Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 by Various
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Warners _Albion's England_, p. 155. ed. 1612. On l. 166. (G.):-- "We are a few of those collected here That ruder tongues distinguish _villager_." Beaumont and Fletcher's _Two Noble Kinsmen_, iii. 5. On l. 215. (G.) "Unblemished" was originally (_Trin. Coll. Cam. MSS._) written "unspotted," perhaps from Drayton:-- "Whose form unspotted chastity may take," On l. 254. (G.) Add to Mr. Warton's note, that after the creation of Sir Robert Dudley to be Earl of Leicester by Queen Elizabeth in 1564, "He sat at dinner in his _kirtle_." So says Stow in _Annals_, p. 658. edit. 1633. On l. 290. (G.):-- "My wrinckl'd face, Grown _smooth as Hebe's_." Randolph's _Aristippus_, p. 18. 4to. ed. 1630. On l. 297. (G.):-- "Of frame more than celestial." |
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