“Like a full-acorn’d boar, a German one.”—Cymbeline.
“Three German devils, three Doctor Faustuses.”
Merry Wives of Windsor.
“Holding in disdain the German women
For some dishonest manners.”
Henry V.
“Like a German clock,
Still a’repairing, ever out of frame.”
Love’s Labour’s Lost.
While the discussion between Portia and Nerissa in the Merchant of Venice caps all:—