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Friday, February 20, 2009
Shakespeare on the Commodious Barber
It is like a
Barbers
chaire that fits all buttockes,
the pin buttocke, the quatch-buttocke,the brawn buttocke,
or any buttocke."
--William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1601).
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