A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13

Note 309 — ACT I., SCENE I.

Reading edition

So in "The Return from Parnassus," act iii. sc. 1: "My mistress upon good days puts on a piece of a parsonage; and we pages play at blow-point for a piece of a parsonage."

And in Donne ("Poems," 1719, p. 119)—

"Shortly, boys shall not play At span-counter, or blow-point, but shall pay Toll to some courtier."

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