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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10

Note 433 — ACTUS V., SCÆNA 1.

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The shaking of the sheets was a dance. A double-entendre is designed here, and the same is often to be found in old plays. See "How to choose a good Wife from a bad," 1602; Massinger's "City Madam," act ii. sc. 1; "A Woman kill'd with Kindness," act i. sc. 1.

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