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" He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff... "
Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes - Page 446
by William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1790
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest home; He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box,* which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again; — Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff: —...
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The Young Ladies' Reader: Containing Rules, Observations, and Exercises and ...

William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home ; He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; — Who, therewith angry when it next came there, Took it in snuff —...
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Commercial Review of the South and West: A Monthly Journal of ..., Volume 12

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Industries - 1852 - 746 pages
...probably, also prevailed in England : — " He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'iwixi bis firmer and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his noae." Be this as it may, soon after the introduction of tobacco into England it was generally employed...
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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 550 pages
...Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home ; He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box,§ which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; — Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff:...
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The Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 544 pages
...Show"d like a stubble-land at harvest-home ; He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box,§ which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; — Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snutf:||...
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William Shakspeare's Complete Works, Dramatic and Poetic, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 512 pages
...Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home ; He was perlumexl like a milliner; And 'twixl his nngcr and his thumb he held A pouncet-box,* which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again : — Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff:—...
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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 446 pages
...Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home : He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet'-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took 't away again ; Who, therewith angry, when it next came there. Took it in snuff: —...
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The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 916 pages
...Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home : He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger er Bo nose, and took't away again ; Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff: —...
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The book of English poetry, with critical and biogr. sketches of the poets

English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...Showed like a stubble land at harvest home : He was perfumed like a milliner ; And, 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; — Who, wherewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in suuflF:—...
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The Humorous Speaker: Being a Choice Collection of Amusing Pieces, Both in ...

Humorous recitations - 1853 - 404 pages
...Showed like a stubble land at harvest home. He was perfumed like a milliner ; And, twixt his finger and his thumb he held, A pouncet-box, which ever and anon, He gave his nose — And still he smiled and talked : And as the soldiers bare dead bodies by, He called them "...
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