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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 1

Note 615 — VI THE MASK (continued)

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The maskers in Wit at Several Weapons, v. i, are 'something like the abstract of a masque'; cf. R. J. i. 4. 3—

The date is out of such prolixity. We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf, Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath, Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper; Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke After the prompter, for our entrance.

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