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Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851

Note 1 — Notes.

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Truth, I presume, is meant, though it does not seem to agree with the context, which is pure nonsense in its present condition.

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Great.

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Least.

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Flee.

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Yea.

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Ring, I fancy.

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Naught.

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Our.

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Taught.

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Laughed.

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See.

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If.

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Here the orthography changes.

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Meant.

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I think there must be some allusion here, which can only be arrived at by knowing the date of its composition.

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An elision for creepeth; possibly an intermediate etymological state of creeps.

Footnote 17:

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From "to cavil."

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