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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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7.66.22 <strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor<br />

I will make a Star-Chamber matter <strong>of</strong> it.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1<br />

She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 1, sc. 1, l. [48]<br />

I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book <strong>of</strong> Songs and Sonnets here.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 1, sc. 1, l. [205]<br />

‘Convey,’ the wise it call. ‘Steal!’ foh! a fico for the phrase!<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. [30]<br />

Here will be an old abusing <strong>of</strong> God’s patience, and the king’s English.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 1, sc. 4, l. [5]<br />

We burn daylight.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 2, sc. 1, l. [54]<br />

Why, then the world’s mine oyster,<br />

Which I with sword will open.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. 2<br />

Falstaff: Of what quality was your love, then?<br />

Ford: Like a fair house built upon another man’s ground; so that I have lost my edifice by<br />

mistaking the place where I erected it.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. [228]<br />

He capers, he dances, he has eyes <strong>of</strong> youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April<br />

and May.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [71]<br />

O, what a world <strong>of</strong> vile ill-favoured faults<br />

Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 3, sc. 4, l. [32]<br />

If I be served such another trick, I’ll have my brains ta’en out, and buttered, and give them to a<br />

dog for a new year’s gift.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 3, sc. 5, l. [7]<br />

You may know by my size that I have a kind <strong>of</strong> alacrity in sinking.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 3, sc. 5, l. [12]<br />

He so takes on yonder with my husband; so rails against all married mankind; so curses all<br />

Eve’s daughters, <strong>of</strong> what complexion soever; and so buffets himself on the forehead, crying,<br />

‘Peer out, peer out!’ that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but tameness, civility and<br />

patience, to this his distemper he is in now.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. [22]<br />

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers...<strong>The</strong>re is divinity in odd numbers,<br />

either in nativity, chance or death.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Merry Wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor’ (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 2

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