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• In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.
• a man wise in his own conceit
• a man of quick conceit
• How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.
• His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
• By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte.
• On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit.
• Some to conceit alone their works confine, / And glittering thoughts struck out at every line.
• Tasso is full of conceits [...] which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.
• Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.
• Those whose [...] vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
• The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive [...] as if they really were so.
• One of two bad ways you must conceit me, / Either a coward or a flatterer.