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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 03

Note 52 — RALPH ROISTER DOISTER A COMEDY

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This was a proverbial expression. See Heywood's "Proverbs" and "Taming of the Shrew," act ii., sc. I. Backare probably means Back there! or Go back!—Cooper. [The meaning is, clearly enough, that Gawin Goodluck must retreat from his courtship.]

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