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The North Country Maid choose

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[Ire] ‘The Irish Morsho’ in North Country Maid 3: My spirits I cheer’d with good wine and bumbo.
at bumbo, n.1
[Ire] ‘The Irish Morsho’ North Country Maid 3: I set sail from Dublin the eighteenth of June / Resol’d to keep fuddling my pipes in full tune.
at fuddle, v.
[Ire] ‘The Irish Morsho’ North Country Maid 4: They threw down the shiners the reckoning to pay.
at shiner, n.1
[Ire] ‘The Irish Morsho’ in North Country Maid 3: I took up my quarters just when I did land / Amongst noble tartars at old Mother Hands.
at tartar, n.
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