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NYJ-N.771.030
28 Feb 1771:31 (1469)
[ From The Impartialist, or Universal Reformer, III,
included in a discussion of "most whimsical modes of
dress"]. . . Shakespear finely exemplifies this propensity
of human nature, in the speech of lady Piercy, concerning
her husband Hotspur.
---He was indeed the glass,
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
He had no legs that practis'd not his gait:
And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish,
Became the accents of the valiant:
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