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... quotes Nashe , Christ's Tears over Jerusalem ( 1593 ) , ' London , what are thy suburbs but li- cenced stews ? ' 95 plucked down pulled down , demolished ( see the Introduction , pp . 2-3 ) 98 stand for seed said of a plant left unhar ...
... quotes Nashe , Christ's Tears over Jerusalem ( 1593 ) , ' London , what are thy suburbs but li- cenced stews ? ' 95 plucked down pulled down , demolished ( see the Introduction , pp . 2-3 ) 98 stand for seed said of a plant left unhar ...
Page 97
... quotes ' You , Tom tapster , that tap your small cans of beer ' from Greene's A Quip for an Upstart Courtier ( 1592 ) , and OED , tapster 2 , quotes ' Tom the tapster ' from 1612. But it seems odd that Shakespeare did not use his ...
... quotes ' You , Tom tapster , that tap your small cans of beer ' from Greene's A Quip for an Upstart Courtier ( 1592 ) , and OED , tapster 2 , quotes ' Tom the tapster ' from 1612. But it seems odd that Shakespeare did not use his ...
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... quotes no comparable usage . Although unshifting is not recorded in OED before 1811 , it seems to give the best sense ; Shakespeare uses shifting three times elsewhere , and likes coin- ages with the un - prefix . 4.3.90 Dover Wilson ...
... quotes no comparable usage . Although unshifting is not recorded in OED before 1811 , it seems to give the best sense ; Shakespeare uses shifting three times elsewhere , and likes coin- ages with the un - prefix . 4.3.90 Dover Wilson ...
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