Ian Lancashire
University of Toronto
for the Shakespeare Association of America
San Francisco 1999
Diuerbia, the partes of a comedy or interlude, where many persons speke togither.
Diuerbium, diuérbij, vt inquit Seruius, est primus actus Comdiæ. Liu. The first parte of a Comedie. Also, an olde
sayde saw.
Ad noua vix memorem diuerbia coge senectam. Auson.
Diverbium, bij, n. g. Liv. The first part of a comedie, or a parte wherin manie persons are occupied: also an old sayd saw.
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