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Thomas Heywood

Note 15 — SCENE I.—A Room in Old Wincott’s House.

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Your gravity hath guessed aright: the chiefest that fell in this battle were wild fowl and tame fowl; pheasants were wounded instead of alfarez,[15] and capons for captains; anchoves stood for ancients, and caviare for corporals; dishes were assaulted instead of ditches, and rabbits were cut to pieces upon the rebellings;[16] some lost their legs, whilst other of their wings were forced to fly; the pioner undermined nothing but pie crust, and—

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