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Search phrase: pick-purse

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
As You Like It	AYL III.iv.21	Yes, I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer,	Yes, I thinke he is not a picke purse, nor a horsestealer,
Henry IV Part 1	1H4 II.i.49	‘ At hand, quoth pick-purse.’	At hand quoth Pick-purse.
The Merry Wives of Windsor	MW I.i.148	No, it is false, if it is a pick-purse.	No, it is false, if it is a picke-purse.

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pickpocket, purse-stealer

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...[chamberlain to gadshill] at hand quoth pick-purse rail (v ) rant rave be abusive [about...

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