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

Note 1384 — THE HONORABLE HISTORIE of frier Bacon, and frier Bongay.

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Do., Dy., W. change to dicis. A parody of Construas hoc, etc., in Skelton's Ware the Hauke. Dyce. So, for a fool, Ingeland's Disob. Child (H. Dods. II. 285); and frequently. Cf. 'Woodcock' in Johann, and Hamlet, I. iii. 115.

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