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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13

Note 149 — ACT IV.

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This expression occurs in "Pericles, Prince of Tyre," act ii. sc, 1—

"Look how thou stirrest now: Come away, I'll fetch thee with a wannion."

Again, in Ben Jonson's "Devil is an Ass"—

"And a cuckold is, Where'er he put his head with a wannion, If his horns be forth, the devil's companion!"

[And in a thousand other places.]

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