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I will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the knight with my taber.
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Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and sit like a jack-an-apes, never off.
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That jack-an-apes with scarfs: why is he melancholy?
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Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and sit like a jack-an-apes, never off.
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I will teach the children their behaviours; and I will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the knight with my taber.
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That jack-an-apes with scarfs: why is he melancholy?
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Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and sit like a jack-an-apes, never off.
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I will teach the children their behaviors; and I will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the knight with my taber.
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I will teach the children their behaviours; and I will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the knight with my taber.
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare 1590
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I will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the knight with my taber.
The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590
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