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meinie, meiny (2 used by Day, 1609)
1. body of retainers Lr. II. iv. 35 (Qq “men”).
2. common herd, vulgus Cor. III. i. 65 “the mutable, rank-scented ” (F4 “many”).
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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