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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11

Note 80 — ACT I., SCENE 1.

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The word innocent was used of old sometimes as synonymous with fool, as in the following passage—

"Nay, God forbid ye shoulde do so, for he is but an innocent, lo, In manner of a fole."

—"Int. of the Four Elements" [i. 42].

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