The Merry Wives of Windsor
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The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a reference to the town of Windsor, the location of Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England.
"I will make a Star Chamber matter of it."
"All his successors, gone before him, have done’t; and all his ancestors, that come after him, may."
"It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love."
"Seven hundred pounds, and possibilities, is good gifts."
"Mine host of the Garter."
"I had rather than forty shillings I had my book of Songs and Sonnets here."
"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."
"O base Gongarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?"
"Convey, the wise it call: steal! foh; a fico for the phrase!"
"Thou art the Mars of malcontents."
"Here will be an old abusing of God's patience, and the King's English."
"I love not the humour of bread and cheese; and there’s the humour of it."
"'Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now."
"I think the best way were to entertain him with hope till the wicked fire of lust have melted him in his own grease."
"This is the short and the long of it."
"I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me; which hath been, on the wing of all occasions. But whatsoever I have merited, either in my mind, or in my means, meed, I am sure, I have received none, unless experience be a jewel."
"We have some salt of our youth in us."
"Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole."
"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is."
"What a taking was he in, when your husband asked what was in the basket!"
"Happy man be his dole!"
"You may know by my size, that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking."
"As good luck would have it."
"The rankest compound of villainous smell, that ever offended nostril."
"Think of that, master Brook."