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Milton

Note Were all to-ruffled — MILTON’S MINOR POEMS.

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380. Were all to-ruffled. The particle to—Anglo Saxon tô, Modern German zer—has disappeared from Modern English. In Old English it was often used with the force of the Latin dis. So still in Chaucer, to-bete, to-cleve, to-rende, and many others.

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