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The works of Thomas Middleton, Volume 3 (of 5)

Note 701 — ACT I. SCENE I.

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shooting at these butts ... pricks ... rove] A succession of puns. The prick was the point or mark in the centre of the butts: to rove meant to shoot an arrow with an elevation, not point blank.

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