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Poor Robin’s Almanac choose

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[UK] Poor Robin’s Almanac Mar. n.p.: Essex lyons there might be, / Which some name of calves do give.
at Essex lion (n.) under Essex, adj.
[UK] Poor Robin’s Almanac q. in Liverpool Dly Post 25 Feb. 9/4: Pancakes are eat by greedy-gut / And Hob and Madge run for the slut.
at greedy-gut, n.
[UK] Poor Robin’s Almanac A4: Quere, whether Jack-Ketch’s Anodyne Necklace is not to be preferred before it [i.e. ‘Mr Waide’s Pill’) for those curing but some Disorders [...] this of his infallibility cures all without Loss of Time.
at anodyne necklace, n.
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