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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:",
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"ref": "1841, The School Of Abuse, Containing A Pleasant Invective Against Poets:",
"text": "Therefore, he that wil avoyde the open shame of privie sinne, the common plague of priavate offences, the greate wrackes of little rockes, the sure disease of uncertaine causes, must set hande to the sterne, and eye to his steppes to shun the occason as neere as he can; neither running to bushes for renting his clothes, nor rent his clothes for emparing his thrift, nor walke upon yse for taking of a fall, nor take a fall for brusing himselfe, nor go to Theaters for beeing allured, nor once bee allured for feare of abuse.",
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"ref": "1966, Winston Churchill, Marlborough, His Life and Times, page 868:",
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"ref": "1878, The Carolina Medical Journal - Volumes 1-2, page 368:",
"text": "In emparing the above analysis with that of the Extract of Malt, of the German Pbarmacopoea, as given by Hager, that has been so generally received by the profession, I find it to substantially agree with that article.",
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"ref": "1893, Michel de Montaigne, George Saintsbury, The Essays of Montaigne Done Into English, page 408:",
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