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If the right eye itches it betokens laughter at hand; if the left eye, it betokens grief; but Shakespeare does not observe this distinction.
“My right eye itches now, so I shall see
My love.”
Theocritus, i. 37.
“Mine eyes do itch;
Doth that forebode weeping?”
Shakespeare: Othello, iv. 3.
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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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