Both Uses of
reprove
in
The Merry Wives of Windsor
- I shall think the worse of fat men as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking: and yet he would not swear; praised women's modesty; and gave such orderly and well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness that I would have sworn his disposition would have gone to the truth of his words; but they do no more adhere and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune of 'Greensleeves.'†
Scene 2.1reproof = criticism
- good Sir John, as you have one eye upon my follies, as you hear them unfolded, turn another into the register of your own, that I may pass with a reproof the easier,
Scene 2.2 *
Definition:
express disapproval or criticism -- typically in a mild manner & sometimes even in a friendly manner