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In all our ancient English books, the commentary is printed in the margin. Hence Shakespeare:
“His face’s own margent did quote such amazes.”
Love’s Labour’s Lost, ii. 1.
“I knew you must be edified by the margent.”—Hamlet, v. 2.
“She … could pick no meaning …
Writ in the glassy margents of such books.”
Shakespeare: Rape of Lucrece, stanza 15.
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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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