base
“is the slave that pays,”
HENRY V., ii. 1. 93.
This appears to have been a proverbial expression (Compare, in Heywood's Fair Maid of the West,
“My motto shall be, Base is the man that paies.”
Second Part, sig. L 2, ed. 1631)
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A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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