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Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners

Part 3 / Act 4 — ACT IV.

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Scene 5. Page 383.

Ulyss. ... set them down For sluttish spoils of opportunity, And daughters of the game.

This expression seems borrowed from the maister of the game, the ancient title of the king's game-keeper. There was also a treatise on hunting, so called, which Shakspeare had often read of, or might perhaps have seen.

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