10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RIGGISH»
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The Works of Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra
... nor custom stale 235 Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they
feed : but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies ; for vildest things Become
themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. 240 Mcec.
William Shakespeare, William James Craig, Robert Hope Case, 1906
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The Late Mr. Shakespeare
Since RIGGISH, besides,is thevery word that mymaster alwaysused ofthe Abbess
of Clerkenwell ('Lucy was unslakedly riggish with melast night,' andso on) I had
no doubt from the first moment I began to learn my lines who itwas thathe ...
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Encyclopædia Metropolitana; Or, Universal Dictionary of ...
V€T8(1, cloaked, or concealed purposes, of thievery or deceit, so rig is one who
has cloaked or disguised purposes of wantonness; hence, mg, A wanton; and
riggish, wanton, lewd. A rig. (Cowper,) a gamesome, a knave's trick. GAM- Nay, t'
y ...
Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1845
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Rea
Hence riggish = wanton ; rigolage = wantonness ; TO RUN (PLAY or CARRY) A
RIG = to play fast- and -loose ; TO rig the market = to raise or depress prices for
one's private advantage : nence to swindle ; up to the rigs = expert, wide-awake,
...
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1903
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The Works of Shakespeare ....: Antony and Cleopatra, ed. by ...
The appetites they 'feed: but she makes hungry Vlhfi'-,.1L¢ most she satisfies; for
vildest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she
is riggish. Meec. If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle 232. breathless.
William Shakespeare, William James Craig, Robert Hope Case, 1906
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Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of His ...
(H5.5.1.20, Pistol); Rhenish *'Rhine wine': dreines his draughts of Renish downe,
(Ham 1.4.11, Hamlet); riggish 'licentious': the holy Priests Blesse her, when she is
Riggish. (AC 2.2.245-6, Enobarbus); derived from rig 'wanton woman', OED ...
Norman Blake, Norman Francis Blake, 2006
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The Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra
Vile, in connection with clothes, could signify "mean or wretched" — as a woman
might say of a garment, "This old thing." Enobarbus is saying, whatever Cleopatra
wears becomes ennobled. This fits with another word in the speech: riggish.
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... ...
Hence RIGGISH = wanton ; rigolage = wantonness ; TO RUN (PLAY Or CARRY)
A RIG = to play fast- and -loose ; to rig the MARKET=to raise or depress prices for
one's private advantage : nence to swindle ; UP TO THE rigs = expert, ...
John Stephen Farmer, Henley, 1903
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Mistress of the Sun: A Novel
“The matchmaker agrees that your having a position at Court will improve your
chances, but she warned that you must be exceedingly careful of your reputation.
Court society is known to be riggish.” Petite nodded, amused by her mother's use
...
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Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus ...
For vilest things Become themselves in her; that the holy priests Bless her, when
she is riggish.9 Mec. If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle The heart of Antony,
Octavia is A blessed lottery1 to him. Agr- Let us go. — Good Enobarbus, make ...
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, 1826
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Everything we know about Cleopatra is wrong; Stacy Schiff tackles …
For vilest things/Become themselves in her, that the holy priests/Bless her when she is riggish.” Still, despite an untold number of sketches, histories and ... «National Post, Dec 10»
