Lexicographical Neighbors of Coystrels
Literary usage of Coystrels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"... thee fathers of knowledge, haue doone, and too leaue too theese doltish
coystrels theyre rude ..."
2. Elizabethan Criticism of Poetry by Guy Andrew Thompson (1914)
"The readiest way to overcome such "doltish coystrels" and discredit their work,
he thinks, "is for the learned to apply themselves wholly to the true making ..."
3. Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers by Charles Wentworth Dilke (1814)
"Nothing but that such double coystrels* as you be are counterfeit. Ris. Are you
so dapper, we'll send you for a halfpenny loaf. Half. ..."
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