The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
He was not so much brain as earwax
Hang him, swaggering rascal!
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.