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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13

Note 150 — ACT IV.

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Springal (adolescens), a youth.—Skinner. So in Spenser's "Faery Queene," bk. v. c. x. s. 6—

"Amongst the rest which in that space befel, There came two springals of full tender yeers."

And in "Wily Beguiled," 1606: "Pray ye, maid, bid him welcome, and make much of him, for by my vay, he's a good proper springold."

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