All 4 Uses of
The Thames
in
The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be ready here hard by in the brew-house; and when I suddenly call you, come forth, and, without any pause or staggering, take this basket on your shoulders: that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry it among the whitsters in Datchet-Mead, and there empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side.†
Scene 3.3
- ] Have I lived to be carried in a basket, and to be thrown in the Thames like a barrow of butcher's offal?†
Scene 3.5
- Come, let me pour in some sack to the Thames water; for my belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for pills to cool the reins.†
Scene 3.5 *
- And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of that, hissing hot, think of that, Master Brook!†
Scene 3.5
Definition:
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(The Thames) the longest river entirely in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea