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  • Faire Ladies, it hath happened many times, that he who striveth to scorne and floute other men, and especially in occasions deserving to be respected, proveth to mocke himselfe with the selfe same matter, yea, and to his no meane danger beside.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Or when we deride by plaine and flat contradiction, as he that saw a dwarfe go in the streete said to his companion that walked with him: See yonder gyant: and to a Negro or woman blackemoore, in good sooth ye are a faire one, we may call it the broad floute.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • You bring me to doo = = = and then you floute me to.

    The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition) 1609

  • 2286: You bring me to doo = = = and then you floute me too.

    Troilus and Cressida (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

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