• The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo, which alternatively acquired the label "Nashe's Dildo", is an erotic poem by Thomas Nashe...
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    Thomas Nashe (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
    poem, The Choise of Valentines that begins with a sonnet to "Lord S". It has been suggested that The Choise of Valentines was written possibly for the private...
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    According to the OED, one of the word's first appearances in English was in Thomas Nashe's The Choise of Valentines or the Merie Ballad of Nash his Dildo...
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    wrote a poem known as The Choise of Valentines, Nashe's Dildo or The Merrie Ballad of Nashe his Dildo. This was not printed at the time, due to its obscenity...
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    Act IV, scene iv). The first reference in the Oxford English Dictionary is Thomas Nashe's The Choise of Valentines or the Merie Ballad of Nash his Dildo (c...
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    Newdigate, Francis (1519–82), of Hanworth, Mdx. Clegg, Cyndia Susan (1997). "'By the Choise and Inuitation of al the Realme': Richard II and Elizabethan...
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