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Ajax “is their fool,” KING LEAR, ii. 2. 120 ; “that is, a fool to them. These rogues and cowards talk in such a boasting strain, that if we were to credit their account of themselves, Ajax would appear a person of no prowess when compared with them” (MALONE) .

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