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"ref": "1648, Edw[ard] Symmons, “Sect. XXVIII. A Faithful and Ministeriall Admonition, to the Troubles of Our Israel: […]”, in A Vindication of King Charles: Or, A Loyal Subject’s Duty. […], [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 280",
"text": "[S]ome folke perhaps according to the forme by your ſelves preſcribed, doe ſometimes betrim you with ſuch ſtrange Titles, but are you ſo ſimple as to conceit that wiſe men do fancy them to belong unto you?",
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"text": "But when in honour'd Robes I ſee it put, / Betrim'd as if ſome thing of Worth it were, / Look big, and on the Stilts of Greatneſs ſtrut; / From ſcorning it I cannot then forbear.",
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"text": "I could not half the Pageant Ills o'ercall, / That garniſh and betrim the gloomy Wall.",
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"ref": "1840 April, “April. A Sonnet.”, in William E[vans] Burton, editor, Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, and American Monthly Review, volume VI, Philadelphia, Pa.: William E. Burton, […], →OCLC, page 160, column 1",
"text": "Fair, fickle month, now peevish as a child / That frets in middle of the Pleasures' bowers; / Now winsome as a bride betrimmed with flowers, / Laughing like wit when exquisitely wild,— […]",
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"text": "I must betrim myself to-day in all / My rarest ornaments of royalty; […]",
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"ref": "1879, Robert Mitchell, William of Normandy: A Play, in Five Acts. […], London: Effingham Wilson, […], →OCLC, act I, scene iii, page 14",
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"text": "Fair, fickle month, now peevish as a child / That frets in middle of the Pleasures' bowers; / Now winsome as a bride betrimmed with flowers, / Laughing like wit when exquisitely wild,— […]",
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