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

Note 1103 — THE Old Wiues Tale.

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As much as "uncomely," "ugly," as shown by the countless passages in Elizabethan literature, and the connotation of the opposite, "fair." Dyce quotes the same phrase,—"though I am blacke, I am not the Divell ..." from Greene's, Quip for an Upstart Courtier.

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