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Evans's attempt to be serious about this method of instruction is not enhanced by the fact that Mistress Quickly, ignorant of Latin, keeps hearing risible English analogues: '"Hang-hog" is Latin for bacon, I warrant you', she helpfully suggests.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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Falstaff's attempts to seduce the lady are cut short as Mistress Quickly reports the arrival of Mistress Page, and the knight is compelled to conceal himself behind a screen.
Opera Today 2009
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In the _Merry Wives of Windsor_, Mistress Quickly asks Simple whether his master (Slender) does not wear "a great round beard, like a glover's paring-knife," to which he replies: "No, forsooth; he hath but
Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers William Alexander Clouston 1869
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