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"ref": "1578, Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe herball or historie of plantes:",
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"ref": "1634 (first performance), William D’avenant [i.e., William Davenant], The Wits: A Comedie; […], published 1636; republished in Two Excellent Plays: […], London: […] G. Bedel, and T[homas] Collins, […], 1665, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:",
"text": "Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?",
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"ref": "1791, letter from Colonel Darke to George Washington, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, vol. 4 (1896)",
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"roman": "An’ shakin ther whings, thâ vleed vooäth an’ awâ.",
"text": "When tha dumbledores hummin, craup out o’ tha cobwâll"
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