Banbury
“cheese—You,”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i. 1.
115.
An allusion to the thinness of Slender,—Banbury cheese being a cream cheese,
which was proverbially thin (
“The same thought occurs in Jack
Drum's Entertainment, 1601: ‘Put off your cloathes, and you are like a
Banbury cheese,—nothing but paring,’”
STEEVENS)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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