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A new discourse of a stale subject, called the metamorphosis of Ajax choose

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[UK] J. Harington Metamorphosis of Ajax D: To break a little winde [...] A King can cause no more, a cracke doth doe no lesse.
at crack, n.1
[UK] J. Harington Metamorphosis of Ajax (1814) 65: A certain gentleman that had his fingers made of lime-twigs, stole a piece of plate one day from Claudius .
at fingers are made of lime-twigs under finger, n.
[UK] J. Harington ‘Apologie’ in Metamorphosis of Ajax A2: They swore they were fit for a gong farmer and a chimney sweeper.
at gong farmer (n.) under gong, n.1
[UK] J. Harington Metamorphosis of Ajax C5: Arrius that notable hereticke, came to his miserable end vpon a iakes. [...] The great brass sluice [...] sent it down a gallop into the Jax.
at jakes, n.1
[UK] J. Harington Metamorphosis of Ajax E4: A certaine Gentleman that had his fingers made of lime twigges, stole a peece of plate.
at lime-twig, n.
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