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"ref": "1725, Ned Ward, The Amorous Bugbears: Or, The Humours of Masquerade, page 19:",
"text": "Whilſt the Windy-Performers, to ſhew their mutual Induſtry, kept ſuch continual puffing at their Hoitboys and Curtels, that their Eyes ſtar'd like thoſe in the Sign of a Sarazen's-Head, and their cheeks look'd as plump as a Monkeys Alforges when they are ſtuff'd with Cobnuts, […]",
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"ref": "1734 August 20, Dublin Evening Post; republished as Brian Boydell, editor, A Dublin Musical Calendar, 1700–1760, Bury St Edmunds: St Edmundsbury Press, 1988, →ISBN, page 56:",
"text": "[…] on Wednesday next, being the 28th of this Instant August, 1734. Will be performed a CONSORT OF MUSICK by the best MASTERS. Mr de Reck, plays a SOLO on the Hautboy and Curtel.",
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