Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.

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

The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 4.

We burn daylight.

The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.

There 's the humour of it.

The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.

The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Why, then the world 's mine oyster,