish admirable: admirable, estupendo. admittance: entrada, admisión, admitancia. amiable: amistoso, amable. authentic: auténtico. breeding: cría, crianza, reproducción. bright: claro, luminoso, brillante, magnífico. construction: construcción. discourse: discurso. drift: deriva, derivar del rumbo, corriente.

edifice: edificio. enjoy: disfrutar, disfrutas, disfrutan, disfrutamos, disfrutáis, disfrutad, disfruta, disfruto, disfruten, disfrute, gozar. erected: erigido. excellency: excelencia. excellent: excelente. folly: tontería. learned: aprendido, estudiado, docto, erudito, sabio. mirth: alegría.

mistaking: errar. preparations: preparativos. preposterously: absurdamente, prepósteramente. prescribe: prescribir, prescribo, prescribís, prescribimos, prescriben, prescribid, prescribe, prescriban, prescribes, prescriba, recetar. securely: firmemente, seguramente. shrewd: sutil, sagaz. siege: sitio, asedio. wooing: cortejando.

William Shakespeare

47

be looked against. Now, could I come to her with any detection in my hand, my desires had instance and argument to commend themselves; I could drive her then from the ward of her purity, her reputation, her marriagevow, and a thousand other her defences, which now are too too strongly embattled against me. What say you to't, Sir John? FALSTAFF. Master Brook, I will first make bold with your money; next, give me your hand; and last, as I am a gentleman, you shall, if you will, enjoy Ford's wife.% FORD. O good sir! FALSTAFF. I say you shall. FORD. Want no money, Sir John; you shall want none. FALSTAFF. Want no Mistress Ford, Master Brook; you shall want none. I shall be with her, I may tell you, by her own appointment; even as you came in to me her assistant or go-between parted from me: I say I shall be with her between ten and eleven; for at that time the jealous rascally knave, her husband, will be forth. Come you to me at night; you shall know how I speed. FORD. I am blest in your acquaintance. Do you know Ford, sir? FALSTAFF. Hang him, poor cuckoldly knave! I know him not; yet I wrong him to call him poor; they say the jealous wittolly knave hath masses of money; for the which his wife seems to me well-favoured. I will use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogue's coffer; and there's my harvest-home. FORD. I would you knew Ford, sir, that you might avoid him if you saw him.

Spanish appointment: cita, nombramiento, designación, la cita. argument: argumento, discusión, el argumento. assistant: asistente, ayudante, auxiliar. avoid: evitar, evito, evitan, evitamos, evitáis, evitad, eviten, evita, evitas, evite, eludir. blest: beato, pret y pp de bless, maldito, feliz, dotado, bienaventurado, bendito, santo. coffer: panel empotrado.

cuckoldly: Cornudo. detection: detección, descubrimiento. drive: conducir, conducen, conduzcan, conduzco, conducís, conducimos, conduzca, conduces, conduce, conducid, propulsión. embattled: almenado, en orden de batalla, luchado. forth: adelante. go-between: intermediario. instance: instancia, ejemplo, ejemplar. jealous: celoso.

key: llave, tecla, clave, la llave, teclear, chaveta. masses: masas, vulgo. none: ninguno, nadie, nada. parted: despedido. purity: pureza, limpieza, virtud. rascally: pícaro. reputation: reputación. speed: velocidad, prisa, rapidez, la velocidad, prontitud. strongly: fuertemente. ward: pupilo.

48

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FALSTAFF. Hang %him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will stare him out of his wits; I will awe him with my cudgel; it shall hang like a meteor o'er the cuckold's horns. Master Brook, thou shalt know I will predominate over the peasant, and thou shalt lie with his wife. Come to me soon at night. Ford's a knave, and I will aggravate his style; thou, Master Brook, shalt know him for knave and cuckold. Come to me soon at night. [Exit.] FORD. What a damned Epicurean rascal is this! 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 villanous wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that does me this wrong. Terms! names! Amaimon sounds well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are devils' additions, the names of fiends. But Cuckold! Wittol!--Cuckold! the devil himself hath not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass; he will trust his wife; he will not be jealous; I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself; then she plots, then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they think in their hearts they may effect, they will break their hearts but they will effect. God be praised for my jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour. I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will about it; better three hours too soon than a minute too late. Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold! [Exit.]

SCENE 3. A FIELD NEAR WINDSOR.

Spanish abominable: abominable, horrible, horroroso. abused: maltratado. additions: Agregaciones. adoption: adopción. aggravate: agravar, agravo, agravad, agraváis, agravamos, agravan, agravas, agraven, agrava, agrave. ambling: Andar, amblar. aqua-vitae: aguardiente. awe: pavor, admiración, atemorizar, imponer en algo, sobrecogimiento,

temor, intimidar, impresionar. cuckold: cornudo. cudgel: garrote corto. devil: diablo, el diablo. devises: idea. fiends: demonios. gelding: capón. gnawn: roído. horns: herramienta, cornamenta, cuernos, cuerna. impatience: impaciencia. improvident: improvisor, impróvido.

meteor: meteoro, meteorito. predominate: predominar, predominan, predomino, predominen, predominas, predomináis, predominad, predomina, predominamos, predomine. ransacked: saqueado. rascal: bribón. ruminates: rumia. stare: mirar fijamente, mirada fija. thief: ladrón.

William Shakespeare

49

[Enter CAIUS and RUGBY.] CAIUS. Jack Rugby! RUGBY. Sir? CAIUS. Vat is de clock, Jack? RUGBY. 'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet.% CAIUS. By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he has pray his Pible vell dat he is no come: by gar, Jack Rugby, he is dead already, if he be come. RUGBY. He is wise, sir; he knew your worship would kill him if he came. CAIUS. By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him. Take your rapier, Jack; I vill tell you how I vill kill him. RUGBY. Alas, sir, I cannot fence! CAIUS. Villany, take your rapier. RUGBY. Forbear; here's company. [Enter HOST, SHALLOW, SLENDER, and PAGE.] HOST. Bless thee, bully doctor! SHALLOW. Save you, Master Doctor Caius!

Spanish bully: matón. cannot: presente de no poder. clock: reloj, el reloj, ceas. dead: muerto. doctor: médico, doctor. fence: reja, valla, cerca, vallado, obstrucción, la cerca, cercado. herring: arenque. hour: hora, la hora. kill: matar. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo,

rogar. promised: prometido. rapier: estoque. save: guardar, guarda, guardan, guardáis, guardamos, guardas, guarde, guardo, guardad, guarden, salvar. sir: señor. soul: alma, espíritu, ánimo. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. vell: abomaso, cuajar, cuajar de ternera.

wise: sabio, sensato, guisa. worship: adorar, adoración, culto, veneración.

50

The Merry Wives of Windsor

PAGE. Now, good Master Doctor! SLENDER. Give you good morrow, sir.% CAIUS. Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for? HOST. To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse; to see thee here, to see thee there; to see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my Ethiopian? Is he dead, my Francisco? Ha, bully! What says my Aesculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder? Ha! is he dead, bully stale? Is he dead? CAIUS. By gar, he is de coward Jack priest of de world; he is not show his face. HOST. Thou art a Castalion King Urinal! Hector of Greece, my boy! CAIUS. I pray you, bear witness that me have stay six or seven, two, tree hours for him, and he is no come. SHALLOW. He is the wiser man, Master doctor: he is a curer of souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should fight, you go against the hair of your professions. Is it not true, Master Page? PAGE. Master Shallow, you have yourself been a great fighter, though now a man of peace. SHALLOW. Bodykins, Master Page, though I now be old, and of the peace, if I see a sword out, my finger itches to make one. Though we are justices, and

Spanish bear: oso, llevar, el oso, bajista, producir, dar a luz, parir, portar, soportar. bully: matón. coward: cobarde, el cobarde. elder: mayor, anciano, saúco. fight: luchar, pelear, lucha, combate, pelea, batallar, riña, combatir. fighter: luchador, combatiente. finger: dedo, el dedo, tocar, manga. ha: ah, decir ah, ja. hector: maltratar, Intimidar

Fuertemente, intimidar, Héctor, bravear, atropellar, matón, abatir, vejar, acobardar. morrow: día siguiente. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. priest: sacerdote, cura, preste. reverse: inverso, reverso, marcha atrás, revés, parte trasera, al contrario, al revés. stale: oprimido, rancio, trillado,

redicho, manido. stock: acciones, existencias, existencia, almacenar, acción, mango, proveer, reserva, ganado, valores. sword: espada. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. thy: tu. traverse: travesaño. tree: árbol. witness: testigo, presenciar, atestiguar, testimonio.

William Shakespeare

51

doctors, and churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our youth in us; we are the sons of women, Master Page.% PAGE. 'Tis true, Master Shallow. SHALLOW. It will be found so, Master Page. Master Doctor Caius, I come to fetch you home. I am sworn of the peace; you have showed yourself a wise physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise and patient churchman. You must go with me, Master Doctor. HOST. Pardon, guest-justice.--A word, Monsieur Mockwater. CAIUS. Mock-vater! Vat is dat? HOST. Mockwater, in our English tongue, is valour, bully. CAIUS. By gar, then I have as much mockvater as de Englishman.--Scurvy jack-dog priest! By gar, me vill cut his ears. HOST. He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully. CAIUS. Clapper-de-claw! Vat is dat? HOST. That is, he will make thee amends. CAIUS. By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me; for, by gar, me vill have it. HOST. And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag.

Spanish amends: enmienda, corrige, compensación. bully: matón. churchman: clérigo. cut: cortar, corte, cortado, cortadura. ears: orejas, las orejas, oídos. fetch: traer, traemos, traed, trae, traéis, traes, traigo, traigan, traen, traiga, coger. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister. patient: paciente.

peace: paz, la paz. physician: médico, doctor. priest: sacerdote, cura, preste. provoke: provocar, provoca, provocad, provoquen, provoco, provocas, provocan, provocamos, provocáis, provoque, instigar. salt: sal, la sal, salar, salado. showed: mostrado, pret de show. shown: mostrado. sworn: jurado. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú.

tightly: apretadamente, herméticamente. tongue: lengua, la lengua, lengüeta. true: verdadero, cierto. valour: valor. vat: IVA, tina. wag: menear, meneo, mover. wise: sabio, sensato, guisa. yourself: tú mismo, se. youth: juventud, joven, jóvenes, adolescencia.

52

The Merry Wives of Windsor

CAIUS. Me tank you for dat.% HOST. And, moreover, bully--but first: Master guest, and Master Page, and eke Cavaliero Slender, go you through the town to Frogmore. [Aside to them.] PAGE. Sir Hugh is there, is he? HOST. He is there: see what humour he is in; and I will bring the doctor about by the fields. Will it do well? SHALLOW. We will do it. PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER. Adieu, good Master Doctor. [Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER.] CAIUS. By gar, me vill kill de priest; for he speak for a jack-an-ape to Anne Page. HOST. Let him die. Sheathe thy impatience; throw cold water on thy choler; go about the fields with me through Frogmore; I will bring thee where Mistress Anne Page is, at a farm-house a-feasting; and thou shalt woo her. Cried I aim? Said I well? CAIUS. By gar, me tank you for dat: by gar, I love you; and I shall procure-a you de good guest, de earl, de knight, de lords, de gentlemen, my patients. HOST. For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne Page: said I well?

Spanish adversary: adversario, enemigo. aim: fin, objeto, objetivo, querer decir, apuntar, tratar de, esforzarse por, apuntáis, apunten, apuntas, apunto. bring: traer, traigan, trae, traed, traéis, traemos, traen, traigo, traes, traiga, llevar. choler: hiel. cold: frío, resfriado, catarro, constipado. die: morir, morid, mueran, muere, morís, mueren, mueres, muero,

morimos, muera, molde. earl: conde. eke: aumentas, aumento, aumente, aumentan, aumentamos, aumentáis, aumentad, aumenta, aumenten, escatime, suplir las deficiencias. fields: campos. guest: huésped, invitado, visita. impatience: impaciencia. moreover: además, demás. patients: paciente, los pacientes. shalt: irá, verbo auxiliar inglés para

especificar futuro. sheathe: envainar, envaina, envaino, envainen, envaine, envainas, envainan, envainamos, envainad, envaináis. tank: tanque, depósito, cuba, cisterna. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. thy: tu. woo: cortejar, corteje, cortejamos, cortejo, cortejen, cortejan, cortejáis, cortejad, corteja, cortejas.

William Shakespeare

CAIUS. By gar, 'tis good; vell said.% HOST. Let us wag, then. CAIUS. Come at my heels, Jack Rugby. [Exeunt.]

Spanish heels: taco, tacón. vell: abomaso, cuajar, cuajar de ternera. wag: menear, meneo, mover.

53

54

The Merry Wives of Windsor

ACT III

SCENE 1. A FIELD NEAR FROGMORE.% [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE.] EVANS. I pray you now, good Master Slender's serving-man, and friend Simple by your name, which way have you looked for Master Caius, that calls himself doctor of physic? SIMPLE. Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every way; old Windsor way, and every way but the town way. EVANS. I most fehemently desire you you will also look that way. SIMPLE. I will, Sir. [Exit.] EVANS. Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and trempling of mind! I shall be glad if he have deceived me. How melancholies I am!

Spanish calls: llama, llamadas. deceived: engañado. desire: desear, deseo, tener, querer, gana, codiciar. doctor: médico, doctor. friend: amigo, amiga, el amigo. glad: alegre, contento. physic: medicamento, remedio. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. sir: señor.

soul: alma, espíritu, ánimo. town: ciudad, pueblo, población, el pueblo.

William Shakespeare

55

I%will knog his urinals about his knave's costard when I have goot opportunities for the 'ork: pless my soul! [Sings] To shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sings madrigals; There will we make our peds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies. To shallow-Mercy on me! I have a great dispositions to cry. [Sings.] Melodious birds sing madrigals,-Whenas I sat in Pabylon,-And a thousand vagram posies. To shallow,-[Re-enter SIMPLE.] SIMPLE. Yonder he is, coming this way, Sir Hugh. EVANS. He's welcome. [Sings] To shallow rivers, to whose falls-Heaven prosper the right!--What weapons is he? SIMPLE. No weapons, sir. There comes my master, Master Shallow, and another gentleman, from Frogmore, over the stile, this way. EVANS. Pray you give me my gown; or else keep it in your arms. [Reads in a book.] [Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER.]

Spanish arms: brazos, los brazos, armas. birds: aves. comes: Viene. coming: viniendo, proveniente, próximo, originario, natural. dispositions: plan. falls: se cae, decrece, derriba. fragrant: fragante, oloroso. gentleman: caballero, señor, gentilhombre. gown: vestido, toga. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón,

principal, magister. prosper: prosperar, prosperas, prospera, prosperad, prosperáis, prosperan, prosperen, prospero, prosperamos, prospere. reads: lee, estudia, indica. sat: pret y pp de sit, sáb, servicio de administración tributaria, sentado, sábado, soplado, asentado, empollado, se sentado, sentido. shallow: poco profundo, somero, de poca profundidad, superficial.

sing: cantar, cantan, cantas, canten, cantamos, cantáis, canta, cantad, canto, cante. sings: canta. sir: señor. stile: escalera, escalera para pasar una cerca, larguero. thousand: mil. urinals: urinario. weapons: armas. whose: cuyo, cuya.

56

The Merry Wives of Windsor

SHALLOW. How now, Master Parson! Good morrow, good Sir Hugh. Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book, and it is wonderful.% SLENDER. [Aside] Ah, sweet Anne Page! PAGE. 'Save you, good Sir Hugh! EVANS. Pless you from his mercy sake, all of you! SHALLOW. What, the sword and the word! Do you study them both, Master Parson? PAGE. And youthful still, in your doublet and hose, this raw rheumatic day! EVANS. There is reasons and causes for it. PAGE. We are come to you to do a good office, Master Parson. EVANS. Fery well; what is it? PAGE. Yonder is a most reverend gentleman, who, belike having received wrong by some person, is at most odds with his own gravity and patience that ever you saw. SHALLOW. I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never heard a man of his place, gravity, and learning, so wide of his own respect. EVANS. What is he?

Spanish dice: dados, dado. doublet: jubón, doblete. gamester: jugador. gentleman: caballero, señor, gentilhombre. gravity: gravedad. heard: oído. hose: manguera. learning: aprendiendo, aprendizaje, estudiando, aprender. lived: vivido, habitado. mercy: misericordia, compasión.

morrow: día siguiente. odds: posibilidades. patience: paciencia. raw: crudo, bruto, cruda. reasons: razona. received: recibido. respect: respetar, respeto, estima, estimación. reverend: reverendo, clérigo. rheumatic: reumático. sake: motivo, fin, bien, causa. student: estudiante, alumno, el

estudiante. sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre. sword: espada. upward: hacia arriba, desde abajo hacia arriba, ascendente. wide: ancho, amplio, vasto, lejos. word: palabra, la palabra, vocablo, término, formular. wrong: malo, mal, falso, incorrecto, entuerto, agravio, impropio, erróneo. youthful: juvenil, joven.

William Shakespeare

57

PAGE. I think you know him: Master Doctor Caius, the renowned French physician.% EVANS. Got's will and His passion of my heart! I had as lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge. PAGE. Why? EVANS. He has no more knowledge in Hibbocrates and Galen,--and he is a knave besides; a cowardly knave as you would desires to be acquainted withal. PAGE. I warrant you, he's the man should fight with him. SLENDER. [Aside] O, sweet Anne Page! SHALLOW. It appears so, by his weapons. Keep them asunder; here comes Doctor Caius. [Enter HOST, CAIUS, and RUGBY.] PAGE. Nay, good Master Parson, keep in your weapon. SHALLOW. So do you, good Master Doctor. HOST. Disarm them, and let them question; let them keep their limbs whole and hack our English. CAIUS. I pray you, let-a me speak a word with your ear: verefore will you not meet-a me?

Spanish acquainted: informado, enterado. appears: aparece, comparece. asunder: separadamente. besides: además, demás, además de, amén de. comes: Viene. cowardly: cobarde. ear: oreja, espiga, la oreja, oído. fight: luchar, pelear, lucha, combate, pelea, batallar, riña, combatir. hack: cortar, cortas, cortan, cortamos, cortáis, cortad, corta, corto, corten,

corte, tajar. heart: corazón, cogollo. knave: bribón. knowledge: conocimiento, saber. lief: con placer. limbs: extremidades. mess: enredo, lío. passion: pasión. porridge: gachas. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar.

renowned: renombrado. speak: hablar, hablamos, hablo, hablas, habláis, hablad, hablen, habla, hablan, hable. sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre. warrant: garantía, orden, orden por escrito, certificado, autorizar, autorización. weapon: arma. weapons: armas. withal: además.

58

The Merry Wives of Windsor

EVANS. [Aside to CAIUS.] Pray you use your patience; in good time.% CAIUS. By gar, you are de coward, de Jack dog, John ape. EVANS. [Aside to CAIUS.] Pray you, let us not be laughing-stogs to other men's humours; I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends. [Aloud.] I will knog your urinals about your knave's cogscomb for missing your meetings and appointments. CAIUS. Diable!--Jack Rugby,--mine Host de Jarretiere,--have I not stay for him to kill him? Have I not, at de place I did appoint? EVANS. As I am a Christians soul, now, look you, this is the place appointed. I'll be judgment by mine host of the Garter. HOST. Peace, I say, Gallia and Gaullia; French and Welsh, soul-curer and bodycurer! CAIUS. Ay, dat is very good; excellent! HOST. Peace, I say! Hear mine host of the Garter. Am I politic? am I subtle? am I a Machiavel? Shall I lose my doctor? No; he gives me the potions and the motions. Shall I lose my parson, my priest, my Sir Hugh? No; he gives me the proverbs and the no-verbs. Give me thy hand, terrestrial; so;--give me thy hand, celestial; so. Boys of art, I have deceived you both; I have directed you to wrong places; your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole, and let

Spanish amends: enmienda, corrige, compensación. ape: mono, simio. appoint: nombrar, nombro, nombrad, nombráis, nombramos, nombran, nombras, nombren, nombra, nombre, designar. appointed: nombrado, designado. appointments: las citas. celestial: celeste, celestial. coward: cobarde, el cobarde. deceived: engañado.

directed: dirigido. friendship: amistad. hearts: corazones, copas. host: anfitrión, huésped, posadero, hostia. judgment: juicio, fallo, sentencia, criterio. kill: matar. meetings: reuniones, encuentros. men's: varonil. mighty: poderoso. missing: desaparecido.

motions: movimientos. parson: sacerdote, cura, párroco. patience: paciencia. politic: sagaz. priest: sacerdote, cura, preste. proverbs: proverbios. skins: hollejo, batería. soul: alma, espíritu, ánimo. subtle: sutil. terrestrial: terrestre, terrenal. thy: tu. urinals: urinario.

William Shakespeare

59

burnt sack be the issue. Come, lay their swords to pawn. Follow me, lads of peace; follow, follow, follow.% SHALLOW. Trust me, a mad host!--Follow, gentlemen, follow. SLENDER. [Aside] O, sweet Anne Page! [Exeunt SHALLOW, SLENDER, PAGE, and HOST.] CAIUS. Ha, do I perceive dat? Have you make-a de sot of us, ha, ha? EVANS. This is well; he has made us his vlouting-stog. I desire you that we may be friends; and let us knog our prains together to be revenge on this same scall, scurvy, cogging companion, the host of the Garter. CAIUS. By gar, with all my heart. He promise to bring me where is Anne Page; by gar, he deceive me too. EVANS. Well, I will smite his noddles. Pray you follow. [Exeunt.]

SCENE II. A STREET IN WINDSOR. [Enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN.] MRS. PAGE. Nay, keep your way, little gallant: you were wont to be a follower, but now you are a leader. Whether had you rather lead mine eyes, or eye your master's heels?

Spanish burnt: quemado. companion: acompañante, compañero. deceive: engañar, engaño, engañe, engaña, engañamos, engañen, engañan, engañáis, engañad, engañas, embaucar. follower: seguidor. friends: amigos, los amigos. gallant: galante, galán, valeroso. gentlemen: señores. heels: taco, tacón.

leader: guía, líder, caudillo, jefe, capitán, dueño, comandante, patrón, amo, conductor, dirigente. pawn: empeñar, peón, prenda, pignorar. perceive: percibir, perciben, percibes, percibe, perciban, percibid, percibimos, percibís, percibo, perciba. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. promise: prometer, prometéis,

prometemos, prometen, prometo, promete, prometan, prometa, prometes, prometed, promesa. revenge: venganza, revancha. sack: saco, despedir, bolso. scurvy: escorbuto. smite: golpear con violencia. sot: beodo, borrachín, borracho. wont: acostumbrado, costumbre.

60

The Merry Wives of Windsor

ROBIN. I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man than follow him like a dwarf.% MRS. PAGE. O! you are a flattering boy: now I see you'll be a courtier. [Enter FORD.] FORD. Well met, Mistress Page. Whither go you? MRS. PAGE. Truly, sir, to see your wife. Is she at home? FORD. Ay; and as idle as she may hang together, for want of company. I think, if your husbands were dead, you two would marry. MRS. PAGE. Be sure of that--two other husbands. FORD. Where had you this pretty weathercock? MRS. PAGE. I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my husband had him of. What do you call your knight's name, sirrah? ROBIN. Sir John Falstaff. FORD. Sir John Falstaff! MRS. PAGE. He, he; I can never hit on's name. There is such a league between my good man and he! Is your wife at home indeed? FORD. Indeed she is.

Spanish boy: chico, muchacho, niño, el muchacho, criado, chamaco. call: llamada, llamar, llaman, llamen, llamad, llamas, llamo, llamamos, llamáis, llame, llama. cannot: presente de no poder. courtier: cortesano, palaciego. dead: muerto. flattering: adulando, adulador. follow: seguir, seguid, sigues, siguen, sigue, sigo, sigan, seguís, seguimos, siga, venir después.

forsooth: en verdad. hang: colgar. hit: golpear, acertar, golpe, pegar, llamar, éxito. husband: marido, esposo, el esposo. idle: ocioso, haraganear, perezoso, inactivo, en reposo. indeed: verdaderamente, en efecto, de veras, en realidad, efectivamente. league: liga, cinta, lazo, legua. marry: casarse, casar, cásese, se casan, se casa, nos casamos, me caso, te

casas, cásense, cásate, cásados. met: encontrado, hallado. mrs: Sra., señorita. pretty: bonito, lindo, majo, amable, guapo, bastante, guapa. sir: señor. sure: seguro, cierto. weathercock: a veleta, giraldilla, veleta. whither: adónde, adonde. wife: esposa, mujer, la esposa.

William Shakespeare

61

MRS. PAGE. By your leave, sir: I am sick till I see her.% [Exeunt MRS. PAGE and ROBIN.] FORD. Has Page any brains? Hath he any eyes? Hath he any thinking? Sure, they sleep; he hath no use of them. Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty mile as easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve score. He pieces out his wife's inclination; he gives her folly motion and advantage; and now she's going to my wife, and Falstaff's boy with her. A man may hear this shower sing in the wind: and Falstaff's boy with her! Good plots! They are laid; and our revolted wives share damnation together. Well; I will take him, then torture my wife, pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and wilful Actaeon; and to these violent proceedings all my neighbours shall cry aim. [Clock strikes] The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance bids me search; there I shall find Falstaff. I shall be rather praised for this than mocked; for it is as positive as the earth is firm that Falstaff is there. I will go. [Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, SLENDER, HOST, SIR HUGH EVANS, CAIUS, and RUGBY.] SHALLOW, PAGE, etc. Well met, Master Ford. FORD. Trust me, a good knot; I have good cheer at home, and I pray you all go with me. SHALLOW. I must excuse myself, Master Ford. SLENDER. And so must I, sir; we have appointed to dine with Mistress Anne, and I would not break with her for more money than I'll speak of.

Spanish borrowed: prestado. brains: sesos, inteligencia. cannon: cañón. cheer: animar, incitar. cue: taco de billar, taco, sugestión, señal de aviso, señal, pie, indirecta, cola, clave, indicación, apunte. damnation: condenación. dine: cenar, cenáis, ceno, cenen, cenas, cenamos, cenad, cenan, cena, cene. divulge: divulgar, divulgáis, divulguen, divulgo, divulgas,

divulgad, divulga, divulgamos, divulgan, divulgue. inclination: inclinación, tentación. knot: nudo, correlimos gordo, lazo. mocked: Ridiculizado, befado, desbaratado, escarnecido, mofado, remedado, triscado. pluck: arrancar, tirón, cortar, desplumar. point-blank: categóricamente, a quemarropa, a quema ropa. revolted: rebelado, rebelde.

seeming: pareciendo. shoot: tirar, tiren, tiráis, tiramos, tiran, tirad, tire, tiras, tiro, tira, disparar. shower: ducha, la ducha, chaparrón, chubasco. strikes: golpea. torture: tortura, tormento, torturar. veil: velo. violent: violento. wilful: doloso, voluntarioso, travieso, intencionado, deliberado, caprichoso, premeditado.

62

The Merry Wives of Windsor

SHALLOW. We have lingered about a match between Anne Page and my cousin Slender, and this day we shall have our answer.% SLENDER. I hope I have your good will, father Page. PAGE. You have, Master Slender; I stand wholly for you. But my wife, Master doctor, is for you altogether. CAIUS. Ay, be-gar; and de maid is love-a me: my nursh-a Quickly tell me so mush. HOST. What say you to young Master Fenton? He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May; he will carry 't, he will carry 't; 'tis in his buttons; he will carry 't. PAGE. Not by my consent, I promise you. The gentleman is of no having: he kept company with the wild Prince and Pointz; he is of too high a region, he knows too much. No, he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes with the finger of my substance; if he take her, let him take her simply; the wealth I have waits on my consent, and my consent goes not that way. FORD. I beseech you, heartily, some of you go home with me to dinner: besides your cheer, you shall have sport; I will show you a monster. Master Doctor, you shall go; so shall you, Master Page; and you, Sir Hugh. SHALLOW. Well, fare you well; we shall have the freer wooing at Master Page's. [Exeunt SHALLOW and SLENDER.] CAIUS. Go home, John Rugby; I come anon.

Spanish anon: pronto. beseech: supliquen, rogáis, rogamos, ruega, ruegan, ruegas, ruegue, rueguen, suplica, suplicamos, rogad. buttons: botones. capers: alcaparras. cheer: animar, incitar. cousin: primo, prima, el primo. dances: baila. fare: tarifa, pasaje. goes: va, marcha. heartily: sinceramente.

holiday: vacaciones, día de fiesta, fiesta, feriado. kept: guardado, vigilado, conservado, preservado. knit: tejer. knot: nudo, correlimos gordo, lazo. lingered: Demorado, quedado, durado, tardado, remoloneado, permanecido, pausado, persistido. maid: criada, sirvienta, doncella, la criada. match: fósforo, cerilla,

correspondencia, partido, coincidir, hacer juego con, emparejar. monster: monstruo. mush: gachas, gacha. simply: simplemente, sencillamente. smells: malos olores. speaks: habla. waits: espera, aguarda. wealth: riqueza, abundancia, caudal. wholly: enteramente. wild: fiero, salvaje, silvestre. wooing: cortejando.

William Shakespeare

63

[Exit RUGBY.] HOST. Farewell, my hearts; I will to my honest knight Falstaff, and drink canary with him.% [Exit HOST.] FORD. [Aside] I think I shall drink in pipe-wine first with him. I'll make him dance. Will you go, gentles? ALL. Have with you to see this monster. [Exeunt.]

SCENE III. A ROOM IN FORD'S HOUSE. [Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE.] MRS. FORD. What, John! what, Robert! MRS. PAGE. Quickly, quickly:--Is the buck-basket-MRS. FORD. I warrant. What, Robin, I say! [Enter SERVANTS with a basket.] MRS. PAGE. Come, come, come. MRS. FORD. Here, set it down.

Spanish canary: canario. dance: bailar, baile, danza, danzar, el baile. drink: beber, bebida, tomar, el refresco, trago, copa. hearts: corazones, copas. honest: honrado, sincero, honesto. knight: caballero, caballo. monster: monstruo. mrs: Sra., señorita. warrant: garantía, orden, orden por escrito, certificado, autorizar,

autorización.

64

The Merry Wives of Windsor

MRS. PAGE. Give your men the charge; we must be brief.% MRS. FORD. Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be ready here hard by in the brew-house; and when I suddenly call you, come forth, and, without any pause or staggering, take this basket on your shoulders: that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry it among the whitsters in Datchet-Mead, and there empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side. MRS. PAGE. You will do it? MRS. FORD. I have told them over and over; they lack no direction. Be gone, and come when you are called. [Exeunt SERVANTS.] MRS. PAGE. Here comes little Robin. [Enter ROBIN.] MRS. FORD. How now, my eyas-musket! what news with you? ROBIN. My Master Sir John is come in at your back-door, Mistress Ford, and requests your company. MRS. PAGE. You little Jack-a-Lent, have you been true to us? ROBIN. Ay, I'll be sworn. My master knows not of your being here, and hath threatened to put me into everlasting liberty, if I tell you of it; for he swears he'll turn me away.

Spanish back-door: puerta trasera. basket: cesto, cesta, la cesta, canasta, barquilla, canasto. charge: carga, cargo, acusación, gastos, cargar, cobro, cobrar, imputación. close: cerrar, cierras, cierra, cierren, cerráis, cerrad, cerramos, cierro, cierre, cierran, cerca. direction: dirección, rumbo. ditch: zanja, cuneta, foso. empty: vacío, vaciar, evacuar, desocupado, desocupar.

everlasting: eterno. forth: adelante. hard: duro, difícil, tieso. haste: prisa, precipitación. knows: sabe, conoce. lack: falta, carencia, escasez, faltar, carecer de, carecer. liberty: libertad, la libertad. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister. muddy: embarrado, fangoso, lodoso. pause: descanso, pausa, pausar, hacer

una pausa, la pausa. ready: listo, preparado, propenso, disponible. requests: solicita. shoulders: espalda, hombros. staggering: asombroso. suddenly: de repente, de golpe, repentinamente, de sopetón. swears: jura. sworn: jurado. threatened: amenazado, conminado. trudge: caminata.

William Shakespeare

65

MRS. PAGE. Thou 'rt a good boy; this secrecy of thine shall be a tailor to thee, and shall make thee a new doublet and hose. I'll go hide me.% MRS. FORD. Do so. Go tell thy master I am alone. [Exit ROBIN.] Mistress Page, remember you your cue. MRS. PAGE. I warrant thee; if I do not act it, hiss me. [Exit.] MRS. FORD. Go to, then; we'll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know turtles from jays. [Enter FALSTAFF.] FALSTAFF. 'Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel?' Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough: this is the period of my ambition: O this blessed hour! MRS. FORD. O, sweet Sir John! FALSTAFF. Mistress Ford, 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. MRS. FORD. I your lady, Sir John! Alas, I should be a pitiful lady. FALSTAFF. Let the court of France show me such another. I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond; thou hast the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes the ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of Venetian admittance.

Spanish arched: arqueado. becomes: acontece. blessed: bendecido, bendito, bienaventurado. brow: ceja, frente. cannot: presente de no poder. caught: cogido, asido, acertado. cog: dientee, usar diente, diente de rueda, diente de engranaje, diente. diamond: diamante, el diamante, rombo. emulate: emular, emulamos, emulo,

emulan, emuláis, emulad, emula, emulas, emulen, emule. gross: bruto, asqueroso, grueso, doce docenas. hast: haya. heavenly: celestial, celeste. hide: ocultar, oculto, oculta, oculte, ocultas, ocultan, ocultamos, ocultáis, ocultad, oculten, piel. hiss: siseo, silbido, soplido. humidity: humedad, la humedad. pitiful: lastimoso, deplorable.

prate: parlotear, parlotee, charlar, charla, parloteo. secrecy: secreto. sin: pecado, pecar. tailor: sastre, costurera. tire: neumático, llanta, cansar, cansarse, la llanta, fatigar. unwholesome: insalubre, malsano. watery: acuoso, aguado. we'll: Haremos. wish: desear, deseo, voluntad, querer, tener, gana.

66

The Merry Wives of Windsor

MRS. FORD. A plain kerchief, Sir John; my brows become nothing else; nor that well neither.% FALSTAFF. By the Lord, thou art a traitor to say so: thou wouldst make an absolute courtier; and the firm fixture of thy foot would give an excellent motion to thy gait in a semi-circled farthingale. I see what thou wert, if Fortune thy foe were not, Nature thy friend. Come, thou canst not hide it. MRS. FORD. Believe me, there's no such thing in me. FALSTAFF. What made me love thee? Let that persuade thee there's something extraordinary in thee. Come, I cannot cog and say thou art this and that, like a many of these lisping hawthorn-buds that come like women in men's apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury in simple-time; I cannot; but I love thee, none but thee; and thou deservest it. MRS. FORD. Do not betray me, sir; I fear you love Mistress Page. FALSTAFF. Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek of a lime-kiln. MRS. FORD. Well, heaven knows how I love you; and you shall one day find it. FALSTAFF. Keep in that mind; I'll deserve it. MRS. FORD. Nay, I must tell you, so you do; or else I could not be in that mind. ROBIN. [Within]

Spanish absolute: absoluto, completo, cabal. apparel: atavío. betray: traicionar, traicionas, traiciono, traicionen, traiciona, traicionan, traicionamos, traicionad, traicionáis, traicione. cannot: presente de no poder. cog: dientee, usar diente, diente de rueda, diente de engranaje, diente. courtier: cortesano, palaciego. deserve: merecer, merecemos, merezcan, merezco, merecen,

mereced, merece, mereces, merecéis, merezca. extraordinary: extraordinario. firm: firma, firme, fijo, empresa, sólido, fuerte, compañía. fixture: adorno. foe: enemigo. gait: paso. hateful: odioso. kerchief: pañuelo. lisping: zazoso. men's: varonil.

motion: movimiento, moción, petición. plain: llanura, llano, claro, evidente, liso, plano. reek: apestar, apestan, apeste, apesten, apestas, apestáis, apesto, apestad, apesta, apestamos, oler. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. thy: tu. traitor: traidor.

William Shakespeare

67

Mistress Ford! Mistress Ford! here's Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing and looking wildly, and would needs speak with you presently.% FALSTAFF. She shall not see me; I will ensconce me behind the arras. MRS. FORD. Pray you, do so; she's a very tattling woman. [FALSTAFF hides himself.] [Re-enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN.] What's the matter? How now! MRS. PAGE. O Mistress Ford, what have you done? You're shamed, you are overthrown, you are undone for ever! MRS. FORD. What's the matter, good Mistress Page? MRS. PAGE. O well-a-day, Mistress Ford! having an honest man to your husband, to give him such cause of suspicion! MRS. FORD. What cause of suspicion? MRS. PAGE. What cause of suspicion? Out upon you! how am I mistook in you! MRS. FORD. Why, alas, what's the matter? MRS. PAGE. Your husband's coming hither, woman, with all the officers in Windsor, to search for a gentleman that he says is here now in the house, by your consent, to take an ill advantage of his absence: you are undone.

Spanish absence: ausencia, falta. advantage: ventaja, provecho, la ventaja. alas: ay, es una lástima. arras: Tapiz. blowing: soplado, sopladura, soplar, silbido, soplo. consent: aprobación, acordar, declaración, declarar, consentimiento, autorización. ensconce: acomodarse, instalarse en, esconder, acomódese, hallarse.

gentleman: caballero, señor, gentilhombre. hides: oculta, esconde. hither: acá. honest: honrado, sincero, honesto. husband: marido, esposo, el esposo. ill: enfermo, malo, doliente. mistook: pret de mistake. mistress: señora. needs: necesidades. officers: oficialidad, personal directivo, Mesa.

overthrown: trastornado, derrocado. search: buscar, búsqueda, busca, registro, investigación. shamed: avergonzado. speak: hablar, hablamos, hablo, hablas, habláis, hablad, hablen, habla, hablan, hable. suspicion: sospecha, recelo, recelocaz. sweating: sudar. tattling: divulgar. undone: deshecho. wildly: ferozmente.

68

The Merry Wives of Windsor

MRS. FORD. [Aside.] 'Tis not so, I hope.% MRS. PAGE. Pray heaven it be not so that you have such a man here! but 'tis most certain your husband's coming, with half Windsor at his heels, to search for such a one. I come before to tell you. If you know yourself clear, why, I am glad of it; but if you have a friend here, convey, convey him out. Be not amazed; call all your senses to you; defend your reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever. MRS. FORD. What shall I do?--There is a gentleman, my dear friend; and I fear not mine own shame as much as his peril: I had rather than a thousand pound he were out of the house. MRS. PAGE. For shame! never stand 'you had rather' and 'you had rather': your husband's here at hand; bethink you of some conveyance; in the house you cannot hide him. O, how have you deceived me! Look, here is a basket; if he be of any reasonable stature, he may creep in here; and throw foul linen upon him, as if it were going to bucking: or--it is whiting-time--send him by your two men to Datchet-Mead. MRS. FORD. He's too big to go in there. What shall I do? FALSTAFF. [Coming forward] Let me see 't, let me see 't. O, let me see 't! I'll in, I'll in; follow your friend's counsel; I'll in. MRS. PAGE. What, Sir John Falstaff! Are these your letters, knight?

Spanish amazed: asombrado, maravillado, pasmado, atónito. bethink: recapacitar, acordarse de, recordar. bucking: Corcovear, troceado. cannot: presente de no poder. convey: alargar, entregar, llevar, entrega, entregan, entreguen, entregue, entregas, entregamos, entregáis, entregad. conveyance: transmisión. counsel: consejo, aconsejar, abogado,

anunciar. creep: arrastrarse, arrastrar, deslizamiento, arrastre, fluencia, arrastras, arrastren, arrastran, arrastramos, arrastráis, arrastrad. dear: caro, querido, estimado. deceived: engañado. defend: defender, defiendes, defiendo, defendéis, defendemos, defiendan, defienden, defended, defiende, defienda. farewell: adiós, despedida.

forward: adelante, delantero, reenviar, hacia delante, enviar, remitir, hacia adelante. foul: falta, asqueroso, sucio. letters: letras. linen: lino, lencería, ropa blanca. peril: peligro. pound: libra, la libra. senses: juicio, los sentidos, sentido. shame: vergüenza, verguenza, pudor, oprobio, avergonzar. stature: estatura, altura, talla.

William Shakespeare

69

FALSTAFF. I love thee and none but thee; help me away: let me creep in here. I'll never-[He gets into the basket; they cover him with foul linen.] MRS. PAGE. Help to cover your master, boy. Call your men, Mistress Ford. You dissembling knight! MRS. FORD. What, John! Robert! John! [Exit ROBIN.] [Re-enter SERVANTS.] Go, take up these clothes here, quickly; where's the cowl-staff? Look how you drumble! Carry them to the laundress in Datchet-Mead; quickly, come.% [Enter FORD, PAGE, CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS.] FORD. Pray you come near. If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at me, then let me be your jest; I deserve it. How now, whither bear you this? SERVANT. To the laundress, forsooth. MRS. FORD. Why, what have you to do whither they bear it? You were best meddle with buck-washing. FORD. Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck! Buck, buck, buck! ay, buck; I warrant you, buck; and of the season too, it shall appear. [Exeunt SERVANTS with the basket.] Gentlemen, I have dreamed to-night; I'll tell you my dream. Here, here, here be my keys: ascend my chambers; search, seek, find out. I'll warrant we'll unkennel the fox. Let me stop this way first. [Locking the door.] So, now uncape.

Spanish appear: aparecer, aparece, aparezco, aparezcan, apareces, aparecen, aparecemos, aparecéis, apareced, aparezca, parecer. ascend: ascender, ascendemos, asciendo, asciendes, ascienden, asciende, ascienda, ascendéis, ascended, asciendan, subir. ay: sí. buck: liebre macho, conejo macho, ciervo, dólar. chambers: recámara, compartimiento,

cámara de comercio, aposento, cámara, cámara de paz. clothes: ropa, viste, la ropa, ropaje. cover: cubrir, tapa, cobertura, recorrer, tapar, forrar, cubierta, neumático, portada, forro, encuadernación. dissembling: disimulando. dream: soñar, sueño, ensueño. dreamed: soñado. fox: zorro, el zorro. keys: claves, llaves. laundress: lavandera, la lavadera.

locking: bloqueo. quickly: rápidamente, de prisa, aprisa, pronto. robert: Roberto. season: estación, temporada, condimentar. stop: parar, paran, paras, paren, paráis, parad, paramos, pare, para, paro, parada. suspect: sospechar, dudar, sospechoso. we'll: Haremos.

70

The Merry Wives of Windsor

PAGE. Good Master Ford, be contented: you wrong yourself too much.% FORD. True, Master Page. Up, gentlemen, you shall see sport anon; follow me, gentlemen. [Exit.] EVANS. This is fery fantastical humours and jealousies. CAIUS. By gar, 'tis no the fashion of France; it is not jealous in France. PAGE. Nay, follow him, gentlemen; see the issue of his search. [Exeunt EVANS, PAGE, and CAIUS.] MRS. PAGE. Is there not a double excellency in this? MRS. FORD. I know not which pleases me better, that my husband is deceived, or Sir John. MRS. PAGE. What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! MRS. FORD. I am half afraid he will have need of washing; so throwing him into the water will do him a benefit. MRS. PAGE. Hang him, dishonest rascal! I would all of the same strain were in the same distress. MRS. FORD. I think my husband hath some special suspicion of Falstaff's being here, for I never saw him so gross in his jealousy till now.

Spanish afraid: miedoso, temeroso, asustado, medroso, miedo, encogido, angustioso, tímido, be - tener miedo. anon: pronto. basket: cesto, cesta, la cesta, canasta, barquilla, canasto. benefit: beneficio, ventaja, provecho, prestación, subsidio, beneficiar, lucro. contented: contento, satisfecho. deceived: engañado. dishonest: ímprobo, deshonesto. distress: afligir, indigencia, entristecer,

acongojar, dolor. double: doble, doblar, doblado. excellency: excelencia. fantastical: mítico, fabuloso, estupendo, irreal, bárbaro, fantástico. fashion: moda. gentlemen: señores. gross: bruto, asqueroso, grueso, doce docenas. jealous: celoso. jealousy: celos. pleases: complace.

rascal: bribón. search: buscar, búsqueda, busca, registro, investigación. sport: deporte. strain: colar, esfuerzo, deformación, cepa, tensión, torcedura. suspicion: sospecha, recelo, recelocaz. throwing: lanzamiento. till: caja, hasta que, hasta, a que. washing: lavando, lavado.

William Shakespeare

71

MRS. PAGE. I will lay a plot to try that, and we will yet have more tricks with Falstaff: his dissolute disease will scarce obey this medicine.% MRS. FORD. Shall we send that foolish carrion, Mistress Quickly, to him, and excuse his throwing into the water, and give him another hope, to betray him to another punishment? MRS. PAGE. We will do it; let him be sent for to-morrow eight o'clock, to have amends. [Re-enter FORD, PAGE, CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS.] FORD. I cannot find him: may be the knave bragged of that he could not compass. MRS. PAGE. [Aside to MRS. FORD.] Heard you that? MRS. FORD. [Aside to MRS. PAGE.] Ay, ay, peace.-You use me well, Master Ford, do you? FORD. Ay, I do so. MRS. FORD. Heaven make you better than your thoughts! FORD. Amen! MRS. PAGE. You do yourself mighty wrong, Master Ford. FORD. Ay, ay; I must bear it.

Spanish amends: enmienda, corrige, compensación. ay: sí. bear: oso, llevar, el oso, bajista, producir, dar a luz, parir, portar, soportar. betray: traicionar, traicionas, traiciono, traicionen, traiciona, traicionan, traicionamos, traicionad, traicionáis, traicione. bragged: Jactado. cannot: presente de no poder.

carrion: carroña. compass: brújula, compás. disease: enfermedad. dissolute: disoluto. eight: ocho. excuse: excusa, excusar, disculpa, disculpar. foolish: zote, tonto, necio, bobo. knave: bribón. mighty: poderoso. obey: obedecer, obedecemos, obedezco, obedezcan, obedecen,

obedecéis, obedeced, obedece, obedeces, obedezca. o'clock: hora, en punto. plot: parcela, trama, argumento, complot, gráfico, solar, trazar. punishment: castigo, escarmiento, punición, pena. scarce: escaso. thoughts: pensamientos. throwing: lanzamiento. to-morrow: mañana. tricks: engaños.

72

The Merry Wives of Windsor

EVANS. If there be any pody in the house, and in the chambers, and in the coffers, and in the presses, heaven forgive my sins at the day of judgment! CAIUS. By gar, nor I too; there is no bodies.% PAGE. Fie, fie, Master Ford, are you not ashamed? What spirit, what devil suggests this imagination? I would not ha' your distemper in this kind for the wealth of Windsor Castle. FORD. 'Tis my fault, Master Page: I suffer for it. EVANS. You suffer for a pad conscience. Your wife is as honest a 'omans as I will desires among five thousand, and five hundred too. CAIUS. By gar, I see 'tis an honest woman. FORD. Well, I promised you a dinner. Come, come, walk in the Park: I pray you pardon me; I will hereafter make known to you why I have done this. Come, wife, come, Mistress Page; I pray you pardon me; pray heartily, pardon me. PAGE. Let's go in, gentlemen; but, trust me, we'll mock him. I do invite you tomorrow morning to my house to breakfast; after, we'll a-birding together; I have a fine hawk for the bush. Shall it be so? FORD. Any thing. EVANS. If there is one, I shall make two in the company.

Spanish ashamed: avergonzado, vergonzoso. breakfast: desayuno, el desayuno, desayunar. bush: arbusto, matorral, casquillo, el arbusto, buje, mata. chambers: recámara, compartimiento, cámara de comercio, aposento, cámara, cámara de paz. conscience: conciencia. distemper: moquillo, pintura al temple. forgive: perdonar, perdona, perdonad,

perdono, perdonen, perdonas, perdonan, perdonamos, perdonáis, perdone. hawk: halcón. heartily: sinceramente. hereafter: de ahora en adelante. imagination: imaginación. invite: invitar, invitas, invita, invite, invitan, invitamos, invitáis, invitad, invito, inviten. mock: burlarse, simulado, mofar. pad: bloque, almohadilla, bloc,

acolchar, relleno. presses: Prensas, prensa. spirit: espíritu. suffer: sufrir, sufres, sufro, sufrís, sufrid, sufren, sufre, sufran, sufrimos, sufra, padecer. suggests: sugiere, designa. to-morrow: mañana. we'll: Haremos.

William Shakespeare

73

CAIUS. If there be one or two, I shall make-a the turd.% FORD. Pray you go, Master Page. EVANS. I pray you now, remembrance to-morrow on the lousy knave, mine host. CAIUS. Dat is good; by gar, with all my heart. EVANS. A lousy knave! to have his gibes and his mockeries! [Exeunt.]

SCENE IV. A ROOM IN PAGE'S HOUSE. [Enter FENTON, ANNE PAGE, and MISTRESS QUICKLY. MISTRESS QUICKLY stands apart.] FENTON. I see I cannot get thy father's love; Therefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan. ANNE. 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;

Spanish bars: cerca, impide. cannot: presente de no poder. heal: curar, curen, curas, curan, curamos, curo, curáis, curad, cura, cure, sanar. heart: corazón, cogollo. host: anfitrión, huésped, posadero, hostia. knave: bribón. lays: pone, coloca. lousy: piojoso, asqueroso, malísimo. mine: mina, mío, minar.

mistress: señora. object: objeto, el objeto, objetar. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. remembrance: recuerdo. seek: buscar, busque, busca, buscan, buscamos, busquen, buscas, buscáis, buscad, busco. stands: tenderetes, jaulas. sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos.

thy: tu. to-morrow: mañana. turn: girar, gira, giro, giráis, giramos, giran, giras, gire, giren, girad, vuelta. wild: fiero, salvaje, silvestre.

74

The Merry Wives of Windsor

And tells me 'tis a thing impossible I should love thee but as a property.% ANNE. 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 wooed 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. 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. [They converse apart.] [Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and MISTRESS QUICKLY.] SHALLOW. Break their talk, Mistress Quickly: my kinsman shall speak for himself. SLENDER. I'll make a shaft or a bolt on 't. 'Slid, 'tis but venturing. SHALLOW. Be not dismayed. SLENDER. No, she shall not dismay me. I care not for that, but that I am afeard. QUICKLY. Hark ye; Master Slender would speak a word with you.

Spanish attain: alcanzar, alcanza, alcanzad, alcanzáis, alcanzamos, alcanzan, alcanzas, alcanzo, alcancen, alcance, obtener. bolt: perno, cerrojo, saeta, tornillo, bulón, pestillo, clavija. confess: confesar, confiesan, confiesen, confieso, confiesas, confesamos, confesad, confesáis, confiesa, confiese, declarar. converse: conversar, opuesto. dismay: espantar, consternar.

dismayed: entelerido. gold: oro, el oro, de oro. heaven: cielo. hither: acá. kinsman: pariente. motive: motivo, lugar, móvil. riches: riqueza, riquezas. sealed: sellado, hermético, estanco. seek: buscar, busque, busca, buscan, buscamos, busquen, buscas, buscáis, buscad, busco. shaft: eje, árbol, pozo, fuste.

slid: pret y pp de slide. tells: cuenta, relata. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. thy: tu. venturing: Aventurar. wooed: Cortejado. wooing: cortejando. ye: usted, vosotros, ustedes, vosotras, tú, los, lo, las, la, el, vos.

William Shakespeare

75

ANNE. I come to him. [Aside.] This is my father's choice. O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! QUICKLY. And how does good Master Fenton? Pray you, a word with you.% SHALLOW. She's coming; to her, coz. O boy, thou hadst a father! SLENDER. I had a father, Mistress Anne; my uncle can tell you good jests of him. Pray you, uncle, tell Mistress Anne the jest how my father stole two geese out of a pen, good uncle. SHALLOW. Mistress Anne, my cousin loves you. SLENDER. Ay, that I do; as well as I love any woman in Gloucestershire. SHALLOW. He will maintain you like a gentlewoman. SLENDER. Ay, that I will come cut and long-tail, under the degree of a squire. SHALLOW. He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure. ANNE. Good Master Shallow, let him woo for himself. SHALLOW. Marry, I thank you for it; I thank you for that good comfort. She calls you, coz; I'll leave you. ANNE. Now, Master Slender.

Spanish calls: llama, llamadas. comfort: comodidad, consolar, anchas, consuelo, confort. cousin: primo, prima, el primo. degree: grado, título, licencia. fifty: cincuenta. geese: gansos. gentlewoman: dama. handsome: guapo, bonito, bien parecido. jest: bromear, broma. jests: bromas.

loves: amor. maintain: mantener, conservar, mantenga, mantengan, manten, mantened, mantenemos, mantienes, mantienen, mantengo, mantiene. o: oxígeno. pen: pluma, la pluma, corral, un bolígrafo. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. squire: escudero.

stole: estola. thank: agradecer, agradezco, agradeces, agradezcan, agradece, agradezca, agradecemos, agradeced, agradecen, agradecéis, dar gracias. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. uncle: tío. vile: vil. woo: cortejar, corteje, cortejamos, cortejo, cortejen, cortejan, cortejáis, cortejad, corteja, cortejas.

76

The Merry Wives of Windsor

SLENDER. Now, good Mistress Anne.-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 heaven; I am not such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise.% ANNE. I mean, Master Slender, what would you with me? SLENDER. Truly, for mine own part I would little or nothing with you. Your father and my uncle hath made motions; if it be my luck, so; if not, happy man be his dole! They can tell you how things go better than I can. You may ask your father; here he comes. [Enter PAGE and MISTRESS PAGE.] PAGE. Now, Master Slender: love him, daughter Anne. Why, how now! what does Master Fenton here? You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house: I told you, sir, my daughter is dispos'd of. FENTON. Nay, Master Page, be not impatient. MRS. PAGE. Good Master Fenton, come not to my child. PAGE. She is no match for you. FENTON. Sir, will you hear me?

Spanish ask: preguntar, preguntáis, preguntad, pregunto, pregunten, preguntas, preguntan, preguntamos, pregunte, pregunta, pedir. comes: Viene. creature: criatura. daughter: hija, la hija, Nina. dole: subsidio de desempleo. happy: feliz, alegre, contento. haunt: guarida, frecuentar, perseguir. hear: oír, oigan, oyes, oyen, oye, oís, oigo, oíd, oímos, oiga.

heaven: cielo. impatient: impaciente. indeed: verdaderamente, en efecto, de veras, en realidad, efectivamente. jest: bromear, broma. luck: suerte, la suerte. match: fósforo, cerilla, correspondencia, partido, coincidir, hacer juego con, emparejar. mine: mina, mío, minar. motions: movimientos. mrs: Sra., señorita.

ne'er: nunca. pretty: bonito, lindo, majo, amable, guapo, bastante, guapa. sickly: enfermizo. sir: señor. thank: agradecer, agradezco, agradeces, agradezcan, agradece, agradezca, agradecemos, agradeced, agradecen, agradecéis, dar gracias. uncle: tío. wrong: malo, mal, falso, incorrecto, entuerto, agravio, impropio, erróneo.

William Shakespeare

77

PAGE. No, good Master Fenton. Come, Master Shallow; come, son Slender, in. Knowing my mind, you wrong me, Master Fenton.% [Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER.] QUICKLY. Speak to Mistress Page. FENTON. Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter In such a righteous fashion as I do, Perforce, against all checks, rebukes, and manners, I must advance the colours of my love And not retire: let me have your good will. ANNE. Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool. MRS. PAGE. I mean it not; I seek you a better husband. QUICKLY. That's my master, Master doctor. ANNE. Alas! I had rather be set quick i' the earth. And bowl'd to death with turnips. MRS. PAGE. Come, trouble not yourself. Good Master Fenton, I will not be your friend, nor enemy; My daughter will I question how she loves you, And as I find her, so am I affected. Till then, farewell, sir: she must needs go in; Her father will be angry.

Spanish advance: avance, adelanto, anticipo, acercarse, progreso, adelantar, proponer, aproximarse, avanzar, anticipar. angry: enojado, enfadado, furioso. colours: bandera. daughter: hija, la hija, Nina. doctor: médico, doctor. farewell: adiós, despedida. fashion: moda. fool: engañar, necio, tonto. friend: amigo, amiga, el amigo.

husband: marido, esposo, el esposo. loves: amor. marry: casarse, casar, cásese, se casan, se casa, nos casamos, me caso, te casas, cásense, cásate, cásados. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister. needs: necesidades. nor: ni, tampoco. quick: rápido, pronto. retire: retirarse. righteous: virtuoso, honrado.

seek: buscar, busque, busca, buscan, buscamos, busquen, buscas, buscáis, buscad, busco. sir: señor. son: hijo, el hijo. trouble: molestar, prueba, inconveniente, incomodar, molestia, perturbación, problema, dificultad, avería, esfuerzo. wrong: malo, mal, falso, incorrecto, entuerto, agravio, impropio, erróneo. yourself: tú mismo, se.

78

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FENTON. Farewell, gentle mistress. Farewell, Nan.% [Exeunt MRS. PAGE and ANNE.} QUICKLY. This is my doing now: 'Nay,' said I, 'will you cast away your child on a fool, and a physician? Look on Master Fenton.' This is my doing. FENTON. I thank thee; and I pray thee, once to-night Give my sweet Nan this ring. There's for thy pains. QUICKLY. Now Heaven send thee good fortune! [Exit FENTON.] A kind heart he hath; a woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. But yet I would my master had Mistress Anne; or I would Master Slender had her; or, in sooth, I would Master Fenton had her; I will do what I can for them all three, for so I have promised, and I'll be as good as my word; but speciously for Master Fenton. Well, I must of another errand to Sir John Falstaff from my two mistresses: what a beast am I to slack it! [Exit.]

SCENE V. A ROOM IN THE GARTER INN. [Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH.] FALSTAFF. Bardolph, I say,-BARDOLPH. Here, sir.

Spanish beast: bestia, animal. cast: lanzar, lanzamiento, arrojar, echar, colar, elenco, molde. errand: recado, mensaje, mandado, encargo. farewell: adiós, despedida. fool: engañar, necio, tonto. fortune: suerte, fortuna. gentle: dulce, suave, manso, apacible. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister. mistress: señora.

page: página, paje, botones. pains: dolores del parto, esfuerzos, desvelos. physician: médico, doctor. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. promised: prometido. ring: anillo, el anillo, llamar, aro, anilla, argolla, tocar la campanilla, sonar, sortija, corro. send: enviar, envío, envía, envíe,

enviad, enviáis, enviamos, envían, envías, envíen, mandar. slack: flojo, flojera. sooth: verdad, realidad. speciously: engañosamente, especiosamente. sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. thy: tu.

William Shakespeare

79

FALSTAFF. Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in 't. [Exit BARDOLPH.]Have I lived to be carried in a basket, and to be thrown in the Thames like a barrow of butcher's offal? Well, if I be served such another trick, I'll have my brains ta'en out and buttered, and give them to a dog for a new year's gift. The rogues slighted me into the river with as little remorse as they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies, fifteen i' the litter; and you may know by my size that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; if the bottom were as deep as hell I should down. I had been drowned but that the shore was shelvy and shallow; a death that I abhor, for the water swells a man; and what a thing should I have been when had been swelled! I should have been a mountain of mummy.% [Re-enter BARDOLPH, with the sack.] BARDOLPH. Here's Mistress Quickly, sir, to speak with you. FALSTAFF. Come, let me pour in some sack to the Thames water; for my belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for pills to cool the reins. Call her in. BARDOLPH. Come in, woman. [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY.] QUICKLY. By your leave. I cry you mercy. Give your worship good morrow. FALSTAFF. Take away these chalices. Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. BARDOLPH. With eggs, sir? FALSTAFF. Simple of itself; I'll no pullet-sperm in my brewage.

Spanish abhor: detestar, detesta, detesten, detestan, detestas, detesto, detestamos, detestáis, detestad, deteste, aborrecer. alacrity: alacridad, diligencia. barrow: parihuela, carretilla. blind: ciego, persiana, deslumbrar, deslumbrad, deslumbre, deslumbras, deslumbran, deslumbro, deslumbramos, deslumbráis, deslumbren. butcher's: carnicería.

cry: llorar, grito, gritar, lamento. drowned: se ahogado, ahogado. eggs: huevos. exit: salida, salir, la salida. finely: finamente, en trozos menudos. litter: camilla, basura, andas, camada. mountain: montaña, monte. offal: desperdicios, asaduras. pour: derramar, verter, lluvia intensa, servir. quart: cuarto de galón. reins: riñones, rienda, riendas.

remorse: remordimiento. served: servido. shore: orilla, costa, ribera. sinking: hundimiento, sumidero. swallowed: deglutido, dar crédito a, contener, golondrina, tragado, tragarse, tragar. swelled: hinchado. thrown: tirado, pp de throw. toast: asar, tostada, brindis, tostar, la tostada. year's: año.

80

The Merry Wives of Windsor

[Exit BARDOLPH.] How now! QUICKLY. Marry, sir, I come to your worship from Mistress Ford.% FALSTAFF. Mistress Ford! I have had ford enough; I was thrown into the ford; I have my belly full of ford. QUICKLY. Alas the day! good heart, that was not her fault: she does so take on with her men; they mistook their erection. FALSTAFF. So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman's promise. QUICKLY. Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it. Her husband goes this morning a-birding; she desires you once more to come to her between eight and nine; I must carry her word quickly. She'll make you amends, I warrant you. FALSTAFF. Well, I will visit her. Tell her so; and bid her think what a man is; let her consider his frailty, and then judge of my merit. QUICKLY. I will tell her. FALSTAFF. Do so. Between nine and ten, sayest thou? QUICKLY. Eight and nine, sir. FALSTAFF. Well, be gone; I will not miss her.

Spanish amends: enmienda, corrige, compensación. belly: vientre, barriga, panza. bid: ofrecer, licitación, postura, oferta, solicitar, licitar, pedir, demandar, rogar, puja. build: construir, edificar, tipo. consider: considerar, considerad, considero, consideren, consideras, consideran, consideramos, consideráis, considera, considere, contemplar.

erection: erección. fault: culpa, defecto, avería, falla, falta, fallo, error, imperfección. foolish: zote, tonto, necio, bobo. ford: vado. frailty: debilidad, flaqueza, cosa débil, fragilidad. judge: juez, juzgar, el juez, criticar. merit: merecer, mérito. mistook: pret de mistake. nine: nueve. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos.

thrown: tirado, pp de throw. visit: visitar, visita, visitad, visiten, visitan, visitas, visito, visitamos, visitáis, visite. warrant: garantía, orden, orden por escrito, certificado, autorizar, autorización. worship: adorar, adoración, culto, veneración. yearn: anhelar, anhele, anhelo, desear, anhelad, anhelen, anhelas, anhelan, anhelamos, anheláis, anhela.

William Shakespeare

81

QUICKLY. Peace be with you, sir. [Exit.] FALSTAFF. I marvel I hear not of Master Brook; he sent me word to stay within. I like his money well. O! here he comes.% [Enter FORD disguised.] FORD. Bless you, sir! FALSTAFF. Now, Master Brook, you come to know what hath passed between me and Ford's wife? FORD. That, indeed, Sir John, is my business. FALSTAFF. Master Brook, I will not lie to you: I was at her house the hour she appointed me. FORD. And how sped you, sir? FALSTAFF. Very ill-favouredly, Master Brook. FORD. How so, sir? did she change her determination? FALSTAFF. No. Master Brook; but the peaking cornuto her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy; and at his heels a rabble of his companions,

Spanish appointed: nombrado, designado. comedy: comedia, la comedia. continual: continuo. determination: determinación. dwelling: morando, vivienda, morada. embraced: abrazado. encounter: encuentro, encontrar, encuentran, encuentren, encuentre, encuentras, encuentra, encontramos, encontrad, encontráis, hallar. heels: taco, tacón. hour: hora, la hora.

husband: marido, esposo, el esposo. instant: momento, instante, momentito, instantáneo. jealousy: celos. kissed: Besado. lie: mentir, mentira, yacer, estar tendido, embuste, echarse. marvel: maravilla, asombrarse. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister. o: oxígeno. passed: pasado.

prologue: prólogo. protested: protestado. rabble: canalla. sent: enviado, mandado, despachado. sped: pret y pp de speed. spoke: decir, radio, rayo, raya, radioactivo, rayo de rueda, hablar, pret de speak, expresar. stay: quedarse, quedar, queden, quede, quedas, quedan, quedamos, quedáis, quedad, queda, quedo.

82

The Merry Wives of Windsor

thither provoked and instigated by his distemper, and, forsooth, to search his house for his wife's love.% FORD. What! while you were there? FALSTAFF. While I was there. FORD. And did he search for you, and could not find you? FALSTAFF. You shall hear. As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Ford's approach; and, in her invention and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket. FORD. A buck-basket! FALSTAFF. By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins, that, Master Brook, there was the rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril. FORD. And how long lay you there? FALSTAFF. Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook, what I have suffered to bring this woman to evil for your good. Being thus crammed in the basket, a couple of Ford's knaves, his hinds, were called forth by their mistress to carry me in the name of foul clothes to Datchet-lane; they took me on their shoulders; met the jealous knave their master in the door; who asked them once or twice what they had in their basket. I quaked for fear lest the lunatic knave would have searched it; but Fate, ordaining he should be a cuckold, held his hand. Well, on went he for a search, and away went I for foul clothes. But mark the sequel, Master Brook: I suffered the pangs of three several deaths: first, an

Spanish compound: compuesto. conveyed: entregado, alargado. couple: embragar, pareja, par, acoplar. crammed: Atracado, hasta los topes. distraction: distracción. evil: mal, malo, malvado. forsooth: en verdad. held: tuvo lugar, sostuvo. hinds: trasero. instigated: instigado. intelligence: inteligencia. invention: invención, invento.

knaves: valets. lest: para que no, a no ser que, con el fin de, no sea que, si es necesario. lunatic: lunático. mark: señal, seña, marca, nota, marcar, sellar, signo, timbrar, señalar, marcos, marco. napkins: servilletas. nostril: orificio nasal. offended: ofendido, injuriado, ultrajado, insultado, delinquido. ordaining: ordenando.

provoked: provocado. quaked: temblado. rammed: apisonado. searched: buscado. sequel: continuación. shirts: camisas. socks: calcetines. stockings: las medias. suffered: sufrido, padecido. thither: allá. twice: dos veces. villainous: villano.

William Shakespeare

83

intolerable fright to be detected with a jealous rotten bell-wether; next, to be compassed like a good bilbo in the circumference of a peck, hilt to point, heel to head; and then, to be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking clothes that fretted in their own grease: think of that; a man of my kidney, think of that, that am as subject to heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution and thaw: it was a miracle to 'scape suffocation. And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of that, hissing hot, think of that, Master Brook! FORD. In good sadness, sir, I am sorry that for my sake you have suffered all this. My suit, then, is desperate; you'll undertake her no more.% FALSTAFF. Master Brook, I will be thrown into Etna, as I have been into Thames, ere I will leave her thus. Her husband is this morning gone a-birding; I have received from her another embassy of meeting; 'twixt eight and nine is the hour, Master Brook. FORD. 'Tis past eight already, sir. FALSTAFF. Is it? I will then address me to my appointment. Come to me at your convenient leisure, and you shall know how I speed, and the conclusion shall be crowned with your enjoying her: adieu. You shall have her, Master Brook; Master Brook, you shall cuckold Ford. [Exit.] FORD. Hum! ha! Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep? Master Ford, awake; awake, Master Ford. There's a hole made in your best coat, Master Ford. This 'tis to be married; this 'tis to have linen and buck-baskets! Well, I will proclaim myself what I am; I will now take the lecher; he is at my house. He cannot scape me; 'tis impossible he should; he cannot creep into a half-penny

Spanish bell-wether: guia del rebano. circumference: perímetro, circunferencia, la circunferencia. cooled: refrescado. crowned: verdadero, coronado. detected: detectado. dissolution: disolución. distillation: destilación. embassy: embajada. fretted: preocupado. fright: espanto, susto, miedo, angustia, terror.

glowing: resplandeciente. hilt: puño. hissing: silbar, silbido, sisteo. horse-shoe: herradura. intolerable: intolerable. kidney: riñón. lecher: libertino. miracle: milagro. peck: picotazo. proclaim: proclamar, proclamad, proclamáis, proclamamos, proclaman, proclamas, proclama,

proclamo, proclamen, proclame, promulgar. rotten: podrido, corrompido. sadness: tristeza. scape: fuste, cañón, bohordo. stinking: hediondo. suffocation: asfixia, sofocación. surge: surgir, sobretensión, oleaje. thaw: deshielo, deshelar, deshelas, deshelo, deshela, deshelad, desheláis, deshelan, deshele, deshelen, deshelamos.

84

The Merry Wives of Windsor

purse, %nor into a pepper box; but, lest the devil that guides him should aid him, I will search impossible places. 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. [Exit.]

Spanish aid: ayuda, ayudar, asistente, ayudante, la curita, auxilio, socorro. avoid: evitar, evito, evitan, evitamos, evitáis, evitad, eviten, evita, evitas, evite, eludir. box: caja, estuche, arca, casilla, boxear, la caja, jarro, recuadro, olla, palco, cajetín. cannot: presente de no poder. devil: diablo, el diablo. guides: guías. horns: herramienta, cornamenta,

cuernos, cuerna. registro, investigación. impossible: imposible. tame: manso, domesticado, domar, lest: para que no, a no ser que, con el adiestrar, domado, amansar, dócil. fin de, no sea que, si es necesario. mad: loco, enojado, chiflado, majara, majareta, demente, enfadado. pepper: pimienta, la pimienta, pimiento. proverb: proverbio. purse: portamonedas, monedero, colecta, bolsa, bolso, la bolsa, cartera. search: buscar, búsqueda, busca,

William Shakespeare

85

ACT IV

SCENE I. THE STREET.% [Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and WILLIAM.] MRS. PAGE. Is he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou? QUICKLY. Sure he is by this; or will be presently; but truly he is very courageous mad about his throwing into the water. Mistress Ford desires you to come suddenly. MRS. PAGE. I'll be with her by and by; I'll but bring my young man here to school. Look where his master comes; 'tis a playing day, I see. [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS.] How now, Sir Hugh, no school to-day? EVANS. No; Master Slender is let the boys leave to play. QUICKLY. Blessing of his heart!

Spanish boys: los muchachos. bring: traer, traigan, trae, traed, traéis, traemos, traen, traigo, traes, traiga, llevar. comes: Viene. courageous: bravo, valeroso, valiente. heart: corazón, cogollo. leave: salir, sal, sale, salís, salimos, salgo, salgan, salga, sales, salen, saled. mad: loco, enojado, chiflado, majara, majareta, demente, enfadado.

master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, throwing: lanzamiento. principal, magister. to-day: hoy. mistress: señora. truly: verdaderamente, de veras, en mrs: Sra., señorita. realidad, en efecto, realmente. play: jugar, jueguen, juega, juegan, juegue, jugad, jugáis, jugamos, juegas, juego, tocar. playing: jugando, tocando, jugar. presently: por ahora. suddenly: de repente, de golpe, repentinamente, de sopetón. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos.

86

The Merry Wives of Windsor

MRS. PAGE. Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in the world at his book; I pray you ask him some questions in his accidence.% EVANS. Come hither, William; hold up your head; come. MRS. PAGE. Come on, sirrah; hold up your head; answer your master; be not afraid. EVANS. William, how many numbers is in nouns? WILLIAM. Two. QUICKLY. Truly, I thought there had been one number more, because they say 'Od's nouns.' EVANS. Peace your tattlings! What is 'fair,' William? WILLIAM. Pulcher. QUICKLY. Polecats! There are fairer things than polecats, sure. EVANS. You are a very simplicity 'oman; I pray you, peace. What is 'lapis,' William? WILLIAM. A stone. EVANS. And what is 'a stone,' William? WILLIAM. A pebble.

Spanish afraid: miedoso, temeroso, asustado, medroso, miedo, encogido, angustioso, tímido, be - tener miedo. answer: respuesta, responder, contestar, contestación, responder a, corresponder al, contestar a, la respuesta, réplica. ask: preguntar, preguntáis, preguntad, pregunto, pregunten, preguntas, preguntan, preguntamos, pregunte, pregunta, pedir. hither: acá.

hold: tener, sujetar, continuar, retención, sostener, contener, mantener, retenido, presa, bodega. husband: marido, esposo, el esposo. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister. mrs: Sra., señorita. numbers: números. peace: paz, la paz. pebble: guijarro. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo,

rogar. profits: beneficios. questions: preguntas. simplicity: simplicidad, sencillez. son: hijo, el hijo. stone: piedra, la piedra, cálculo. sure: seguro, cierto.

William Shakespeare

87

EVANS. No, it is 'lapis'; I pray you remember in your prain.% WILLIAM. Lapis. EVANS. That is a good William. What is he, William, that does lend articles? WILLIAM. Articles are borrowed of the pronoun, and be thus declined: Singulariter, nominativo; hic, haec, hoc. EVANS. Nominativo, hig, hag, hog; pray you, mark: genitivo, hujus. Well, what is your accusative case? WILLIAM. Accusativo, hinc. EVANS. I pray you, have your remembrance, child. Accusativo, hung, hang, hog. QUICKLY. 'Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I warrant you. EVANS. Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the focative case, William? WILLIAM. O,--vocativo, O. EVANS. Remember, William: focative is caret. QUICKLY. And that's a good root. EVANS. 'Oman, forbear.

Spanish accusative: acusativo. articles: constitución, estatutos, articulado, artículos, estipulaciones. bacon: tocino, el tocino, beicon, lardo, tocino ahumado. borrowed: prestado. caret: símbolo del acento circunflejo, signo de intercalación. declined: rechazado. forbear: antepasado. hag: bruja. hang: colgar.

hoc: éste. hog: cerdo. hung: colgó, pret y pp de hang, colgado, continuado. lend: prestar, presto, preste, presten, prestas, prestan, prestamos, prestáis, prestad, presta. mark: señal, seña, marca, nota, marcar, sellar, signo, timbrar, señalar, marcos, marco. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo,

rogar. pronoun: pronombre. remember: recordar, recuerde, recuerdo, recuerdan, recuerdas, recuerden, recordamos, recordad, recordáis, recuerda, acordarse de. remembrance: recuerdo. root: raíz. warrant: garantía, orden, orden por escrito, certificado, autorizar, autorización.

88

The Merry Wives of Windsor

MRS. PAGE. Peace.% EVANS. What is your genitive case plural, William? WILLIAM. Genitive case? EVANS. Ay. WILLIAM. Genitivo: horum, harum, horum. QUICKLY. Vengeance of Jenny's case; fie on her! Never name her, child, if she be a whore. EVANS. For shame, 'oman. QUICKLY. You do ill to teach the child such words. He teaches him to hick and to hack, which they'll do fast enough of themselves; and to call 'horum;' fie upon you! EVANS. 'Oman, art thou lunatics? Hast thou no understandings for thy cases, and the numbers of the genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as I would desires. MRS. PAGE. Prithee, hold thy peace. EVANS. Show me now, William, some declensions of your pronouns. WILLIAM. Forsooth, I have forgot.

Spanish art: arte, el arte. call: llamada, llamar, llaman, llamen, llamad, llamas, llamo, llamamos, llamáis, llame, llama. declensions: declinaciones. fast: rápido, ayunar, fijo, de prisa, pronto, veloz, ligero, firme, ayuno. foolish: zote, tonto, necio, bobo. forgot: olvidado, pret de forget. genitive: genitivo. hack: cortar, cortas, cortan, cortamos, cortáis, cortad, corta, corto, corten,

corte, tajar. hast: haya. hick: de Aldea, Paleto, Palurdo, porro, Rústico. hold: tener, sujetar, continuar, retención, sostener, contener, mantener, retenido, presa, bodega. ill: enfermo, malo, doliente. mrs: Sra., señorita. numbers: números. peace: paz, la paz. plural: plural.

shame: vergüenza, verguenza, pudor, oprobio, avergonzar. teach: enseñar, enseñáis, enseñamos, enseñad, enseñan, enseñas, enseñen, enseño, Enseñe, enseña, instruir. teaches: enseña, instruye, desacostumbra. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. thy: tu. whore: puta, prostituta.

William Shakespeare

89

EVANS. It is qui, quae, quod; if you forget your 'quis', your 'quaes', and your 'quods', you must be preeches. Go your ways and play; go.% MRS. PAGE. He is a better scholar than I thought he was. EVANS. He is a good sprag memory. Farewell, Mistress Page. MRS. PAGE. Adieu, good Sir Hugh. [Exit SIR HUGH.] Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long. [Exeunt.]

SCENE II. A ROOM IN FORD'S HOUSE. [Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS FORD.] FALSTAFF. Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my sufferance. I see you are obsequious in your love, and I profess requital to a hair's breadth; not only, Mistress Ford, in the simple office of love, but in all the accoutrement, complement, and ceremony of it. But are you sure of your husband now? MRS. FORD. He's a-birding, sweet Sir John. MRS. PAGE. [Within.] What ho! gossip Ford, what ho! MRS. FORD. Step into the chamber, Sir John.

Spanish accoutrement: accesorio, accesorios reglamentarios del uniforme de las Naciones Unidas. breadth: ancho, amplitud, anchura. ceremony: ceremonia. chamber: cámara, habitación, cuarto. complement: complemento, complementar. eaten: comido. farewell: adiós, despedida. forget: olvidar, olvidan, olviden, olvidas, olvidamos, olvidáis, olvidad,

olvida, olvide, olvido, olvidarse. gossip: cotillear, cotilleo, chismear, chismes, los chismes, chismorreo. husband: marido, esposo, el esposo. memory: memoria, recuerdo, la memoria. obsequious: obsequioso. profess: confesar, declarar, declarad, declaro, declaren, declare, declaras, declaran, declaráis, declara, confesáis. quod: cárcel, chirona, encarcelar, poner a la sombra.

requital: compensación, desquite, satisfacción. scholar: erudito, estudiante, escolar. sorrow: tristeza, pena, dolor. stay: quedarse, quedar, queden, quede, quedas, quedan, quedamos, quedáis, quedad, queda, quedo. sufferance: toleranica, tolerancia, sufrimiento, consentimiento, paciencia. sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre.

90

The Merry Wives of Windsor

[Exit FALSTAFF.] [Enter MISTRESS PAGE.] MRS. PAGE. How now, sweetheart! who's at home besides yourself? MRS. FORD. Why, none but mine own people.% MRS. PAGE. Indeed! MRS. FORD. No, certainly.--[Aside to her.] Speak louder. MRS. PAGE. Truly, I am so glad you have nobody here. MRS. FORD. Why? MRS. PAGE. Why, woman, your husband is in his old lunes again. He so takes on yonder with my husband; so rails against all married mankind; so curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever; and so buffets himself on the forehead, crying 'Peer out, peer out!' that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but tameness, civility, and patience, to this his distemper he is in now. I am glad the fat knight is not here. MRS. FORD. Why, does he talk of him? MRS. PAGE. Of none but him; and swears he was carried out, the last time he searched for him, in a basket; protests to my husband he is now here; and hath drawn him and the rest of their company from their sport, to make another experiment of his suspicion. But I am glad the knight is not here; now he shall see his own foolery.

Spanish beheld: considerado, observado, contemplado, visto, advertido, mirado, Percibido, pret y pp de behold. buffets: bufé autoservico, bufé frio, bufé, bufés. civility: cortesía. complexion: cutis, tez. crying: llorando. daughters: hijas. distemper: moquillo, pintura al temple.

drawn: dibujado, encantado, trazado. experiment: experimento, experimentar. fat: gordo, grasa, grueso, manteca. foolery: tontería. forehead: frente, la frente. knight: caballero, caballo. madness: locura, demencia, chifladura. mankind: humanidad. married: casado, casada, se casado, conyugal.

peer: par, igual. rails: valores de ferrocarriles, vertical de barras. rest: descansar, descanso, resto, detrito, desechos, reposar, reposo. searched: buscado. swears: jura. sweetheart: novio, querido. takes: toma, desempeña. tameness: falta de temor, sosería, insipidez, mansedumbre. yonder: allí, ahí, aquel.

William Shakespeare

91

MRS. FORD. How near is he, Mistress Page? MRS. PAGE. Hard by, at street end; he will be here anon.% MRS. FORD. I am undone! the knight is here. MRS. PAGE. Why, then, you are utterly shamed, and he's but a dead man. What a woman are you! Away with him, away with him! better shame than murder. MRS. FORD. Which way should he go? How should I bestow him? Shall I put him into the basket again? [Re-enter FALSTAFF.} FALSTAFF. No, I'll come no more i' the basket. May I not go out ere he come? MRS. PAGE. Alas! three of Master Ford's brothers watch the door with pistols, that none shall issue out; otherwise you might slip away ere he came. But what make you here? FALSTAFF. What shall I do? I'll creep up into the chimney. MRS. FORD. There they always use to discharge their birding-pieces. MRS. PAGE. Creep into the kiln-hole. FALSTAFF. Where is it? MRS. FORD. He will seek there, on my word. Neither press, coffer, chest, trunk, well,

Spanish basket: cesto, cesta, la cesta, canasta, barquilla, canasto. bestow: conferir, otorgar. brothers: hermanos. chest: pecho, arca, aparador, el pecho, caja. chimney: chimenea, la chimenea. coffer: panel empotrado. creep: arrastrarse, arrastrar, deslizamiento, arrastre, fluencia, arrastras, arrastren, arrastran, arrastramos, arrastráis, arrastrad.

discharge: descarga, despedir, descargar, absolver, despido, dar de alta, poner en libertad, descargo. ere: antes de. knight: caballero, caballo. murder: asesinar, asesinato, homicidio, el asesinato. shame: vergüenza, verguenza, pudor, oprobio, avergonzar. shamed: avergonzado. slip: deslizamiento, resbalar, desliz, deslizar, combinación.

trunk: tronco, baúl, maleta, trompa, portaequipajes. undone: deshecho. utterly: absolutamente. watch: reloj, mirar, observar, reloj de pulsera, ver, contemplar, el reloj, prestar atención, vigilar, guardia, guardar.

92

The Merry Wives of Windsor

vault, but he hath an abstract for the remembrance of such places, and goes to them by his note: there is no hiding you in the house.% FALSTAFF. I'll go out then. MRS. PAGE. If you go out in your own semblance, you die, Sir John. Unless you go out disguised,-MRS. FORD. How might we disguise him? MRS. PAGE. Alas the day! I know not! There is no woman's gown big enough for him; otherwise he might put on a hat, a muffler, and a kerchief, and so escape. FALSTAFF. Good hearts, devise something: any extremity rather than a mischief. MRS. FORD. My maid's aunt, the fat woman of Brainford, has a gown above. MRS. PAGE. On my word, it will serve him; she's as big as he is; and there's her thrummed hat, and her muffler too. Run up, Sir John. MRS. FORD. Go, go, sweet Sir John. Mistress Page and I will look some linen for your head. MRS. PAGE. Quick, quick! we'll come dress you straight; put on the gown the while. [Exit FALSTAFF.] MRS. FORD. I would my husband would meet him in this shape; he cannot abide the old woman of Brainford; he swears she's a witch, forbade her my house, and hath threatened to beat her.

Spanish abide: esperar, tolerar, tolere, esperamos, esperan, esperáis, esperas, esperad, espere, tolera, esperen. abstract: resumen, abstracto, descolgar, extracto, decudir, arrancar, abstraer, quitar, compendio. aunt: tía. beat: golpear, batido, batir, pegar, apalear, pulsación, latido, batimiento. cannot: presente de no poder. devise: idear, disposiciones

testamentarias. escape: escaparse, escapar, huida, fuga, escape, evadir, escapada, huir. extremity: extremidad, extremo, extremidades. forbade: pret de forbid, entredicho, prohibió. gown: vestido, toga. kerchief: pañuelo. mischief: travesura. muffler: silenciador, bufanda. remembrance: recuerdo.

semblance: semejanza. serve: servir, sirva, sirvo, servimos, servid, servís, sirvan, sirve, sirven, sirves. shape: forma, formar, figura, amoldar, horma, la forma, perfil, conformar. swears: jura. thrummed: Tecleado. vault: bóveda, sótano, cámara acorazada, caja fuerte. we'll: Haremos. witch: bruja, la bruja.

William Shakespeare

93

MRS. PAGE. Heaven guide him to thy husband's cudgel; and the devil guide his cudgel afterwards! MRS. FORD. But is my husband coming? MRS. PAGE. Ay, in good sadness is he; and talks of the basket too, howsoever he hath had intelligence.% MRS. FORD. We'll try that; for I'll appoint my men to carry the basket again, to meet him at the door with it as they did last time. MRS. PAGE. Nay, but he'll be here presently; let's go dress him like the witch of Brainford. MRS. FORD. I'll first direct my men what they shall do with the basket. Go up; I'll bring linen for him straight. [Exit.] MRS. PAGE. Hang him, dishonest varlet! we cannot We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do, Wives may be merry and yet honest too. We do not act that often jest and laugh; 'Tis old but true: 'Still swine eats all the draff.' [Exit.]

misuse

him

enough.

[Re-enter MISTRESS FORD, with two SERVANTS.] MRS. FORD. Go, sirs, take the basket again on your shoulders; your master is hard at door; if he bid you set it down, obey him. Quickly, dispatch. [Exit.]

Spanish appoint: nombrar, nombro, nombrad, nombráis, nombramos, nombran, nombras, nombren, nombra, nombre, designar. basket: cesto, cesta, la cesta, canasta, barquilla, canasto. cannot: presente de no poder. cudgel: garrote corto. devil: diablo, el diablo. direct: directo, mandar, guiar, derecho, dirigir. dishonest: ímprobo, deshonesto.

eats: come. guide: guía, guiar, mandar, dirigir, conducir. honest: honrado, sincero, honesto. howsoever: como quiera que. jest: bromear, broma. let's: permitanos. linen: lino, lencería, ropa blanca. merry: alegre. misuse: mal uso. obey: obedecer, obedecemos, obedezco, obedezcan, obedecen,

obedecéis, obedeced, obedece, obedeces, obedezca. presently: por ahora. proof: prueba, demostración, probanza. sadness: tristeza. sirs: señor. swine: cerdo. talks: habla, charla. thy: tu. varlet: truhán. witch: bruja, la bruja.

94

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FIRST SERVANT. Come, come, take it up.% SECOND SERVANT. Pray heaven, it be not full of knight again. FIRST SERVANT. I hope not; I had lief as bear so much lead. [Enter FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS.] FORD. Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any way then to unfool me again? Set down the basket, villain! Somebody call my wife. Youth in a basket! O you panderly rascals! there's a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy against me. Now shall the devil be shamed. What, wife, I say! Come, come forth! behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! PAGE. Why, this passes, Master Ford! you are not to go loose any longer; you must be pinioned. EVANS. Why, this is lunatics! this is mad as a mad dog. SHALLOW. Indeed, Master Ford, this is not well, indeed. FORD. So say I too, sir.-[Re-enter MISTRESS FORD.] Come hither, Mistress Ford, the honest woman, the modest wife, the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to her husband! I suspect without cause, Mistress, do I? MRS. FORD. Heaven be my witness, you do, if you suspect me in any dishonesty.

Spanish basket: cesto, cesta, la cesta, canasta, barquilla, canasto. behold: tenga. bleaching: blanqueo. conspiracy: conspiración. creature: criatura. devil: diablo, el diablo. dishonesty: deshonestidad. fool: engañar, necio, tonto. forth: adelante. heaven: cielo. hither: acá.

honest: honrado, sincero, honesto. jealous: celoso. knight: caballero, caballo. knot: nudo, correlimos gordo, lazo. lief: con placer. longer: más, más tiempo. loose: suelto, flojo. mad: loco, enojado, chiflado, majara, majareta, demente, enfadado. modest: modesto. pack: paquete, empacar, embalar, empaquetar, manada, envolver.

panderly: Alcahuete. pinioned: maniató. shamed: avergonzado. somebody: alguien, alguno, cierto. suspect: sospechar, dudar, sospechoso. villain: bribón, malo. virtuous: virtuoso. witness: testigo, presenciar, atestiguar, testimonio. youth: juventud, joven, jóvenes, adolescencia.

William Shakespeare

95

FORD. Well said, brazen-face! hold it out. Come forth, sirrah.% [Pulling clothes out of the basket.] PAGE. This passes! MRS. FORD. Are you not ashamed? Let the clothes alone. FORD. I shall find you anon. EVANS. 'Tis unreasonable. Will you take up your wife's clothes? Come away. FORD. Empty the basket, I say! MRS. FORD. Why, man, why? FORD. Master Page, as I am a man, there was one conveyed out of my house yesterday in this basket: why may not he be there again? In my house I am sure he is; my intelligence is true; my jealousy is reasonable. Pluck me out all the linen. MRS. FORD. If you find a man there, he shall die a flea's death. PAGE. Here's no man. SHALLOW. By my fidelity, this is not well, Master Ford; this wrongs you. EVANS. Master Ford, you must pray, and not follow the imaginations of your own heart; this is jealousies.

Spanish alone: solo, único, solamente, sólo. anon: pronto. ashamed: avergonzado, vergonzoso. basket: cesto, cesta, la cesta, canasta, barquilla, canasto. clothes: ropa, viste, la ropa, ropaje. conveyed: entregado, alargado. die: morir, morid, mueran, muere, morís, mueren, mueres, muero, morimos, muera, molde. fidelity: fidelidad, la fidelidad. follow: seguir, seguid, sigues, siguen,

sigue, sigo, sigan, seguís, seguimos, siga, venir después. forth: adelante. heart: corazón, cogollo. hold: tener, sujetar, continuar, retención, sostener, contener, mantener, retenido, presa, bodega. intelligence: inteligencia. jealousy: celos. linen: lino, lencería, ropa blanca. mrs: Sra., señorita. pluck: arrancar, tirón, cortar,

desplumar. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. reasonable: razonable, prudencial. sure: seguro, cierto. true: verdadero, cierto. unreasonable: irrazonable. yesterday: ayer.

96

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FORD. Well, he's not here I seek for.% PAGE. No, nor nowhere else but in your brain. [SERVANTS carry away the basket.] FORD. Help to search my house this one time. If I find not what I seek, show no colour for my extremity; let me for ever be your table-sport; let them say of me 'As jealous as Ford, that searched a hollow walnut for his wife's leman.' Satisfy me once more; once more search with me. MRS. FORD. What, hoa, Mistress Page! Come you and the old woman down; my husband will come into the chamber. FORD. Old woman? what old woman's that? MRS. FORD. Why, it is my maid's aunt of Brainford. FORD. A witch, a quean, an old cozening quean! Have I not forbid her my house? She comes of errands, does she? We are simple men; we do not know what's brought to pass under the profession of fortune-telling. She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is, beyond our element. We know nothing. Come down, you witch, you hag you; come down, I say! MRS. FORD. Nay, good sweet husband! Good gentlemen, let him not strike the old woman. [Re-enter FALSTAFF in woman's clothes, led by MISTRESS PAGE.]

Spanish aunt: tía. beyond: más allá de, a través de, luego, después, allende, más allá. brain: cerebro, seso. chamber: cámara, habitación, cuarto. charms: amuletos. colour: color, colorear, coloración. element: elemento, ingrediente. extremity: extremidad, extremo, extremidades. forbid: prohibir, prohibid, prohiban, prohibo, prohibimos, prohibes,

prohiben, prohibe, prohibís, prohiba. gentlemen: señores. hag: bruja. hollow: hueco, cavidad, hondonada, vacuo. jealous: celoso. led: guiado, conducido, dirigido. nowhere: en ninguna parte. profession: profesión, oficio. quean: marica, mujer perdida. searched: buscado. seek: buscar, busque, busca, buscan,

buscamos, busquen, buscas, buscáis, buscad, busco. spells: los hechizos. strike: huelga, golpear, llamar, declararse en huelga, acertar, paro, golpe. sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre. walnut: nuez, nogal, la nuez. witch: bruja, la bruja.

William Shakespeare

97

MRS. PAGE. Come, Mother Prat; come, give me your hand. FORD. I'll prat her.--[Beats him.] Out of my door, you witch, you rag, you baggage, you polecat, you ronyon! Out, out! I'll conjure you, I'll fortune-tell you.% [Exit FALSTAFF.] MRS. PAGE. Are you not ashamed? I think you have killed the poor woman. MRS. FORD. Nay, he will do it. 'Tis a goodly credit for you. FORD. Hang her, witch! EVANS. By yea and no, I think the 'oman is a witch indeed; I like not when a 'oman has a great peard; I spy a great peard under her muffler. FORD. Will you follow, gentlemen? I beseech you follow; see but the issue of my jealousy; if I cry out thus upon no trail, never trust me when I open again. PAGE. Let's obey his humour a little further. Come, gentlemen. [Exeunt FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, CAIUS, and EVANS.] MRS. PAGE. Trust me, he beat him most pitifully. MRS. FORD. Nay, by the mass, that he did not; he beat him most unpitifully methought. MRS. PAGE. I'll have the cudgel hallowed and hung o'er the altar; it hath done meritorious service.

Spanish altar: altar. baggage: equipaje, equipajes, el equipaje, bagaje. beseech: supliquen, rogáis, rogamos, ruega, ruegan, ruegas, ruegue, rueguen, suplica, suplicamos, rogad. conjure: conjurar. credit: crédito, haber, acreditar. cudgel: garrote corto. goodly: agradable, excelente, hermoso, guapo, gracioso, crecido, bueno, buenamente, bello, bien parecido.

hallowed: santificado, bendito. jealousy: celos. mass: masa, misa, en masa. meritorious: meritorio. muffler: silenciador, bufanda. obey: obedecer, obedecemos, obedezco, obedezcan, obedecen, obedecéis, obedeced, obedece, obedeces, obedezca. o'er: sobre. pitifully: lastimosamente. polecat: turón, mofeta.

poor: pobre, malo, deplorable, indigente, miserable. prat: imbécil, nalgas. rag: trapo, andrajo, harapo. spy: espiar, espía, acechar. trail: sendero, camino, reguero. witch: bruja, la bruja. yea: ciertamente, sin duda, sí, voto afirmativo, además.

98

The Merry Wives of Windsor

MRS. FORD. What think you? May we, with the warrant of womanhood and the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge? MRS. PAGE. The spirit of wantonness is sure scared out of him; if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the way of waste, attempt us again.% MRS. FORD. Shall we tell our husbands how we have served him? MRS. PAGE. Yes, by all means; if it be but to scrape the figures out of your husband's brains. If they can find in their hearts the poor unvirtuous fat knight shall be any further afflicted, we two will still be the ministers. MRS. FORD. I'll warrant they'll have him publicly shamed; and methinks there would be no period to the jest, should he not be publicly shamed. MRS. PAGE. Come, to the forge with it then; shape it. I would not have things cool. [Exeunt.]

SCENE III. A ROOM IN THE GARTER INN. [Enter HOST and BARDOLPH.] BARDOLPH. Sir, the Germans desire to have three of your horses; the Duke himself will be to-morrow at court, and they are going to meet him.

Spanish afflicted: afligido. attempt: intentar, intenta, intentad, intentáis, intentamos, intentas, intente, intenten, intentan, intento, tentativa. brains: sesos, inteligencia. conscience: conciencia. devil: diablo, el diablo. figures: cifras. fine: multa, fino, multar, excelente, bonito, delgado, bien, estupendo, bueno.

forge: forjar, falsificar, forja, fraguar, inventar. hearts: corazones, copas. jest: bromear, broma. knight: caballero, caballo. ministers: asiste, atiende, auxilía, oficia. publicly: públicamente. recovery: recuperación, restablecimiento, curación. revenge: venganza, revancha. scared: asustado.

scrape: raspadura, rascar, raspar. shamed: avergonzado. to-morrow: mañana. wantonness: petulancia. warrant: garantía, orden, orden por escrito, certificado, autorizar, autorización. waste: desechos, desperdicio, residuo, residuos, detrito, gastar, acabar, desperdicios, derrochar, gasto, desecho. womanhood: condición femenina.

William Shakespeare

99

HOST. What duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear not of him in the court. Let me speak with the gentlemen; they speak English? BARDOLPH. Ay, sir; I'll call them to you. HOST. They shall have my horses, but I'll make them pay; I'll sauce them; they have had my house a week at command; I have turned away my other guests. They must come off; I'll sauce them. Come.% [Exeunt.]

SCENE IV. A ROOM IN FORD'S HOUSE. [Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS.] EVANS. 'Tis one of the best discretions of a 'oman as ever I did look upon. PAGE. And did he send you both these letters at an instant? MRS. PAGE. Within a quarter of an hour. FORD. Pardon me, wife. Henceforth, do what thou wilt; I rather will suspect the sun with cold Than thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand, In him that was of late an heretic, As firm as faith.

Spanish comes: Viene. command: mando, orden, mandato, comando, instrucción, capitanear, acaudillar. duke: duque. faith: fe, la fe. firm: firma, firme, fijo, empresa, sólido, fuerte, compañía. gentlemen: señores. hear: oír, oigan, oyes, oyen, oye, oís, oigo, oíd, oímos, oiga. henceforth: de aquí en adelante.

honour: honor, homenaje. horses: los caballos. hour: hora, la hora. instant: momento, instante, momentito, instantáneo. late: tarde, tardío, tardo. letters: letras. quarter: barrio, cuarto, trimestre. sauce: salsa, la salsa. secretly: secretamente. send: enviar, envío, envía, envíe, enviad, enviáis, enviamos, envían,

envías, envíen, mandar. speak: hablar, hablamos, hablo, hablas, habláis, hablad, hablen, habla, hablan, hable. sun: sol, el sol. suspect: sospechar, dudar, sospechoso. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. thy: tu. turned: girado, vuelto, trastornado. wantonness: petulancia.

100

The Merry Wives of Windsor

PAGE. 'Tis well, 'tis well; no more. Be not as extreme in submission As in offence; But let our plot go forward: let our wives Yet once again, to make us public sport, Appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow, Where we may take him and disgrace him for it.% FORD. There is no better way than that they spoke of. PAGE. How? To send him word they'll meet him in the park at midnight? Fie, fie! he'll never come! EVANS. You say he has been thrown in the rivers; and has been grievously peaten as an old 'oman; methinks there should be terrors in him, that he should not come; methinks his flesh is punished; he shall have no desires. PAGE. So think I too. MRS. FORD. Devise but how you'll use him when he comes, And let us two devise to bring him thither. MRS. PAGE. There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor Forest, Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner:

Spanish blood: sangre, la sangre. devise: idear, disposiciones testamentarias. disgrace: vergüenza, desgracia, deshonrar. dreadful: terrible, espantoso. extreme: extremo. fat: gordo, grasa, grueso, manteca. flesh: carne, pulpa. grievously: penosamente, crasamente, gravemente, gravosamente. hideous: horroroso, abominable,

horrible. keeper: guardián, custodio, guarda, cortocircuito magnético. makes: hace, comete, confecciona. meeting: encontrando, reunión, encuentro, hallando, sesión, entrevista, cita, asamblea. midnight: medianoche, media noche, la medianoche. oak: roble. park: parque, aparcar, el parque, estacionar.

plot: parcela, trama, argumento, complot, gráfico, solar, trazar. punished: castigado. shakes: sacude. tale: cuento. terrors: terrores. thither: allá. thrown: tirado, pp de throw. tree: árbol. yield: ceder, cedemos, cedes, cedo, ceden, cedéis, ceded, cede, ceda, cedan, rendimiento.

William Shakespeare

101

You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know The superstitious idle-headed eld Received, and did deliver to our age, This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth. PAGE. Why, yet there want not many that do fear In deep of night to walk by this Herne's oak. But what of this? MRS. FORD. Marry, this is our device; That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us, Disguis'd, like Herne, with huge horns on his head.% PAGE. Well, let it not be doubted but he'll come, And in this shape. When you have brought him thither, What shall be done with him? What is your plot? MRS. PAGE. That likewise have we thought upon, and thus: Nan Page my daughter, and my little son, And three or four more of their growth, we'll dress Like urchins, ouphs, and fairies, green and white, With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads, And rattles in their hands. Upon a sudden, As Falstaff, she, and I, are newly met, Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once With some diffused song; upon their sight We two in great amazedness will fly: Then let them all encircle him about, And fairy-like, to pinch the unclean knight; And ask him why, that hour of fairy revel,

Spanish deliver: entregar, entregas, entrego, entregan, entregamos, entregáis, entregad, entreguen, entrega, entregue. diffused: difundido, EXTENSIVO. doubted: dudado. encircle: rodear, rodeamos, rodeo, rodea, rodead, rodeáis, rodean, rodeen, rodeas, rodee, cercar. fairy: hada, la hada. forth: adelante. green: verde.

horns: herramienta, cornamenta, cuernos, cuerna. huge: enorme, inmenso, ingente. hunter: cazador. likewise: igualmente, también, ídem, asimismo. newly: nuevamente, recién, recientemente. oak: roble. pinch: pizca, apuro, pizcar, pellizco, pellizcar. plot: parcela, trama, argumento,

complot, gráfico, solar, trazar. rounds: cartuchería, redondea. rush: apresurarse, junco, prisa. song: canción, canto. superstitious: supersticioso. tale: cuento. unclean: sucio. urchins: pilluelos. waxen: ceroso. we'll: Haremos.

102

The Merry Wives of Windsor

In their so sacred paths he dares to tread In shape profane. MRS. FORD. And till he tell the truth, Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound, And burn him with their tapers. MRS. PAGE. The truth being known, We'll all present ourselves; dis-horn the spirit, And mock him home to Windsor.% FORD. The children must Be practis'd well to this or they'll ne'er do 't. EVANS. I will teach the children their behaviours; and I will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the knight with my taber. FORD. That will be excellent. I'll go buy them vizards. MRS. PAGE. My Nan shall be the Queen of all the Fairies, Finely attired in a robe of white. PAGE. That silk will I go buy. [Aside.] And in that time Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away, And marry her at Eton. Go, send to Falstaff straight. FORD. Nay, I'll to him again, in name of Brook; He'll tell me all his purpose. Sure, he'll come.

Spanish attired: atraído. burn: arder, quemar, quemadura, quemarse, encender, la quemadura, abrasar. buy: comprar, compra, procurarse, adquisición. dares: aventura, desafía, osa, se arriesga, se atreve. excellent: excelente. knight: caballero, caballo. marry: casarse, casar, cásese, se casan, se casa, nos casamos, me caso, te

casas, cásense, cásate, cásados. mock: burlarse, simulado, mofar. ne'er: nunca. ourselves: nosotros mismos. paths: trayectos. pinch: pizca, apuro, pizcar, pellizco, pellizcar. present: presente, actual, presentar, regalo, contemporáneo, ofrecer, reproducir, retratar. profane: profano. purpose: fin, objeto, finalidad,

propósito, intención. robe: vestido, toga. sacred: sagrado, sacro. shape: forma, formar, figura, amoldar, horma, la forma, perfil, conformar. silk: seda, la seda. steal: robar, hurtar, tomar. supposed: supuesto. teach: enseñar, enseñáis, enseñamos, enseñad, enseñan, enseñas, enseñen, enseño, Enseñe, enseña, instruir. till: caja, hasta que, hasta, a que.

William Shakespeare

103

MRS. %PAGE. Fear not you that. Go, get us properties And tricking for our fairies. EVANS. Let us about it. It is admirable pleasures, and fery honest knaveries. [Exeunt PAGE, FORD, and EVANS.] MRS. PAGE. Go, Mistress Ford. Send Quickly to Sir John to know his mind. [Exit MRS. FORD.] I'll to the Doctor; he hath my good will, And none but he, to marry with Nan Page. That Slender, though well landed, is an idiot; And he my husband best of all affects: The Doctor is well money'd, and his friends Potent at court: he, none but he, shall have her, Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her. [Exit.]

SCENE V. A ROOM IN THE GARTER INN. [Enter HOST and SIMPLE.] HOST. What wouldst thou have, boor? What, thick-skin? Speak, breathe, discuss; brief, short, quick, snap. SIMPLE. Marry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff from Master Slender.

Spanish admirable: admirable, estupendo. boor: patán. breathe: respirar, respira, respiren, respiras, respiran, respiramos, respirad, respiráis, respire, respiro. brief: breve, corto, informe, conciso. crave: ansiar, pedir, ansía, ansío, ansíen, ansíe, ansías, ansían, ansiad, ansiáis, ansiamos. discuss: discutir, discutan, discutimos, discutid, discutes, discuten, discute, discuto, discutís, discuta, debatir.

honest: honrado, sincero, honesto. husband: marido, esposo, el esposo. knaveries: Bribonadas. landed: puesto, posado, pescado, obtenido, logrado, llegado, hecho, hacendado, ganado, conseguido, dado. marry: casarse, casar, cásese, se casan, se casa, nos casamos, me caso, te casas, cásense, cásate, cásados. none: ninguno, nadie, nada. quick: rápido, pronto.

short: corto, bajo, breve. sir: señor. snap: chasquido. speak: hablar, hablamos, hablo, hablas, habláis, hablad, hablen, habla, hablan, hable. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. thousand: mil. twenty: veinte.

104

The Merry Wives of Windsor

HOST. There's his chamber, his house, his castle, his standing-bed and truckle-bed; 'tis painted about with the story of the Prodigal, fresh and new. Go knock and call; he'll speak like an Anthropophaginian unto thee; knock, I say. SIMPLE. There's an old woman, a fat woman, gone up into his chamber; I'll be so bold as stay, sir, till she come down; I come to speak with her, indeed. HOST. Ha! a fat woman? The knight may be robbed. I'll call. Bully knight! Bully Sir John! Speak from thy lungs military. Art thou there? It is thine host, thine Ephesian, calls.% FALSTAFF. [Above] How now, mine host? HOST. Here's a Bohemian-Tartar tarries the coming down of thy fat woman. Let her descend, bully, let her descend; my chambers are honourible. Fie! privacy? fie! [Enter FALSTAFF.] FALSTAFF. There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with, me; but she's gone. SIMPLE. Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of Brainford? FALSTAFF. Ay, marry was it, mussel-shell: what would you with her? SIMPLE. My master, sir, my Master Slender, sent to her, seeing her go thorough the streets, to know, sir, whether one Nym, sir, that beguiled him of a chain, had the chain or no.

Spanish beguiled: engañado. bold: grueso, negrita, audaz. bully: matón. castle: castillo, torre, el castillo. chamber: cámara, habitación, cuarto. chambers: recámara, compartimiento, cámara de comercio, aposento, cámara, cámara de paz. descend: descender, descendéis, desciendo, desciendes, descienden, desciende, desciendan, descendemos, descended, descienda, bajar.

fat: gordo, grasa, grueso, manteca. knight: caballero, caballo. knock: llamar, golpear, golpe, topar, tocar, llamar a la puerta. lungs: pulmones, livianos. marry: casarse, casar, cásese, se casan, se casa, nos casamos, me caso, te casas, cásense, cásate, cásados. military: militar, ejército. painted: pintado. privacy: privacidad, intimidad. robbed: Robado, despojado, hurtado.

seeing: viendo, serrando. streets: calles, las calles. tarries: demora, espera, tarda. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. thine: tuyo, tuyos, tuyas, tuya, tus. thorough: minucioso, completo, meticuloso. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. thy: tu. unto: hacia. wise: sabio, sensato, guisa.

William Shakespeare

105

FALSTAFF. I spake with the old woman about it. SIMPLE. And what says she, I pray, sir? FALSTAFF. Marry, she says that the very same man that beguiled Master Slender of his chain cozened him of it. SIMPLE. I would I could have spoken with the woman herself; I had other things to have spoken with her too, from him.% FALSTAFF. What are they? Let us know. HOST. Ay, come; quick. SIMPLE. I may not conceal them, sir. FALSTAFF. Conceal them, or thou diest. SIMPLE. Why, sir, they were nothing but about Mistress Anne Page: to know if it were my master's fortune to have her or no. FALSTAFF. 'Tis, 'tis his fortune. SIMPLE. What sir? FALSTAFF. To have her, or no. Go; say the woman told me so. SIMPLE. May I be bold to say so, sir?

Spanish beguiled: engañado. bold: grueso, negrita, audaz. chain: cadena, la cadena, encadenar. conceal: ocultar, ocultamos, oculten, ocultan, ocultáis, ocultad, oculta, ocultas, oculto, oculte, recatar. fortune: suerte, fortuna. herself: sí, ella misma, se, sí misma. marry: casarse, casar, cásese, se casan, se casa, nos casamos, me caso, te casas, cásense, cásate, cásados. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos,

rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. quick: rápido, pronto. sir: señor. spoken: hablado. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos.

106

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FALSTAFF. Ay, Sir Tike; like who more bold? SIMPLE. I thank your worship; I shall make my master glad with these tidings. [Exit.] HOST. Thou art clerkly, thou art clerkly, Sir John. Was there a wise woman with thee? FALSTAFF. Ay, that there was, mine host; one that hath taught me more wit than ever I learned before in my life; and I paid nothing for it neither, but was paid for my learning.% [Enter BARDOLPH.] BARDOLPH. Out, alas, sir! cozenage, mere cozenage! HOST. Where be my horses? Speak well of them, varletto. BARDOLPH. Run away, with the cozeners; for so soon as I came beyond Eton, they threw me off, from behind one of them, in a slough of mire; and set spurs and away, like three German devils, three Doctor Faustuses. HOST. They are gone but to meet the Duke, villain; do not say they be fled; Germans are honest men. [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS.] EVANS. Where is mine host? HOST. What is the matter, sir?

Spanish alas: ay, es una lástima. bold: grueso, negrita, audaz. clerkly: Empleado. cozenage: engaño. devils: diablo. fled: huido. glad: alegre, contento. honest: honrado, sincero, honesto. horses: los caballos. host: anfitrión, huésped, posadero, hostia. learned: aprendido, estudiado, docto,

erudito, sabio. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister. mere: mero. mine: mina, mío, minar. mire: fango. neither: tampoco, ninguno, nadie, ni. paid: pagado. slough: pantano, Abismo, cenagal, Costra, fangal, Deshacerse Por, Desprenderse De, Mudar, desprenderse, Mudar La Piel.

spurs: espuelas. taught: enseñado, instruido, desacostumbrado. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. threw: pret de throw, Tiró, tiro. tidings: noticias. villain: bribón, malo. wise: sabio, sensato, guisa. wit: ingenio. worship: adorar, adoración, culto, veneración.

William Shakespeare

107

EVANS. Have a care of your entertainments: there is a friend of mine come to town tells me there is three cozen-germans that has cozened all the hosts of Readins, of Maidenhead, of Colebrook, of horses and money. I tell you for good will, look you; you are wise, and full of gibes and vlouting-stogs, and 'tis not convenient you should be cozened. Fare you well. [Exit.] [Enter DOCTOR CAIUS.] CAIUS. Vere is mine host de Jarteer? HOST. Here, Master Doctor, in perplexity and doubtful dilemma.% CAIUS. I cannot tell vat is dat; but it is tell-a me dat you make grand preparation for a Duke de Jamany. By my trot, dere is no duke that the court is know to come; I tell you for good will: Adieu. [Exit.] HOST. Hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me, knight; I am undone. Fly, run, hue and cry, villain; I am undone! [Exeunt HOST and BARDOLPH.] FALSTAFF. I would all the world might be cozened, for I have been cozened and beaten too. If it should come to the ear of the court how I have been transformed, and how my transformation hath been washed and cudgelled, they would melt me out of my fat, drop by drop, and liquor fishermen's boots with me; I warrant they would whip me with their fine wits till I were as crest-fallen as a dried pear. I never prospered since I forswore myself at primero. Well, if my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.

Spanish assist: ayudar, ayudad, ayudo, ayuden, ayudas, ayudan, ayudáis, ayudamos, ayuda, ayude, asistir. boots: botas. cannot: presente de no poder. convenient: conveniente. cudgelled: aporreó. doubtful: dudoso. dried: seco. drop: gota, caer, disminuir, amainar, decrecer, menguar, caída, descenso, dejar caer.

fare: tarifa, pasaje. fly: volar, voláis, vuelen, vuele, vuelas, volamos, vuela, volad, vuelan, vuelo, mosca. forswore: pret de forswear. grand: magnífico, grande, grandioso. hue: matiz, tinte, tono, color. liquor: alcohol, licor, el licor. melt: derretirse, derretir, fundir, fusión. pear: pera, la pera, peral. perplexity: perplejidad.

prayers: ruegos, rezos, oraciones. prospered: prosperado. transformation: transformación. transformed: transformado. trot: trote, trotar. undone: deshecho. villain: bribón, malo. washed: lavado, lavo. whip: látigo, zurriago, azotar, fustigar, fusta, azote. wind: viento, serpentear, el viento, enrollar, devanar.

108

The Merry Wives of Windsor

[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY.] Now! whence come you? QUICKLY. From the two parties, forsooth. FALSTAFF. The devil take one party and his dam the other! And so they shall be both bestowed. I have suffered more for their sakes, more than the villainous inconstancy of man's disposition is able to bear.% QUICKLY. And have not they suffered? Yes, I warrant; speciously one of them; Mistress Ford, good heart, is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a white spot about her. FALSTAFF. What tellest thou me of black and blue? I was beaten myself into all the colours of the rainbow; and was like to be apprehended for the witch of Brainford. But that my admirable dexterity of wit, my counterfeiting the action of an old woman, delivered me, the knave constable had set me i' the stocks, i' the common stocks, for a witch. QUICKLY. Sir, let me speak with you in your chamber; you shall hear how things go, and, I warrant, to your content. Here is a letter will say somewhat. Good hearts, what ado here is to bring you together! Sure, one of you does not serve heaven well, that you are so crossed. FALSTAFF. Come up into my chamber. [Exeunt.]

SCENE VI. ANOTHER ROOM IN THE GARTER INN.

Spanish admirable: admirable, estupendo. ado: ruido. apprehended: aprehendido. bestowed: conferido, otorgado, concedido. blue: azul, azular. cannot: presente de no poder. common: común. constable: alguacil. counterfeiting: falsificación. crossed: cruzado. dam: presa, represa, obstrucción,

dique, embalse. delivered: entregado. dexterity: destreza. disposition: disposición, talento, capacidad. forsooth: en verdad. inconstancy: inconstancia. knave: bribón. rainbow: arco iris, el arco iris, el arcoiris. somewhat: algo, poco, bastante. speciously: engañosamente,

especiosamente. spot: mancha, punto, sitio, verrugato croca, manchar, mancilla, lugar. stocks: existencias. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. villainous: villano. warrant: garantía, orden, orden por escrito, certificado, autorizar, autorización. whence: de dónde. wit: ingenio. witch: bruja, la bruja.

William Shakespeare

109

[Enter FENTON and HOST.] HOST. Master Fenton, talk not to me; my mind is heavy; I will give over all. FENTON. Yet hear me speak. Assist me in my purpose, And, as I am a gentleman, I'll give thee A hundred pound in gold more than your loss.% HOST. I will hear you, Master Fenton; and I will, at the least, keep your counsel. FENTON. From time to time I have acquainted you With the dear love I bear to fair Anne Page, Who, mutually, hath answered my affection, So far forth as herself might be her chooser, Even to my wish. I have a letter from her Of such contents as you will wonder at; The mirth whereof so larded with my matter That neither, singly, can be manifested Without the show of both; wherein fat Falstaff Hath a great scare: the image of the jest I'll show you here at large. Hark, good mine host: To-night at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one, Must my sweet Nan present the Fairy Queen; The purpose why is here: in which disguise, While other jests are something rank on foot, Her father hath commanded her to slip Away with Slender, and with him at Eton Immediately to marry; she hath consented: Now, sir, Her mother, even strong against that match

Spanish acquainted: informado, enterado. assist: ayudar, ayudad, ayudo, ayuden, ayudas, ayudan, ayudáis, ayudamos, ayuda, ayude, asistir. commanded: Ordenado. contents: contenido, contenidos, índice. counsel: consejo, aconsejar, abogado, anunciar. fat: gordo, grasa, grueso, manteca. forth: adelante. hark: escuchar con atención, prestar

oído a, escuche, escuchar, escucha, oye. image: imagen, grabado, retrato, reproducción. jests: bromas. larded: mechado. marry: casarse, casar, cásese, se casan, se casa, nos casamos, me caso, te casas, cásense, cásate, cásados. mirth: alegría. mutually: mutuamente, mutuo. oak: roble.

rank: rango, fila, turno, línea, clasificar. scare: espantar, asustar, susto, amedrentar. singly: individualmente. twelve: doce. wherein: en qué. whereof: de que, de lo cual, cuyo, del cual. wonder: preguntarse, maravilla, asombrarse, prodigio, preguntar.

110

The Merry Wives of Windsor

And%firm for Doctor Caius, hath appointed That he shall likewise shuffle her away, While other sports are tasking of their minds; And at the deanery, where a priest attends, Straight marry her: to this her mother's plot She seemingly obedient likewise hath Made promise to the doctor. Now thus it rests: Her father means she shall be all in white; And in that habit, when Slender sees his time To take her by the hand and bid her go, She shall go with him: her mother hath intended The better to denote her to the doctor,-For they must all be mask'd and vizarded-That quaint in green she shall be loose enrob'd, With ribands pendent, flaring 'bout her head; And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe, To pinch her by the hand: and, on that token, The maid hath given consent to go with him. HOST. Which means she to deceive, father or mother? FENTON. Both, my good host, to go along with me: And here it rests, that you'll procure the vicar To stay for me at church, 'twixt twelve and one, And in the lawful name of marrying, To give our hearts united ceremony. HOST. Well, husband your device; I'll to the vicar. Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a priest.

Spanish deanery: casa de decano. deceive: engañar, engaño, engañe, engaña, engañamos, engañen, engañan, engañáis, engañad, engañas, embaucar. denote: denotar, denotáis, denoto, denoten, denote, denotas, denotamos, denotad, denota, denotan. flaring: abocinado. habit: costumbre, hábito, resabio, mala costumbre.

hearts: corazones, copas. lawful: lícito, legal. likewise: igualmente, también, ídem, asimismo. maid: criada, sirvienta, doncella, la criada. obedient: obediente, dócil. pendent: que sobresale, pendiente, colgante. pinch: pizca, apuro, pizcar, pellizco, pellizcar. procure: procurarse, procurar,

procura, procuro, procuren, procure, procuras, procuran, procuramos, procuráis, procurad. quaint: pintoresco. seemingly: aparentemente. sees: Ve, serra. shuffle: barajar, barajada. sports: deportes, los deportes, deportivo. tasking: reparto de tareas, distribución de funciones. vantage: ventaja.

William Shakespeare

FENTON. So shall I evermore be bound to thee; Besides, I'll make a present recompense. % [Exeunt.]

Spanish bound: encuadernado, saltar, salto, ligado, límite, obligado. evermore: eternamente. present: presente, actual, presentar, regalo, contemporáneo, ofrecer, reproducir, retratar. recompense: recompensa.

111

112

The Merry Wives of Windsor

ACT V

SCENE I. A ROOM IN THE GARTER INN.% [Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY.] FALSTAFF. Prithee, no more prattling; go: I'll hold. This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away! go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Away! QUICKLY. I'll provide you a chain, and I'll do what I can to get you a pair of horns. FALSTAFF. Away, I say; time wears; hold up your head, and mince. [Exit MRS. QUICKLY.] [Enter FORD.] How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight, or never. Be you in the Park about midnight, at Herne's oak, and you shall see wonders. FORD. Went you not to her yesterday, sir, as you told me you had appointed?

Spanish appointed: nombrado, designado. chain: cadena, la cadena, encadenar. chance: azar, suerte, acontecimiento, acaso, oportunidad. divinity: divinidad. hold: tener, sujetar, continuar, retención, sostener, contener, mantener, retenido, presa, bodega. hope: esperanza, esperar, espera, espere, esperen, esperas, esperan, esperamos, esperáis, esperad, espero. horns: herramienta, cornamenta,

cuernos, cuerna. luck: suerte, la suerte. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister. matter: materia, asunto, particular, caso, importar. midnight: medianoche, media noche, la medianoche. nativity: belén, natividad, navidad, nacimiento. numbers: números. oak: roble.

odd: impar, extraño, raro. pair: par, pareja, emparejar. prattling: parloteando. sir: señor. tonight: esta noche. wears: lleva, usa. yesterday: ayer.

William Shakespeare

113

FALSTAFF. I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor old man; but I came from her, Master Brook, like a poor old woman. That same knave Ford, her husband, hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him, Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell you: he beat me grievously in the shape of a woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear not Goliath with a weaver's beam, because I know also life is a shuttle. I am in haste; go along with me; I'll tell you all, Master Brook. Since I plucked geese, played truant, and whipped top, I knew not what 'twas to be beaten till lately. Follow me: I'll tell you strange things of this knave Ford, on whom to-night I will be revenged, and I will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow. Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow.% [Exeunt.]

SCENE II. WINDSOR PARK. [Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER.] PAGE. Come, come; we'll couch i' the castle-ditch till we see the light of our fairies. Remember, son Slender, my daughter. SLENDER. Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her, and we have a nay-word how to know one another. I come to her in white and cry 'mum'; she cries 'budget,' and by that we know one another. SHALLOW. That's good too; but what needs either your 'mum' or her 'budget'? The white will decipher her well enough. It hath struck ten o'clock.

Spanish along: a lo largo de, por. beam: viga, rayo, haz, plegador, radio, haz de luz. couch: canapé, dyschatell, cama, sofá, sofá cama. cries: llora. decipher: descifrar, descifre, descifra, descifro, descifren, descifras, descifran, desciframos, descifráis, descifrad. finest: mejor. forsooth: en verdad.

frenzy: frenesí. geese: gansos. governed: gobernado, capitaneado, regido, reprimido. grievously: penosamente, crasamente, gravemente, gravosamente. haste: prisa, precipitación. jealousy: celos. knave: bribón. lately: últimamente. played: jugado, tocado. plucked: arrancado.

shuttle: lanzadera. strange: extraño, raro, ajeno. struck: pret y pp de strike, golpeado. top: cima, superficie, parte superior, superior, cumbre. truant: haragán, vago, tunante, novillero, hacer novillos, gandul, faltista habitual, desparecido, ausente injustificado, ausente, ausentarse. we'll: Haremos. whipped: batido, Azotado. whom: quien, quién, que.

114

The Merry Wives of Windsor

PAGE. The night is dark; light and spirits will become it well. Heaven prosper our sport! No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns. Let's away; follow me.% [Exeunt.]

SCENE III. THE STREET IN WINDSOR. [Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS.] MRS. PAGE. Master Doctor, my daughter is in green; when you see your time, take her by the hand, away with her to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go before into the Park; we two must go together. CAIUS. I know vat I have to do; adieu. MRS. PAGE. Fare you well, sir. [Exit CAIUS.] My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter; but 'tis no matter; better a little chiding than a great deal of heart break. MRS. FORD. Where is Nan now, and her troop of fairies, and the Welsh devil, Hugh? MRS. PAGE. They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights; which, at the very instant of Falstaff's and our meeting, they will at once display to the night. MRS. FORD. That cannot choose but amaze him.

Spanish adieu: adiós. amaze: asombrar, asombramos, asombren, asombran, asombráis, asombrad, asombra, asombras, asombre, asombro, maravillar. break: romper, descanso, interrupción, rotura, quebrar, corte, pausa, adiestrar, fractura, interrumpir. cannot: presente de no poder. chafe: rozadura, rozar. chiding: reprendiendo, regañando. dark: oscuro, tenebroso.

deal: trato, transacción. deanery: casa de decano. dispatch: despachar, expedir, expedición, enviar, envío, despacho. display: pantalla, exhibición, visualización, exponer, exposición, desplegar. exit: salida, salir, la salida. horns: herramienta, cornamenta, cuernos, cuerna. instant: momento, instante, momentito, instantáneo.

lights: luces. marrying: casándose. obscured: disimulado. pit: zanja, pozo, hoyo, foso, fosa, picadura. prosper: prosperar, prosperas, prospera, prosperad, prosperáis, prosperan, prosperen, prospero, prosperamos, prospere. rejoice: alegrarse, regocijarse, alegrar. spirits: alcohol. troop: tropa.

William Shakespeare

115

MRS. PAGE. If he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he be amazed, he will every way be mocked.% MRS. FORD. We'll betray him finely. MRS. PAGE. Against such lewdsters and their lechery, Those that betray them do no treachery. MRS. FORD. The hour draws on: to the oak, to the oak! [Exeunt.]

SCENE IV. WINDSOR PARK [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised, with others as Fairies.] EVANS. Trib, trib, fairies; come; and remember your parts. Be pold, I pray you; follow me into the pit; and when I give the watch-ords, do as I pid you. Come, come; trib, trib. [Exeunt.]

SCENE V. ANOTHER PART OF THE PARK. [Enter FALSTAFF disguised as HERNE with a buck's head on.]

Spanish amazed: asombrado, maravillado, pasmado, atónito. betray: traicionar, traicionas, traiciono, traicionen, traiciona, traicionan, traicionamos, traicionad, traicionáis, traicione. disguised: disfrazado. draws: dibuja, traza, encanta. finely: finamente, en trozos menudos. follow: seguir, seguid, sigues, siguen, sigue, sigo, sigan, seguís, seguimos, siga, venir después.

hour: hora, la hora. remember: recordar, recuerde, mocked: Ridiculizado, befado, recuerdo, recuerdan, recuerdas, desbaratado, escarnecido, mofado, recuerden, recordamos, recordad, remedado, triscado. recordáis, recuerda, acordarse de. mrs: Sra., señorita. treachery: traición. oak: roble. parts: talento, regiones, piezas, partes. pit: zanja, pozo, hoyo, foso, fosa, picadura. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar.

116

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FALSTAFF. The%Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute draws on. Now the hotblooded gods assist me! Remember, Jove, thou wast a bull for thy Europa; love set on thy horns. O powerful love! that in some respects, makes a beast a man; in some other a man a beast. You were also, Jupiter, a swan, for the love of Leda. O omnipotent love! how near the god drew to the complexion of a goose! A fault done first in the form of a beast; O Jove, a beastly fault! and then another fault in the semblance of a fowl: think on't, Jove, a foul fault! When gods have hot backs what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i' the forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my doe? [Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE.] MRS. FORD. Sir John! Art thou there, my deer? my male deer? FALSTAFF. My doe with the black scut! Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of 'Greensleeves'; hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here. [Embracing her.] MRS. FORD. Mistress Page is come with me, sweetheart. FALSTAFF. Divide me like a brib'd buck, each a haunch; I will keep my sides to myself, my shoulders for the fellow of this walk, and my horns I bequeath your husbands. Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne the hunter? Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes restitution. As I am a true spirit, welcome! [Noise within.] MRS. PAGE. Alas! what noise?

Spanish backs: espaldas. beastly: bestial. bell: timbre, campana, campanilla, la campana. bequeath: legar, lega, legad, legáis, legamos, legan, legas, lego, leguen, legue. blame: culpa, reprender, valorar en, reprobar, culpar. bull: toro, alcista, el toro. doe: coneja. fowl: gallina, aves, ave.

gods: paraíso, gallinero. goose: ganso, oca, ánsar, el ganso. hail: granizo, granizar, alabar, pedrisco. haunch: cadera, anca. hot-blooded: apasionado, de sangre caliente, fogoso. noise: ruido, alboroto, el ruido. omnipotent: omnipotente, todopoderoso. piss: mear, meo, meas, mean, meáis, mead, mea, meen, meamos, mee,

meada. potatoes: patatas. provocation: provocación. respects: rispetti, saludos, recuerdos. restitution: restitución, devolución. scut: rabo, rabito. snow: nevar, nieve, la nieve. stag: ciervo, venado. swan: cisne. tallow: sebo. thunder: trueno, tronar, el trueno. tune: melodía, acomodar, adaptar.

William Shakespeare

117

MRS. FORD. Heaven forgive our sins! FALSTAFF. What should this be? MRS. FORD. Away, away! MRS. PAGE. Away, away! [They run off.] FALSTAFF. I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire; he would never else cross me thus.% [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS like a Satyr, PISTOL as a Hobgoblin, ANNE PAGE as the the Fairy Queen, attended by her BROTHERS and OTHERS, as fairies, with waxen tapers on their heads.] ANNE. Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office and your quality. Crier Hobgoblin, make the fairy oyes. PISTOL. Elves, list your names: silence, you airy toys! Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap: Where fires thou find'st unrak'd, and hearths unswept, There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry: Our radiant Queen hates sluts and sluttery. FALSTAFF. They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die:

Spanish airy: airoso. attended: asistido. chimneys: chimeneas. cross: cruz, atravesar, cruzar, transversal, aspa, cruce. damned: condenado, maldito. devil: diablo, el diablo. fairy: hada, la hada. fires: incendios. fixed: fijo, fijado, reparado. forgive: perdonar, perdona, perdonad, perdono, perdonen, perdonas,

perdonan, perdonamos, perdonáis, perdone. grey: gris, pardo. hell: infierno. lest: para que no, a no ser que, con el fin de, no sea que, si es necesario. moonshine: claridad de la luna. names: nombres, Michael. oil: aceite, el aceite, engrasar, petróleo, aceitar. orphan: huérfano. pinch: pizca, apuro, pizcar, pellizco,

pellizcar. radiant: resplandeciente, radiante, brillante. shades: averno, matices, sombras, tinieblas. shalt: irá, verbo auxiliar inglés para especificar futuro. silence: silencio, acallar, hacer callar, el silencio. speaks: habla. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. waxen: ceroso.

118

The Merry Wives of Windsor

I'll wink and couch: no man their works must eye. [Lies down upon his face.] EVANS. Where's Bede? Go you, and where you find a maid That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers said, Rein up the organs of her fantasy, Sleep she as sound as careless infancy; But those as sleep and think not on their sins, Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides, and shins.% ANNE. About, about! Search Windsor castle, elves, within and out: Strew good luck, ouphes, on every sacred room, That it may stand till the perpetual doom, In state as wholesome as in state 'tis fit, Worthy the owner and the owner it. The several chairs of order look you scour With juice of balm and every precious flower: Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest, With loyal blazon, evermore be blest! And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing, Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring: The expressure that it bears, green let it be, More fertile-fresh than all the field to see; And 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' write In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white; Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee. Fairies use flowers for their charactery. Away! disperse! But, till 'tis one o'clock,

Spanish balm: bálsamo, melisa, toronjil. bending: flexión, torcimiento. blazon: blasón. careless: descuidado, sin cuidado, negligente. chairs: las sillas. disperse: dispersar, dispersen, dispersa, dispersáis, dispersamos, dispersan, dispersas, disperse, dispersad, disperso. emerald: esmeralda, la esmeralda. flowers: las flores.

instalment: plazo, anualidad. juice: zumo, jugo, el jugo, joco. legs: las piernas. loyal: fiel, leal. mal: in, des. nightly: nocturno. owner: propietario, dueño, poseedor, propietaria. pearl: perla, la perla. perpetual: perpetuo. precious: precioso, preciosa. purple: morado, púrpura, purpúreo,

lila. sapphire: zafiro. sides: costados, Lados. sleep: dormir, duerme, duermes, dormimos, duermen, duermo, dormís, dormid, duerma, duerman, sueño. tufts: copetes. wholesome: sano. wink: guiño, pestañeo, parpadeo, guiñar. y: itrio.

William Shakespeare

119

Our dance of custom round about the oak Of Herne the hunter let us not forget.% EVANS. Pray you, lock hand in hand; yourselves in order set; And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be, To guide our measure round about the tree. But, stay; I smell a man of middle-earth. FALSTAFF. Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest he transform me to a piece of cheese! PISTOL. Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth. ANNE. With trial-fire touch me his finger-end: If he be chaste, the flame will back descend And turn him to no pain; but if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. PISTOL. A trial! come. EVANS. Come, will this wood take fire? [They burn him with their tapers.] FALSTAFF. Oh, oh, oh! ANNE. Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire! About him, fairies; sing a scornful rhyme; And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time. Fie on sinful fantasy!

Spanish birth: nacimiento, parto, el nacimiento. chaste: casto. corrupt: corrupto, corromper, adulterar, corrompa, corrompido, corrompan, corrompo, corrompes, corrompemos, corromped, corrompe. corrupted: corrompido. custom: costumbre, usanza. flame: llama, flamear, la flama. lock: cerradura, esclusa, cerrar, la cerradura, cerrojo, bloquear, la

esclusa, bucle, mechón, bloqueo, cerrar con llave. pain: dolor, el dolor, pena, sufrimiento. piece: pieza, pedazo, parte, trozo, tela. scornful: desdeñoso, despreciativo. sinful: pecaminoso, pecador. tainted: perdido, contaminado, corrompido, echado a perder, fraudulenta, infecto, manchado, pasado, viciado. touch: tocar, toque, tacto, palpar,

contacto, rozar. transform: transformar, transforma, transformo, transformen, transforme, transformas, transforman, transformamos, transformad, transformáis. trial: ensayo, juicio, prueba. trip: viaje, disparo, excursión, el viaje. wood: madera, leño, bosque, la madera. worm: gusano, lombriz, el gusano. yourselves: ustedes mismos.

120

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Fie on lust and luxury! Lust is but a bloody fire, Kindled with unchaste desire, Fed in heart, whose flames aspire, As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher. Pinch him, fairies, mutually; Pinch him for his villany; Pinch him and burn him and turn him about, Till candles and star-light and moonshine be out.% [During this song the Fairies pinch FALSTAFF. DOCTOR CAIUS comes one way, and steals away a fairy in green; SLENDER another way, and takes off a fairy in white; and FENTON comes, and steals away ANNE PAGE. A noise of hunting is heard within. All the fairies run away. FALSTAFF pulls off his buck's head, and rises.] [Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD. They lay hold on FALSTAFF.] PAGE. Nay, do not fly; I think we have watch'd you now: Will none but Herne the hunter serve your turn? MRS. PAGE. I pray you, come, hold up the jest no higher. Now, good Sir John, how like you Windsor wives? See you these, husband? do not these fair yokes Become the forest better than the town? FORD. Now, sir, who's a cuckold now? Master Brook, Falstaff's a knave, a cuckoldly knave; here are his horns, Master Brook; and, Master Brook, he hath enjoyed nothing of Ford's but his buck-basket, his cudgel, and twenty pounds of money, which must be paid to Master Brook; his horses are arrested for it, Master Brook.

Spanish arrested: parado, descargador, arrestado, detenido. bloody: sangriento, sanguinario, cruento. blow: soplar, golpe. burn: arder, quemar, quemadura, quemarse, encender, la quemadura, abrasar. cuckold: cornudo. cuckoldly: Cornudo. cudgel: garrote corto. enjoyed: disfrutado, gozado.

fairy: hada, la hada. fly: volar, voláis, vuelen, vuele, vuelas, volamos, vuela, volad, vuelan, vuelo, mosca. horns: herramienta, cornamenta, cuernos, cuerna. hunter: cazador. hunting: cazando, caza, penduleo, cacería. jest: bromear, broma. knave: bribón. lust: lujuria.

moonshine: claridad de la luna. mutually: mutuamente, mutuo. pinch: pizca, apuro, pizcar, pellizco, pellizcar. pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar. pulls: tira, hala. steals: robar, robos. unchaste: incasto, impúdico, deshonesto.

William Shakespeare

121

MRS. FORD. Sir John, we have had ill luck; we could never meet. I will never take you for my love again; but I will always count you my deer.% FALSTAFF. I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass. FORD. Ay, and an ox too; both the proofs are extant. FALSTAFF. And these are not fairies? I was three or four times in the thought they were not fairies; and yet the guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my powers, drove the grossness of the foppery into a received belief, in despite of the teeth of all rhyme and reason, that they were fairies. See now how wit may be made a Jack-a-Lent when 'tis upon ill employment! EVANS. Sir John Falstaff, serve Got, and leave your desires, and fairies will not pinse you. FORD. Well said, fairy Hugh. EVANS. And leave you your jealousies too, I pray you. FORD. I will never mistrust my wife again, till thou art able to woo her in good English. FALSTAFF. Have I laid my brain in the sun, and dried it, that it wants matter to prevent so gross o'er-reaching as this? Am I ridden with a Welsh goat too? Shall I have a cox-comb of frieze? 'Tis time I were choked with a piece of toasted cheese. EVANS. Seese is not good to give putter: your belly is all putter.

Spanish ass: burro, asno, culo. begin: empezar, empiecen, empezad, empezáis, empiece, empieza, empiezan, empiezas, empiezo, empezamos, comenzar. belief: creencia, credo, fe. choked: estrangulado. count: contar, recuento, cuenta, conde, calcular, entrar en cuenta, computar, unidad de cuenta, cargo. despite: a pesar de. drove: manada.

employment: empleo, trabajo, acomodo. extant: existente. foppery: afectación en el vestir. frieze: friso, frisón, frisio. goat: cabra, la cabra. grossness: grosería. guiltiness: culpabilidad, suciedad. laid: puesto, colocado, recostado, acostado. mistrust: desconfiar de. ox: buey.

powers: potestades. proofs: testigos. putter: palo para los golpes cortos, palo, holgazanear. rhyme: rima, rimar. ridden: pp de ride, cabalgado. sudden: repentino, brusco, súbito. surprise: sorprender, sorpresa, la sorpresa. teeth: dientes, dentadura. toasted: tostado. wants: quiere, desea.

122

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FALSTAFF. 'Seese' and 'putter'! Have I lived to stand at the taunt of one that makes fritters of English? This is enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking through the realm.% MRS. PAGE. Why, Sir John, do you think, though we would have thrust virtue out of our hearts by the head and shoulders, and have given ourselves without scruple to hell, that ever the devil could have made you our delight? FORD. What, a hodge-pudding? a bag of flax? MRS. PAGE. A puffed man? PAGE. Old, cold, withered, and of intolerable entrails? FORD. And one that is as slanderous as Satan? PAGE. And as poor as Job? FORD. And as wicked as his wife? EVANS. And given to fornications, and to taverns, and sack and wine, and metheglins, and to drinkings and swearings and starings, pribbles and prabbles? FALSTAFF. Well, I am your theme; you have the start of me; I am dejected; I am not able to answer the Welsh flannel. Ignorance itself is a plummet o'er me; use me as you will.

Spanish bag: bolso, bolsa, saco. decay: decadencia, decaimiento, putrefacción, baja, deterioración, descomposición. dejected: abatido, desanimado. delight: deleitar, delicia, encantar. devil: diablo, el diablo. entrails: entrañas. flannel: franela, la franela. flax: lino. hearts: corazones, copas. hell: infierno.

ignorance: ignorancia. intolerable: intolerable. lived: vivido, habitado. lust: lujuria. o'er: sobre. ourselves: nosotros mismos. plummet: sonda, pesa, plomada, plomo, caer, caer a plomo, lastre, caer verticalmente, caer en picado. puffed: henchido, soplado, hinchado, de jamón, ampuloso, sin aliento. sack: saco, despedir, bolso.

scruple: escrúpulo. shoulders: espalda, hombros. slanderous: calumnioso, difamatorio. taunt: insultar, insulto, insultas, insulten, insulta, insulte, insultamos, insultad, insultan, insultáis, mofarse. taverns: tabernas. theme: tema. thrust: empujar, empuje, empujón. virtue: virtud. wicked: malo, malvado. withered: marchito, marchitado.

William Shakespeare

123

FORD. Marry, sir, we'll bring you to Windsor, to one Master Brook, that you have cozened of money, to whom you should have been a pander: over and above that you have suffered, I think to repay that money will be a biting affliction.% MRS. FORD. Nay, husband, let that go to make amends; Forget that sum, so we'll all be friends. FORD. Well, here's my hand: all is forgiven at last. PAGE. Yet be cheerful, knight; thou shalt eat a posset tonight at my house; where I will desire thee to laugh at my wife, that now laughs at thee. Tell her, Master Slender hath married her daughter. MRS. PAGE. [Aside] Doctors doubt that; if Anne Page be my daughter, she is, by this, Doctor Caius' wife. [Enter SLENDER.] SLENDER. Whoa, ho! ho! father Page! PAGE. Son, how now! how now, son! have you dispatched? SLENDER. Dispatched! I'll make the best in Gloucestershire know on't; would I were hanged, la, else! PAGE. Of what, son?

Spanish biting: mordaz, punzante, penetrante. cheerful: alegre, animado. daughter: hija, la hija, Nina. desire: desear, deseo, tener, querer, gana, codiciar. dispatched: despabilado y perdido, enviado, consignado, remitido, despachado en otro. doubt: dudar, duda. eat: comer, comemos, comes, coméis, comed, coman, como, comen, coma, Come.

forgiven: perdonado. hanged: colgar, ahorcado, continuar, caída, colgó. husband: marido, esposo, el esposo. knight: caballero, caballo. la: la, Loisiana. laugh: reír, reírse, risa, carcajada. married: casado, casada, se casado, conyugal. pander: alcahuete. repay: reembolsar, reembolso, reembolsan, reembolsamos,

reembolsen, reembolse, reembolsa, reembolsáis, reembolsad, reembolsas. shalt: irá, verbo auxiliar inglés para especificar futuro. son: hijo, el hijo. suffered: sufrido, padecido. sum: suma, importe, cantidad. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos. tonight: esta noche. we'll: Haremos. whom: quien, quién, que.

124

The Merry Wives of Windsor

SLENDER. I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page, and she's a great lubberly boy: if it had not been i' the church, I would have swinged him, or he should have swinged me. If I did not think it had been Anne Page, would I might never stir! and 'tis a postmaster's boy.% PAGE. Upon my life, then, you took the wrong. SLENDER. What need you tell me that? I think so, when I took a boy for a girl. If I had been married to him, for all he was in woman's apparel, I would not have had him. PAGE. Why, this is your own folly. Did not I tell you how you should know my daughter by her garments? SLENDER. I went to her in white and cried 'mum' and she cried 'budget' as Anne and I had appointed; and yet it was not Anne, but a postmaster's boy. EVANS. Jeshu! Master Slender, cannot you see put marry poys? PAGE. O I am vexed at heart: what shall I do? MRS. PAGE. Good George, be not angry: I knew of your purpose; turned my daughter into green; and, indeed, she is now with the doctor at the deanery, and there married. [Enter DOCTOR CAIUS.] CAIUS. Vere is Mistress Page? By gar, I am cozened; I ha' married un garcon, a boy; un paysan, by gar, a boy; it is not Anne Page; by gar, I am cozened.

Spanish angry: enojado, enfadado, furioso. apparel: atavío. appointed: nombrado, designado. boy: chico, muchacho, niño, el muchacho, criado, chamaco. cannot: presente de no poder. cried: Lloró. daughter: hija, la hija, Nina. deanery: casa de decano. doctor: médico, doctor. folly: tontería. garments: ornamentos.

girl: muchacha, chica, niña, la muchacha. green: verde. ha: ah, decir ah, ja. heart: corazón, cogollo. lubberly: palurdo. married: casado, casada, se casado, conyugal. marry: casarse, casar, cásese, se casan, se casa, nos casamos, me caso, te casas, cásense, cásate, cásados. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón,

principal, magister. purpose: fin, objeto, finalidad, propósito, intención. stir: conmover, revolver, remover, agitar. swinged: Columpiado. turned: girado, vuelto, trastornado. vexed: enfadado. wrong: malo, mal, falso, incorrecto, entuerto, agravio, impropio, erróneo. yonder: allí, ahí, aquel.

William Shakespeare

125

MRS. PAGE. Why, did you take her in green? CAIUS. Ay, %by gar, and 'tis a boy: by gar, I'll raise all Windsor. [Exit.] FORD. This is strange. Who hath got the right Anne? PAGE. My heart misgives me; here comes Master Fenton. [Enter FENTON and ANNE PAGE.] How now, Master Fenton! ANNE. Pardon, good father! good my mother, pardon! PAGE. Now, Mistress, how chance you went not with Master Slender? MRS. PAGE. Why went you not with Master Doctor, maid? FENTON. You do amaze her: hear the truth of it. You would have married her most shamefully, Where there was no proportion held in love. The truth is, she and I, long since contracted, Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us. The offence is holy that she hath committed, And this deceit loses the name of craft, Of disobedience, or unduteous title, Since therein she doth evitate and shun A thousand irreligious cursed hours, Which forced marriage would have brought upon her.

Spanish amaze: asombrar, asombramos, asombren, asombran, asombráis, asombrad, asombra, asombras, asombre, asombro, maravillar. boy: chico, muchacho, niño, el muchacho, criado, chamaco. chance: azar, suerte, acontecimiento, acaso, oportunidad. cursed: maldito. deceit: engaño. disobedience: desobediencia. dissolve: disolver, disolved, disolvéis,

disuelvo, disuelves, disuelve, disuelvan, disuelva, disolvemos, DISUELVEN. forced: forzado. green: verde. holy: santo, sagrado. irreligious: irreligioso. loses: pierde, adelgaza. maid: criada, sirvienta, doncella, la criada. marriage: matrimonio, casamiento, enlace.

married: casado, casada, se casado, conyugal. offence: delito, escándalo, injuria. pardon: perdón, perdonar, indulto, indultar. proportion: proporción, proporcionar. raise: levantar, entonar, criar, subir, alzar, elevar, alza, izar, aumento. strange: extraño, raro, ajeno. therein: en eso, adjunto. thousand: mil. truth: verdad, veras, la verdad.

126

The Merry Wives of Windsor

FORD. Stand not amaz'd: here is no remedy: In love, the heavens themselves do guide the state: Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.% FALSTAFF. I am glad, though you have ta'en a special stand to strike at me, that your arrow hath glanced. PAGE. Well, what remedy?--Fenton, heaven give thee joy! What cannot be eschew'd must be embrac'd. FALSTAFF. When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chas'd. MRS. PAGE. Well, I will muse no further. Master Fenton, Heaven give you many, many merry days! Good husband, let us every one go home, And laugh this sport o'er by a country fire; Sir John and all. FORD. Let it be so. Sir John, To Master Brook you yet shall hold your word; For he, to-night, shall lie with Mistress Ford. [Exeunt.]

Spanish arrow: flecha, la flecha, saeta. buys: compra. cannot: presente de no poder. deer: ciervo, venado. glad: alegre, contento. glanced: mirado. guide: guía, guiar, mandar, dirigir, conducir. heaven: cielo. heavens: cielo, cielos. hold: tener, sujetar, continuar, retención, sostener, contener,

mantener, retenido, presa, bodega. husband: marido, esposo, el esposo. laugh: reír, reírse, risa, carcajada. lie: mentir, mentira, yacer, estar tendido, embuste, echarse. master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister. merry: alegre. mrs: Sra., señorita. muse: musa, meditar. o'er: sobre. sir: señor.

sold: vendido. sport: deporte. stand: estar de pie, puesto, levantarse, granero, posición, cabina, soporte, base, estante, caseta, pararse. strike: huelga, golpear, llamar, declararse en huelga, acertar, paro, golpe. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú.

William Shakespeare

127

GLOSSARY abhor: detestar, detesta, detesten, detestan, detestas, detesto, detestamos, detestáis, detestad, deteste, aborrecer abide: esperar, tolerar, tolere, esperamos, esperan, esperáis, esperas, esperad, espere, tolera, esperen abominable: abominable, horrible, horroroso abraham: Abrahám, Abrahán absence: ausencia, falta absolute: absoluto, completo, cabal abstract: resumen, abstracto, descolgar, extracto, decudir, arrancar, abstraer, quitar, compendio abuse: abuso, injuriar, insulto, insultar, ofender, ofensa, injuria, abusar, ultrajar abused: maltratado abusing: abusando accidence: acaso, accidente according: conforme, de acuerdo con accoutrement: accesorio, accesorios reglamentarios del uniforme de las Naciones Unidas accusative: acusativo accuse: acusar, acusamos, acuso, acusen, acusan, acusáis, acusad, acusa, acusas, acuse, denunciar acquaintance: conocido, conocimiento, notoriedad acquainted: informado, enterado acquit: absolver, absuelvan, absuelve, absuelvo, absuelves, absolvemos, absuelven, absolvéis, absolved, absuelva, pagar additions: Agregaciones address: dirección, dirigir, discurso, señas, dirigirse a, alocución, dirigirse, domicilio, dirigir la palabra a adhere: adherir, adherid, adherimos, adherís, adhieran, adhiere, adhieren, adhieres, adhiero, adhiera, adherirse adieu: adiós

admirable: admirable, estupendo admits: confiesa, admite admittance: entrada, admisión, admitancia ado: ruido adoption: adopción advance: avance, adelanto, anticipo, acercarse, progreso, adelantar, proponer, aproximarse, avanzar, anticipar advantage: ventaja, provecho, la ventaja adversary: adversario, enemigo aesculapius: esculapio afar: lejos affecting: afectando, conmovedor, conmoviendo affection: afecto, cariño, afectuosidad, amor affects: afecta, conmueve afflicted: afligido affliction: aflicción afore: a proa afraid: miedoso, temeroso, asustado, medroso, miedo, encogido, angustioso, tímido, be - tener miedo afterwards: después, luego, más adelante aggravate: agravar, agravo, agravad, agraváis, agravamos, agravan, agravas, agraven, agrava, agrave agrees: acuerda, conviene, asiente, concuerda ah: ay aid: ayuda, ayudar, asistente, ayudante, la curita, auxilio, socorro aim: fin, objeto, objetivo, querer decir, apuntar, tratar de, esforzarse por, apuntáis, apunten, apuntas, apunto airy: airoso alacrity: alacridad, diligencia alas: ay, es una lástima alice: Alicia allowed: permitido, dejado alone: solo, único, solamente, sólo along: a lo largo de, por aloud: en voz alta

altar: altar alter: cambiar, cambia, cambien, cambie, cambias, cambian, cambio, cambiamos, cambiáis, cambiad, alterar altogether: todo, en conjunto amaze: asombrar, asombramos, asombren, asombran, asombráis, asombrad, asombra, asombras, asombre, asombro, maravillar amazed: asombrado, maravillado, pasmado, atónito ambling: Andar, amblar amends: enmienda, corrige, compensación amiable: amistoso, amable ancestors: ascendientes, antepasados anchor: ancla, anclar, fondear, anclaje, áncora, el ancla angels: los ángeles angry: enojado, enfadado, furioso anne: Ana anne's: anne anon: pronto answer: respuesta, responder, contestar, contestación, responder a, corresponder al, contestar a, la respuesta, réplica answered: contesta, Contestado anybody: alguien, alguno, cierto, cualquiera apart: aparte, por separado, particular, separado ape: mono, simio apparel: atavío appear: aparecer, aparece, aparezco, aparezcan, apareces, aparecen, aparecemos, aparecéis, apareced, aparezca, parecer appears: aparece, comparece appetite: apetito, el apetito apply: aplicar, emplear, emplead, aplica, empleo, empleen, emplee, empleas, emplean, empleamos, empleáis appoint: nombrar, nombro, nombrad, nombráis, nombramos, nombran,

128 nombras, nombren, nombra, nombre, designar appointed: nombrado, designado appointment: cita, nombramiento, designación, la cita appointments: las citas apprehended: aprehendido approach: aproximación, enfoque, aproximarse, acercarse, acercar, acercamiento, método, planteamiento april: abril aqua-vitae: aguardiente arched: arqueado argument: argumento, discusión, el argumento arms: brazos, los brazos, armas arras: Tapiz arrested: parado, descargador, arrestado, detenido arrow: flecha, la flecha, saeta art: arte, el arte article: artículo, objeto articles: constitución, estatutos, articulado, artículos, estipulaciones ascend: ascender, ascendemos, asciendo, asciendes, ascienden, asciende, ascienda, ascendéis, ascended, asciendan, subir ashamed: avergonzado, vergonzoso ashore: en tierra aside: aparte, al lado ask: preguntar, preguntáis, preguntad, pregunto, pregunten, preguntas, preguntan, preguntamos, pregunte, pregunta, pedir ass: burro, asno, culo assay: ensayo, ensayar, prueba assist: ayudar, ayudad, ayudo, ayuden, ayudas, ayudan, ayudáis, ayudamos, ayuda, ayude, asistir assistant: asistente, ayudante, auxiliar assurance: garantía, convicción, aseguramiento assure: asegurar, asegura, aseguren, aseguras, aseguran, aseguramos, aseguráis, asegurad, aseguro, asegure, garantizar asunder: separadamente attain: alcanzar, alcanza, alcanzad, alcanzáis, alcanzamos, alcanzan, alcanzas, alcanzo, alcancen, alcance, obtener attempt: intentar, intenta, intentad, intentáis, intentamos, intentas, intente, intenten, intentan, intento, tentativa attended: asistido attends: asiste attired: atraído attraction: atracción

The Merry Wives of Windsor au: unidad administrativa aunt: tía authentic: auténtico avoid: evitar, evito, evitan, evitamos, evitáis, evitad, eviten, evita, evitas, evite, eludir avouch: declarar, reconocer, afirmar, garantir, garantizar awake: despierto, despertar, despertarse awe: pavor, admiración, atemorizar, imponer en algo, sobrecogimiento, temor, intimidar, impresionar ay: sí back-door: puerta trasera backs: espaldas bacon: tocino, el tocino, beicon, lardo, tocino ahumado bade: pret de bid, Mandó bag: bolso, bolsa, saco baggage: equipaje, equipajes, el equipaje, bagaje bake: hornear, cocer, hacer al horno balm: bálsamo, melisa, toronjil banbury: caucho bark: ladrar, corteza, ladrido, barco, cáscara barrow: parihuela, carretilla bars: cerca, impide base: basar, pie, fundar, base, basamento, casquillo, fundamentar baseness: bajeza basket: cesto, cesta, la cesta, canasta, barquilla, canasto bath: baño, bañera beam: viga, rayo, haz, plegador, radio, haz de luz bear: oso, llevar, el oso, bajista, producir, dar a luz, parir, portar, soportar beard: barba, la barba, arista beast: bestia, animal beastly: bestial beat: golpear, batido, batir, pegar, apalear, pulsación, latido, batimiento beaten: vencido beauty: belleza, la belleza becomes: acontece bed: cama, lecho, cauce, la cama, bancada, cuadro, madre beds: las camas begin: empezar, empiecen, empezad, empezáis, empiece, empieza, empiezan, empiezas, empiezo, empezamos, comenzar beginning: empezando, comienzo, principio, principiando, inicio, origen, el principio beguile: engañar, engañad, engaño, engañen, engañas, engañan, engañáis, engaña, engañamos,

engañe beguiled: engañado behalf: nombre behaviour: comportamiento, conducta beheld: considerado, observado, contemplado, visto, advertido, mirado, Percibido, pret y pp de behold behold: tenga beholding: advirtiendo, considerando, contemplando, mirando, observando, viendo, percibir belief: creencia, credo, fe bell: timbre, campana, campanilla, la campana bell-wether: guia del rebano belly: vientre, barriga, panza below: abajo, debajo de, debajo, bajo, por debajo de, en el fondo bending: flexión, torcimiento benefit: beneficio, ventaja, provecho, prestación, subsidio, beneficiar, lucro benevolence: benevolencia bequeath: legar, lega, legad, legáis, legamos, legan, legas, lego, leguen, legue beseech: supliquen, rogáis, rogamos, ruega, ruegan, ruegas, ruegue, rueguen, suplica, suplicamos, rogad besides: además, demás, además de, amén de bestow: conferir, otorgar bestowed: conferido, otorgado, concedido bethink: recapacitar, acordarse de, recordar betray: traicionar, traicionas, traiciono, traicionen, traiciona, traicionan, traicionamos, traicionad, traicionáis, traicione beyond: más allá de, a través de, luego, después, allende, más allá bid: ofrecer, licitación, postura, oferta, solicitar, licitar, pedir, demandar, rogar, puja bill: cuenta, billete, pico, factura, proyecto de ley, podadera, efecto, letra de cambio, nota, facturar birds: aves birth: nacimiento, parto, el nacimiento bite: morder, mordisco, mordedura, bocado, picar, mordida, picadura, picada biting: mordaz, punzante, penetrante blame: culpa, reprender, valorar en, reprobar, culpar blank: blanco, espacio en blanco, en blanco, formulario, vacío, hoja

William Shakespeare blazon: blasón bleaching: blanqueo bless: bendecir, bendecimos, bendigo, bendigan, bendices, bendicen, bendecís, bendecid, bendice, bendiga blessed: bendecido, bendito, bienaventurado blest: beato, pret y pp de bless, maldito, feliz, dotado, bienaventurado, bendito, santo blind: ciego, persiana, deslumbrar, deslumbrad, deslumbre, deslumbras, deslumbran, deslumbro, deslumbramos, deslumbráis, deslumbren blood: sangre, la sangre bloody: sangriento, sanguinario, cruento blow: soplar, golpe blowing: soplado, sopladura, soplar, silbido, soplo blue: azul, azular boarded: Abordar bold: grueso, negrita, audaz bolt: perno, cerrojo, saeta, tornillo, bulón, pestillo, clavija boor: patán boots: botas born: nacido, nato borne: Soportado, pp de bear, pagado borrowed: prestado bottle: botella, la botella, embotellar, vaciar, frasco, biberón bottom: fondo, suelo, inferior, lado inferior, el fondo, culo, posaderas, trasero bought: comprado bound: encuadernado, saltar, salto, ligado, límite, obligado bounty: liberalidad, generosidad bout: rato, ataque, combate box: caja, estuche, arca, casilla, boxear, la caja, jarro, recuadro, olla, palco, cajetín boy: chico, muchacho, niño, el muchacho, criado, chamaco boys: los muchachos bragged: Jactado brain: cerebro, seso brains: sesos, inteligencia bread: pan, el pan breadth: ancho, amplitud, anchura break: romper, descanso, interrupción, rotura, quebrar, corte, pausa, adiestrar, fractura, interrumpir breakfast: desayuno, el desayuno, desayunar breathe: respirar, respira, respiren, respiras, respiran, respiramos, respirad, respiráis, respire, respiro

breeding: cría, crianza, reproducción brew: infusión brief: breve, corto, informe, conciso briefly: brevemente bright: claro, luminoso, brillante, magnífico bring: traer, traigan, trae, traed, traéis, traemos, traen, traigo, traes, traiga, llevar broke: bollado, rotura, rompió, romper, pret de break, interrupción, fracturar, sin blanca, comienzo, pelado, descanso brook: arroyo brothers: hermanos brought: Traído brow: ceja, frente brown: marrón, pardo, moreno, dorar, castaño bruised: magullado, amoratado, contuso buck: liebre macho, conejo macho, ciervo, dólar bucking: Corcovear, troceado budget: presupuesto, presupuestar buffets: bufé autoservico, bufé frio, bufé, bufés build: construir, edificar, tipo built: construido, construyó, fabricados, pret y pp de build bull: toro, alcista, el toro bully: matón burn: arder, quemar, quemadura, quemarse, encender, la quemadura, abrasar burning: quemadura, ardiente burnt: quemado bush: arbusto, matorral, casquillo, el arbusto, buje, mata butcher's: carnicería butter: mantequilla, la mantequilla, manteca, untar con mantequilla buttons: botones buy: comprar, compra, procurarse, adquisición buys: compra cabbage: col, repollo, la col, berza caesar: César call: llamada, llamar, llaman, llamen, llamad, llamas, llamo, llamamos, llamáis, llame, llama calls: llama, llamadas canary: canario cannon: cañón cannot: presente de no poder capacity: capacidad capers: alcaparras careless: descuidado, sin cuidado, negligente caret: símbolo del acento circunflejo, signo de intercalación carriage: coche, carro, cureña

129 carried: Llevado, cargado, transportado carrion: carroña carry: llevar, llevamos, lleváis, llevad, lleva, lleven, llevo, llevan, llevas, lleve, cargar carves: talla, labra casement: marco cashier: cajero, el cajero cast: lanzar, lanzamiento, arrojar, echar, colar, elenco, molde castle: castillo, torre, el castillo caught: cogido, asido, acertado cause: causa, causar, ocasionar, dar lugar a, instigar, producir, maquinar, provocar celestial: celeste, celestial ceremony: ceremonia chafe: rozadura, rozar chain: cadena, la cadena, encadenar chairs: las sillas challenge: reto, desafiar, desafío, retar, recusación, impugnar chamber: cámara, habitación, cuarto chambers: recámara, compartimiento, cámara de comercio, aposento, cámara, cámara de paz chance: azar, suerte, acontecimiento, acaso, oportunidad charge: carga, cargo, acusación, gastos, cargar, cobro, cobrar, imputación chariness: atención charms: amuletos chaste: casto cheer: animar, incitar cheerful: alegre, animado cheese: queso, el queso chest: pecho, arca, aparador, el pecho, caja chiding: reprendiendo, regañando chimney: chimenea, la chimenea chimneys: chimeneas choked: estrangulado choler: hiel choose: escoger, escojan, escoges, escogen, escogemos, escogéis, escoged, escojo, escoge, escoja, elegir christian: cristiano churchman: clérigo circumference: perímetro, circunferencia, la circunferencia civil: civil civility: cortesía clerkly: Empleado cloak: abrigo, capa clock: reloj, el reloj, ceas close: cerrar, cierras, cierra, cierren, cerráis, cerrad, cerramos, cierro, cierre, cierran, cerca closet: armario, gabinete, el armario,

130 el clóset clothes: ropa, viste, la ropa, ropaje coach: coche, autocar, entrenar, carroza coat: abrigo, chaqueta, capa cock: gallo, grifo, pene, pija coffer: panel empotrado cog: dientee, usar diente, diente de rueda, diente de engranaje, diente cold: frío, resfriado, catarro, constipado colour: color, colorear, coloración colours: bandera combat: combate, combatir comedy: comedia, la comedia comes: Viene comfort: comodidad, consolar, anchas, consuelo, confort coming: viniendo, proveniente, próximo, originario, natural command: mando, orden, mandato, comando, instrucción, capitanear, acaudillar commanded: Ordenado commend: alabar, alabo, alaben, alabe, alabas, alaban, alabamos, alabáis, alaba, alabad, recomendar commended: alabado committed: cometido, comprometido common: común companion: acompañante, compañero compass: brújula, compás complain: quejarse complement: complemento, complementar complexion: cutis, tez compound: compuesto conceal: ocultar, ocultamos, oculten, ocultan, ocultáis, ocultad, oculta, ocultas, oculto, oculte, recatar conceited: presumido, hueco conceive: concebir, conciban, concibo, concibes, concibe, concebís, concebimos, concebid, conciben, conciba concerning: en cuanto a, acerca de, por lo tocante a, respecto de conclusion: conclusión confess: confesar, confiesan, confiesen, confieso, confiesas, confesamos, confesad, confesáis, confiesa, confiese, declarar confessed: confesado, reconocido confidence: confianza, confidencia confident: seguro conjectures: supone conjure: conjurar conscience: conciencia consent: aprobación, acordar, declaración, declarar, consentimiento, autorización

The Merry Wives of Windsor consider: considerar, considerad, considero, consideren, consideras, consideran, consideramos, consideráis, considera, considere, contemplar conspiracy: conspiración constable: alguacil construction: construcción construe: interpretar consult: consultar, consultas, consultan, consultamos, consultáis, consultad, consulto, consulten, consulta, consulte contempt: desprecio, menosprecio content: contenido, contento, satisfecho contented: contento, satisfecho contents: contenido, contenidos, índice continual: continuo contrary: contrario convenient: conveniente conversation: conversación converse: conversar, opuesto convey: alargar, entregar, llevar, entrega, entregan, entreguen, entregue, entregas, entregamos, entregáis, entregad conveyance: transmisión conveyed: entregado, alargado cook: cocinar, cocinero, cocinera, cocer, el cocinero, guisar cool: fresco, enfriar, frío, chido, chilero, chévere cooled: refrescado corporal: corpóreo corrupt: corrupto, corromper, adulterar, corrompa, corrompido, corrompan, corrompo, corrompes, corrompemos, corromped, corrompe corrupted: corrompido cost: costar, costo, coste, gastos couch: canapé, dyschatell, cama, sofá, sofá cama counsel: consejo, aconsejar, abogado, anunciar counsellor: consejero, asesor count: contar, recuento, cuenta, conde, calcular, entrar en cuenta, computar, unidad de cuenta, cargo countenance: semblante counterfeiting: falsificación county: condado, provincia couple: embragar, pareja, par, acoplar courageous: bravo, valeroso, valiente course: curso, plato, cursillo, rumbo, transcurso, recorrido courtier: cortesano, palaciego cousin: primo, prima, el primo cover: cubrir, tapa, cobertura, recorrer, tapar, forrar, cubierta,

neumático, portada, forro, encuadernación coward: cobarde, el cobarde cowardly: cobarde cozenage: engaño crack: grieta, hendedura, crujido, quebraja, hendidura, crujir, raja crammed: Atracado, hasta los topes crave: ansiar, pedir, ansía, ansío, ansíen, ansíe, ansías, ansían, ansiad, ansiáis, ansiamos creature: criatura credit: crédito, haber, acreditar creep: arrastrarse, arrastrar, deslizamiento, arrastre, fluencia, arrastras, arrastren, arrastran, arrastramos, arrastráis, arrastrad cried: Lloró cries: llora cross: cruz, atravesar, cruzar, transversal, aspa, cruce crossed: cruzado crowned: verdadero, coronado cry: llorar, grito, gritar, lamento crying: llorando cuckold: cornudo cuckoldly: Cornudo cuckoo: cuco, cuclillo, cucú cudgel: garrote corto cudgelled: aporreó cue: taco de billar, taco, sugestión, señal de aviso, señal, pie, indirecta, cola, clave, indicación, apunte cup: taza, la taza, copa cupid: Cupido cur: perro chusco o de mala casta, perro, hombre vil, de mala raza, chucho, canalla, vil cursed: maldito custom: costumbre, usanza cut: cortar, corte, cortado, cortadura dagger: daga, puñal dam: presa, represa, obstrucción, dique, embalse damnation: condenación damned: condenado, maldito dance: bailar, baile, danza, danzar, el baile dances: baila dangerous: peligroso dares: aventura, desafía, osa, se arriesga, se atreve dark: oscuro, tenebroso daughter: hija, la hija, Nina daughters: hijas daylight: luz del día, luz de día, luz natural dead: muerto deal: trato, transacción deanery: casa de decano dear: caro, querido, estimado debtor: deudor

William Shakespeare decay: decadencia, decaimiento, putrefacción, baja, deterioración, descomposición deceit: engaño deceive: engañar, engaño, engañe, engaña, engañamos, engañen, engañan, engañáis, engañad, engañas, embaucar deceived: engañado decipher: descifrar, descifre, descifra, descifro, descifren, descifras, descifran, desciframos, descifráis, descifrad deck: cubierta declensions: declinaciones declined: rechazado decrease: disminuir, decrecer, bajar, disminución, menguar, amainar deep: profundo, hondo deer: ciervo, venado defend: defender, defiendes, defiendo, defendéis, defendemos, defiendan, defienden, defended, defiende, defienda defile: desfiladero defy: desafiar, desafiáis, desafío, desafíen, desafías, desafiamos, desafiad, desafía, desafían, desafíe degree: grado, título, licencia dejected: abatido, desanimado delay: retraso, retardo, demora, retrasar, demorar, retardar delight: deleitar, delicia, encantar deliver: entregar, entregas, entrego, entregan, entregamos, entregáis, entregad, entreguen, entrega, entregue delivered: entregado denial: negación, denegación denied: negado, desmentido denote: denotar, denotáis, denoto, denoten, denote, denotas, denotamos, denotad, denota, denotan descend: descender, descendéis, desciendo, desciendes, descienden, desciende, desciendan, descendemos, descended, descienda, bajar description: descripción deserve: merecer, merecemos, merezcan, merezco, merecen, mereced, merece, mereces, merecéis, merezca deserves: merece desire: desear, deseo, tener, querer, gana, codiciar desired: deseado desperate: desesperado despise: despreciar, desprecia, desprecien, desprecias, desprecian, despreciamos, despreciáis,

despreciad, desprecio, desprecie despite: a pesar de detect: detectar, detectan, detectas, detecto, detecten, detectamos, detectáis, detectad, detecta, detecte detected: detectado detection: detección, descubrimiento determination: determinación detest: detestar, detesto, detesta, detestad, detestáis, detestamos, detestan, detestas, detesten, deteste, aborrecer device: aparato, dispositivo, artefacto, mecanismo devil: diablo, el diablo devils: diablo devise: idear, disposiciones testamentarias devises: idea dexterity: destreza diamond: diamante, el diamante, rombo dice: dados, dado die: morir, morid, mueran, muere, morís, mueren, mueres, muero, morimos, muera, molde difference: diferencia differs: difiere diffused: difundido, EXTENSIVO dilemma: dilema dine: cenar, cenáis, ceno, cenen, cenas, cenamos, cenad, cenan, cena, cene dinner: cena, comida, banquete direct: directo, mandar, guiar, derecho, dirigir directed: dirigido direction: dirección, rumbo discarded: desechar, eliminar, roto, desecho, suprimir, tirado, dejado de llevar a cabo, realizado descartado, descartado de, descartado, renunciado a discharge: descarga, despedir, descargar, absolver, despido, dar de alta, poner en libertad, descargo discourse: discurso discover: descubrir, descubrimos, descubrís, descubrid, descubres, descubren, descubre, descubran, descubro, descubra discreetly: discreta, discretamente, recatadamente discretion: discreción discuss: discutir, discutan, discutimos, discutid, discutes, discuten, discute, discuto, discutís, discuta, debatir disease: enfermedad disgrace: vergüenza, desgracia, deshonrar disguise: disfraz, disfrazar

131 disguised: disfrazado dish: plato, el plato, guiso dishonest: ímprobo, deshonesto dishonesty: deshonestidad dismay: espantar, consternar dismayed: entelerido disobedience: desobediencia disparagements: menosprecios dispatch: despachar, expedir, expedición, enviar, envío, despacho dispatched: despabilado y perdido, enviado, consignado, remitido, despachado en otro disperse: dispersar, dispersen, dispersa, dispersáis, dispersamos, dispersan, dispersas, disperse, dispersad, disperso display: pantalla, exhibición, visualización, exponer, exposición, desplegar disposition: disposición, talento, capacidad dispositions: plan dissembling: disimulando dissolute: disoluto dissolutely: disolutamente, en disolución dissolution: disolución dissolve: disolver, disolved, disolvéis, disuelvo, disuelves, disuelve, disuelvan, disuelva, disolvemos, DISUELVEN dissolved: disuelto distance: distancia, alejamiento distemper: moquillo, pintura al temple distillation: destilación distraction: distracción distracts: distrae distress: afligir, indigencia, entristecer, acongojar, dolor ditch: zanja, cuneta, foso divers: varios, diversos divinity: divinidad divulge: divulgar, divulgáis, divulguen, divulgo, divulgas, divulgad, divulga, divulgamos, divulgan, divulgue doctor: médico, doctor doe: coneja dog: perro, el perro, la perra, can dogs: los perros, las perras dole: subsidio de desempleo dote: chochear, chochean, chochee, chocheen, chocheas, chocheáis, chochea, chochead, chocheo, chocheamos doting: chocheando double: doble, doblar, doblado doublet: jubón, doblete doubt: dudar, duda doubted: dudado

132 doubtful: dudoso dove: pichón, paloma, la palomita dowry: dote dozen: docena, la docena draught: calado, trago draw: dibujar, dibujáis, dibujad, dibujen, dibuje, dibujas, dibujamos, dibuja, dibujan, dibujo, tirar drawer: cajón, librador, la gaveta, gaveta drawn: dibujado, encantado, trazado draws: dibuja, traza, encanta dreadful: terrible, espantoso dream: soñar, sueño, ensueño dreamed: soñado dress: vestido, vestir, vendar, vestirse, el vestido, ponerse, revestir dried: seco drift: deriva, derivar del rumbo, corriente drink: beber, bebida, tomar, el refresco, trago, copa drive: conducir, conducen, conduzcan, conduzco, conducís, conducimos, conduzca, conduces, conduce, conducid, propulsión drop: gota, caer, disminuir, amainar, decrecer, menguar, caída, descenso, dejar caer drove: manada drowned: se ahogado, ahogado drunk: borracho, bebido, ebrio drunkard: borrachín, borracho drunken: borracho, ebrio dry: seco, secar, enjugar duke: duque dunghill: muladar dutch: holandés, neerlandés dwarf: enano, empequeñecer dwell: morar, morad, moren, moras, moráis, moran, moramos, mora, more, moro, habitar dwelling: morando, vivienda, morada dwells: mora ear: oreja, espiga, la oreja, oído earl: conde ears: orejas, las orejas, oídos easier: mas fácil easily: fácilmente easing: relajación, aliviar, aligeramiento east: este, el este, oriente, levante easy: fácil eat: comer, comemos, comes, coméis, comed, coman, como, comen, coma, Come eaten: comido eats: come edifice: edificio edition: edición edward: Eduardo

The Merry Wives of Windsor eggs: huevos egress: salida eight: ocho eke: aumentas, aumento, aumente, aumentan, aumentamos, aumentáis, aumentad, aumenta, aumenten, escatime, suplir las deficiencias elder: mayor, anciano, saúco element: elemento, ingrediente eleven: once em: ingeniero de mineras embassy: embajada embattled: almenado, en orden de batalla, luchado embraced: abrazado emerald: esmeralda, la esmeralda emperor: emperador employment: empleo, trabajo, acomodo empty: vacío, vaciar, evacuar, desocupado, desocupar emulate: emular, emulamos, emulo, emulan, emuláis, emulad, emula, emulas, emulen, emule encircle: rodear, rodeamos, rodeo, rodea, rodead, rodeáis, rodean, rodeen, rodeas, rodee, cercar encompassed: rodeado encounter: encuentro, encontrar, encuentran, encuentren, encuentre, encuentras, encuentra, encontramos, encontrad, encontráis, hallar endanger: poner en peligro english: inglés, inglesa engrossed: acaparado, copiado, absorbido, absorto enjoy: disfrutar, disfrutas, disfrutan, disfrutamos, disfrutáis, disfrutad, disfruta, disfruto, disfruten, disfrute, gozar enjoyed: disfrutado, gozado enjoying: disfrutando, gozando ensconce: acomodarse, instalarse en, esconder, acomódese, hallarse ensue: suceder, suceda, sucedes, suceden, sucedemos, sucedéis, suceded, sucede, sucedan, sucedo enter: entrar, entro, entra, entrad, entráis, entramos, entran, entras, entren, entre, inscribir entertain: entretener, entretenemos, entreten, entretened, entretenéis, entretengan, entretengo, entretiene, entretienes, entretienen, entretenga entertainment: recreación, entretenimiento, diversión, función entrails: entrañas epicurean: epicúreo equipage: equipaje, equipo ere: antes de erected: erigido erection: erección

errand: recado, mensaje, mandado, encargo escape: escaparse, escapar, huida, fuga, escape, evadir, escapada, huir esquire: señor don etc: etcétera, y de este modo adelante eternal: eterno ethiopian: etíope etna: Etna europa: Europa evening: tarde, noche, anochecer everlasting: eterno evermore: eternamente evil: mal, malo, malvado examined: examinado, registrado excellency: excelencia excellent: excelente exchange: cambio, intercambio, cambiar, central, central telefónica, canjear, intercambiar, bolsa, permutar excuse: excusa, excusar, disculpa, disculpar exhibit: exhibir, exponer, documento, prueba exit: salida, salir, la salida expense: gasto, gastos, expensas experiment: experimento, experimentar extant: existente extraordinary: extraordinario extreme: extremo extremity: extremidad, extremo, extremidades eye: ojo, el ojo, ojear, mirar fail: fallar, fracasar, faltar fain: dispuesto fair: justo, rubio, mercado, feria, verbena, bazar, equitativo, hermoso fairly: bastante, con justicia fairy: hada, la hada faith: fe, la fe fall: caer, os caéis, cáedos, se caen, se cae, te caes, caígase, cáete, caíganse, me caigo, nos caemos fallow: barbecho falls: se cae, decrece, derriba false: falso familiar: conocido familiarity: familiaridad, notoriedad fan: ventilador, abanico, animar, entusiasta, incitar, el ventilador, hincha, aficionado, admirador fantastical: mítico, fabuloso, estupendo, irreal, bárbaro, fantástico fare: tarifa, pasaje farewell: adiós, despedida fashion: moda fast: rápido, ayunar, fijo, de prisa, pronto, veloz, ligero, firme, ayuno fat: gordo, grasa, grueso, manteca fate: destino, suerte, sino, hado

William Shakespeare fault: culpa, defecto, avería, falla, falta, fallo, error, imperfección fear: temer, miedo, temor, angustia, recelar fed: alimentado, cebado fellow: compañero, hombre, socio, tipo, becario fence: reja, valla, cerca, vallado, obstrucción, la cerca, cercado fetch: traer, traemos, traed, trae, traéis, traes, traigo, traigan, traen, traiga, coger fidelity: fidelidad, la fidelidad field: campo, el campo, zona, cancha fields: campos fiends: demonios fifteen: quince fifty: cincuenta fight: luchar, pelear, lucha, combate, pelea, batallar, riña, combatir fighter: luchador, combatiente figure: figura, cifra, calcular, figurar, computar, retrato, reproducción, ilustración figures: cifras filching: birlando, hurtando, rapiñando, rateando, sisando finally: finalmente, al fin, por fin fine: multa, fino, multar, excelente, bonito, delgado, bien, estupendo, bueno finely: finamente, en trozos menudos finest: mejor finger: dedo, el dedo, tocar, manga fire: fuego, incendio, despedir, disparar, el fuego, tirar, animar, incitar, lumbre, hacer fuego, encender fires: incendios firm: firma, firme, fijo, empresa, sólido, fuerte, compañía firmly: firmemente fish: pez, pescado, pescar, el pescado, pescados, peces, el pez fit: adaptar, acomodar, ajustar, apoplejía, ajuste, caber, ataque, en forma, encajar fixed: fijo, fijado, reparado fixture: adorno flame: llama, flamear, la flama flannel: franela, la franela flaring: abocinado flattering: adulando, adulador flax: lino fled: huido fleming: flamenco flemish: flamenco flesh: carne, pulpa flies: vuela flowers: las flores fly: volar, voláis, vuelen, vuele, vuelas, volamos, vuela, volad,

vuelan, vuelo, mosca flying: volando, volante foe: enemigo folks: gente follow: seguir, seguid, sigues, siguen, sigue, sigo, sigan, seguís, seguimos, siga, venir después followed: seguido follower: seguidor followers: partido folly: tontería food: comida, alimento, comestibles, alimentos, plato fool: engañar, necio, tonto foolery: tontería foolish: zote, tonto, necio, bobo foot: pie, pata, el pie, pujamen foppery: afectación en el vestir forbade: pret de forbid, entredicho, prohibió forbear: antepasado forbid: prohibir, prohibid, prohiban, prohibo, prohibimos, prohibes, prohiben, prohibe, prohibís, prohiba forced: forzado ford: vado forehead: frente, la frente forest: bosque, el bosque, selva forge: forjar, falsificar, forja, fraguar, inventar forget: olvidar, olvidan, olviden, olvidas, olvidamos, olvidáis, olvidad, olvida, olvide, olvido, olvidarse forgive: perdonar, perdona, perdonad, perdono, perdonen, perdonas, perdonan, perdonamos, perdonáis, perdone forgiven: perdonado forgot: olvidado, pret de forget forsooth: en verdad forswore: pret de forswear fort: fuerte forth: adelante fortnight: quincena, quince días fortune: suerte, fortuna forty: cuarenta forward: adelante, delantero, reenviar, hacia delante, enviar, remitir, hacia adelante fought: luchado foul: falta, asqueroso, sucio fowl: gallina, aves, ave fox: zorro, el zorro fragrant: fragante, oloroso frailty: debilidad, flaqueza, cosa débil, fragilidad france: Francia, la Francia frank: franco, franquear fray: riña freely: libremente french: francés

133 frenchman: francés frenzy: frenesí fresh: fresco fretted: preocupado friend: amigo, amiga, el amigo friends: amigos, los amigos friendship: amistad frieze: friso, frisón, frisio fright: espanto, susto, miedo, angustia, terror froth: espuma frugal: mísero, frugal fury: furia, furor gainer: ganador gait: paso gallant: galante, galán, valeroso gallimaufry: baturrillo gamester: jugador garments: ornamentos garter: liga geese: gansos gelding: capón generally: generalmente genitive: genitivo gentle: dulce, suave, manso, apacible gentleman: caballero, señor, gentilhombre gentlemen: señores gentlewoman: dama gentry: señorío george: Jorge gets: obtiene giantess: giganta gibbet: horca gift: regalo, donación, el regalo, don, talento gifts: regalos gilded: dorado girl: muchacha, chica, niña, la muchacha gives: da giving: dando glad: alegre, contento glanced: mirado gloves: guantes, los guantes glowing: resplandeciente gnawn: roído goat: cabra, la cabra go-between: intermediario god: Dios godly: piadoso gods: paraíso, gallinero goes: va, marcha gold: oro, el oro, de oro golden: dorado, áureo, de oro gone: ido, marchado goodly: agradable, excelente, hermoso, guapo, gracioso, crecido, bueno, buenamente, bello, bien parecido goose: ganso, oca, ánsar, el ganso gossip: cotillear, cotilleo, chismear,

134 chismes, los chismes, chismorreo gotten: obtenido gourd: calabaza governed: gobernado, capitaneado, regido, reprimido gown: vestido, toga grace: gracia, garbo, honrar grand: magnífico, grande, grandioso grandsire: estimado grate: parrilla, reja, rallar grated: rallado gratis: Sin cargo, franco, gratuito, Sin costo, Libre gravity: gravedad grease: grasa, engrasar, la grasa greasy: grasiento, gordo, grueso, untuoso greater: mayor greece: Grecia greedy: codicioso, ávido, goloso green: verde grey: gris, pardo greyhound: galgo grievously: penosamente, crasamente, gravemente, gravosamente gripe: queja groats: avena, cebada pelada, sémola gross: bruto, asqueroso, grueso, doce docenas grossly: groseramente grossness: grosería ground: suelo, terreno, tierra, molido, masa, conexión a tierra, el suelo, fondo, fundamento grow: crecer, crecen, crezco, crece, creced, crecemos, crezcan, crecéis, creces, crezca, cultivar growth: aumento, incremento, crecimiento, desarrollo guest: huésped, invitado, visita guiana: Guayana guide: guía, guiar, mandar, dirigir, conducir guides: guías guiltiness: culpabilidad, suciedad guts: intestinos ha: ah, decir ah, ja habit: costumbre, hábito, resabio, mala costumbre hack: cortar, cortas, cortan, cortamos, cortáis, cortad, corta, corto, corten, corte, tajar hag: bruja hail: granizo, granizar, alabar, pedrisco hair: pelo, cabello, el pelo, vello hallowed: santificado, bendito handle: asa, mango, manija, tratar, manejar, tacto, manivela, empuñadura, asidero, manubrio, palanca

The Merry Wives of Windsor hands: las manos handsome: guapo, bonito, bien parecido hang: colgar hanged: colgar, ahorcado, continuar, caída, colgó hangs: continúa, cuelga happy: feliz, alegre, contento hard: duro, difícil, tieso hardest: duramente hark: escuchar con atención, prestar oído a, escuche, escuchar, escucha, oye hast: haya haste: prisa, precipitación hat: sombrero, el sombrero hateful: odioso haunch: cadera, anca haunt: guarida, frecuentar, perseguir hawk: halcón heads: cabezas, administradores heal: curar, curen, curas, curan, curamos, curo, curáis, curad, cura, cure, sanar hear: oír, oigan, oyes, oyen, oye, oís, oigo, oíd, oímos, oiga heard: oído hearing: oyendo, oído, audiencia, vista, audición hears: oye heart: corazón, cogollo heartily: sinceramente hearts: corazones, copas hearty: cordial heat: calor, calentar, el calor, hornada, carga de fusión heaven: cielo heavenly: celestial, celeste heavens: cielo, cielos heavy: pesado hector: maltratar, Intimidar Fuertemente, intimidar, Héctor, bravear, atropellar, matón, abatir, vejar, acobardar hedge: seto vivo, seto, cobertura heed: atención heel: talón, tacón, calcañal, escorar, calcañar heels: taco, tacón height: altura, altitud, elevación, la altura, estatura, cerro held: tuvo lugar, sostuvo hell: infierno hence: de aquí a, por tanto henceforth: de aquí en adelante hercules: Hércules hereafter: de ahora en adelante herod: Herodes herring: arenque herself: sí, ella misma, se, sí misma hick: de Aldea, Paleto, Palurdo, porro, Rústico

hide: ocultar, oculto, oculta, oculte, ocultas, ocultan, ocultamos, ocultáis, ocultad, oculten, piel hideous: horroroso, abominable, horrible hides: oculta, esconde hiding: ocultando, escondiendo, ocultamiento higher: superior hilt: puño hinds: trasero hiss: siseo, silbido, soplido hissing: silbar, silbido, sisteo hit: golpear, acertar, golpe, pegar, llamar, éxito hither: acá hobgoblin: duende hoc: éste hog: cerdo hold: tener, sujetar, continuar, retención, sostener, contener, mantener, retenido, presa, bodega hole: agujero, zanja, hueco, orificio, cavidad holiday: vacaciones, día de fiesta, fiesta, feriado hollow: hueco, cavidad, hondonada, vacuo holy: santo, sagrado honest: honrado, sincero, honesto honesty: honestidad, honradez honour: honor, homenaje hoof: pezuña, casco hope: esperanza, esperar, espera, espere, esperen, esperas, esperan, esperamos, esperáis, esperad, espero hopes: espera horn: cuerno, bocina, claxon, trompa horns: herramienta, cornamenta, cuernos, cuerna horses: los caballos horse-shoe: herradura hose: manguera host: anfitrión, huésped, posadero, hostia hot: caliente, picante, caluroso hot-blooded: apasionado, de sangre caliente, fogoso hour: hora, la hora hours: horas, las horas howsoever: como quiera que hue: matiz, tinte, tono, color huge: enorme, inmenso, ingente humidity: humedad, la humedad humour: humor hundred: ciento, cien, centenar hundredth: centésima, centésimo hung: colgó, pret y pp de hang, colgado, continuado hungarian: húngaro, húngara hunter: cazador hunting: cazando, caza, penduleo,

William Shakespeare cacería husband: marido, esposo, el esposo idle: ocioso, haraganear, perezoso, inactivo, en reposo ignorance: ignorancia ill: enfermo, malo, doliente ill-favoured: feo, mal parecido, considerado mal image: imagen, grabado, retrato, reproducción imagination: imaginación impatience: impaciencia impatient: impaciente imperfection: imperfección importuned: importunado impossible: imposible improvident: improvisor, impróvido incense: incienso, encolerizar inclination: inclinación, tentación inconstancy: inconstancia indeed: verdaderamente, en efecto, de veras, en realidad, efectivamente indies: indias infection: infección infinite: infinito inherit: heredar, heredad, herede, heredamos, hereden, heredo, heredáis, hereda, heredan, heredas inn: albergue, fonda, posada, mesón inquire: preguntar, inquirís, inquieran, inquiere, inquieren, inquieres, inquiero, inquirid, inquirimos, inquiera, inquirir instalment: plazo, anualidad instance: instancia, ejemplo, ejemplar instant: momento, instante, momentito, instantáneo instigated: instigado intelligence: inteligencia intend: querer decir, tener el propósito intent: intento, intención, propósito intention: intención intolerable: intolerable intrusion: intrusión invention: invención, invento invitation: invitación, convite invite: invitar, invitas, invita, invite, invitan, invitamos, invitáis, invitad, invito, inviten irishman: irlandés irreligious: irreligioso issue: emisión, promulgar, cuestión, proclamar, problema, edición, dar parte de, emitir, descendencia, expedir, número iv: IV - intravenoso jack: gato, jota, sota, para conectar algún aparto electrotécnico, clavija, para sujetar el coche cuando se cambia una rueda jealous: celoso

jealousy: celos jerkin: justillo jest: bromear, broma jester: bromista jests: bromas jewel: joya, la joya jewry: judería jove: Júpiter joyful: alegre judge: juez, juzgar, el juez, criticar judged: juzgado judgment: juicio, fallo, sentencia, criterio judicious: juicioso juice: zumo, jugo, el jugo, joco jupiter: Júpiter justice: justicia keeper: guardián, custodio, guarda, cortocircuito magnético ken: Conocer, Conocido, conocimiento, vista kept: guardado, vigilado, conservado, preservado kerchief: pañuelo key: llave, tecla, clave, la llave, teclear, chaveta keys: claves, llaves kidney: riñón kill: matar killed: matado kindled: encendido king: rey, el rey king's: inglés correcto kinsman: pariente kissed: Besado kissing: besar knave: bribón knaveries: Bribonadas knaves: valets knife: cuchillo, el cuchillo, cuchilla, la navaja, acuchillar knight: caballero, caballo knights: caballeros knit: tejer knock: llamar, golpear, golpe, topar, tocar, llamar a la puerta knocks: Golpes knot: nudo, correlimos gordo, lazo knowledge: conocimiento, saber knows: sabe, conoce la: la, Loisiana lack: falta, carencia, escasez, faltar, carecer de, carecer ladies: damas, señoras lads: chicos, muchachos lady: dama, señora laid: puesto, colocado, recostado, acostado landed: puesto, posado, pescado, obtenido, logrado, llegado, hecho, hacendado, ganado, conseguido, dado

135 larded: mechado largely: ampliamente lascivious: lascivo lastly: finalmente, pasadamente, por último, postreramente, últimamente late: tarde, tardío, tardo lately: últimamente latin: latín, latino latter: último laugh: reír, reírse, risa, carcajada laughed: Reído laundress: lavandera, la lavadera laundry: lavadero, lavandería, colada, lavado lawful: lícito, legal lay: poner, colocar, coloque, colocamos, pongan, ponga, pones, ponen, ponemos, ponéis, poned lays: pone, coloca lead: plomo, guiar, guía, conducir, guiáis, guiamos, guían, guías, guíe, guíen, guío leader: guía, líder, caudillo, jefe, capitán, dueño, comandante, patrón, amo, conductor, dirigente leads: guía, conduce, conductores, dirige league: liga, cinta, lazo, legua learn: aprender, aprenda, aprendemos, aprendes, aprendo, aprenden, aprended, aprendan, aprende, aprendéis, estudiar learned: aprendido, estudiado, docto, erudito, sabio learning: aprendiendo, aprendizaje, estudiando, aprender least: menos, mínimo, menor leave: salir, sal, sale, salís, salimos, salgo, salgan, salga, sales, salen, saled leaving: saliendo, dejando lecher: libertino led: guiado, conducido, dirigido leer: mirada de soslayo legion: legión legs: las piernas leisure: ocio, el ocio, tiempo libre lend: prestar, presto, preste, presten, prestas, prestan, prestamos, prestáis, prestad, presta lender: prestamista, prestador lest: para que no, a no ser que, con el fin de, no sea que, si es necesario let's: permitanos letter: carta, letra, la carta letters: letras liar: mentiroso, embustero, el mentiroso liberty: libertad, la libertad lie: mentir, mentira, yacer, estar tendido, embuste, echarse lief: con placer

136 light: luz, claro, ligero, encender, alumbrar, débil, liviano, la luz, radiación visible, lámpara, iluminar lights: luces likewise: igualmente, también, ídem, asimismo liking: afición, gusto limbs: extremidades lime: cal, lima, la lima, uni linen: lino, lencería, ropa blanca lingered: Demorado, quedado, durado, tardado, remoloneado, permanecido, pausado, persistido lips: labios, los labios liquor: alcohol, licor, el licor lisping: zazoso list: lista, listar, la lista, listado, minuta litter: camilla, basura, andas, camada live: vivir, viven, vive, vivo, vivan, vivís, vivimos, vives, viva, vivid, habitar lived: vivido, habitado liver: hígado loath: renuente lock: cerradura, esclusa, cerrar, la cerradura, cerrojo, bloquear, la esclusa, bucle, mechón, bloqueo, cerrar con llave locking: bloqueo lodge: alojar, hospedar, la casa del guarda longer: más, más tiempo looks: mira loose: suelto, flojo lord: señor, caballero lose: perder, pierda, pierdo, perdéis, perdemos, pierdan, pierde, pierden, pierdes, perded, adelgazar loses: pierde, adelgaza loss: pérdida, perdida, pérdidas, siniestro, atenuación lost: perdido, adelgazado loud: alto, fuerte, ruidoso, chillón lousy: piojoso, asqueroso, malísimo loved: amado, estimado, querido, considerado loves: amor low: bajo, depresión loyal: fiel, leal lubberly: palurdo lucifer: Satanás, Satán luck: suerte, la suerte lunatic: lunático lungs: pulmones, livianos lurch: sacudida, bandazo lust: lujuria lying: mentiroso ma: Título Universitario, Massachusetts, Mamá mad: loco, enojado, chiflado, majara, majareta, demente, enfadado

The Merry Wives of Windsor madness: locura, demencia, chifladura maid: criada, sirvienta, doncella, la criada maidenhead: virginidad, himen maintain: mantener, conservar, mantenga, mantengan, manten, mantened, mantenemos, mantienes, mantienen, mantengo, mantiene makes: hace, comete, confecciona mal: in, des male: masculino, macho, varón mankind: humanidad manner: manera manor: feudo, casa solariega, finca mark: señal, seña, marca, nota, marcar, sellar, signo, timbrar, señalar, marcos, marco marriage: matrimonio, casamiento, enlace married: casado, casada, se casado, conyugal marring: estropeando marry: casarse, casar, cásese, se casan, se casa, nos casamos, me caso, te casas, cásense, cásate, cásados marrying: casándose marvel: maravilla, asombrarse marvellous: maravilloso mass: masa, misa, en masa masses: masas, vulgo master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister match: fósforo, cerilla, correspondencia, partido, coincidir, hacer juego con, emparejar matter: materia, asunto, particular, caso, importar meaning: intención, significado, sentido, significación meant: pret de mean measure: medida, medir measuring: medida, medición meat: carne, la carne, carnes mechanical: mecánico meddle: entrometerse medicine: medicina, medicamento, la medicina meed: gratificación, prima meet: encontrar, encontrad, encuentro, encuentren, encuentre, encuentras, encuentran, encontramos, encontráis, encuentra, quedar meeting: encontrando, reunión, encuentro, hallando, sesión, entrevista, cita, asamblea meetings: reuniones, encuentros melancholy: melancolía, melancólico melodious: melodioso melt: derretirse, derretir, fundir, fusión

melted: derretido, fundido memory: memoria, recuerdo, la memoria men's: varonil mercy: misericordia, compasión mere: mero merit: merecer, mérito merited: merecido meritorious: meritorio merrily: alegremente merry: alegre mess: enredo, lío messenger: mensajero, embajador, ordenanza met: encontrado, hallado meteor: meteoro, meteorito michaelmas: Fiesta De San Miguel midnight: medianoche, media noche, la medianoche mighty: poderoso mile: legua, milla, la milla military: militar, ejército miller: molinero mine: mina, mío, minar ministers: asiste, atiende, auxilía, oficia minute: minuto, el minuto, minuta, menudo miracle: milagro mire: fango mirth: alegría mischief: travesura misdoubt: dudas grandes missing: desaparecido mistaking: errar mistook: pret de mistake mistress: señora mistrust: desconfiar de misuse: mal uso mock: burlarse, simulado, mofar mocked: Ridiculizado, befado, desbaratado, escarnecido, mofado, remedado, triscado modest: modesto modesty: modestia, pudor mon: lun, lunes moneys: fondos, capitales monster: monstruo moonshine: claridad de la luna moreover: además, demás morrow: día siguiente motion: movimiento, moción, petición motions: movimientos motive: motivo, lugar, móvil mount: montar, acomodar, montaña, adaptar mountain: montaña, monte mouth: boca, desembocadura, la boca moved: emotiva, movido, emocionado, afectado mrs: Sra., señorita

William Shakespeare muddy: embarrado, fangoso, lodoso muffler: silenciador, bufanda mum: mamá mummy: momia murder: asesinar, asesinato, homicidio, el asesinato muse: musa, meditar mush: gachas, gacha musing: meditación, meditar, meditativo, musa, reflexionar musk: almizcle mutually: mutuamente, mutuo myself: yo mismo mystery: misterio, el misterio names: nombres, Michael nan: abuela, yaya napkins: servilletas nativity: belén, natividad, navidad, nacimiento nature: naturaleza, índole, carácter nay: más aún, más bien, voto negativo, voto en contra, no, negativa, mejor dicho near: cerca, próximo, cerca de, cercano, entrante, casi necessity: necesidad needs: necesidades ne'er: nunca neither: tampoco, ninguno, nadie, ni newly: nuevamente, recién, recientemente news: noticias, noticia, nueva, las noticias niggardly: mezquino, ávido, cicatero, ávidamente, tacaño, avariento nightly: nocturno nine: nueve nobody: nadie, ninguno noise: ruido, alboroto, el ruido none: ninguno, nadie, nada nor: ni, tampoco nostril: orificio nasal note: nota, apuntar, billete, anotar, apunte, anotación, notar note-book: cuaderno notify: notificar, notificas, notifican, notifiquen, notifica, notificáis, notifico, notificad, notificamos, notifique, anunciar notwithstanding: sin embargo, a pesar de, no obstante nowhere: en ninguna parte numbers: números nurse: enfermera, cuidar, comadrona, enfermero, la enfermera, niñera, nodriza, amamantar o: oxígeno oak: roble oaths: juramentos obedient: obediente, dócil obey: obedecer, obedecemos, obedezco, obedezcan, obedecen,

obedecéis, obedeced, obedece, obedeces, obedezca object: objeto, el objeto, objetar obscured: disimulado obsequious: obsequioso observance: cumplimiento, acatamiento, observancia occasion: motivo, ocasión, lugar, oportunidad ocean: océano o'clock: hora, en punto odd: impar, extraño, raro odds: posibilidades odious: odioso o'er: sobre offal: desperdicios, asaduras offence: delito, escándalo, injuria offended: ofendido, injuriado, ultrajado, insultado, delinquido offender: delincuente, ofensor, infractor offer: oferta, ofrecer, ofrecimiento, proposición, presentar, proponer, pretensión, retratar, reproducir officers: oficialidad, personal directivo, Mesa oil: aceite, el aceite, engrasar, petróleo, aceitar oman: Omán omnipotent: omnipotente, todopoderoso operations: operaciones opinion: opinión, dictamen, juicio, parecer opportunity: acontecimiento, oportunidad, ocasión ordaining: ordenando orderly: ordenanza, ordenado orphan: huérfano otherwise: de otra manera, de lo contrario ought: haber que, deba, deber, haber de ourselves: nosotros mismos outrun: rebasar, pasar los límites de, correr más que, exceder overtake: adelantar, adelantas, adelantad, adelanto, adelanten, adelante, adelanta, adelantáis, adelantamos, adelantan, alcanzar overthrown: trastornado, derrocado owner: propietario, dueño, poseedor, propietaria ox: buey pack: paquete, empacar, embalar, empaquetar, manada, envolver pad: bloque, almohadilla, bloc, acolchar, relleno page: página, paje, botones paid: pagado pain: dolor, el dolor, pena, sufrimiento

137 pains: dolores del parto, esfuerzos, desvelos painted: pintado pair: par, pareja, emparejar paltry: vil, mezquino, ínfimo, despreciable, ruin, miserable pander: alcahuete panderly: Alcahuete paper: papel, documento, el papel, papel pintado, ponencia, tapizar, periódico parcel: paquete, parcela pardon: perdón, perdonar, indulto, indultar park: parque, aparcar, el parque, estacionar parliament: parlamento parson: sacerdote, cura, párroco parted: despedido parts: talento, regiones, piezas, partes pass: pasar, adelantar, paso, pase, desfiladero, entregar, pasada, aprobar, alargar, paso de montaña, llegar passant: pasante, transiente passed: pasado passion: pasión pasty: pastoso pate: cabeza paths: trayectos patience: paciencia patient: paciente patients: paciente, los pacientes pause: descanso, pausa, pausar, hacer una pausa, la pausa pawn: empeñar, peón, prenda, pignorar pawned: empeñado pe: educación física, gimnasia peace: paz, la paz pear: pera, la pera, peral pearl: perla, la perla peasant: campesino peat: turba pebble: guijarro peck: picotazo peer: par, igual peevish: malhumorado pen: pluma, la pluma, corral, un bolígrafo pence: peniques, céntimos pendent: que sobresale, pendiente, colgante penny: penique pensioners: jubilados, clases pasivas pepper: pimienta, la pimienta, pimiento peradventure: por casualidad, quizás perceive: percibir, perciben, percibes, percibe, perciban, percibid, percibimos, percibís, percibo, perciba

138 peril: peligro perpend: perpiaño, pesar, considerar, meditar perpetual: perpetuo perplexity: perplejidad persuade: convencer, convences, convence, convenzan, convenzo, convenza, convencemos, convenced, convencéis, convencen, persuadir phlegmatic: flemático phrase: frase, expresar, expresión phrases: batería libre de mantenimiento -- menor tiempo de respuesta de servicio phrygian: frigio physic: medicamento, remedio physician: médico, doctor pick: picar, piquen, pican, picamos, picáis, picad, picas, pique, pica, pico, arrancar picked: picado picture: imagen, cuadro, grabado, pintura, retrato, el cuadro, reproducción, ilustración, foto pie: pastel, el pastel, torta, tarta, empanada piece: pieza, pedazo, parte, trozo, tela pieces: material de artillería pin: alfiler, patilla, perno, el alfiler, clavija, pasador pinch: pizca, apuro, pizcar, pellizco, pellizcar pinioned: maniató pinnace: pinaza piss: mear, meo, meas, mean, meáis, mead, mea, meen, meamos, mee, meada pistol: pistola pit: zanja, pozo, hoyo, foso, fosa, picadura pitiful: lastimoso, deplorable pitifully: lastimosamente pity: dolerse por, piedad, compadecer a, lástima, compasión plain: llanura, llano, claro, evidente, liso, plano play: jugar, jueguen, juega, juegan, juegue, jugad, jugáis, jugamos, juegas, juego, tocar played: jugado, tocado playing: jugando, tocando, jugar please: por favor, agradar, gustar, complacer, haz el favor, contentar, haz favor pleases: complace pleasure: placer, agrado, gusto, complacencia, el gusto plight: situación plod: trabajan, trabajo, trabajen, trabajas, trabajáis, trabajad, trabaja, trabajamos, trabaje, andar pesadamente, trabajar

The Merry Wives of Windsor laboriosamente plot: parcela, trama, argumento, complot, gráfico, solar, trazar pluck: arrancar, tirón, cortar, desplumar plucked: arrancado plummet: sonda, pesa, plomada, plomo, caer, caer a plomo, lastre, caer verticalmente, caer en picado plural: plural pocket: bolsillo, el bolsillo, bolsa, casilla point-blank: categóricamente, a quemarropa, a quema ropa poison: veneno, envenenar, intoxicar polecat: turón, mofeta politic: sagaz poor: pobre, malo, deplorable, indigente, miserable porch: porche, el porche porridge: gachas porter: portero, mozo, conserje portly: gordo, puerto, portuariamente, corpulento positive: positivo possess: poseer, poseen, posees, poseo, posean, poseéis, posee, poseed, poseemos, posea, tener possibilities: posibilidades potatoes: patatas pouch: valija, bolsa pound: libra, la libra pour: derramar, verter, lluvia intensa, servir powerful: poderoso, potente, fuerte powers: potestades praise: alabar, alabanza, elogio, elogiar praised: alabado prat: imbécil, nalgas prate: parlotear, parlotee, charlar, charla, parloteo prattling: parloteando pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos, rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo, rogar prayer: oración, rezo, ruego, plegaria, súplica prayers: ruegos, rezos, oraciones precious: precioso, preciosa precise: preciso precisely: precisamente precisian: rigorista predominate: predominar, predominan, predomino, predominen, predominas, predomináis, predominad, predomina, predominamos, predomine preparation: preparación, preparado, preparativo preparations: preparativos

preposterously: absurdamente, prepósteramente prescribe: prescribir, prescribo, prescribís, prescribimos, prescriben, prescribid, prescribe, prescriban, prescribes, prescriba, recetar present: presente, actual, presentar, regalo, contemporáneo, ofrecer, reproducir, retratar presently: por ahora presents: presenta, la presente press: prensa, apretar, presionar, prensar, pulsar, oprimir presses: Prensas, prensa pretty: bonito, lindo, majo, amable, guapo, bastante, guapa prevent: impedir, impedid, impido, impides, impiden, impide, impidan, impida, impedimos, impedís, prevenir priest: sacerdote, cura, preste prince: príncipe print: imprimir, impresión, copiar, estampa, escribir con letras de imprenta, huella privacy: privacidad, intimidad prize: premio, el premio proceed: proceder, actuar proceedings: actas proclaim: proclamar, proclamad, proclamáis, proclamamos, proclaman, proclamas, proclama, proclamo, proclamen, proclame, promulgar procure: procurarse, procurar, procura, procuro, procuren, procure, procuras, procuran, procuramos, procuráis, procurad prodigal: pródigo profane: profano profess: confesar, declarar, declarad, declaro, declaren, declare, declaras, declaran, declaráis, declara, confesáis profession: profesión, oficio profits: beneficios prologue: prólogo promise: prometer, prometéis, prometemos, prometen, prometo, promete, prometan, prometa, prometes, prometed, promesa promised: prometido pronoun: pronombre proof: prueba, demostración, probanza proofs: testigos property: propiedad, bienes, finca, calidad, granja, ralea, característica, tenencia proportion: proporción, proporcionar prosper: prosperar, prosperas, prospera, prosperad, prosperáis,

William Shakespeare prosperan, prosperen, prospero, prosperamos, prospere prospered: prosperado protest: protestar, protesta protested: protestado prove: probar, probad, prueban, pruebas, pruebo, probamos, probáis, prueben, prueba, pruebe, verificar proverb: proverbio proverbs: proverbios provocation: provocación provoke: provocar, provoca, provocad, provoquen, provoco, provocas, provocan, provocamos, provocáis, provoque, instigar provoked: provocado psalm: salmo publicly: públicamente puffed: henchido, soplado, hinchado, de jamón, ampuloso, sin aliento pulls: tira, hala punished: castigado punishment: castigo, escarmiento, punición, pena punk: yesca purchased: comprado, adquirido purity: pureza, limpieza, virtud purple: morado, púrpura, purpúreo, lila purpose: fin, objeto, finalidad, propósito, intención purse: portamonedas, monedero, colecta, bolsa, bolso, la bolsa, cartera pursue: perseguir, perseguid, persiguen, persigue, persigo, persigan, persiga, perseguís, perseguimos, persigues pursued: perseguido pursues: persigue pursuing: persiguiendo puts: pone, mete, coloca putter: palo para los golpes cortos, palo, holgazanear putting: poniendo, metiendo, colocando quaint: pintoresco quaked: temblado quality: calidad, ralea, cualidad, la calidad quarrel: disputar, reñir, riña, pelear quart: cuarto de galón quarter: barrio, cuarto, trimestre quean: marica, mujer perdida queen: reina, la reina, dama questions: preguntas quick: rápido, pronto quickly: rápidamente, de prisa, aprisa, pronto quiet: quieto, silencio, tranquilo, calmar, silencioso, sosegar, callado quips: occurrencias quittance: quitanza, compensación,

finiquito, recibo, descargo quod: cárcel, chirona, encarcelar, poner a la sombra quoth: dicho de una cosa rabble: canalla radiant: resplandeciente, radiante, brillante rag: trapo, andrajo, harapo rags: los trapos rails: valores de ferrocarriles, vertical de barras rain: llover, lluvia, la lluvia rainbow: arco iris, el arco iris, el arcoiris raise: levantar, entonar, criar, subir, alzar, elevar, alza, izar, aumento rammed: apisonado rank: rango, fila, turno, línea, clasificar ransacked: saqueado ranting: despotricar, estrepitoso rapier: estoque rascal: bribón rascally: pícaro rate: tasa, fila, estimar, tipo, velocidad, tarifa, cadencia, valorar, proporción, ritmo, arancel rats: rata ravens: cuervos raw: crudo, bruto, cruda reads: lee, estudia, indica ready: listo, preparado, propenso, disponible realm: reino reason: motivo, causa, razón, lugar, razonar reasonable: razonable, prudencial reasons: razona receive: recibir, reciben, recibís, recibimos, recibes, recibe, reciban, recibid, reciba, recibo, tomar received: recibido recompense: recompensa recourse: recurso recovery: recuperación, restablecimiento, curación red: rojo, tinto, encarnado redressed: desagravió reek: apestar, apestan, apeste, apesten, apestas, apestáis, apesto, apestad, apesta, apestamos, oler region: región, comarca register: registro, registrar, certificar, inscribir, recomendar, ensalzar, hacer inscribir, registrarse, registrador, encarecer, matricular regress: retroceso reins: riñones, rienda, riendas rejoice: alegrarse, regocijarse, alegrar relent: ceda, aplacar, apiadarse, ceder, aflojar, ablandarse, ablandar, enternecerse, cedemos, aplacáis,

139 aplacamos remedy: curar, remedio, recurso, medio, remediar remember: recordar, recuerde, recuerdo, recuerdan, recuerdas, recuerden, recordamos, recordad, recordáis, recuerda, acordarse de remembrance: recuerdo remorse: remordimiento renowned: renombrado repay: reembolsar, reembolso, reembolsan, reembolsamos, reembolsen, reembolse, reembolsa, reembolsáis, reembolsad, reembolsas represented: representado reprieves: indultos reproof: reparo, censura, reprobación reputation: reputación request: petición, pedir, solicitar, solicitud, demandar, solicitación, requerimiento, ruego, rogar, demanda requests: solicita require: necesitar, necesita, necesiten, necesite, necesitas, necesito, necesitan, necesitamos, necesitáis, necesitad, exigir requital: compensación, desquite, satisfacción respect: respetar, respeto, estima, estimación respects: rispetti, saludos, recuerdos rest: descansar, descanso, resto, detrito, desechos, reposar, reposo restitution: restitución, devolución retire: retirarse retort: replicar, retorta revenge: venganza, revancha reverend: reverendo, clérigo reverse: inverso, reverso, marcha atrás, revés, parte trasera, al contrario, al revés revolt: revuelta, sublevarse, rebelarse revolted: rebelado, rebelde rheumatic: reumático rhyme: rima, rimar rich: rico riches: riqueza, riquezas ridden: pp de ride, cabalgado righteous: virtuoso, honrado rightly: debidamente ring: anillo, el anillo, llamar, aro, anilla, argolla, tocar la campanilla, sonar, sortija, corro riot: disturbio, alboroto, ruido rise: subir, levantarse, aumento, levantamiento, alza, subida river: río robbed: Robado, despojado, hurtado robe: vestido, toga robert: Roberto

140 robin: petirrojo rogue: pícaro rogues: pícaros rook: grajo, torre, graja root: raíz rotten: podrido, corrompido rough: áspero, crudo, desigual, bronco, brusco, grosero rounds: cartuchería, redondea rt: DCHA rugby: rugby rule: regla, gobernar, la regla, norma, fallar, refrenar, dominio, subyugar, reprimir, regir, contener ruled: reglado ruminates: rumia rush: apresurarse, junco, prisa sack: saco, despedir, bolso sacred: sagrado, sacro sadness: tristeza sails: paño sake: motivo, fin, bien, causa salt: sal, la sal, salar, salado sapphire: zafiro sat: pret y pp de sit, sáb, servicio de administración tributaria, sentado, sábado, soplado, asentado, empollado, se sentado, sentido satan: Satanás, Satán satisfaction: satisfacción satisfied: satisfecho, contento, complacido satisfy: complacer, complacen, complazca, complazcan, complaces, complazco, complacéis, complace, complaced, complacemos, satisfacer satyr: sátiro sauce: salsa, la salsa save: guardar, guarda, guardan, guardáis, guardamos, guardas, guarde, guardo, guardad, guarden, salvar scape: fuste, cañón, bohordo scarce: escaso scare: espantar, asustar, susto, amedrentar scared: asustado scarlet: escarlata scene: escena, escenario scholar: erudito, estudiante, escolar scholarly: erudito, docto scold: exhortar, requerir, reprender, censurar, reprobar, reñir, desaprobar scorch: quemadura, quemar, chamuscar score: puntuación, tanteo, marcar, cuenta, partitura, resultado scornful: desdeñoso, despreciativo scour: restregar scrape: raspadura, rascar, raspar scruple: escrúpulo

The Merry Wives of Windsor scum: escoria, espumar, espuma scurvy: escorbuto scut: rabo, rabito sea: mar, el mar sealed: sellado, hermético, estanco search: buscar, búsqueda, busca, registro, investigación searched: buscado season: estación, temporada, condimentar secrecy: secreto secretly: secretamente secure: seguro, fijar, fija, fijen, fije, fijas, fijan, fijamos, fijo, fijad, fijáis securely: firmemente, seguramente seeing: viendo, serrando seek: buscar, busque, busca, buscan, buscamos, busquen, buscas, buscáis, buscad, busco seem: parecer, parezca, parecen, parezcan, pareces, parezco, parecemos, parecéis, parece, pareced seeming: pareciendo seemingly: aparentemente sees: Ve, serra seldom: raramente semblance: semejanza send: enviar, envío, envía, envíe, enviad, enviáis, enviamos, envían, envías, envíen, mandar senses: juicio, los sentidos, sentido sensible: sensato, razonable sent: enviado, mandado, despachado sequel: continuación servant: criado, criada, sirviente, servidor servants: servicio serve: servir, sirva, sirvo, servimos, servid, servís, sirvan, sirve, sirven, sirves served: servido setting: puesta, ajuste, escena, configuración, cuajado, escenario seven: siete seventeen: diecisiete, diez y siete shades: averno, matices, sombras, tinieblas shadow: sombra, sombreado shaft: eje, árbol, pozo, fuste shakes: sacude shallow: poco profundo, somero, de poca profundidad, superficial shalt: irá, verbo auxiliar inglés para especificar futuro shame: vergüenza, verguenza, pudor, oprobio, avergonzar shamed: avergonzado shape: forma, formar, figura, amoldar, horma, la forma, perfil, conformar share: compartir, acción, parte, dividir, ración, cuota, lote

sharp: agudo, afilado, sostenido, justamente, acre, cortante, áspero sheathe: envainar, envaina, envaino, envainen, envaine, envainas, envainan, envainamos, envainad, envaináis shelter: guardar, abrigo, albergue, refugio, amparo, albergar, abrigar shift: turno, desplazamiento, desplazar, cambiar, jornada, tanda, cambio shilling: chelín shin: espinilla shine: brillar, brillo, lucir shirts: camisas shoot: tirar, tiren, tiráis, tiramos, tiran, tirad, tire, tiras, tiro, tira, disparar shore: orilla, costa, ribera short: corto, bajo, breve shortcake: mantecada, polvorón, torta de frutas shoulders: espalda, hombros showed: mostrado, pret de show shower: ducha, la ducha, chaparrón, chubasco shown: mostrado shrewd: sutil, sagaz shrieked: chillado shuffle: barajar, barajada shuttle: lanzadera sick: enfermo sickly: enfermizo sides: costados, Lados siege: sitio, asedio sight: vista, aspecto, mira, avistar signifies: significa silence: silencio, acallar, hacer callar, el silencio silk: seda, la seda silver: plata, la plata, plateado simple: sencillo, simple simplicity: simplicidad, sencillez simply: simplemente, sencillamente sin: pecado, pecar sinful: pecaminoso, pecador sing: cantar, cantan, cantas, canten, cantamos, cantáis, canta, cantad, canto, cante singly: individualmente sings: canta sinking: hundimiento, sumidero sip: sorber, sorbo sir: señor sirs: señor sit: sentarse, estar sentado, sentar size: tamaño, talla, calibre, formato, ajustar tamaño, dimensión, grandor skill: destreza, habilidad, arte, agilidad skins: hollejo, batería skip: saltarse, omitir, brincar, brinco,

William Shakespeare salto skirted: ladeado skirts: afueras sky: cielo, el cielo slack: flojo, flojera slanderous: calumnioso, difamatorio sleep: dormir, duerme, duermes, dormimos, duermen, duermo, dormís, dormid, duerma, duerman, sueño slender: fino, esbelto slice: rebanar, tajada, cortar, trozo, rodaja, rebanada, filete, corte, loncha slid: pret y pp de slide slight: leve, desaire slip: deslizamiento, resbalar, desliz, deslizar, combinación slough: pantano, Abismo, cenagal, Costra, fangal, Deshacerse Por, Desprenderse De, Mudar, desprenderse, Mudar La Piel smell: oler, olor, apestar, oler mal, olfatear, olfato smelling: oler smells: malos olores smite: golpear con violencia snap: chasquido snow: nevar, nieve, la nieve socks: calcetines soft: blando, suave, tierno, dulce sold: vendido soldier: soldado, el soldado soldiers: largueros, soldados solicit: solicitar, solicita, solicitad, solicito, soliciten, solicitas, solicitan, solicitamos, solicitáis, solicite somebody: alguien, alguno, cierto sometime: algún día somewhat: algo, poco, bastante son: hijo, el hijo song: canción, canto soon: pronto, luego sooth: verdad, realidad sorrow: tristeza, pena, dolor sorry: afligido, arrepentido, pesaroso, siento, triste sot: beodo, borrachín, borracho soul: alma, espíritu, ánimo sound: sonido, sonar, ruido, tocar, sano, sondear, legítimo, auscultar, sólido, oscilación acústica, vibración acústica space: espacio, el espacio, espaciar speak: hablar, hablamos, hablo, hablas, habláis, hablad, hablen, habla, hablan, hable speaks: habla speciously: engañosamente, especiosamente sped: pret y pp de speed speed: velocidad, prisa, rapidez, la velocidad, prontitud

spells: los hechizos spend: gastar, gastáis, gastas, gasten, gastad, gasta, gastamos, gastan, gasto, gaste, pasar spent: gastado, pasado spigot: guía spirit: espíritu spirits: alcohol spoke: decir, radio, rayo, raya, radioactivo, rayo de rueda, hablar, pret de speak, expresar spoken: hablado sport: deporte sports: deportes, los deportes, deportivo spot: mancha, punto, sitio, verrugato croca, manchar, mancilla, lugar spurs: espuelas spy: espiar, espía, acechar squire: escudero stag: ciervo, venado staggering: asombroso stale: oprimido, rancio, trillado, redicho, manido stand: estar de pie, puesto, levantarse, granero, posición, cabina, soporte, base, estante, caseta, pararse stands: tenderetes, jaulas star: estrella, la estrella, astro stare: mirar fijamente, mirada fija stature: estatura, altura, talla stay: quedarse, quedar, queden, quede, quedas, quedan, quedamos, quedáis, quedad, queda, quedo steal: robar, hurtar, tomar steals: robar, robos steel: acero, ballena, el acero, acerar stewed: estofado stile: escalera, escalera para pasar una cerca, larguero stinking: hediondo stir: conmover, revolver, remover, agitar stock: acciones, existencias, existencia, almacenar, acción, mango, proveer, reserva, ganado, valores stockings: las medias stocks: existencias stole: estola stone: piedra, la piedra, cálculo stop: parar, paran, paras, paren, paráis, parad, paramos, pare, para, paro, parada stopped: parado, detenido story: historia, piso, cuento, relato, el cuento straight: derecho, recto, directamente, recta strain: colar, esfuerzo, deformación, cepa, tensión, torcedura

141 strange: extraño, raro, ajeno street: calle, la calle streets: calles, las calles strike: huelga, golpear, llamar, declararse en huelga, acertar, paro, golpe strikes: golpea strong: fuerte, intenso, marcado strongly: fuertemente struck: pret y pp de strike, golpeado strut: puntal, pavoneo student: estudiante, alumno, el estudiante studied: estudiado style: estilo subject: asunto, tema, asignatura, someter, sujeto, cuestión, materia substance: sustancia, substancia subtle: sutil sudden: repentino, brusco, súbito suddenly: de repente, de golpe, repentinamente, de sopetón sue: poner pleito a, demandar, demandad, demandas, demanden, demando, demandáis, demandamos, demandan, demanda, demande suffer: sufrir, sufres, sufro, sufrís, sufrid, sufren, sufre, sufran, sufrimos, sufra, padecer sufferance: toleranica, tolerancia, sufrimiento, consentimiento, paciencia suffered: sufrido, padecido suffice: bastar, baste, basten, bastan, basta suffocation: asfixia, sofocación sugar: azúcar, azucarar suggests: sugiere, designa suit: traje, convenir, el traje, pleito sully: tachar a, manchar, mancharse, mancillar, mancille sum: suma, importe, cantidad summer: verano, el verano, estival sun: sol, el sol superstitious: supersticioso supposed: supuesto sure: seguro, cierto surely: seguramente, ciertamente surge: surgir, sobretensión, oleaje surprise: sorprender, sorpresa, la sorpresa suspect: sospechar, dudar, sospechoso suspicion: sospecha, recelo, recelocaz swallowed: deglutido, dar crédito a, contener, golondrina, tragado, tragarse, tragar swan: cisne swear: jurar, jura, jurad, juráis, juramos, juran, juras, juren, juro, jure, maldecir

142 swearer: maldiciente swearing: jurando swears: jura sweating: sudar sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre sweetheart: novio, querido swelled: hinchado swine: cerdo swinged: Columpiado sword: espada sworn: jurado sympathy: simpatía t: 1 tonelada, t tailor: sastre, costurera tainted: perdido, contaminado, corrompido, echado a perder, fraudulenta, infecto, manchado, pasado, viciado takes: toma, desempeña tale: cuento talk: hablar, hablas, hablan, hablad, habláis, hablamos, hablo, hable, hablen, habla, charla talked: Hablado, charlado talks: habla, charla tall: alto tallow: sebo tame: manso, domesticado, domar, adiestrar, domado, amansar, dócil tameness: falta de temor, sosería, insipidez, mansedumbre tank: tanque, depósito, cuba, cisterna tap: grifo, palmadita, toma, llave, espita, derivación tarries: demora, espera, tarda tarry: quedarse atrás, alquitranado tasking: reparto de tareas, distribución de funciones tattling: divulgar taught: enseñado, instruido, desacostumbrado taunt: insultar, insulto, insultas, insulten, insulta, insulte, insultamos, insultad, insultan, insultáis, mofarse tavern: taberna taverns: tabernas teach: enseñar, enseñáis, enseñamos, enseñad, enseñan, enseñas, enseñen, enseño, Enseñe, enseña, instruir teaches: enseña, instruye, desacostumbra teeth: dientes, dentadura tells: cuenta, relata tell-tale: indicador tempest: tormenta, tempestad tender: tierno, oferta, dulce, subasta, proposición, ofrecer, destajo, licitación, presentar, reproducir, retratar terms: condiciones, condición terrestrial: terrestre, terrenal terrors: terrores

The Merry Wives of Windsor th: cabecera de transmisión thames: Támesis thank: agradecer, agradezco, agradeces, agradezcan, agradece, agradezca, agradecemos, agradeced, agradecen, agradecéis, dar gracias thanks: gracias, agradece thaw: deshielo, deshelar, deshelas, deshelo, deshela, deshelad, desheláis, deshelan, deshele, deshelen, deshelamos thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú thefts: hurtos theme: tema thereby: en consecuencia de esto, por lo tanto therein: en eso, adjunto thief: ladrón thieves: ladrones, roba thine: tuyo, tuyos, tuyas, tuya, tus thinking: pensando, reflexionando, pensamiento, pensante thither: allá thorough: minucioso, completo, meticuloso thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos thoughts: pensamientos thousand: mil threatened: amenazado, conminado threw: pret de throw, Tiró, tiro thrice: tres veces thrift: ahorro, economía thrive: prosperar, prospera, prosperen, prosperas, prospero, prosperan, prosperamos, prosperáis, prosperad, prospere throughly: directamente, Pormente throw: lanzar, echar, tirar, tirada, arrojar, lanzamiento throwing: lanzamiento thrown: tirado, pp de throw thrummed: Tecleado thrust: empujar, empuje, empujón thunder: trueno, tronar, el trueno thy: tu tidings: noticias tightly: apretadamente, herméticamente till: caja, hasta que, hasta, a que tire: neumático, llanta, cansar, cansarse, la llanta, fatigar toast: asar, tostada, brindis, tostar, la tostada toasted: tostado to-day: hoy to-morrow: mañana tongue: lengua, la lengua, lengüeta tonight: esta noche top: cima, superficie, parte superior, superior, cumbre torture: tortura, tormento, torturar touch: tocar, toque, tacto, palpar,

contacto, rozar toward: hacia, a town: ciudad, pueblo, población, el pueblo toys: juguetes trade: comercio, oficio, negocio, intercambiar trail: sendero, camino, reguero traitor: traidor transform: transformar, transforma, transformo, transformen, transforme, transformas, transforman, transformamos, transformad, transformáis transformation: transformación transformed: transformado translated: traducido trap: trampa, atrapar traverse: travesaño treachery: traición tree: árbol trial: ensayo, juicio, prueba trick: engañar, truco, resabio, mala costumbre tricks: engaños trifle: bagatela, friolera, nadería trifling: fútil trip: viaje, disparo, excursión, el viaje troop: tropa trot: trote, trotar troth: fidelidad, fe trouble: molestar, prueba, inconveniente, incomodar, molestia, perturbación, problema, dificultad, avería, esfuerzo troubles: nubes troublesome: molesto troy: Troya truant: haragán, vago, tunante, novillero, hacer novillos, gandul, faltista habitual, desparecido, ausente injustificado, ausente, ausentarse trudge: caminata true: verdadero, cierto truly: verdaderamente, de veras, en realidad, en efecto, realmente trunk: tronco, baúl, maleta, trompa, portaequipajes trust: confiar, fideicomiso, confianza, fiduciario truth: verdad, veras, la verdad tufts: copetes tune: melodía, acomodar, adaptar turd: zurullo, cagada turk: turco turn: girar, gira, giro, giráis, giramos, giran, giras, gire, giren, girad, vuelta turned: girado, vuelto, trastornado twelve: doce twenty: veinte twice: dos veces

William Shakespeare unchaste: incasto, impúdico, deshonesto uncle: tío unclean: sucio understand: entender, entiendes, entienda, entiendan, entendemos, entendéis, entended, entienden, entiendo, entiende, comprender undertake: emprender, emprenda, emprenden, emprended, emprendo, emprendes, emprendéis, emprendan, emprende, emprendemos, encargarse de undone: deshecho unfold: desplegar, despliegue, desplegáis, desplegamos, despliega, despliegan, despliegas, desplieguen, desplegad, despliego, desdoblar unfolded: desplegado united: reunido, unido unless: a menos que, a no ser que unmannerly: mal educado unreasonable: irrazonable unskilful: inexperto unto: hacia unwholesome: insalubre, malsano upward: hacia arriba, desde abajo hacia arriba, ascendente urchins: pilluelos urinal: urinario, orinal urinals: urinario utterly: absolutamente v: foulardar, excitar, velocidad, v, operar, aumentar la torsión, impregnar, aplicar torsión suplementaria, accionar valour: valor vanish: desaparecer, desaparezca, desaparezcan, desapareces, desaparecen, desaparecemos, desaparecéis, desapareced, desaparece, desaparezco vantage: ventaja varlet: truhán vat: IVA, tina vault: bóveda, sótano, cámara acorazada, caja fuerte veil: velo vell: abomaso, cuajar, cuajar de ternera venetian: veneciano venison: venado venturing: Aventurar vetch: arveja, vicia vexed: enfadado via: vía vile: vil villain: bribón, malo villainous: villano villainy: villanía violent: violento virginity: virginidad

virtue: virtud virtuous: virtuoso vision: visión visit: visitar, visita, visitad, visiten, visitan, visitas, visito, visitamos, visitáis, visite vouchsafe: conceda, conceder, condescender a dar algo voyage: viaje wag: menear, meneo, mover waist: cintura, la cintura, talle wait: esperar, espera, espere, esperad, espero, esperen, esperas, esperan, esperamos, esperáis, aguardar waits: espera, aguarda walk: andar, andamos, ando, anden, ande, andas, andáis, andad, anda, andan, caminar walnut: nuez, nogal, la nuez wantonness: petulancia wants: quiere, desea ward: pupilo warrant: garantía, orden, orden por escrito, certificado, autorizar, autorización wart: verruga wash: lavar, lave, lavo, lava, lavad, laváis, lavamos, lavas, laven, lavan, lavarse washed: lavado, lavo washer: arandela, lavadora, lavandera washing: lavando, lavado waste: desechos, desperdicio, residuo, residuos, detrito, gastar, acabar, desperdicios, derrochar, gasto, desecho watch: reloj, mirar, observar, reloj de pulsera, ver, contemplar, el reloj, prestar atención, vigilar, guardia, guardar watery: acuoso, aguado waxen: ceroso ways: maneras wealth: riqueza, abundancia, caudal weapon: arma weapons: armas wear: llevar, desgaste, usar, tener puesto, vestir, uso, llevar puesto wears: lleva, usa weathercock: a veleta, giraldilla, veleta we'd: hacemos welcome: dar la bienvenida, bienvenida, bienvenido, acoger, grato, agradable, acogida, acogen, acojan, acojo, acoges we'll: Haremos well-behaved: de buenos ademanes well-nigh: casi welsh: galés welshman: galés

143 west: oeste, poniente, el oeste, occidente whale: ballena, la ballena whatsoever: lo que, en absoluto, todo lo que, cualquier cosa, cualquier whelm: sumerja whence: de dónde wherein: en qué whereof: de que, de lo cual, cuyo, del cual whey: suero whilst: mientras whip: látigo, zurriago, azotar, fustigar, fusta, azote whipped: batido, Azotado whit: pizca whither: adónde, adonde wholesome: sano wholly: enteramente whom: quien, quién, que whore: puta, prostituta whose: cuyo, cuya wicked: malo, malvado wickedness: maldad wide: ancho, amplio, vasto, lejos wield: ejercer, esgrima, esgrimir, empuñar, manejar, ejerzan, esgrime, esgrimen, esgrimes, esgrimid, esgrimimos wife: esposa, mujer, la esposa wild: fiero, salvaje, silvestre wildly: ferozmente wilful: doloso, voluntarioso, travieso, intencionado, deliberado, caprichoso, premeditado william: Guillermo willing: dispuesto, deseoso wilt: marchitarse, marchitar win: ganar, ganas, gana, gano, ganad, ganen, gane, ganan, ganamos, ganáis, vencer wind: viento, serpentear, el viento, enrollar, devanar wine: vino, el vino wing: ala, el ala, guardabarros, la ala wink: guiño, pestañeo, parpadeo, guiñar wise: sabio, sensato, guisa wisely: sabiamente wish: desear, deseo, voluntad, querer, tener, gana wished: deseado wit: ingenio witch: bruja, la bruja withal: además withered: marchito, marchitado witness: testigo, presenciar, atestiguar, testimonio womanhood: condición femenina won: Ganado wonder: preguntarse, maravilla, asombrarse, prodigio, preguntar

144 wonderful: maravilloso wont: acostumbrado, costumbre woo: cortejar, corteje, cortejamos, cortejo, cortejen, cortejan, cortejáis, cortejad, corteja, cortejas wood: madera, leño, bosque, la madera wooed: Cortejado wooing: cortejando woos: corteja word: palabra, la palabra, vocablo, término, formular works: fábrica, obras worm: gusano, lombriz, el gusano worn: gastado, usado worse: peor worship: adorar, adoración, culto, veneración worst: peor wrangle: disputa, disputar, reñir wring: arrancar, retorcer, arrancáis, arrancas, arranquen, arranco, arrancan, arrancamos, arranca, arrancad, arranque wringer: retorcedera, exprimidor, escurridor writ: escritura, orden, escrito, orden por escrito writes: escribe wrong: malo, mal, falso, incorrecto, entuerto, agravio, impropio, erróneo wronged: explotado y: itrio ye: usted, vosotros, ustedes, vosotras, tú, los, lo, las, la, el, vos yea: ciertamente, sin duda, sí, voto afirmativo, además yearn: anhelar, anhele, anhelo, desear, anhelad, anhelen, anhelas, anhelan, anhelamos, anheláis, anhela year's: año yellow: amarillo yellowness: amarillez, abundancia del color amarillo yesterday: ayer yield: ceder, cedemos, cedes, cedo, ceden, cedéis, ceded, cede, ceda, cedan, rendimiento yoke: yugo, yunta, uncir, culata, sojuzgar, horquilla yonder: allí, ahí, aquel yours: vuestro, suyo, el tuyo yourself: tú mismo, se yourselves: ustedes mismos youth: juventud, joven, jóvenes, adolescencia youthful: juvenil, joven

The Merry Wives of Windsor

145