See spight on Wiktionary
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"text": "[…] when ſpight of comorand deuouring Time, / Th' endeuour of this preſent breath may buy: / That honour which ſhall bate his ſcythes keene edge, / And make vs heyres of all eternitie.",
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"ref": "1706, Various, The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony= Responses from Men:",
"text": "When I found Cuckolds to Encrease apace, I Marry'd one with such an Ugly Face That one wou'd thought the Devil wou'd but grotch So foul a Figure as my Wife to touch; Yet being at a Friendly Club one Night, A Raskal came and Cuckol'd me for spight.",
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