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friend_n bring_v good_a let_v 1,083 5 3.7839 3 true
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A16765 No vvhippinge, nor trippinge: but a kinde friendly snippinge Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? 1601 (1601) STC 3672; ESTC S109105 14,356 66

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