Bartlette's Quotations: The Merry Wives of Windsor.

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1	I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.	Act i. Sc. 1.
2	All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.	Ibid.
3	It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.	Ibid.
4	Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts.	Ibid.
5	Mine host of the Garter.	Ibid.
6	I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.	Ibid.
7	If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.	Ibid.
8	O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?	Sc. 3.
9	"Convey," the wise it call. "Steal!" foh! a fico for the phrase!	Ibid.
10	Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores.	Ibid.
11	Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk!	Ibid.
12	Thou art the Mars of malcontents.	Ibid.
13	Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.	Sc. 4.
14	We burn daylight.	Act ii. Sc. 1.
15	There 's the humour of it.	Ibid.
16	Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.	Ibid.
17	Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.	Sc. 2.
18	This is the short and the long of it.	Ibid.
19	Unless experience be a jewel.	Ibid.
20	Like a fair house, built on another man's ground.	Ibid.
21	We have some salt of our youth in us.	Sc. 3.
22	I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.	Act iii. Sc. 2.
23	What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket!	Sc. 3.
24	O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!	Sc. 4.
25	Happy man be his dole!	Ibid.
26	I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.	Sc. 5.
27	As good luck would have it.	Ibid.
28	The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.	Ibid.
29	A man of my kidney.	Ibid.
30	Think of that, Master Brook.	Ibid.
31	Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.	Act iv. Sc. 1.
32	In his old lunes again.	Sc. 2.
33	So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever.	Ibid.
34	This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.	Act v. Sc. 1.