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

Note 595 — THE BLACK BOOK.

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glory-fat Audrey] “Heres fine Backon Sister its glore Fat.” Yorkshire Dialogue, p. 44 (appended to The Praise of Yorkshire Ale, 1697), the Clavis to which has “Glore fat is very fat.”—The compiler of the Fourth Part of Bibliotheca Heberiana, in some remarks on The Black Book, says (p. 181), with reference to the present passage, that “nobody has noticed the allusion to Shakespeare’s As you like it, and the marriage of Touchstone and Audrey”!!!

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