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Page xxiv
... English " ( I. iv . 6 ) , which have been again advanced in favour of a late date . As the passage there seems to be a direct echo from Nashe , who has it " Queen's English , " the word may have been varied to " king " by the later ...
... English " ( I. iv . 6 ) , which have been again advanced in favour of a late date . As the passage there seems to be a direct echo from Nashe , who has it " Queen's English , " the word may have been varied to " king " by the later ...
Page 21
... English at this time were peculiar in this respect . See Beaumont and Fletcher's Plays , ed . Dyce , vii . 315 , 316 , etc .; and Appendix ii . pp . xi , lxii , to Furnivall's edition of Harrison's England . And compare Jasper Maynes ...
... English at this time were peculiar in this respect . See Beaumont and Fletcher's Plays , ed . Dyce , vii . 315 , 316 , etc .; and Appendix ii . pp . xi , lxii , to Furnivall's edition of Harrison's England . And compare Jasper Maynes ...
Page 46
... English ] The usual and proverbial expression was " to clip the king's English , " from the analogy of clipping " money , a very serious of fence against the state . This expres sion has been brought forward as an argument in favour of ...
... English ] The usual and proverbial expression was " to clip the king's English , " from the analogy of clipping " money , a very serious of fence against the state . This expres sion has been brought forward as an argument in favour of ...
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