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The gentlewoman was a little coye, but, before they part, they concluded that the next daye at foure of the clock hee should come thither and eate a pound of cherries, which was resolved on with a succado des labras, and so with a loath to depart they tooke their leaves.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Methinks the dead Letters should not be coye on what Cambril they’re hang’d on; but I must ask the Butchers, and what doth e after
Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) G. W.
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