Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners: / with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on a Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris dance.

by Francis Douce

; and in some manuscripts of that writer

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. In other places it has these forms,

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Scene 5. Page 343.

Clo. But sure, he is the prince of the world.

The Devil is often called so by Saint John.