Get-penny

"Get-penny" in a Sentence (2 examples)

thou and thy acts become the posies for hospitals; when thy name shall be written upon conduits, and thy deeds played i' thy lifetime by the best companies of actors, and be called their get-penny.

if a pack of hackney scribblers shall attack me only by way of a get-penny, I shall not be provoked to answer them

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