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Started by: dustaf (inactive)

Clotpole.

Shakespeare appears to be the coiner of 'good riddance', in Troilus and Cressida, 1606:

Thersites: I will see you hanged, like clotpoles, ere I come any more to your tents: I will keep where there is wit stirring and leave the faction of fools.

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Patroclus: A good riddance.

Replied: 30th Sep 2013 at 17:00

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