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Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
I'd set my ten commandments in your face.

      — King Henry VI. Part II, Act I Scene 3

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KEYWORD: coxcomb

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Henry V
[IV, 1]

Fluellen

1924

If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating
coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also,
look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating
coxcomb? in your own conscience, now?

2

Henry V
[V, 1]

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2927

I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or
I will peat his pate four days. Bite, I pray you; it
is good for your green wound and your ploody coxcomb.

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Henry V
[V, 1]

Fluellen

2938

Much good do you, scauld knave, heartily. Nay, pray
you, throw none away; the skin is good for your
broken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks
hereafter, I pray you, mock at 'em; that is all.

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