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"ref": "1568, André Thevet, translated by Thomas Hacket, The New Found World, or Antarctike, London: Thomas Hacket, Chapter, page 62:",
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"text": "1627, John Donne, Sermon 24 in Fifty Sermons, London: M.F. et al., Volume 2, 1649, p. 202,\n[…] a ship which hath struck Sail, will yet goe on with the winde it had before, for a while,"
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"ref": "1656, Robert Sanderson, “Ad Populum”, in Twenty Sermons Formerly Preached, London: Henry Seile, page 408:",
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"ref": "c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:",
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