Allusion, perhaps used by Holophernes in its old Latin meaning of jesting: “the a. holds in the exchange,” LLL IV, 2, 42. But it may have the modern sense of reference.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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