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lurch and not come or not
'You say very well,' answered Buffalmacco; 'but look you leave us not in the lurch and not come or not be found at the trysting-place, whenas we shall send for you; and this I say for that the weather is cold and you gentlemen doctors are very careful of yourselves thereanent.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

lives and never come out no
There is them 'at I've been talkin' wi' 'at says 'at i' their opinion it's a hengin' matter—high treason, or summat o' that sort, but chuse how, it'll mean 'at they'll be clapped i' gaol for t'rest o' their lives, and never come out no more.
— from The Root of All Evil by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

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