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ACT I
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SHALLOW |
| What-hoa !
EVANS |
PAGE He is within.
FALSTAFF |
BARDOLPH | You hear all these matters
NYM | denied, you hear it.
ANNE Ah------
RUGBY Sir.
CAIUS An errand?
MRS QUICKLY Out alas run, run, young man. (to Caius) Alas,
he speaks but for his friend, run, young man.
Jesu bless us, we are all undone, Go...
FENTON Psst!
MRS QUICKLY Now heaven send thee good fortune (picks out
copper coin). But yet I would that my master
had mistress Anne (picks out silver coin) Or
I would master Slender had her (picks out gold
coin), or in sooth I would master Fenton had her
I will do what I can for them all three, but
speciously (bites coin) for master Fenton.
BARDOLPH |
NYM | How now, mine host of the
PISTOL | Garter.
BARDOLPH |
| "God save the lives
NYM | Of them and their wives
| Whether they be young or old."
PISTOL |
NYM |
HOST | "Back and side go bare, etc."
PISTOL |
HOST |
| John, come kiss me now, etc.
PISTOL |
NYM Here comes master Ford. A word with you master Ford.
FORD My wife?
PISTOL He loves both high and low, both rich and poor,
one with another, Ford, Ford, perpend ...
FORD Love my wife?
MRS FORD How now, sweet Frank, why art thou melancholy
ACT II
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Scene I
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A room in Page's house (half stage). There is a
practicable window in the centre. Enter Mrs Page
reading a letter. She comes to the words 'that I love
thee' ...
MRS FORD (off stage) What ho, Gossip Page, Gossip Page.
MRS PAGE |
| Let's be revenged on him!
MRS FORD |
Scene 2
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The parlour of the Garter Inn. Door (L.) with a few
steps leading to Falstaff's bedroom A table near the
fireplace with writing materials. Falstaff sits at the
table.
MRS QUICKLY Marry, this is the long and the short of it:
MRS QUICKLY Yet there's been knights and lords and gentlemen
with their coaches, I warrant you, coach after
coach, letter after letter, gift after gift,
smelling so sweetly ...
(Enter Bardolph).
FORD (testing the effect of his words) Some say that though
she appear honest to me yet in other places she enlarges
her mirth so far that there is shrewd construction made
of her.
FALSTAFF O, Sir!
SLENDER |
SHALLOW | Bless you master Doctor!
PAGE |
SLENDER |
SHALLOW | Adieu, master doctor Let him
PAGE | die, bully Hector, let him ...
PAGE |
SLENDER | There's a fray to be fought
SHALLOW | 'tween Sir Hugh and Doctor Caius.
HOST |
FORD A fight?
SLENDER |
SHALLOW | Here, boys, here, shall we wag?
PAGE |
SLENDER |
SHALLOW | Shall he die?
PAGE |
ACT III
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CHORUS (distant)
"A-maying, a-playing
Love hath no gain-saying
So merrily trip and go.
Jog on, jog on the foot-path way
And merrily bent the stile-a;
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a ...
A-maying, a-playing ..."
ANNE Let us all join our hearts that nothing can estrange us.
ANNE |
FENTON | They that do change old love for new,
HOST | Pray gods they change for worse.
CHORUS |
ANNE |
FENTON | They that do change old love for new,
HOST | Pray gods they change for worse
CHORUS |
HOST |
| "Fair and fair, etc."
CHORUS |
HOST Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a priest.
ANNE And you, mine host, will you not join our company?
ANNE |
| Will you be true to us?
FENTON |
ANNE |
| Farewell (exeunt)
FENTON |
Scene 1 (2)
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(Enter Simple sheering around. Host
hides. Enter Evans sheering around in
doublet and hose with a sword in one
hand and a book in the other).
SHALLOW |
| We are come to you to do a good
PAGE | office
EVANS |
PAGE |
| A monster?
HOST |
RUGBY |
SIMPLE |
SHALLOW | A monster?
CAIUS |
SIMPLE |
SHALLOW |
CAIUS | Have with you to see this
EVANS | monster.
PAGE |
RUGBY |
[Entr'acte]
Scene 2 (3)
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A room in Mrs Ford's house containing a table and
lute, a long couch, a gallery at the back. Below the
gallery there is an arras curtain. There are two door-
ways with curtains L. & R. Enter Mrs Ford and Mrs Page.
JOHN & |
| Ay, forsooth.
ROBERT |
MRS FORD |
MRS PAGE | Go to then.
MRS QUICKLY |
MRS FORD (to Mrs Page) Mistress Page, remember your cue.
MRS PAGE What, Sir John Falstaff, are these your letters,
knight? (shows him letter).
MRS PAGE |
| Away with him, away!
MRS FORD |
MRS FORD |
| (shaking their fists at
MRS PAGE | Falstaff) You dissembling
| knight!
MRS QUICKLY |
SLENDER |
SHALLOW |
HOST |
PAGE | Follow him, gentlemen.
| (exeunt)
PISTOL |
BARDOLPH |
NYM |
ACT IV
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Scene I
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Another room in Ford's house, enter Mr and Mrs
Ford in loving converse.
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 ragged 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.
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 |
FORD | And mock him home to
MRS PAGE | Windsor.
MRS FORD |
CAIUS In green?
SLENDER In white?
[Entr'acte]
Scene 2
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The scene shows Windsor Forest by moonlight. A
large oak stands in the middle of the stage. There is
undergrowth masking the front.
Enter in succession Ford and Page; Mrs Page and
Mrs Ford; a few fairies escorting Anne Page; Pistol
and Mrs Quickly; Shallow; William and Robin
dancing, with girls dresses over their shoulders;
Caius and Rugby; Slender and Simple; Bardolph,
Nym, Alice and Jenny; Host dancing; Evans and
fairies. All collect round Evans who gives them final
instructions. A clock strikes twelve on hearing which
they all run off stage. Enter Falstaff disguised as
Herne - he wears a pair of horns and drags a chain.
He seems much battered by his recent experiences.
MRS PAGE |
| Away! Away!
MRS FORD |
HOST |
PISTOL | Vile worm thou wast o'er-looked
BASSES | even in thy birth.
EVANS |
BARDOLPH |
NYM | A trial, come!
BASSES |
MRS PAGE Now good Sir John, how like you Windsor wives?
SHALLOW |
SLENDER | Whoa-ho, father Page, father Page!
SIMPLE |
MRS PAGE |
MRS FORD | For he tonight shall lie with
PAGE | Mistress Ford!
FORD |
ANNE |
MRS QUICKLY |
FENTON |
PISTOL | "There is underneath the
| sun etc. '
MRS PAGE |
MRS FORD |
CHORUS |
(They all dance a few steps at the end of which a new
formation is taken up, Falstaff being still in the
centre, having on his right Mr and Mrs Ford, and on
his left Mr and Mrs Page.)
In August, EMI (in the UK) will rerelease the Meredith Davies set of
Vaughan Williams opera Sir John in Love on CD (2CD set).
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To: "Stephen P. Guthrie" <spg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.music.opera,rec.music.classical.recordings
Subject: Re: Sir John in Love released on CD
From: Michael Doerr <doerr@cns.mpg.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:39:13 +0200
Michael
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Subject: Re: Sir John in Love released on CD
From: marques@Xsuper.zippo.com (Jose Oscar Marques)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 14:08:00 GMT
>In August, EMI (in the UK) will rerelease the Meredith Davies set of
>Vaughan Williams opera Sir John in Love on CD (2CD set).
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>About time too!
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Jose Oscar Marques
(to reply remove the X from my address)
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Subject: Re: Sir John in Love released on CD
From: ducky.nospam@deltanet.com (Matthew B. Tepper)
Date: 18 Jul 1997 15:08:52 GMT
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Matthew B. Tepper: WWW, science fiction, classical music, ducks!
My personal home page -- http://www.deltanet.com/~ducky/index.htm
My main music page --- http://www.deltanet.com/~ducky/berlioz.htm
And my science fiction club's home page --- http://www.lasfs.org/
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Subject: Re: Sir John in Love released on CD
From: marques@Xsuper.zippo.com (Jose Oscar Marques)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 07:16:15 GMT
Yes, it is from "Sir John". It is sung by Sir John and Mrs Ford in the
memorable scene of the seduction. Later in the act it appears in a
purely instrumental form. Anyway, I think that the Fantasia we all know
isn't exactly the same as it appears in the opera - it was somehow
adapted to start a career as a separate piece.
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Jose Oscar Marques
(to reply remove the X from my address)
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Subject: Re: Sir John in Love released on CD
From: Rob Barnett <barnbax@zetnet.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 19:29:57 +0100
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
OCTOBER: 1st-4th Sussex University, Gardener Arts Centre, Vaughan
Williams: The Poisoned Kiss (Opera) - The Wandering Min-strels. 01273-685861
2nd London Barbican Symposium on Vaughan Williams with Mi-chael
Kennedy, Richard Hickox & Stephen Connock 18.00 London Barbican
Vaughan Williams Cotswold Romance (ex Hugh the Drover) Symphony 2
LSO/Hickox 19.30 tel: 0171 638 8891
12th London Barbican Vaughan Williams Sir John in Love Northern
Sinfonia Orch/Hickox 16.00 tel: 0171 638 8891
19th Cambridge Arts Theatre Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea,
Holst Savitri City of London Sinfonia/Hickox
26th London Barbican Vaughan Williams The Poisoned Kiss (extracts),
Symphony 5 - LSO/Hickox 19.30 tel: 0171 638 8891
NOVEMBER: 3rd London Barbican Vaughan Williams Pilgrim s Progress
ROH, Covent Garden at the Barbican/Hickox 19.30 tel: 0171 638 8891
4th London Clerkenwell Music Festival: details TBA provisional
programme includes On Wenlock Edge, 6 Songs from Hugh the Drover,
Phantasy Quintet, 7 Songs from Pilgrim s Progress, String Qt Nos. 1 and 2
30th Birmingham Symphony Hall: as 3rd ROH tel: 0121 212 3333
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