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† master-prize Obs.
Also master's prize.
= masterpiece 1, 1 b.
1604Dekker Honest Wh. i. x. G 4 b, Nay, let me alone to play my maister, prize [sic: the speaker is an apprentice disguised as his master]. 1607B. Barnes Devils Charter iii. v. F 1 b, Now Frescobaldi play thy masters prize. 1615Crooke Body of Man 414 In criticall euacuations & in notable Maister-prises of Nature. 1621Quarles Argalus & P. (1678) 68 Mischief, that now was bent to play Upon the Stage her studied master-prize. 1624Middleton Game at Chess iii. i. 213 Some notable masterprize of roguery This drum strikes up for. a1635Randolph Poems Wks. (1875) 643 Thus have I finish'd beauty's master-prize. 1653A. Wilson Jas. I 26 It behoved him to play his Master-prize in the Beginning. |