See snudge in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "And in that ſlepe (me thought) I heard the tunes / Of ſullen paſſions apt for Funerals, / And ſaw my Fathers liueleſſe body borne / By Satyres: O I feare that deitie / Hath ſtolne him hence, that Snudge his deſtinie.",
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