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... See vol . iii . p . 303. STEEVENS . 65 9 Give me my long fword ] The long fword was the fword used in war , which was fometimes wielded with both hands . JOHNSON . This long word is mentioned in The Coxcomb , a comedy by Beaumont and ...
... See vol . iii . p . 303. STEEVENS . 65 9 Give me my long fword ] The long fword was the fword used in war , which was fometimes wielded with both hands . JOHNSON . This long word is mentioned in The Coxcomb , a comedy by Beaumont and ...
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... See particularly the Legends of Robin Hood and Adam Bell . So in a fubfequent fcene of this very play , yew trees are in the old editions called yong trees . " EDITOR . The following paffage from Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rofe , will ...
... See particularly the Legends of Robin Hood and Adam Bell . So in a fubfequent fcene of this very play , yew trees are in the old editions called yong trees . " EDITOR . The following paffage from Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rofe , will ...
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... See vol . i . p . 13 . STEEVENS . It is fince the earthquake now eleven years ; ] But how comes the nurse to talk of an earthquake upon this occafion ? There is no fuch circumstance , I believe , mentioned in any of the novels from ...
... See vol . i . p . 13 . STEEVENS . It is fince the earthquake now eleven years ; ] But how comes the nurse to talk of an earthquake upon this occafion ? There is no fuch circumstance , I believe , mentioned in any of the novels from ...
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... [ See Store's Chronicle , and Gabriel Harvey's letter in the preface to Spenfer's works , ed . 1679. ] If fo , one may be permitted to conjecture , that Romeo and Juliet , or this part of it at least , was written in 1591 ; after the 6th ...
... [ See Store's Chronicle , and Gabriel Harvey's letter in the preface to Spenfer's works , ed . 1679. ] If fo , one may be permitted to conjecture , that Romeo and Juliet , or this part of it at least , was written in 1591 ; after the 6th ...
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... See vol . i . p . 168. STEEVENS . 3 Let avantons light of heart , & c . ] Middleton has borrowed this thought in his play of Blurt Mafter - Conftable , 1602 : 66 - bid him , whofe heart no forrow feels , Tickle the rufhes with his ...
... See vol . i . p . 168. STEEVENS . 3 Let avantons light of heart , & c . ] Middleton has borrowed this thought in his play of Blurt Mafter - Conftable , 1602 : 66 - bid him , whofe heart no forrow feels , Tickle the rufhes with his ...
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