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The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.

      — Othello, Act I Scene 3

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KEYWORD: big

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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Mistress Ford

1525

He's too big to go in there. What shall I do?

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Page

2028

Alas the day, I know not! There is no woman's gown
big enough for him otherwise he might put on a hat,
a muffler and a kerchief, and so escape.

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Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Page

2035

On my word, it will serve him; she's as big as he
is: and there's her thrummed hat and her muffler
too. Run up, Sir John.

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