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Brewer's: Ford
Mr. and Mrs. Ford are characters in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Mrs. Ford pretends to accept Sir John Falstaff's protestations of love, in order to punish him by her devices.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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