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"ref": "1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Heroe, London: Jacob Tonson, act V, page 65",
"text": "[…] we whisper, for fear our over-thwart Neighbours\nShould hear us cry, Liberty, and betray us to the Government.",
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"ref": "1702, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Oxford, published 1717, Volume 1, Part 1, p. 83",
"text": "He had pass’d two or three Acts of Parliament, which had much lessen’d the Authority and Dependence of the Nobility, and great Men, and incens’d, and dispos’d them proportionably to cross, and oppose any Proposition, which would be most grateful; and that overthwart humour was enough discover’d to rule in the breasts of many, who made the greatest professions.",
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"ref": "1557, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, “Praise of meane and constant estate”, in Songes and sonettes, London: Richard Tottel",
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"ref": "1611, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World, London: Samuel Macham",
"text": "We thinke the heavens enjoy their Sphericall\nTheir round proportion embracing all.\nBut yet their various and perplexed course,\nObserv’d in divers ages doth enforce\nMen to finde out so many Eccentrique parts,\nSuch divers downe-right lines, such overthwarts,\nAs disproportion that pure forme. […]",
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