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"text": "I presume yoʳ lo. will fynde to be very stronge besides the qualitie of the peticonars to be lookte vppon, whoe if they be noe other then as folx [also fox] is stilde mear mariners, it cannot promise muche of their extraordinarie performancis, as hath bin made appeare formerlye in this perticuler designe, …"
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"ref": "1857, Julius Caesar Hannibal, Black Diamonds, Or, Humor, Satire, and Sentiment, page 183",
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"ref": "2004, Maximum Rocknroll, issue 255",
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"ref": "2018, Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed",
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},
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