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"text": "And my good companions and fellowe souldiours, if you will followe myne advise, laie aside your weapons, hang up your armours by the walles, and learne an other while (for your better advauncements) to pipe, to feddle, to synge, to daunce, to lye, to forge, to flatter, to cary tales, to set ruffe, or do any thyng that your appetites beste serve unto, and that is better fittyng for the tyme.",
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"ref": "1882, George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania",
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"ref": "2010, Michael Graham, That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom",
"text": "If you're not working for the feddle gummint either directly (Assistant to Administrative Assistant Grade 3(a) in the U.S. Department of Administrative Assistance) or indirectly (lobbying, lawyering, feeding the beast, or living on bailout subsidies) you are a loser chump.",
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"ref": "2011, J. L. Bryan, Tommy Nightmare",
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"text": "Sherwood defines CockNEY, by this word, niais, and mignot, cailnette, the former being, in Cotgrave, “a wanton, feddle, favourite, a dolling, dandling, darling,” and the latter, “foole, ninny, noddy, natural.”",
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"ref": "1919, James Hamilton Wylie, William Templeton Waugh, The Reign of Henry the Fifth: 1415-1416, page 203",
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"ref": "1986, Gerald J. Butler, This Is Carbon",
"text": "As Mellors writes to Connie at the end of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a man has to fend and feddle for the best, and then trust in something beyond himself.",
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