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== Lists ==
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* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 315-19.
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 293-19.
* Outside scope of {{:Sussex, Lucy 1994a}}.
* Outside scope of {{:Sussex, Lucy 1994a}}.



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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-02. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-20.

Allusion

8. An answer to the newes.
[...]
I will hope shortly of your amendment: in the meane time let me aduise you to take patience in your vnderstanding, to direct you in a better course: for when you waked out of your dreame, you saw no body, but the man that you thought was runne to our towne, and he was putting you on a Coat with foure Elboes: for Maid Marrian, shée, I thinke, is troubled with you in her Creame-pot: but for the Hobbie-horse, alas, he hath forgot your turne [...][1]

IRHB comments

The primary sense of 'cream-pot' is, of course, 'a vessel for holding milk while the cream is forming; a vessel for keeping cream'.[2] Thus Maid Marian is here identified as a dairy maid.

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