Both Uses of
grievous
in
The Merry Wives of Windsor
- You say he has been thrown in the rivers; and has been grievously peaten as an old 'oman; methinks there should be terrors in him, that he should not come; methinks his flesh is punished; he shall have no desires.†
Scene 4.4
- I will tell you: he beat me grievously in the shape of a woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear not Goliath with a weaver's beam, because I know also life is a shuttle.†
Scene 5.1 *
Definition:
very serious; or very bad; or causing grief