counterfeit synonymous with
slip, a piece of false money: hence the
quibbling,
“If I could ha' remembered a gilt counterfeit, thou wouldst not have
slipped out of my contemplation,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 3.
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; and hence the metaphor,
“some coiner with his tools Made me a counterfeit,”
CYMBELINE, ii. 5. 6
; and see slip.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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