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Updated: May 21, 2025

To "look babies in the eyes" was a common expression for peering amorously into the eyes. Sc. fagot. A common form of expression. Everybody remembers Puck's "I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes." Cf. Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois, I. 1. "In tall ships, richly built and ribd with brasse, To put a Girdle round about the world."

Various - A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2