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Twelfth Night

(Shakespeare). The serious plot is taken from Belleforest's Histories Tragiques. The comic parts are of Shakespeare's own invention. (See Befana.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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