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"text": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III, Canto One, Stanza 22, in The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four, edited by Dorothy Stephens, Hackett, 2006, p. 13,\nLike dastard Curres, that having at a bay\nThe salvage beast embost in wearie chace,\nDare not adventure on the stubborne pray,\nNe byte before, but rome from place to place,\nTo get a snatch, when turned is his face."
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"text": "Now dragg'd once more beyond the western main,\nTo groan beneath some dastard planter’s chain;\nWhere my poor countrymen in bondage wait\nThe long enfranchisement of ling’ring fate:",
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"ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. IV, Happy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):",
"text": "Observe, too, that this is all a modern affair; belongs not to the old heroic times, but to these dastard new times. ‘Happiness our being’s end and aim’ is at bottom, if we will count well, not yet two centuries old in the world.",
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"text": "1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, being the Sequel of The Indian Queen, Act II, Scene 1, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12166/pg12166-images.html\nWould my short life had yet a shorter date! / I'm weary of this flesh which holds us here, / And dastards manly souls with hope and fear; / These heats and colds still in our breast make war, / Agues and fevers all our passions are."
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