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| 1 |
| I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 2 |
| All his successors gone before him have done ’t; and all his ancestors that come after him may. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 3 |
| It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 4 |
| Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 5 |
| Mine host of the Garter. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 6 |
| I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 7 |
| 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. 1 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 8 |
| O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 9 |
| “Convey,” the wise it call. “Steal!” foh! a fico for the phrase! |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 10 |
| Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. |
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| 11 |
Tester I ’ll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack,
Base Phrygian Turk! |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 12 |
| Thou art the Mars of malcontents. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 13 |
| Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the king’s English. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 4. |
| 14 |
| We burn daylight. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 15 |
| There ’s the humour of it. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 16 |
| Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 17 |
Why, then the world ’s mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 18 |
| This is the short and the long of it. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 19 |
| Unless experience be a jewel. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 20 |
| Like a fair house, built on another man’s ground. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 21 |
| We have some salt of our youth in us. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3. |
| 22 |
| I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. 2 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 23 |
| What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 3. |
| 24 |
O, what a world of vile ill-favour’d faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
| 25 |
| Happy man be his dole! |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
| 26 |
| I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. |
| 27 |
| As good luck would have it. 3 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. |
| 28 |
| The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. |
| 29 |
| A man of my kidney. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. |
| 30 |
| Think of that, Master Brook. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. |
| 31 |
| Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 32 |
| In his old lunes again. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2. |
| 33 |
| So curses all Eve’s daughters, of what complexion soever. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2. |
| 34 |
| This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act v. Sc. 1. |
