ribaudred

For although we have not the participle _ribaudred_, which may be peculiar to the poet, in Baret's

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"The word is in the old edition _ribaudred_, which I do not understand, but mention it in hopes that others may raise some happy conjecture."

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I cannot, therefore, but consider the alteration of the text by Steevens as one of the most violent and uncalled-for innovations of which he has been guilty; and he himself seems to have had his misgivings, for his observation that Shakspeare "is not always very nice about his versification" was meant as an apology for marring its harmony by the substitution of _ribald-rid_ for the poet's own _ribaudred_.

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III. x.10 (193,6) Yon 'ribauld nag of Aegypt] The word is in the old edition _ribaudred_, which I do not understand, but mention it, in hopes others may raise some happy conjecture.

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746