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A Select Collection of Old English Plays

Note 124 — W. CAREW HAZLITT.

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The 4tos read Pallarrime. The razors of Palermo were anciently famous. They are mentioned in more than one of our old plays, and particularly in “The Wounds of Civill War,” by Thomas Lodge, 1594, “Neighbour sharpen the edge tole of your wits upon the whetstone of indiscretion, that your wordes may shine like the rasers of Palermo.”—S.

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