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sake: Meas. iv. iii. 21 “are . . . for the Lord's sake” = are ‘doing time’. ∥ ‘For the Lord's sake’ was the cry used by Ludgate prisoners when asking for alms, &c. at the grated window.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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