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

Note 1126 — SCENE IV.

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cousin] i. e. kinsman, relation: in Shakespeare, Olivia calls her uncle Toby cousin (Twelfth Night); and the king says,

“But now my cousin Hamlet and my son.”

I suspect that the word was sometimes used (and perhaps is so in the present passage) as a familiar address to a person who was not related to the speaker.

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