NYM

a crony of Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Although generally considered a comic character, Nym represents a real criminal element behind the humour at Eastcheap. In Henry V he appears as a quarrelsome soldier who fights with Mistress Quickly (his betrothed) and Pistol (whom she marries). Nym and Bardolph are hanged offstage for looting. He is portrayed more comically in The Merry Wives of Windsor, where his interest in the science of humours is thought to be a parody of Ben Jonson's plays.