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The Battaile of Agincourt

Note an olde Fox — AGINCOVRT.

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Page 21, l. 19. “An olde Fox.”—Sword, so called, it is said, from the figure of a fox anciently engraved upon the blade; or, as Nares suggests, from the name of some celebrated cutler. “Thou diest on point of fox” (Shakespeare, “Henry V.,” act iv., sc. 4).

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