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[UK] Etherege letter in Vieth Attribution in Restoration Poetry (1963) 244: You and I were ne’er so bold to turn the fair Cuffle when she fled us into a tree, not dreaming she would grow as big as one of Evelyn’s oaks, nor ourselves into bulls when we carried the two draggle-tailed nymphs one bitter frosty night over the Thames to Lambeth.
at bull, n.1
[UK] Etherege letter in Vieth Attribution in Restoration Poetry (1963) 244: You and I were ne’er so bold to turn the fair Cuffle when she fled us into a tree, not dreaming she would grow as big as one of Evelyn’s oaks, nor ourselves into bulls when we carried the two draggle-tailed nymphs one bitter frosty night over the Thames to Lambeth.
at nymph, n.
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