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They were published in two volumes, folio, at Saragossa, 1580, under the title Espejo de principes e cavalleros; o, Cavallero del Febo. The whole four parts, translated from the original Spanish into French, appeared in eight volumes, and an abridged version was made by the Marquis de Paulmy. The Amadis cycle long remained immensely popular. p. 129 Gad-bee in his Brain.
The conduct of the amour between Lady Fulbank and Gayman, founded as it is on Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure, has nothing in common with Otway's intrigue between Beaugard and Portia The Atheist which owes itself to Scarron's novel, The Invisible Mistress. p. 222 the Gad-Bee's in his Quonundrum. Gad-Bee, vide supra. Quonundrum or Conundrum. A whim; crotchet; maggot; conceit.
The ass dreadfully opened its wide jaws, drove away the flies that plagued it, winced, flounced, went back, and bestirred itself in a most terrible manner, as if some damned gad-bee had stung it at the breech.
What means he, sure he has a Gad-bee in his Brain. Fran. Satan's she Advocate peace, I say; so, you look as innocently now, as a little Devil of two years old, I'll warrant; come, come, look me full in the face thus, turn your nose just to mine so now tell me whose damnable Plot this was, to send your Gallant with his Eloquence, Querks and Conundrums, to tutor me into better manners? Jul.
As we now say 'a bee in his bonnet'. For 'Gad-bee' cf. Holland's Pliny I, 318. The Lucky Chance, ii, II: 'The Gad-Bee's in his Quonundrum' and note on that passage infra. p. 142 Cockt. Set his hat jauntily. A very frequent phrase. p. 146 Slashes. Bumpers. From the idea of vigour contained in 'slash'. The word is extremely rare in this sense and perhaps only found here. But cf.
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