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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13

Note 7 — ACT I., SCENE I.

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A proverb or wise saying. So in "The Wife of Bath's Prologue," l. 6240—

"But all for nought, I sette not an hawe Of his Proverbes, ne of his olde sawe."

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