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It's a useful word, isn't it? First of all, it can be used instead of eyes when what your poetry requires is a two-syllable word. Second, it focusses on the shape of the eye: it is spherical, like a ball. So, in Shakespeare's first use of the word, in Henry VI, he says, "O, were mine eyeballs into bullets turn'd, That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!", where he is comparing the spherical eyeball to the spherical cannonball. Or, in Rape of Lucrece, "The curtains being close, about he walks, Rolling his greedy eyeballs in his head". "Rolling" is something one associates with a ball, so using the word "eyeball" makes us think about balls rolling on the ground.
He used this word a lot, by the way. Six different times in six different works.
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∙ 14y agoaccording to sources, yes.
Sources say that the word eyeball was first used in one of Shakespeare's works.
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