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 SHALLOW
  It doth, it doth, it doth.
SHALLOW
It does, it does, it does.
 FALSTAFF
  As it were, to ride day and night, and not to deliberate, not
20 to remember, not to have patience to shift me—
FALSTAFF
In a word, to ride all night; not to stop and think, not to dawdle, not to take the time to change my clothes—
 SHALLOW
  It is best, certain.
SHALLOW
It is best, no doubt about it.
 FALSTAFF
  But to stand stained with travel and sweating with desire to
  see him, thinking of nothing else, putting all affairs else in
  oblivion, as if there were nothing else to be done but to see
25 him.
FALSTAFF
Standing here filthy from traveling, and sweating with my desire to see him; thinking of nothing else, disregarding everything, as if the only thing in the world that mattered was seeing him.
 PISTOL
  'Tis semper idem, for obsque hoc nihil est;
  'tis all in every part.
PISTOL
That's how it is. Nothing else matters. Semper idem. Obsque hoc nihil est .
 SHALLOW
  'Tis so indeed.
SHALLOW
That's exactly right.
 PISTOL
  My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver, and make thee
30 rage. Thy Doll and Helen of thy noble thoughts is in base
  durance and contagious prison, Haled thither by most
  mechanical and dirty hand. Rouse up revenge from ebon den
  with fell Alecto's snake, for Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought
  but truth.
PISTOL
Knight, I'll fire up your noble liver and make you enraged. Doll, the goddess of your thoughts, is imprisoned in a horrible jail, tossed there by a heartless and filthy hand. Stoke up dark revenge from your deepest belly and set loose the serpents of hell. Doll is in. Pistol speaks nothing but the truth.
 FALSTAFF
35 I will deliver her.
FALSTAFF
I'll set her free.
Shouts within, and the trumpets sound
Shouts are heard offstage. Trumpets play.
 PISTOL
  There roared the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.
PISTOL
That was the roar of the sea. The clanging trumpet sounds!

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