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[UK] Latimer Letter to Baynton in Works II (1845) 325: If I would do as some men say my lord doth, gather up my joyse (as we call it) warily and narrowly, and yet neyther preach for it in mine owne cure nor yet otherwhere.
at juice, n.1
[UK] Latimer Works I (1845) 107: We myghte spende that tyme in reading of prophane hystories, or cantorburye tales.
at Canterbury story, n.
[UK] Latimer Works II (1845) 57: We have much misery here in this world, though it goeth hard with us, though we must bite on the bridle, yet for all that we must be content.
at bite (on) the bridle (v.) under bite, v.
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