See rowse in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "[K]ing Antiochus, vvho likened Hermogenes the famous Orator of Greece, vnto theſe fovvles in their moulting time, vvhen their feathers be ſick, and be ſo loaſe in the fleſh that at any little rovvſe they can eaſilie ſhake them off: ſo ſaith he, can Hermogenes of all the men that euer I knevv, as eaſilie deliuer from him his vaine and impertinent ſpeeches and vvords.",
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