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"text": "I [Aye], quoth Jack a napes, by these ten bones, / Nothing happens amiss to a præparid minde, / Tis good philosophy, katt will to kinde.",
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"text": "VVas there euer man had ſuch lucke? vvhen I kiſt the Iacke vpon an vp-caſt, to be hit avvay? I had a hundred pound on't: and then a vvhoreſon Iacke-an-apes muſt take me vp for ſvvearing, as if I borrovved mine oathes of him, and might not ſpend them at my pleaſure.",
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"text": "Now, she hath favoured, doth favour, and will favour, this jack-an-ape,—for what good part about him I know not, save that as one noble lady will love a messan dog, and another a screaming popinjay, and a third a Barbary ape, so doth it please our noble dame to set her affections upon this stray elf of a page, […]",
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"ref": "1844 May, Charles Dickens, “Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood, from an Ancient Gentleman”, in B. W. Matz, editor, Miscellaneous Papers […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1908, →OCLC, page 7:",
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"text": "Then I set the boy down as a conceited young jackanapes, which no doubt he was,—but so are a great many other young people of Ernest's age.",
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"ref": "1894, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, “The Pride of Life”, in Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills, London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company […], →OCLC, page 425:",
"text": "[…] I'd soon make you laugh the other side of your mouth, you guffawing jackanapes.",
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"ref": "1904 (first performance), Joseph Conrad, “One Day More: A Play in One Act”, in Austin Harrison, editor, The English Review, volume XV, London: […] Richard Clay and Sons, published August–November 1913, →OCLC, scene ii, page 21:",
"text": "The boy wouldn't dare. (Rising choler.) Wouldn't dare to refuse the only sensible girl for miles around. That stubborn jackanapes refuse to marry a girl like you!",
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"ref": "1926 August, John Galsworthy, “Soames Keeps His Eyes Open”, in The Silver Spoon, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part I, page 46:",
"text": "Who were the aristocracy, to give themselves airs? Jackanapes!",
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"ref": "1996 August 1, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Sansa”, in A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire; 1), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN:",
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