Note 59 — ACT IV. SCENE I. SCENE I.—A Street, with a Temple at a distance.
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Our author uses the same old word, for a scramble, in the prologue to "The Widow Ranter."
Bauble and cap no sooner are thrown down, But there's a muss of more than half the town.
It occurs frequently in old authors, and particularly in the well known passage in "Anthony and Cleopatra."
——Of late, when I cried ho! Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth, And cry, your will?