Understanding Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor by Robert A. Albano - HTML preview

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duelists to an accord, to make peace between them.

After the Host and others exit, Caius and Evans are left together on the stage. Neither one is happy that he has been made a fool by the Host, and they decide to play their own prank on the Host. Evans tells Caius, “Let us knog our brains together to be revenge on this same scall, scurvy, cogging companion, the Host of the Garter” (100-02). The word scall means scabby, and the word cogging means cheating or swindling. Both men feel they have been swindled by the Host, and so they decide to take revenge against him. Thus, the revenge theme appears in yet another subplot of the play.