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“He always has the air of weighing something, and when he is put into the cupboard of the young ladies' school he seems as heavy as Falstaff in the buck-basket at Windsor.”
“Finally he removed the _furoshiki_ to their outer room, mumbling some excuse as to the foulness of a buck-basket.”
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
“Mead, where Falstaff overflowed the buck-basket, belongs to the boys.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
“By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins; that, Master Brook, there was the rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.”
“As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Fords approach; and in her invention, and Fords wifes distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.”
“Falstaff's visit to Mistress Ford, as planned by the merry wives, the comical episode of his concealment in the buck-basket, and his dumping into the Thames.”
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
“In the last act, undaunted by his buck-basket experiences, Falstaff accepts a fresh invitation to meet Mistress Ford in Windsor Park.”
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
“The second scene of the act is mainly devoted to the ludicrous incident of the buck-basket, which is accompanied by most remarkable instrumentation; but there are one or more captivating episodes; such as Dame Quickly's description of her visit ( "'Twas at the Garter Inn") and Falstaff's charming song ( "Once I was Page to the Duke of Norfolk").”
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
“After being cheated through the adventures of the buck-basket, where he was “stopped in with stinking clothes that fretted in their own grease,” he appears indeed to have some smell of the gross trickery played upon him; and vows to himself that, if he be served such another trick, he will have his brains taken out, and buttered, and given to a dog for a new-year's gift.”
“First we find it in the Kathá (S. S.) where Upakoshá, the merry wife of Vararuchi, disrobes her suitors, a family priest, a commander of the guard and the prince's tutor, under plea of the bath and stows them away in baskets which suggest Falstaff's "buck-basket.”
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