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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
had pet names for all her favourite courtiers; q.e.:
The mother of Sir John Norris she called “My own Crow.”
Burghley was her “Spirit.”
Mountjoy she termed her “Kitchen-maid in Ireland.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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