Note 133 — SCENE IV.
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set the hare’s head to the goose-giblet] A not uncommon proverbial expression:
“Since tit for tat (quoth I) on euen hand is set,
Set the hares head agaynst the goose ieblet.”
Heywood’s Dialogue, &c., sig. G.—Workes, ed. 1598.