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_Bolton's Ace._--What is the meaning of "_Bolton's Ace_," in the following

passage in the address to the reader prefixed to Henry Hutton's _Follies

Anatomie_, 8vo. Lond. 1618? It is passed over by DR. RIMBAULT in his

reprint of the work for the Percy Society in 1842:

"Could ye attacke this felon in's disgrace,

I would not bate an inch (not _Bolton's ace_)

To baite, deride, nay, ride this silly asse."

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