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jaws of death. Shakespeare is often credited with the coining of this phrase, in Twelfth Night (“Out of the jaws of death”), but it appears earlier in Divine Weekes and Workes (1578) by Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas. Shakespeare must have read the man for he precedes the Bard with a number of “Shake- spearean” phrases, including The world’s a stage, Night’s black mantle, and the four corners of the world. |