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Blushing

Popularized in Henry VI Part 3

“
O Clifford, but bethink thee once again,
And in thy thought o'er-run my former time;
And, if though canst for blushing, view this face,
And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice
”


Latin had it. Old English had it. Shakespeare changed the spelling and made it popular.

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