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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Bo-Peep
 
Where are you? I’ troth she’s in love with me, as I fancy; the roguish one’s playing bo-peep.
        Riley’s Plautus.—The Rudens, Vol. II. Act II. Scene 7.		  1
  [Both Horace and Virgil mention the game of hiding or bo-peep as a favourite one with the girls of their day.—Riley. Supra, in notis.]  2
 
 
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