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Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the ... - Page 170
by Thomas Wright - 1857
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King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 pages
...Bartholomew boar-pig30, 30 Doll says this in coaxing playful ridicule of Falstaff's enormous bulk. Roasted pigs were formerly among the chief attractions...Bartholomew fair ; they were sold, piping hot, in booths and on stalls, and were ostentatiously displayed to excite the appetite of passengers. It was a common...
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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases ..., Volume 1

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1850 - 526 pages
...sense. See also Tusser's Husbandry, p. 92. Barthlet», houseless, occurs in the Devonshire dialect. BARTHOLOMEW-PIG. Roasted pigs were formerly among...displayed to excite the appetite of passengers. Hence a Bartholomew-pig became a common subject of allusion. Narea. BARTHU-DAY. St. Bartholomew's day. BARTIZAN....
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 602 pages
...Bartholomew boar-pig,31 31 Doll says this in coaxing playful ridicule of Falstaff's enormous bulk. Roasted pigs were formerly among the chief attractions...Bartholomew fair ; they were sold, piping hot, in booths and on stalls, and were ostentatiously displayed to excite the appetite of passengers. It was a common...
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions ..., Volume 1

Robert Nares - English language - 1859 - 502 pages
...among the chief attractions of Bartholomew Fair, London : they were sold piping hot, in booths and on stalls, and ostentatiously displayed, to excite the appetite of passengers. Hence a Bartholomew jiiy became a common subject of allusion : the Puritan railed against it, For the very calling it a...
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A GLOSSARY

ROBERT NARES, A.M., F.R.S., F.A.S., - 1859 - 494 pages
...doll, such as appears to have been commonly sold at Bartholomew Fair. Wit uní Drollery, 1682, p. 343. BARTHOLOMEW-PIG. Roasted pigs were formerly among the chief attractions of Bartholomew Fair, London : they were sold piping hot, in booths and on stalls, and ostentatiously displayed, to excite...
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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases ..., Volume 1

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1860 - 570 pages
...sense. See also Tusser's Husbandry, p. 92. Harthlets, houseless, occurs in the Devonshire dialect. BARTHOLOMEW-PIG. Roasted pigs were formerly among...piping hot, in booths and stalls, and ostentatiously displny. -d to excite the appetite of passengers. Нлпсе a Bartholomew-pig became a common suliji-it...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the ..., Volumes 11-12

William Shakespeare - 1880 - 622 pages
...eats conger and fennel ; 33 and 82 Doll says this in coaxing ridicule of Falstaff 's enormous bulk. Roasted pigs were formerly among the chief attractions...Bartholomew fair ; they were sold, piping hot, in booths and on stalls, and were ostentatiously displayed to excite the appetite of passengers. It was a common...
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions ..., Volume 1

Robert Nares - English language - 1888 - 514 pages
...among the chief attractions of Bartholomew Fair, London : they were sold piping hot, in booths and on stalls, and ostentatiously displayed, to excite the...against it, For the very calling it a Bartholomew it so, is a spice of idolatry, B. Jons. ig, and to eat art. Fair, i, 6. Falstaff, in coaxing ridicule...
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Henry IV. Part Second: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and ..., Part 2

William Shakespeare - 1888 - 210 pages
...Bartholomew-tide boar-pig,30 when wilt thou 8o Doll says this in coaxing ridicule of Falstaff 's enormous bulk. Roasted pigs were formerly among the chief attractions...Bartholomew fair; they were sold, piping hot, in booths and on stalls, and were ostentatiously displayed to excite the appetite of passengers. It was a common...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical ..., Volume 1

John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley - English language - 1890 - 430 pages
...attractions of Bartholomew Fair, West Smithfield, London : they were sold piping hot, in booths and on stalls, and ostentatiously displayed, to excite the appetite of passengers. Hence a BARTHOLOMEW-PIG became a common subject of allusion : the Puritan railed against it. Bartholomew-Pig....
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