Beasts do no jointures lose Though they new lovers choose; But we are made worse than those.

M[istress] Ford. Sir Iohn: Art thou there (my Deere?) / Fal[staff.] My Doe, with the blacke Scut? Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.

[…] regardless of what he may say to you, he respects your great learning, and, therefore, has immense confidence in your judgment. The poor dear cannot differentiate between erudition and wisdom. Mr. Philander, with a mildly puzzled expression on his face, turned to pursue Professor Porter, and in his mind he was revolving the question of whether he should feel complimented or aggrieved at Miss Porter's rather back-handed compliment.

As land agent, he had observed the successful German settlement at Muenster, thirty-eight miles north, and the arrival of a French-Canadian group who took up homesteads in 1904 at St. Brieux, in the same area.