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" We have been called so of many; not that our heads are some brown, some black, some abram, some bald, but that our wits are so diversely coloured: and truly I think, if all our wits were to issue out of one skull, they would fly east, west, north, south;... "
Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the ... - Page 19
by Thomas Wright - 1857
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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs ...

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1847 - 518 pages
...considers this expression may be a corruption of auburn, and is in some measure confirmed by a passage in Coriolanus, ii. 3 : " Our heads are some brown,...black, some abram, some bald, but that our wits are so divcrsly coloured." The folio of 1685 alters abram to auburn. See Middleton's Works, i. 259 ; Toone,...
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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases ..., Volume 1

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1850 - 526 pages
...considers this expression may be a corruption of auburn, and ¡s in some measure confirmed by a passage in Coriolanus, ii. 3 : " Our heads are some brown,...coloured." The folio of 1685 alters abram to auburn. See Middleton's Works, i. 259 ; Toone, in v. ABRASE. Smooth. The fourth, in white, is Apheleia, a nymph...
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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases ..., Volume 1

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1860 - 570 pages
...considers this expression may be a corruption of auburn, and is in some measure confirmed by a passage in Coriolanus, ii. 3 : " Our heads are some brown, some black, some atram, some bald, but that our wits are so diversly coloured." The folio of 1G85 alters abram to auburn....
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The Hamnet Shakspere, according to the first folio, spelling ..., Part 6

William Shakespeare - 1880 - 202 pages
...himself stuck not to call us the many-headed Multitude. 3. Cit. We have been call'd so of many, not that our heads are some brown, some black, some Abram, some bald; but that our wits are so diversly Coulor'd ; and truly I think, if all our wits were to issue out of one Scull, they would fly East,...
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American Notes and Queries, Volume 7

William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - Literature - 1891 - 348 pages
...In the early editions of Shakespeare is found, in " Coriolanus," Act ii, Sc. 3, the expression : " Our heads are some brown, some black, some abram, some bald, but our wits are so diversley coloured." In the edition of 1685, the word Abram was changed to auburn....
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus

William Shakespeare - Coriolanus, Cnaeus Marcius - 1890 - 196 pages
...stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude. 16 THIRD CIT. We have been called so of many ; not that our heads are some brown, some black, some abram, some bald, but that our wits are so diversely coloured : and truly, I think, if all our wits were to issue out of one skull, they would...
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus

William Shakespeare - 1894 - 196 pages
...stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude. 16 THIRD ClT. We have been called so of many ; not that our heads are some brown, some black, some abram, some bald, but that our wits are so diversely coloured : and truly, I think, if all our wits were to issue out of one skull, they would...
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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words: Obsolete Phrases ..., Volume 1

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1901 - 528 pages
...considers this expression may be a corruption of auburn, and is in some measure confirmed by a passage in Coriolanus, ii. 3 : " Our heads are some brown, some black, some abram, some bald, but thit our wits are so diversly coloured." The folio of 1685 alters atiram to auburn. See Middleton's...
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The Works of Shakespeare ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1922 - 300 pages
...stuck not to call us the manyheaded multitude. Third Cit. We have been called so of many ; not that our heads are some brown, some black, some abram, some bald, but that our wits are so diversely 20 coloured : and truly I think if all our wits were to issue out of one skull, they would...
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The Works of William Shakespeare...

William Shakespeare - 1906 - 430 pages
...stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude. Third Cit. We have been call'd so of many ; not that our heads are some brown, some black, some Abram, some bald, but that our wits are so diversely colour'd : 20 and truly I think, if all our wits were to issue out of one skull, they would...
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