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Liber Vagatorum: The Book of Vagabonds choose

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[UK] Liber Vagatorum (1860) 49: adone, God.
at adonee, n.
[UK] Liber Vagatorum (Luther, 1860) 47: Item – beware of the joners (gamblers), who practice beseflery with the brief (cheating at cards), who deal falsely and cut one for the other, cheat with böglein and spies, pick one brief from the ground, and another from a cupboard, etc.
at brief, n.1
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