The name assumed byFord when he visits SirJohn Falstaff. The amorousknight tells Master Brook all about his amour with Mrs. Ford, and how he duped her husband by being stowed into a basket of dirty linen.
“Ford. Iʹll give you a pottle of burntsack to give me recourse to him, and tell him my name is Brook, only for a jest.
“Host My hand, bully. Thou shalt have egress and regress, … and thy name shall be Brook.”—Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 1.
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