coxcomb

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Better still, despite a certain looseness both of plot and moral, is The Coxcomb, where the heroine Viola is a very touching figure.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

Our example of this group is the Coxcomb Prominent.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.

Prince of, 404.Baron, a French Comedian and Coxcomb, 200.Barre,

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Beaumont and Fletcher's Coxcomb has "Where were the watch the while? good sober gentlemen, They were, like careful members of the city, Drawing in diligent ale, and singing catches."

From Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Naylor, Edward W. (Edward Woodall)

But I would fain hope I am not a Coxcomb, methinks, whatever I am else.

From The Toy Shop (1735) The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737) by Dodsley, Robert