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The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard

Note 4 — AN UNFORTUNATE LIKENESS

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"Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares."

—Troilus and Cressida, Act I., sc. 3.

[5]

"Then must the Jew be merciful."

—Merchant of Venice, Act IV., sc. 1.

[6]

"The spring, the summer,

The childing autumn, angry winter, change

Their wonted liveries."

—Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II., sc. 1.

[7]

"In the county of Glo'ster, justice of the peace and coram."

—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I., sc. 1.

[8]

"What lusty trumpet thus doth summon us?"

—King John, Act V., sc. 2.

[9]

"And I'll provide his executioner."

—Henry the Sixth (Second Part), Act III., sc. 1.

[10]

"The lioness had torn some flesh away,

Which all this while had bled."

—As You Like It, Act IV., sc. 3.

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