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Pasquil

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Pas´quil
n.1.See Pasquin.
v. t.1.See Pasquin.
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These references come without explanation, and whilst Gnatho could arguably be English idiom by 1540 (thanks to Thomas Elyot's Pasquil the Playne, printed in 1533), according to the Oxford English Dictionary the term 'Thraso', the braggart from Eunuchus, does not enter the language until the 1560s.
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An every man and maide doe take their turne, And tosse their Pancakes up for feare they burne," wrote one Pasquil Palin in 1619.
Be flash with the pan by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
As North argues, "Along with Piers, Colin, and Pasquil, Martin came to symbolize a distinct authorial personality that functioned independent of an actual author's name" (134).
The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart ... by Tribble, Evelyn B. / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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