Thanks to all and sundry who shared their musings on the word 'toy',
as well as pointing me to the lyrics of The Hunt('/e)s Up(e).Howard was kind enough to correct my English, I _was_ wondering why the OED was so hard to read. Anyway, it shows I still need an English dictionary. And I owe Howard a warm thank you for the Shakespeare search site. > www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare/ It brought me gems like this one, showing that lute cases back then were just as much in demand as now: >> They will steal any thing, and call it purchase. Bardolph stole a lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for three half pence. << I need a new lute case, does somebody have the e-mail address of Bardolph? David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
