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Quickly, Mistress
Quickly, Mistress,in Shakespeare's 1 and 2 Henry IV , hostess of the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap; Falstaff is betrothed and in debt to her. In The Merry Wives of Windsor she is housekeeper to Dr Caius. In Henry V she is married to Pistol and describes Falstaff's death (ii. iii).
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