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Skialetheia; or, A shadowe of truth, in certaine epigrams and satyres choose

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[UK] E. Guilpin Skialetheia (1878) 67: Some weeuil, mault-worme, barly-cap [OED].
at barley cap (n.) under barley, n.1
[UK] E. Guilpin Skialetheia D3v: A ramping whore.
at ramping, adj.
[UK] E. Guilpin Skialetheia Satire III n.p.: My Muse shall play the rig Once in her dayes, but shee shall quittance thee .
at rig, n.1
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