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The works of Thomas Middleton, Volume 1 (of 5)

Note 753 — SCENE III.

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Don Diego that was smelt out in Paul’s] So in Heywood’s Fair Maid of the West, 1631:

——“now you Don Diegoes,

You that made Paules to stinke.”—Part I. p. 51.

And in Dekker and Webster’s Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1607: “There came but one Dondego into England, and he made all Paul’s stink again.” Vol. ii. p. 298 of Webster’s Works,—where (vol. iv. p. 293.) I have given an explanation of these passages, which I am unwilling to repeat here.

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