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- "an old black ram / is tupping your white ewe" (I. i, 88-9) from Othello
- rody = ruddy, i.e. the pinkness of the salmon
- The Adventures of Roderick Random is a novel by Tobias Smollett, published in 1748. Roderick's unattainable love interest is Narcissa.
