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QUOTES FROM THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

I will make a Star-Chamber matter of it. (1.1.1)

All his successors gone before him have done ’t; and all his ancestors that come after him may. (1.1.13)

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. (1.1.19)

She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman. (1.1.48)

I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. (1.1.173)

“Convey,” the wise it call. “Steal!” foh! a fico for the phrase! (1.3.30)

Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. (1.3.70)

Thou art the Mars of malecontents. (1.3.93)

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience, and the king's English. (1.4.5)

We burn daylight. (2.1.54)

There’s the humour of it. (2.1.124)

Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open. (2.2.2)

This is the short and the long of it. (2.2.57)

Unless experience be a jewel. (2.2.194)

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May. (3.2.71)

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. (3.2.15)

O, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! (3.4.32)

You may know by my size that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. (3.5.12)

The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. (3.5.80)

There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death. (5.1.3)

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