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"ref": "1659, Edmund Gayton, chapter 31, in The Art of Longevity",
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"ref": "1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Friar, act 3, scene 2; republished in The Works of John Dryden, volume 6, Edinburgh: Archibold Constable and Co., 1821, page 428",
"text": "O impudence! O rogue! O villain! Nay, if he be such a man, my righteous spirit rises at him! Does he put on holy garments, for a cover-shame of lewdness?",
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"ref": "1838, Richard Sibbes, chapter 25, in The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax, page 122",
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