{"id":9323,"date":"2026-04-02T17:45:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9323"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:45:54","slug":"alls-well-that-ends-well-act-iv-scene-iii-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9323","title":{"rendered":"The Merry Wives of Windsor: Act II, Scene ii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Merry Wives of Windsor      Act II, Scene ii       Mistress Quickly<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This speech is used in our interview with Nancy Voigts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here\u00a0to open up First Folio version<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

59  Marry, this is the short and the long
60  of it: you have brought her into such a canaries as
61  \u2019tis wonderful. The best courtier of them all, when
62  the court lay at Windsor, could never have brought
63  her to such a canary. Yet there has been knights,
64  and lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches, I
65  warrant you, coach after coach, letter after letter,
66  gift after gift, smelling so sweetly\u2014all musk\u2014and
67  so rushling, I warrant you, in silk and gold, and in
68  such alligant terms, and in such wine and sugar of
69  the best and the fairest, that would have won any
70  woman\u2019s heart; and, I warrant you, they could
71  never get an eye-wink of her. I had myself twenty
72  angels given me this morning, but I defy all angels
73  in any such sort, as they say, but in the way of
74  honesty. And, I warrant you, they could never get
75  her so much as sip on a cup with the proudest of
76  them all. And yet there has been earls\u2014nay, which
77  is more, pensioners\u2014but, I warrant you, all is one
78  with her.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Merry Wives of Windsor      Act II, Scene ii       Mistress Quickly This speech is used in our interview with Nancy Voigts Click here\u00a0to open up First Folio version. 59 Marry, this is the short and the long60 of it: you have brought her into such a canaries as61 \u2019tis wonderful. The best courtier of them all, when62 the court lay at Windsor, could never have brought63 her to such a canary. Yet there has been knights,64 and lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches, I65 warrant you, coach after coach, letter after letter,66 gift after gift, smelling so sweetly\u2014all musk\u2014and67 so rushling, I warrant you, in silk and gold, and in68 such alligant terms, and in such wine and sugar of69 the best and the fairest, that would have won any70 woman\u2019s heart; and, I warrant you, they could71 never get an eye-wink of her. I had myself twenty72 angels given me this morning, but I defy all angels73 in any such sort, as they say, but in the way of74 honesty. And, I warrant you, they could never get75 her so much as sip on a cup with the proudest of76 them all. And yet there has been earls\u2014nay, which77 is more, pensioners\u2014but, I warrant you, all is one78 with her.<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-2qn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9338,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9323\/revisions\/9338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}