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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 05

Note 375 — ACT V.

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Headpieces or helmets. So, in Marston's "Sophonisba," act i. sc. 2—

"And while our ore-toyl'd foe Snores on his unlac'd cask, all faint, though proud; Through his successful fight."

And ibid. act ii. sc. 2—"Enter Massinissa in his gorget and shirt, shield, sword, his arme transfixt with a dart; Jugurth followes with his cures and caske."

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