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descant vb.: to sing a descant or air, (hence) to ‘sing with a small, yet pleasant and shrill voice as birds doe’ (Minsheu), warble Lucr. 1134; (hence) to comment R3 I. i. 27 “ on mine own deformity,” Pilgr. xiv. 4 [184].
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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