See marry come up on Wiktionary
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"text": "O Gods Lady deare, / Are you ſo hot? marrie come vp I trow, / Is this the Poultis for my aking bones?",
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"text": "I thought th' hadst scorn'd to budge a step / For fear. (Quoth Eccho) Marry guep.",
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"text": "\"Marry-come-up,\" cries Slipſlop, \"People's Ears are ſometimes the niceſt Part about them.\"",
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"ref": "1676 December 11 (first performance), [William] Wycherley, The Plain-Dealer. A Comedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for James Magnes and Rich[ard] Bentley […], published 1677, →OCLC, Act III, page 42:",
"text": "Marry gep, if it had not been for me, thou hadſt been yet but a hearing Counſel at the Bar.",
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"text": "Marry, come up, indeed; tie it yourſelf, you have as many Hands as I; your Man's Man will have a fine Office truly: Come, pray, ſtand out of my ſpitting Place.",
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"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V, page 180:",
"text": "Marry come up with ſuch gentlemen! though he hath lived here theſe many Years, I don't believe there is arrow servant in the house ever ſaw the Colour of his Money.",
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"text": "Marry quep of your advice, for an old Scotch tinsmith, as you are!",
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"text": "Marry, quep! if you call this wasting time. Sir Egerton, we wonder what is employing it.",
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