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"I doubt me much," said Peter Stuyvesant, "that thou art some scurvy costard-monger knave.— Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I
'Were I to break your head in good earnest,' quoth honest Wilfred, 'I care not how angry you are, for I should do it so much the more easily but it's hard I should get raps over the costard, and only pay you back in make-believes'--Do you understand the moral of this, Frank I have never felt myself under the necessity, madam, of studying how to extract the slender portion of sense with which this family season their conversation Necessity!— Rob Roy — Complete
Cock's faith, an thou enter not, we will clout thee over the costard with one of these iron bars till thou fall dead. '— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
-- I will knog his urinals about his knave’s costard when I have goot opportunities for the ork.— The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
But scored him on the costard, and so the jug was broke.— The Book of Humorous Verse

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