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An easie matter is it for anie man to cutte me (like a Diamond) with mine own dust.

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Could any native speaker tell me what does it mean that An easie matter is it for anie man to cutte me (like a Diamond) with mine own dust.?

[Diamone cuts diamone]:Used of persons evenly matched in wit or cunning. Also frequently found as a descriptive phrasediamond cut diamond.Cf. [1593 NasheChrist's TearsII. 9] An easie matter is it for anie man to cutte me (like a Diamond) with mine own dust.

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Hi, This is from a work called Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem (1593), written by the Elizabethan Thomas Nashe. Here is a bit more of the immediate context (with archaic spelling). For the complete text, look here.

— Clive

  • Hi, This is from a work called Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem (1593), written by the Elizabethan Thomas Nashe.
  • Here is a bit more of the immediate context (with archaic spelling).
  • For the complete text, look here.
  • txt Wit hath his dregs 20 as wel as wine, Diuinitie his drosse.
  • Expect some Tares in this Treatise of Teares.
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Hi,

This is from a work called Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem (1593), written by the Elizabethan Thomas Nashe.

Here is a bit more of the immediate context (with archaic spelling).

For the complete text, look here.

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Hi Clive,

Thank you for your a strong help.
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