world
“to see—It is a ”
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, iii. 5.
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It is a wonder to see; THE
TAMING OF THE SHREW, ii. 1. 303. (This expression was in use as early as the time of
Skelton, who has in his Bowge of Courte,
“It is a worlde, I saye, to here of some.”
Works, vol. i. p. 47, ed. Dyce; and it is found even in the Second Volume of Strype's Annals of the Reform., which was first published in 1725, and must have been written only a few years earlier: “But it was a world to consider, what unjust oppressions of the people and the poor this occasioned, by some griping men, that were concerned therein.” p. 209. )
“It is a worlde, I saye, to here of some.”
Works, vol. i. p. 47, ed. Dyce; and it is found even in the Second Volume of Strype's Annals of the Reform., which was first published in 1725, and must have been written only a few years earlier: “But it was a world to consider, what unjust oppressions of the people and the poor this occasioned, by some griping men, that were concerned therein.” p. 209. )
