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  • And we in our Enterlude called the woer, plaid with these two words, lubber and louer, thus, the countrey clowne came & woed a young maide of the Citie, and being agreeued to come so oft, and not to haue his answere, said to the old nurse very impatiently.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Sliest by the clowne Coridon rusticks with twibbil or hatchet.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • Touchstone, the courtier playing clown, says, "It is meat and drinke to me to see a clowne" (meaning an essential clown, an uneducated rustic); yet he salutes him as "gentle," shewing that the mean fellow possesses

    Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875

  • It is meat and drinke to me to see a clowne, by my troth, we that haue good wits, haue much to answer for: we shall be flouting: we cannot hold.

    Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875

  • He is rich, but only so-so rich, that is rich for a clowne

    Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875

  • Newes this day from Brampton, of Mr. Ensum, my sister's sweetheart, being dead: a clowne.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Newes this day from Brampton, of Mr. Ensum, my sister's sweetheart, being dead: a clowne.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Newes this day from Brampton, of Mr. Ensum, my sister's sweetheart, being dead: a clowne.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, December 1666 Pepys, Samuel 1666

  • And we in our Enterlude called the woer, plaid with these two words, lubber and louer, thus, the countrey clowne came & woed a young maide of the Citie, and being agreeued to come so oft, and not to haue his answere, said to the old nurse very impatiently.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

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