Petruchio: How tame, when men and women are alone / A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
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Petruchio: How tame, when men and women are alone / A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
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Viola: a woman’s well holp’d up with such a meacock. I had rather have a husband that would swaddle me thrice a day, than such a one that will be gull’d twice in half an hour.
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Earl: A man that as much knowledge has of war / As I of brewing mead ! ... A bookish nursling of the monks—a meacock !
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