A Glossary, Or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc: Which Have Been Thought to Require Illustration, in the Works of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare, and His Contemporaries, Volume 1Gibbings, 1901 - English language |
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alluded allusion ballad Bartas Bartholomew Fair Beaumont and Fletcher Ben Jonson called Cartwright's Chapm Chaucer colour common corruption Cotgrave Cymb derived Dictionarie doth Drayt Drayton drink Du Bartas Du Cange Eastward Hoe Engl Euphues eyes fair Fairf following passage fool Francion French Gism give gleek Haml hand hath head Hence Heywood's Holinsh Holland's Ammianus Marcellinus Honest Whore horse Howell's Familiar Letters Hudibras Ibid Johnson Jons kind king knight lady Latin Lear lord Love's L. L. low Latin means meant merry Minshew Mirr Nomenclator Optick origin Othello Passenger of Benvenuto phrase play Poems Polyolb probably proverb Rich Saxon says seems sense Shakespeare shew sometimes Spens Spenser Steevens Suppl supposed sweet Tale Tasso Taylor's Terence in English term thee thing thou tion Todd unto viii Withals word
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Page 269 - The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, — quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
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