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There goes 'the seld shown flamen, _puffing_ his way to _win a vulgar station_,' here is a 'veiled dame' who lets us see that 'war of white and damask in her nicely gawded cheeks,' a moment; -- look at that 'kitchen malkin,' peering over the wall there with 'her richest lockram' 'pinned on her reechy neck,' eyeing the hero as he passes; and look at this poor baby here, this Elizabethan baby, saved, conserved alive, crying himself
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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1136: In their nicely gawded Cheekes, toth 'wanton spoyle
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II. i.232 (337,3) Commit the war of white and damask, in/Their nicely gawded cheeks] [W: wars] Has the commentator never heard of roses
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
bilby commented on the word gawded
"...our veil'd dames
Commit the war of white and damask, in
Their nicely gawded cheeks, to the wanton spoil
Of Phoebus' burning kisses..."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 28, 2009