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"ref": "1957, Muriel Spark, chapter 7, in The Comforters, London: Macmillan:",
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"text": "When I did make thee free, sworest thou not then\nTo do this when I bade thee? Do it at once;\nOr thy precedent services are all\nBut accidents unpurposed.",
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"text": "1640, William Whately, Prototypes, London: Edward Langham, The Thirteenth Example, pp. 199-200,\n[…] the Lord will surely accept him and forgive his unpurposed offences and sinnes of meere weakenesse and frailty."
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