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Examples
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And if it fortune that any manne be founde to do, in many sundrie wise thei reuile him, and baite him with shames and reproche.
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Angler bestoweth his best cunning, with one line and baite to catch many fishes at one strike; even so do these counterfeited habit-mongers, by their dissembling and crafty dealing, beguile many credulous widdowes: simple women, yea, and men of weake capacity, to credit whatsoever they doe or say, and herein they doe most of all exercise themselves.
The Decameron 2004
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Wish they wud gie thee a good baite, mak thee hop a bit vaster, I reckon.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Leave Apes to Dogges to baite, their skins to Crowes,
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And these curtesies continued so long, that the Lorde desirous to lay a baite, sent to praye him to come to dyner: to which requeste the other accorded liberally, for the deuocion he had to the sainct of the Castell.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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After your Land hath receiued his kindely baite, then you shall cast in your séede, of
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Now, when you haue plowed all your Pease-ground, you shall let it so lye, till it haue receiued diuers Frosts, some Raine, and then a fayre season, which betwixt plow-day and Saint _Valentines_ day you shalbe sure to inioy: and this is called, _The letting of Land lye to baite_: for without this rest, and these seasons, it is impossible to make these
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Euen so our Poet when he hath made one verse, hath as it were finished one dayes iourney, & the while easeth him selfe with one baite at the least, which is a _Comma_ or _Cesure_ in the mid way, if the verse be euen and not odde, otherwise in some other place, and not iust in the middle.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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At night doth baite his steedes the _Ocean_ waues emong.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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And amonges all the rare and excellent ornamentes, that Citie is wel furnished with so trimme Ladies and curteous gentlewomen, as they know how to baite and feede yong men with foolish daliaunce, and idle passetime.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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