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[ 'Christ's Kirk o' the Green:' a ballad made by James I. of Scotland.]
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[ 'The Devil:' the Devil Tavern, where Ben Johnson held his poetical club.]
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[ 'Horse-tail bare:' referring to Sertorius, who told one of his soldiers to pluck off a horse's tail at one effort. He failed, of course. Sertorius then told another to pluck it away, hair by hair. He succeeded; and thus Sertorius taught the lesson of hard-working, patient perseverance.]
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[ 'Gammer Gurton:' one of the first printed plays in English, and therefore much valued by some antiquaries.]
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[ 'All, by the king's example:' a line from Lord Lansdown.]