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"text": "The eve put on her sweetest shroud, / The summer-dress she's often in, / Freck'd with white and purple cloud, / Dappled like a leopard's skin; […]",
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"text": "\"There was none to challenge him but old Keltie, and the carrier Auchtermuchty,\" replied Randal; \"unlikely men to slay one of the frackest youths in Scotland of his years, and who was sure to have friends and partakers at no great distance.\"",
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"text": "[\"][T]his brother of thine, who is so frack, as the fellow called him, bears he the same wonderful likeness to thee as formerly?\" / \"If your Grace means in temper, you know whether I am so frack as the serving-man spoke him.\" / \"Nay, thou art prompt enough in all reasonable conscience,\" replied the Queen; […]",
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"english": "A stride or two took the silly old carle [fellow], / And a good long stride took he. / I trow [trust] thou art an eager old carle, / Wilt thou show the way to me?",
"ref": "[1825, Allan Cunningham, “The Young Maxwell”, in The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern; […], volume III (in Scots), London: […] [Thomas Davison] for John Taylor, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 209:",
"text": "Ae stride or twa took the silly auld carle, / An' a gude lang stride took he. / I trow thou art a freck auld carle, / Wilt thou show the way to me?",
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