Gipsy, one of a race of vagabonds of a dark complexion, supposed to have come from Egypt: “both in a tune like two --es on a horse,” As V, 3, 16. Cleopatra, the famous queen of Egypt, called so in contempt: Rom. II, 4, 44. Ant. I, 1, 10. IV, 12, 28.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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