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Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare

Note 633 — APPENDIX

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Freund's Dict. quotes it from Plautus, Casin 2, 5, 39: Non ego istud verbum empsitem titivillitio. The learned Ben Jonson knew the word (Silent Woman, 4, 1):—

Wife! buz? titivilitium There's no such thing in nature!

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