beauty —
“Be called thieves of the day's,”
1 HENRY IV., i. 2. 24.
“There is, I have no doubt, a pun on the word beauty, which in the western counties is pronounced
nearly in the same manner as booty. See 3 Henry VI. [i. 4. 63]: ‘So triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty’”
(MALONE)
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A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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