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| | Quickly, Mistress -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
 | | English actress and mistress of Charles II, whose frank recklessness, generosity, invariable good temper, ready wit, infectious high spirits, and amazing indiscretions appealed irresistibly to a generation that welcomed in her the living antithesis of Puritanism. |
 | | Matching the rugged and uncompromising features that are familiar from his portrait busts, Vespasian cultivated a bluff and even coarse manner, characteristic of the humble origins he liked to recall. |
 | | In Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V, she is the colorful hostess of an Eastcheap tavern frequented by Falstaff and his companions, to one of whom (Nym) she is betrothed and another of whom (Pistol) she marries. |
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