The Merry Wives of Windsor: Act 1, Scene 2

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    Evans, the Welsh parson, writes a letter to Mistress Quickly asking her to put in a good word for Slender with Anne Page.

    Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE
    SIR HUGH EVANS
    Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which
    is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly,
    which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry
    nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and
    his wringer.
    SIMPLE
    Well, sir.
    SIR HUGH EVANS
    Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it
    is a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance with
    Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire
    and require her to solicit your master's desires to
    Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will
    make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come.
    Exeunt