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Dissertations on the English Language, with Notes, Historical and Critical

Note 51 — DISSERTATION II.

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I have once met with the word in Chaucer's Plowman's Tale 2014.

"The other side ben pore and pale, And peple yput out of prese, And semin caitiffs sore a cale, And er in one without encrease; Iclepid Lollers and Londlese; Who toteth on 'hem thei ben untall; They ben arayid all for pece, But falshed foule mote it befall."

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