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'After their eating, the Deuill called Fancie, and the other Spirit calling himselfe Tibbe, carried the remnant away: And she sayeth that at their said Banquet, the said Spirits gaue them light to see what they did, and that they were both shee Spirites and Diuels.' [
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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A protest organizer, international studies student Mike Fancie, said he was happy they were able to stop Coulter from speaking.
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In Forte of Fancie 1584 Breton describes Bedlam as foul hole and loathsome den, filled with the raging and the stamping, the fretting and the groaning, to which contemporary writers testified.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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In Forte of Fancie 1584 Breton describes Bedlam as foul hole and loathsome den, filled with the raging and the stamping, the fretting and the groaning, to which contemporary writers testified.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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In Forte of Fancie 1584 Breton describes Bedlam as foul hole and loathsome den, filled with the raging and the stamping, the fretting and the groaning, to which contemporary writers testified.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Breton's poetical works, the titles of which are here somewhat abbreviated, include _The Workes of a Young Wit_ (1577); _A Floorish upon Fancie_
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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On the top shelf sits little Fancie, her eyes shining like diamonds in her soft, dusky cobweb.
The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Various
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Footnote 123: Nicholas Breton: _A Floorish upon Fancie_, ed. Grosart, p. 6.
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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Flourish upon Fancie and Pleasant Toyes of an Idle Head, 1557, 4to; or
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Cf. Watson's _Tears of Fancie_, xix.xx. (a pair of sonnets on the theme which closely resemble Shakespeare's pair); Drayton's _Idea_, xxxiii.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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