 Cousin is indeed a French word, but from our national love of punning, it is not unlikely that it has in English been commonly pronounced like the verb to cozen ; — so, at least, it was in Shakspeare's time ; Hotspur exclaims, — " Why, what a deal...  Warbeck of Wolfsteïn - Page 197by Miss Holford (Margaret) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...tongue lick absurd pomp ; And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. Why, what a deal of candied courtesy, This fawning greyhound then did proffer me ! Look, — when his infant fortune came to aye, And, — gentle Harry Percy, — and, hind cousin,... | |
 | John Henry Howlett - 1826 - 342 pages
...pronounced like the verb to cozen; — so, at least it w.as in Shakspeare's time : Hotspur exclaims, " Why, what a deal of candied courtesy This fawning greyhound then did proffer me ! Look—' When his infant fortune came to age' — And ' Gentle Harry Percy,' — and 'kind cousin'... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...Feast-one, fast-lost ; one cloud of winter showers, These flies are couch'd. dFlattetJ). — Shakspeare. WHY, what a deal of candied Courtesy, This fawning Greyhound then did proffer me ! The Devil take such Cozeners ! — God forgive me ! dFlattetg. — Shakspeare. No visor does become... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - 1870 - 236 pages
...pronounced like the verb to cozen ; — so, at least, it was in Shakspeare's time ; Hotspur exclaims, — " Why, what a deal of candied courtesy This fawning greyhound then did proffer me ! Look — ' When his infant fortune came to age' — And ' Gentle Harry Percy,' — and 'kind cousin'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 346 pages
...When you and he came back from Ravenspurg. North. At Berkeley castle? Hot. Berkeley : You say true : Why, what a deal of candied courtesy This fawning greyhound then did proffer me ! Look,— When his infant fortune came to age, And—gentle Harry Percy,—and, kind cousin,— The... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - 1881 - 524 pages
...pronounced like the verb to cozen; — so, at least, it was in Shakespeare's time. Hotspur exclaims — " Why, what a deal of candied courtesy This fawning greyhound then did proffer me ! Look — ' When his infant fortune came to agt' — And ' Genii t Harry Percy,' — and ' kind cousin... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...: Feast-won, fast-lost ; one cloud of winter showers, These flies are coueh'd. rn. — Shakespeare. WHY, what a deal of candied Courtesy, This fawning Greyhound then did proffer me ! The Devil take such Cozeners ! — God forgive me ! JFlattmi. — Shakespeare. No visor does become... | |
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