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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 05

Note 340 — ACT I.

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So, in Ben Jonson's "Catiline," act ii. sc. 3—

"But you think, Carius, 'Tis covetise hath wrought me: if you love me, Change that unkind conceit."

In the "Alchymist," act ii. sc. 3—

"Why, this is covetise!"

And in "Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Divell," p. 29: "Under vellany I comprehend murder, treason, theft, cousnage, cut-throat covetise, and such like."

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