A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc., Whcih Have Been Thought to Require Illustration, in the Works of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Volume 1Reeves and Turner, 1901 |
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alluded allusion ballad Bartas Bartholomew Fair Ben Jonson called Cartwright's Chapm Chaucer colour common corruption Cotgrave Cymb derived devil 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 lady Latin Lear lord low Latin means meant merry Minshew Mirr night Nomenclator Optick origin Othello Passenger of Benvenuto perhaps phrase play Poems Polyolb probably proverb Rich Roaring Girl Saxon says seems sense Shakespeare shew sometimes speak Spens Spenser Steevens Suppl supposed sweet Tasso Taylor's Terence in English term thee thing thou tion Todd unto viii Withals woman word
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