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Page xvii
... called As you Like it . A Midfum- mer's Night's Dream bad its origin from The Knight's Tale ; which I don't remember to have feen , as yet , taken notice of . There are some paffages of Chaucer's Troilus and Crefeide in a Flay of the ...
... called As you Like it . A Midfum- mer's Night's Dream bad its origin from The Knight's Tale ; which I don't remember to have feen , as yet , taken notice of . There are some paffages of Chaucer's Troilus and Crefeide in a Flay of the ...
Page xxiv
... called infans , var- " lets , Damoyfels , Bacheliers . The most noble " of the youth particularly , infans . Here a story " is told , in fome old Ballad of the famous bero and giant killer Roland , before he was knighted , " who is ...
... called infans , var- " lets , Damoyfels , Bacheliers . The most noble " of the youth particularly , infans . Here a story " is told , in fome old Ballad of the famous bero and giant killer Roland , before he was knighted , " who is ...
Page xxxi
... called in our author's days . " As if children in our commentator's days did not know what carraway comfits are . [ vol . 6. p . 36. ] " O most fmall fault ! " How ugly didst thou in Cordelia fhew ? I Which , " Which , like an engine ...
... called in our author's days . " As if children in our commentator's days did not know what carraway comfits are . [ vol . 6. p . 36. ] " O most fmall fault ! " How ugly didst thou in Cordelia fhew ? I Which , " Which , like an engine ...
Page xxxiii
... called ) and remarks fo worthy each of the other ; " the weight of an bair ( as Falstaff fays ) will turn the fcales between " their Averdupois . " — In the Merry Wives of Windfor , Act II . Mrs. Page , in the height of her 66 + 1 Mr. W ...
... called ) and remarks fo worthy each of the other ; " the weight of an bair ( as Falstaff fays ) will turn the fcales between " their Averdupois . " — In the Merry Wives of Windfor , Act II . Mrs. Page , in the height of her 66 + 1 Mr. W ...
Page xxxix
... called , or at least not fam'd for much " execution . In a word , Shakespeare wrote " A MAURICE pike . " i . e . a pikeman of Prince Maurice's army . He " was the greatest general of that age , and the " conductor of the Low - Country ...
... called , or at least not fam'd for much " execution . In a word , Shakespeare wrote " A MAURICE pike . " i . e . a pikeman of Prince Maurice's army . He " was the greatest general of that age , and the " conductor of the Low - Country ...
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