/ · 1894 Brewer’s · M · Macheath (Captain)
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A highwayman, hero of The Beggar’s Opera, by Gay. A fine, gay, bold-faced ruffian, game to the very last.
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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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