mountebanks in English
noun
1
a person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
He has been described as a ‘a mountebank , a charlatan and a scribbler’ by one author, although others see him as a proto-social scientist.
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1. They say this town is full of Cozenage, As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind, 100 Soul-killing witches that deform the body, Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, And many suchlike liberties of sin
2. "A wording poet": Othello among the mountebanks For Biggs, Clysters were something "to be abhorred as a cruel and beastly remedy." Every clyster, he says, is "naturally an enemy to the Intestines." "Turds," on the other hand, are the "naturall and domestick content of the gutts" which do not "prick or gnaw