“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:—