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Shakespeare's Colour Names

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I FEAR you will think that the correspondence on this subject is becoming a mere criticism on Shakespeare's text, and therefore out of place in your columns, but I trust you will afford me space for a short rejoinder to Mr. Ingleby's letter (NATURE, vol. xix. p. 244).

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BREWIN, R. Shakespeare's Colour Names. Nature 19, 290–291 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019290d0

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