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clearness, transparency.
Here clarity of candour, history's soul, The critical mind in short.
BROWNING, _Ring and Book_, i. 925.
LXX.
Sir Philip Sidney thus translates this poem:--
Unto no body my woman saith shee had rather a wife be, Then to myself, not though Jove grew a suter of hers.
These be her words, but a woman's words to a love that is eager, Midde [windes?] or waters stream do require to be writ.
XCIX. 10.
_Fricatrice._
To a lewd harlot, a base fricatrice.
BEN JONSON, _The Fox_, iv. 2.
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