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halt: halt or lame man Sonn. Music iv. 10 [Pilgr. 308] “A cripple soon can find a ”: an alteration of the proverb ‘It is hard halting before a cripple’ (Heywood, 1562); cf. ‘It is ful hard to halten vnespied Byfore a crepul, for he kan the craft’ (Chaucer).
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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