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.“Voleʹbant autem præfaʹti clerici alʹiquem haʹberë legaʹtum natioʹnë Romaʹnum, que unguentis Anglicis, auro scilicet et argento solent ad quælibet inclinaʹri.”—Gervais de Canterbury: Chronicle; Scriptores decem ii., 1533.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.